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Can love change the world? I hope so!

Amy Sample Ward

When working with communities, trying to enable change, looking for opportunities to spark collaboration, love seems like a strange thing to think about for many people. I see this work in public maps like Open Green Map. I see this lesson in the work of 350.org. I see it in so many places, and it’s working.

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Flying High: Some Truly Creative Ways that Drone Technology is Being Utilized

Byte Technology

From the earthquake in Nepal to the numerous tsunamis that have devastated Japan and Southeast Asia, drones are being used to pinpoint remote regions that would typically be underserved by emergency crews, in the end saving more lives.

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Youth Programs Benefit from Microsoft Donations

Tech Soup

I did a post a few weeks ago on youth programs in TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map and decided I hadn’t covered this resource nearly enough. Our Local Impact Map. Microsoft Project and Huddle 's cloud collaboration solution to manage it’s many children’s rights projects worldwide.

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2013 NTC Round-Up: Your Takeaways

NTEN

Countries represented: 13 (US, Canada, UK, Korea, Australia, Switzerland, Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Ireland, Nepal, Mexico, and Ghana). Collaborative Notes (add yours!) Cary Walski , MAP TechWorks. Resources from Tech Support Confidential , Cary Walski , MAP TechWorks. Session Notes. What is Content Curation?

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2013 NTC Round-Up: Your Takeaways

NTEN

Countries represented: 13 (US, Canada, UK, Korea, Australia, Switzerland, Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Ireland, Nepal, Mexico, and Ghana). Collaborative Notes (add yours!) Cary Walski , MAP TechWorks. Resources from Tech Support Confidential , Cary Walski , MAP TechWorks. Session Notes. What is Content Curation?

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How the NetSquared Challenges Have Accelerated Tech for Good

Tech Soup

These challenges helped provide early publicity, support, collaboration opportunities, and funding for now-famous "tech for good" organizations such as Ushahidi , FrontlineSMS , and many others. The challenges also provided opportunities for collaboration between participants. Ushahidi Harnesses Data for Social Good.