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Leveraging Technology to Respond to Global Crises

Cloud 4 Good

CARE’s humanitarian efforts inside Ukraine have piqued some interest from corporate sponsors looking at what they can do next in countries like Poland, the Czech Republic, and Moldova – all places where the refugee crisis may linger. They can improve their strategy by analyzing their campaigns and building on their successes. .

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Celebrate Community Storytelling

Tech Soup

She studied the German, Czech, and Spanish languages and has lived and traveled extensively throughout Europe and Asia, including Spain, Germany, the Czech Republic, Laos, Vietnam, and Thailand. Lisa graduated from Mount Holyoke College with degrees in philosophy and critical social thought.

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Arab Publics Turning to Social Networks to Express Political Views | Pew Research Center

AFP Blog

In countries such as Britain, the United States, Russia, the Czech Republic and Spain, about half of all adults now use Facebook and similar websites. Arab Publics Turning to Social Networks to Express Political Views | Pew Research Center : Social networking has spread around the world with remarkable speed.

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TechSoup’s Refurbished Computer Initiative: You’ve Come A Long Way Baby

Tech Soup

One of the more recent donations of Microsoft surplus equipment went to TechSoup’s Czech Republic partner, Charta 77 , that supports people with disabilities. InterConnection received the computers from Microsoft, installed Windows 7 Pro and Office 2007 (Czech language version of course), and shipped 157 computers by sea.

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Building Refurbished Computers with Volunteers at InterConnection

Tech Soup

We’re now working together on another large Microsoft donation of IT equipment going to the Czech Republic for people with disabilities. InterConnection now supplies RCI with warrantied laptops and desktop computers that go to nonprofits and libraries in the United States.

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Friday Links: July 21

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

From the Czech Republic, it's Functional Beer! Steve Pietrek has a great programmers blog, "A Continuous Learners Weblog" Check out his July 14th post for some useful tips on configuration changes that will speed up Firefox's performance. And now for something completely different.