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TechSoup Global at National Day of Civic Hacking

Tech Soup

Arthur Grau of NetSquared Honolulu reported back on the National Day of Civic Hacking/Code for Hawaii event in Honolulu. Another project was creating an easily accessible map of Hawaii's farmer's markets. Image 2: Code for Hawaii, Bytemarks. apps events big data tsopensource hackathons'

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Fighting for Civic Transparency with Technology in the Western Balkans

Tech Soup

Through technology, data, and resource-sharing, Community Boost_r seeks to empower Balkan citizens to voice their opinions, demand solutions to everyday problems, and stay informed on accountability and transparency issues. EkoVizija is a mobile app that enables users to take pictures and report environmental problems in their community.

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A NetSquared Happy Holidays

Tech Soup

Event Reports. Boston, Massachusetts: DataBasic Intro Workshop — Learn 3 New Tools for Finding Stories in Data. Honolulu, Hawaii: Bi-monthly Code for Hawaii Project Night. Yaoundé, Cameroon: Empowering Cameroonians to Accelerate Open Data, Open Access, and Open Education. Wednesday, December 9, 2015.

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NetSquared Local Events: June 6–7, 2013

Tech Soup

Event Reports. Check out the NetSquared blog to keep on top of the gossip and reporting from our network: Burlington’s Amanda Levinson reports on Amy Sample Ward’s presentation about her new book “Social Change Anytime Everywhere” The Weather Gods tried to stop the event, but Vermonters are tough!

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Security: The Scary Part of Cloud Computing

Tech Soup

This outage compromised sensitive data for Sony's 77 million customers. The big cloud providers like the ones listed above have excellent physical security in their data centers (multiple locked doors, security cameras, and so on). IntrapriseTechKnowlogies specializes in nonprofit IT and financial consulting. availability.

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Research Friday: Government contracting part II: Adapting in an era of less

ASU Lodestar Center

highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. Our previous post explored the complexities of government contracts, including reporting requirements, payment delays, and redundant systems. States including Hawaii, Illinois, New York, Maine, and many others have developed task forces on government contracting.

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The Maui wildfires: A record in disaster philanthropy, an opportunity to ‘get it right’ 

Candid

Part of my work at the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) involves monitoring philanthropic giving in response to disasters through our annual Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy: Data to Drive Decisions (SODP) report. However, due to lags in reporting, that data is two years behind. funders contributed $266.2

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