Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

The January 12, 2010 catastrophic earthquake in Haiti showed some of the astonishing potential for volunteer-based digital disaster relief. and Sahana Foundation (which hosts a free open source disaster management system), have changed the way disaster relief is being done all over the world.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Ushahidi is an NGO headquartered in Kenya. It is a nonprofit tech company that develops free and open-source software for information collection, visualization, and crowdsourced interactive mapping to help mitigate disasters. Here’s some news on a now famous NetSquared alumnus project. Find out more about this here.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Victoria, British Columbia: NGO Ho Ho: A Holiday Party for Victoria's Nonprofits. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Nairobi, Kenya: NetSquared Kenya Joins Mozilla Maker Party 2016. Nairobi, Kenya: NetSquared Kenya Women and Web Literacy Program 2016 – 17. Friday, December 2, 2016.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

Digital Inclusion. The Digital Divide Will End in 11 Years – and Will Be Our Ruination. We have another date for the end of the global digital divide! This, of course, is not the first declaration of the end of the digital divide. Digital Leaders 100 Nominations. One of the leader categories are NGOs.

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JUNE 20, 2014

The Mifos X Platform is free open source cloud software for running a microfinance organization that provides small loans, savings accounts, and micro insurance to very poor people. The name is an acronym of "micro finance open source." The First Universal Software Platform for Financial Inclusion Launches.

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