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Digital Volunteerism – Effective Disaster Relief the GreenTech Way

Tech Soup

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. Twitter uses hashtags.

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Ushahidi BRCK: Bringing Internet to the Developing World

Tech Soup

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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TechSoup Global Cloud Survey Results and Cloud Donations for Nonprofits

Tech Soup

And our newest cloud donor and strategic partner, npCloud , addresses the need that NGOs have for data backup and recovery. Find a recent TechSoup webinar on backup and disaster recovery presented by Sam Chenkin of npCloud. We’d love to know what findings in our 2012 Global NGO Cloud Survey you find most interesting.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

Green Technology. According TechSoup’s Global NGO Cloud Survey , cloud storage and back-up is one of the most useful cloud technologies out there. This years’ Nobel Prize for Peace was awarded to the technology oriented Dutch NGO, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. The nonprofit refurbisher.

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The Networked Nonprofit in Kenya

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve just spent the last couple of days in Nairobi, Kenya because I’m a board member of an NGO based here, Ushahidi , an organization that builds tools for democratizing information and increasing transparency. I ask people to share what is top of mind when they think about social media and their NGO.

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