Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

We've compiled a list of organizations to which you can donate to support these efforts as well as some disaster recovery resources. Oxfam International's disaster relief teams are assessing the extent of the damage in the Philippines and deploying water and sanitation materials. There's also a Google Crisis Map.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 17, 2011

An analysis team from European Commission's Joint Research Center analyzed the text messages gathered through Ushahidi together with data on damaged buildings collected by the World Bank and the UN from satellite images.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

The following advice can help an NGO move away from constantly seeking grant funding by building a constant inflow of funds from individuals: Plan you crowdfunding campaigns early – what will you raise funds for, how will the funds be spent, plan your media campaign including a compelling story and images/videos.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

As disaster relief organizations scramble to understand the situation on the ground, desperate needs for emergency food, shelter, and medical care go unmet. Instead, what if technology could prevent some of the destruction and improve aid delivery after a disaster? Image: Sonny M. What if it didn't have to be that way?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

However, drones are also being used for humanitarian purposes, such as delivering aid, tracking environmental conditions, and helping out in disaster relief. Assessing disaster-stricken areas. Conservation mapping and 3D imaging. Drones being used in disaster situations include the following. Tracking storms.

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AFP Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Iowan helps provide high-tech eyes of disaster relief in Philippines | Des Moines Register Staff Blogs : Harwath is one of four Global DIRT members currently on the ground in the Philippines.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Jim Craner , MapTogether.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

DREAM’s annual report is doing everything right: beautiful images, student stories, and (of course) thanking their donors. We especially love how they paired a full-page image of a student with key stats that support the organization’s overall mission, a mix of showing and telling. International Rescue Committee.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Jim Craner, MapTogether.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2010

When a disaster of this magnitude strikes, our impulse is to help in some way. People work on projects based on their skills and interests to create technological tools and resources for responders to use in mitigating disasters and crises around the world. Tweet from kateatyrownrisk.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

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. Image: BRCK in action ( Ushahidi ). Ushahidi is an NGO headquartered in Kenya. Ushahidi is making 2,000 devices for the initial Kickstarter run.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2016

See if there's a group close to you by searching our map. Kitchener, Ontario: Disaster Recovery. Vancouver, British Columbia: Mapping Your Data: Palantirs of the Digital Age. Image : Elijah van der Giessen / CC BY-NC. IMAGE ATTRIBUTION GUIDELINES Image Name: Author / License. Upcoming Events.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Refuge Restrooms is a web application and a mobile app (Android and iOS) that crowdsources and maps locations of gender-neutral and trans-safe bathrooms. The Community Resilience Platform also pulls together important information for citizens, but specifically in times of disaster. Image 1 : Caravan Studios / CC BY-NC.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2016

Range is a map-based app that shows where youth can get free summer meals. 4Bells helps organizations manage time-sensitive volunteer tasks, such as bringing a rescued dog to a vet, delivering a donation to a food bank, or deploying volunteers after a disaster. Images: Erica Mesker. What's Next for Caravan Studios?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

" Ushahidi has since supported critical information gathering to provide a picture of human needs for many natural disasters, political violence, and human rights violations. The information would be compiled and displayed in real time online on a map. Image : Olga Berrios / CC BY. Since then, there have been more than 6.5

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Tech Soup

MAY 25, 2012

This software features built-in wizards to help structure your presentation’s narrative and build libraries of standard graphics and slide elements (like logos and maps). Almost any file type — Word documents, PDFs, images, and even video — can be uploaded to Huddle’s workspaces.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

He also shares some process maps for donor management. (If Flickr/Photo Sharing, Video, and Games for Change An interesting comparision between photos on flickr and Getty images. Check out this disaster simulation game from the UNISDR called Stop Disasters ! Also announced 2.0 Strategy, Wealth Management Edition.

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NTEN

JANUARY 13, 2011

The magnitude of the destruction and the heart-breaking images have remained with us as organizations, governments, and private individuals have struggled beyond the immediate aftermath to effect long-term change and economic impact within Haiti.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Data Mapping and Visualization. Probably the clearest examples of the usefulness of data for charities is the explosion of infographics and maps that graphically illustrate the issues that nonprofits are working on. Microsoft enables charities to use Bing Maps free of charge. Big Data in Disaster Relief. Image: IBM.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Jorge Luis Borges points out that a 1:1 scale map is useless. Flipboard is an iPad app that tries to do that, by providing an illusion of priority through a tactful manipulation of layout, font sizes and images. You can select from various past dates when the streetview camera captured the image. But what’s the point?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2006

They remind me a lot of Rod Beckstrom's ideas that I posted earlier about IT support following a disaster. Our agency has that functionality - we have disaster web site, email address and phone number on our ID badges to let the agency know where we are and what is happening, but there isn't any connection outside.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2018

The conversation with Yeshi is “smart,” meaning that she asks and answers questions with a variety of images, maps, text, and videos. Yeshi , is a Facebook Messenger bot created by charity:water to simulate the experience of many young girls in Ethiopia who walk six hours a day to get clean water.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Finally, the data should be easily mapped to State Department data on entity in control of territory aid is rendered throughout the duration of the project. Disaster Response. International Disaster Community of Practice. Public Social Media Platform for International Disaster Response. Vote for this Idea].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

.&# Ushahidi is an open source platform that facilitates crowdsourcing through the use of SMS/cellphones and online mapping. It has been used in disaster relief, for example, in Pakistan , and other scenarios from London Tube strike to election monitoring to mapping crime incidents Atlanta. (2) 2) Crowd Creation.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

We have certainly seen some examples of maps or charts that the user can interact with, but with the over saturation of static infographic images, 2014 and the plethora of tools emerging that make these options really easy, we will see more organizations using data for storytelling that users can watch, click on, and really explore.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

It traverses the slum’s territory, listlessly gliding above the shanties, perhaps to transmit images to the Military Police Operations Centre, a violent state apparatus that mercilessly represses the slum’s inhabitants. By mapping the labour process so intricately, managers can steer specific tasks to high-performing workers in real-time.

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