Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2013

It uses a Facebook app to prompt people to share information from a nonprofit, but only with those friends predicted to respond favourably. Open Source data digital storytelling big data' “ Targeted sharing ”, which was used for the campaign now forms the basis of Edgeflip’s first product.

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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. Collecting and Disseminating Information - Ushahidi. Disasters like this, or the events of the Southeast Asian tsunamis, can literally change the shape of cities, countrysides, and coastlines.

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Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2017

Enabling more transparent, accountable governments: Fundacja TechSoup's TransparenCEE network is an active community of organizations and activists working on open data and government transparency and accountability initiatives throughout central and eastern Europe. That's our knitting and we do intend to stick to it.

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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. Collecting and Disseminating Information - Ushahidi. Disasters like this, or the events of the Southeast Asian tsunamis, can literally change the shape of cities, countrysides, and coastlines.

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Tools Map Disaster Oregon 59

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

at 12:02 am Two use cases where I think Twitter makes a lot of sense: 1) disaster and emergency situations and 2) direct action/civil disobedience organizing where distributed and decentralized communications can be very helpful in reacting quickly to new information. 3 Seth Schneider 04.15.08 4 James Young 04.15.08 Be Helpful.

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Forum One

JANUARY 22, 2010

I was impressed by the number of developers who came out to support the idea that improved technology tools could help deliver aid more quickly, coordinate large numbers of people, allow for information transparency among aid groups, and potentially forecast humanitarian disasters to avoid huge loss of life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Michelle Murrain is doing a post about 100 free and open source software tools. There's also the DiSo Project , an umbrella for a group of open source implementations of distributed social networking concepts. Her selection criteria. Here's here write up on word press. Meanwhile, across the pond, Susie muses about GIMP.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2015

Applying technology to disaster relief has evolved by leaps and bounds since I joined 2,000 people, most of whom I'd never met, to tackle the problem of creating a single searchable database of every person displaced by Hurricane Katrina in the days after the disaster. Technology Challenges in Katrina Disaster Relief.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2005

I've barely explored the information available on their main website, but the blog is a veritable ticker-tape of valuable resources. I didn't know this outfit before, but I gather that their mission is serve as advisors and consultants to non-profit organizations who are tackling any of a wide range of social issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

There will be typos and I'll clean up later Day 1: Morning Opening Session Malcom Downes, Deputy Chairperson, CISA Inc. welcomed everyone "The people on the end of your web site will be informed than the CEO. He mentioned that "digital natives" get their information from their peers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Emily Weinberg has some terrific notes from the "Branding Through Websites: Building Your Brand from the First Click" Heather Carpenter summarizes what she learned from the Disaster Planning for Nonprofits session. Open Source Software is Fair Trade ! What are the strategies for developing trust with users in a Web2.0

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

But if you’re not a big collector of online information like Google, Facebook or Microsoft, what does big data have to do with you and your work? ” As we have more and more devices collecting data about what we do, vast amount of information is piling up about us. Big Data in Disaster Relief. What Is Big Data Anyway?

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Disaster Response. In coordination with its global, regional, and local disaster response partners, the Department of State should maintain a standing directory of point of contact information for governmental, intergovernmental, and nongovernmental organizations by country. International Disaster Community of Practice.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2013

She says that although using technology and open data tools can be “dangerous” in some countries, they can still be used in other spheres of government as for example BudgIT in Nigeria. Big Data for Disaster Response: A List of Wrong Assumptions. Open Source disaster recovery data big data'

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2014

The Sharing Economy -- the use of networked, often mobile, information technology to share goods and services -- offers nonprofits new possibilities for innovation and efficiency along with new paradigms to move from scarcity to abundance. Nonprofits should lead the sharing economy and demand more from the private sector.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

We also noticed a significant increase in the way that mobile technology is being used in disaster relief. Most products have had barcodes on them for years that feed information in to inventory databases and also collect data on consumer buying habits. Mobile Computing. IoT is definitely not a new thing. for some time now.

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