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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

My contribution to the panel is to provide context about the use of social media in emergency and disaster response as well as an overview of some of the tools we saw deployed last year and we may see in the future. The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Citizen-Powered Response.

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Going Virtual – An Alternative Volunteer Event Guide

Connection Cafe

Preparation and Resiliency: The talents and expertise are an enormous untapped resource in preparing our communities for natural and man-made disasters of all kinds, whether it’s hurricanes, earthquakes, school shootings, or global pandemics like COVID – 19. updating relevant Wikipedia pages. . hours of community service.

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

You can access a MySQL database via many many different drivers that people have written for just about any programming language. Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). It comes with a scripting language and interpreter, called ‘ij’ which is how you can interact with Derby on the command line.

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

You can access a MySQL database via many many different drivers that people have written for just about any programming language. Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). It comes with a scripting language and interpreter, called ‘ij’ which is how you can interact with Derby on the command line.

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Nonprofits Imagine a Better Sharing Economy

Tech Soup

" According to Wikipedia, the sharing economy (sometimes also referred to as the share economy, shared economy, mesh, collaborative economy, collaborative consumption) is a socio-economic system built around the sharing of human and physical assets. What Is the "Sharing Economy?" AirBnB tells us… that.…

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