NTEN
OCTOBER 13, 2010
We opened ourselves up, invited communities, and created an expectation that asking for help in these spaces will result in real-life action. Unfortunately, this isn't Domino's Pizza and disaster response can't work as if it is. The first people to respond during a disaster are not usually trained responders or other professionals.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 27, 2014
This is one of the first reports using “Personal Health Data” in aggregate, using data points around sleep tracking to look at a natural disaster. As Jacob Harold mused on Twitter, “In such a moment of something so powerful and scary as an earthquake, technology can only observe.” How long will this data be stored?
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 1, 2010
Ed Granger-Happ, Nethope; Claire Bonilla, Disaster Response Microsoft; Daniel Ben-Horin, TechSoup Global, Vida Durant, CARE USA. Ed Granger-Happ shows off his office server in a carry on bag that disaster relief workers can use to set up IT support in the field.
Tech Soup
MAY 23, 2014
The European Court of Justice has taken a landmark decision to reverse this fact of modern life. " The ruling establishes that a search engine such as Google must be regarded as a "data controller" under the data protection laws in those EU countries where it operates. Disaster Relief in Eastern Europe.
Tech Soup
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
In hardware life extension news, the grand award winner for software in Popular Science's Best of What's New 2013 this year is a server/software technology called Neverware Juicebox. They save us the arduous task of taking our phones out of our pockets to look at them. Green Technology. The nonprofit refurbisher. MyDigitalBridge.
sgEngage
MAY 6, 2021
Over the last couple of years, as natural disasters continued to pick up in intensity and COVID – 19 brought rising income and healthcare inequalities to center stage, corporations have increasingly been pouring more focus into their own ESG measurements and practices in conjunction with their corporate social responsibility efforts. .
sgEngage
APRIL 22, 2021
The core team focused on bringing Earth Day to life quickly realized the potential to engage Americans beyond just the college-aged demographic and worked diligently to expand their reach. The National Centers for Environmental Information has been tracking ‘billion-dollar disasters’ since 1980. million people. Trillion in damages.
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