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Apps for Disaster Planning

Tech Soup

TechSoup recently updated its disaster planning and recovery guide, The Resilient Organization , to include the new ways nonprofits, charities, and public libraries are using technology. Android, iOS, Windows Phone) connects you with friends and family during a large-scale disaster such as an earthquake or a hurricane.

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Hurricane Sandy Disaster Relief Resources

Tech Soup

Prepare Your Organization for Any Disaster. Help prepare your organization for any type of disaster with our disaster planning and recovery guide. Cool App Roundup: Disaster and Emergency Edition. How the Cloud Can Make a Difference for Disaster Relief. Backup and Disaster Recovery in the Cloud: Webinar Recap.

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How Emerging Tech Is Changing Disaster Relief

Tech Soup

I thought it would be interesting to look at some recent examples of emerging technology for disaster relief in action. Earlier this year, I attended an event organized by the Red Cross to brainstorm and develop ideas surrounding emerging technology and disaster relief. TechSoup Resources for Disaster Planning and Recovery.

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Preparing for the Next Disaster: The Future of #crisisdata

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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.

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Level Up and Change the World: Gamification Apps

Tech Soup

SF Heroes is a disaster preparedness iPhone app for the San Francisco area created for the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management. The more you learn about disaster preparedness, the more badges and points you can earn to become the ultimate San Francisco hero.

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A Day Trip the Hague, Netherlands: International City of Peace and Justice

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Often women will not leave their pets behind or the abuser uses the pet for blackmail, so IFAW homes the pets until the woman is secure in a new home and her new life free from abuse. . It was founded on August 28, 1913 by and an international group of jurists, politicians and pacifists. Learn more at: vredespaleis.nl #HagueDayTrip.

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Building Refurbished Computers with Volunteers at InterConnection

Tech Soup

During the past few years, InterConnection has also participated in supplying badly needed IT equipment to disaster stricken areas like Chile , Haiti and Pakistan , and Japan. InterConnection now supplies RCI with warrantied laptops and desktop computers that go to nonprofits and libraries in the United States.