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How Drones Are Being Used to Benefit Humankind

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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. Aerial surveying for wildlife preservation. Drones being used in disaster situations include the following. Tracking storms.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

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A 2013 survey from The Millennial Impact. According TechSoup’s Global NGO Cloud Survey , cloud storage and back-up is one of the most useful cloud technologies out there. This years’ Nobel Prize for Peace was awarded to the technology oriented Dutch NGO, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.

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NpTechTag Summary: Insect Antennae, A Blast from the Past, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. A quick review of the results of Isovera Survey of Open Source Content Management Satisfaction in Nonprofit Organizations. Maybe we need an NPtech History Archive ? Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae?

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Nonprofit Tech Forecasts for 2013

Tech Soup

We also noticed a significant increase in the way that mobile technology is being used in disaster relief. More and more nonprofit, library, and NGO offices worldwide will need to accommodate personally-owned tablets and smartphones on wireless networks in order to work and communicate. Mobile Computing. The Cloud in 2013.

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