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Apps for Youth, By Youth

Tech Soup

Windows Phone) is a point-of-care smartphone application that addresses child mortality rates by lack of detection and availability of treatment for malaria. Our Time (Facebook) is a nonprofit dedicated to youth empowerment through the voting process. Khan Academy (Windows Phone, iPad) is a nonprofit on a mission to change education.

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An App for Survivors: SafeNight Is Finalist in Anti-Trafficking Challenge

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There, she builds technology that connects local communities to resources that help them solve problems and impact issues. Human trafficking survivors are better able to access the kinds of resources necessary to get safe and stable housing, social services, and economic empowerment. It’s in the Windows Phone marketplace.

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Increasing Accessible Publishing Globally

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Under the theme “Achieving Our Vision through Empowerment and Partnerships,” this was the first-ever combined General Assembly of both WBU and the International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment ( ICEVI ), another world-class organization in the field. It’s this kind of problem that the global treaty is designed to solve.

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Nonprofit Technology News: Help for Charities to Develop Mobile Giving Capacity

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As always, there’s plenty more news like how Facebook’s news feed policy is not good news for charities, how smartphone kill switch legislation will affect your organization, how things like your own perspiration will run your phone someday and some more NPTech quick hits. million phones were stolen in the U.S., Quick Hits.

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A Review of the Guardian ACTIVATE Summit in London

Tech Soup

most fundamental problems that people in less favourable environments. ” Rakesh Rajani, Tweweza, talking about the potential dramatic impact of the mobile phone in Africa in the next five years. we like to buy mobile phones to have fun, talk to friends, listen to music, tweet and connect on Facebook.” On the core.

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The Digital Divide Doesn't Exist

NTEN

It's the definite article that causes problems, implying there's an easy way to think about the issues surrounding the inequitable access to technology -- and perhaps an easy solution. Setting aside the problems with his numbers -- he notes that "While only 3.6% Brett Meyer, NTEN. The digital divide doesn't exist.

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8 Apps That May (Actually) Change San Francisco

Tech Soup

It seems like every day there's a new overhyped idea that claims to fix a problem you never thought you had, like a delivery service for laundry quarters. So it's refreshing to come to an event where techies and nonprofits convene to solve deep, real problems that plague our community.