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Open Source Means Strong Security

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

“Your secure software is open source: doesn’t that make it less secure?” It’s an important question for us and for all of our peers developing secure software in today’s post-Snowden environment of fear and worry about surveillance. At Benetech, we believe that collaboration and community best help deliver strong security.

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Report: Insights from the Google AI Impact Challenge

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There is a lot of experiments and research in different areas, including the international development sector to address the 2030 development goals, emergency and humanitarian aid, medical fields and many others. Each area describes the project idea, type of AI technology and data sources.

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Why Every Organization Should Make Sustainability Part of its Mission

Saleforce Nonprofit

As Salesforce has deepened our commitment to the environment, we’ve also been inspired by our customers who have made sustainability fundamental to their missions with innovative approaches. org is an international movement of people working to end the age of fossil fuels and build a world of community-led renewable energy for all.

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Recruiting Geeks for Human Rights!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This technology and analysis is used by truth commissions, international criminal tribunals, and non-governmental human rights organizations around the world. Maintain and develop our team's automated data processing and analysis infrastructure (POSIX-environment command line tools built on bash, make, python, and R).

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Benetech Truths

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This portion was an internally focused effort based on conversations with our team. Our work has significant impact on users, partners, and the fields of social enterprise, human rights, disability and the environment. 4 We prefer open to proprietary (internal and external). 3 We do the right stuff right.

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Announcing the Third Impact Lab on Climate Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

Our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. CTO, Greenpeace International. Impact Labs convenes community experts across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas.

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Ushahidi BRCK: Bringing Internet to the Developing World

Tech Soup

It is a nonprofit tech company that develops free and open-source software for information collection, visualization, and crowdsourced interactive mapping to help mitigate disasters. The device can also be plugged into solar power chargers, making it well-suited for fieldwork or rural environments. Find out more about this here.