Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2013

A new set of micro-tasking apps, called MicroMappers, are trying to solve this problem so relief organizations can help volunteers pinpoint exactly where help is needed and identify useful (not to mention valid) social media data. The authors come from varying sectors, including NGOs, government agencies, academia, and business.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

When there's no transparency and accountability in government, citizens feel powerless and deceived by the politicians that represent them. Three project winners were chosen from each country: From Bosnia and Herzegovina: Centar 72 aims to solve community problems within 72 hours. How can people fight back? Through technology!

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2013

The intent of the event is to speed up efforts to address the African e-waste problem in a manner that protects the environment and workers' health, and also creates economic opportunity. A recent UN study finds that domestic consumption is the main contributor to Africa's growing e-waste problem.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2016

Here are four common mistakes my team and I see made by social, government, and nonprofit organizations trying to measure their impact, and tips on how to avoid them: 1. By far the most common problem we see is that most organizations try to measure too much. Image 1 : Rawpixel.com / Shutterstock. Image 2: Liana Downey.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

A TechSoup Global project, #NPTechChat is a monthly Twitter-chat series for social change activists that reduces barriers and increases impact by using technology around the globe. Sheila Warren, general counsel, NGOsource/Techsoup Global; @sheila_warren. Image by the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (text added).

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

There are many different types of hackathons: from company hackathons (such as Facebook's All-Night Hackathon ) to government improvement hackathons (like #HackWeTrust. Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) is a global-wide community of hackers and social leaders with the common goal of building open technology for a better world.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

TechHire spans the corporate, nonprofit, government, and educational sectors and has the ambitious goal to "give Americans the opportunity they deserve, and the skills they need to be competitive in a global economy." "[Year Up] is another tool in your chest to help you solve a problem in your company."

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 15, 2012

In our TechSoup Global NGO cloud survey we found that people in nonprofits and libraries are indeed concerned about data security in the cloud the world over. How Big Is the Cloud Data Security Problem? Federal Government shutting down Megaupload for their illegal download activities. Image: Cloud security from Shutterstock.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Keep in mind that every technology runs into problems and no cloud vendor can guarantee 100% availability for their services. " Big Brother : A cloud provider can and will hand your data over to the government, often without telling you. Image: happy clouds. Everything in the cloud is stored. redundantly.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

We also shine the light on the potential security problems of smart toys, predict the end of the digital divide, and discuss a health-related wearable that can't get here fast enough and some intriguing 10 year-old predictions that just happened to come true. Image 1: TechSoup. Image 2 : kpgolfpro / CCO. Image 6: Paul Lamb.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2014

In 2001, Microsoft responded to requests by refurbishers for some remedy to this problem by creating the Microsoft Authorized Refurbisher (MAR) Program. These programs are one big reason why refurbishment is now a significant part of the global recycling industry. Image: Sean Nicholson. Microsoft piloted the program in the U.K.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 24, 2011

During the month of October, join TechSoup.org and the TechSoup Global Network for our Cloud Computing Worldwide campaign. Data are everything - names, addresses, documents, images, music, video - and we feel the need to take it with us. Big Data and the Cloud Define Future Technology. How Does Big Data Intersect with the Cloud?

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2008

Part two talks about understanding the challenges.Foundations take on the biggest and gnarliest social problems (if the problems could be easily solved, the private sector or governments would have already figured them out. We also saw some.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 23, 2015

Azavea's OpenTreeMap app allows individuals, governments, neighborhood organizations, and other groups to collaborate in mapping and exploring the urban forest ( iOS and Android ; free). Image : Startup Stock Photos / CC0 Public Domain. See all Microsoft Android , iOS , and Windows apps. Databases and Analytics. Social Benefit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The 2009 NMC Symposium for the Future , the fourteenth in the NMC’s Series of Virtual Symposia (October 27-29th), will explore actual and potential applications of technology that could impact issues of global importance over the next five years and beyond. I wonder if in 2020, whether nonprofit boards/governance will be totally transparent?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Most importantly, we’ve matched dozens of volunteers to opportunities to contribute their technical talents toward solving some of the world’s most pressing problems. Most importantly, we’ve matched dozens of volunteers to opportunities to contribute their technical talents toward solving some of the world’s most pressing problems.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 28, 2023

It exists in the algorithms that govern your Facebook timeline, explains why YouTube always recommends the perfect video, or more recently, powers the Large Language Models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s Chat-GPT , Google’s Bard , or Bing’s AI Chatbot , and others that have made headlines. Ignoring this can lead to the Grey Jacket Problem.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

You can also see the images I used, which were constructed with an extremely cool presentation software called Prezi, here. So they started a climate conference that focused on economic models for local businesses and governments not just to survive but to succeed in a world of climate change. Make a list.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

It's an intellectual journey through the history of communication and information, from the language of Africa's talking drums all the way up to modern information theory and the information age with its deluge of news, tweets, images, and blogs. " Ginny Mies, Global Content Curator. Tyler Benari, Principle Web Designer.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

It's an intellectual journey through the history of communication and information, from the language of Africa's talking drums all the way up to modern information theory and the information age with its deluge of news, tweets, images, and blogs. " Ginny Mies, Global Content Curator. Tyler Benari, Principle Web Designer.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

On January 21, 2009, the White House issued the Transparency and Open Government Memorandum. The memorandum instructed the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to provide guidance to executive departments and agencies on implementing open government. A select group of these ideas are provided below. Vote for this Idea].

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Keisha Taylor is TechSoup Global's senior manager for business planning and research for our Global Data Services work. She also likes the big data for good work coming out of the UN Global Pulse initiative. She tells me that big data is not surprisingly mostly collected by companies and to some extent also governments.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

If you’re not familiar with Charity Water, they’re a leading nonprofit at the global level. Another way to share impact reports is through images, and this is from Charity Water as well. And it’s just a fabulous image, to say. ” until we touch those heart strings. look at that glass.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

It provides some insight on why our discarded electronic devices are a problem everywhere. The problem requires pretty much all of us to change our passwords on Google (including Gmail and YouTube), Tumblr, Yahoo, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, Intuit, Dropbox, Netflix and Flickr. Heartbleed: What Everyone Needs To Know.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

This is true for most of Asia where the problem is becoming critical. According to Park Young-Woo of the United Nations Environment Program, the Asia-Pacific region now produces more than half of global e-waste. Another UN study finds that domestic consumption is the main contributor to Africa's growing e-waste problem.

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Non Profit Quarterly

MAY 3, 2022

Image Credit: Jon Tyson on Unsplash. Thousands of government institutions are already using digital participation platforms. At People Powered, we recently reviewed and rated the best digital participation platforms , and we have used them to engage our global members in making funding and policy decisions.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

As part of the session, Tom led live drawing ( click for high-res image ), and we invited the audience to add their own “can’t dos” to a large map of things that are “safe,” “iffy,” and “no way”--more on that later. cancer, stroke, heart attacks) Animal testing Hate crimes Pedophilia Other countries, not ours, are to blame for this problem.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

Though the web is useful for connecting people around a single cause on a global scale, this support is often difficult to express offline. First, in the Netherlands we used them as a tool to influence the Dutch government and get the media on board. We have used the concept twice in a different way.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

Though the web is useful for connecting people around a single cause on a global scale, this support is often difficult to express offline. First, in the Netherlands we used them as a tool to influence the Dutch government and get the media on board. We have used the concept twice in a different way.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

It traverses the slum’s territory, listlessly gliding above the shanties, perhaps to transmit images to the Military Police Operations Centre, a violent state apparatus that mercilessly represses the slum’s inhabitants. 1 The worker remains unaware of what is taking place above them, just as they remain unaware of the purpose of their work.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Once you know the basics of HTML, you can either write the code from scratch or use a HTML editor to easily generate HTML for tables, images, and formatted text. If you discover that you are blacklisted, call your web and email host immediately to fix the problem. Global NGO Technology Report :: techreport.ngo.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

She is donating 100 percent of the royalties from the book to the Global Fund for Women. These are grassroots organizations, and they were helping each other with the most intractable problems that face women everywhere: domestic violence, sex trafficking, disease, discrimination. Paola Gianturco: My name is Paola Gianturco.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

We have confirmed that belief – and that’s my biggest problem here. But the bottom-line: Cracks are showing everywhere in our increasingly unsustainable economic and environmental global order. There’s a lot in here that applies to the government [.] Poverty has many causes. Totally agree with the flickr one.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

So for me as an artist, I got together with some other activists to figure out how could we build beautiful images that would attract the media, attract other human beings of our same species to care about these things as well, and that was the road to doing Art and Revolution. We are a 3.5 So we have a wide mandate.

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