Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. The system had three components: The Image Tagger — Volunteers sort through news photos coming out of Haiti and categorize (tag) them with keywords like “adult, child, alive, deceased.”

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2017

It is one of the very few tech conferences where that is the case. Jane Meseck , senior director of global programs at Microsoft Philanthropies. Janet Mawlyoo , executive director, Kenya Community Development Foundation. Religion Tech. Image 1: Jennifer Leahy Photography. Image 2: Jane Meseck. Philanthropy.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2015

This trend has been gaining steam and is expected to have global implications. " This need for digital skills is not limited to the tech sector. In 2014, Samaschool expanded globally to Nairobi, Kenya, and in 2015, it launched an online curriculum that teaches students what it takes to do digital work. spanhidden

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

These global leaders are coming from Uganda, Australia, London, and Florida. We're a global movement with chapters in 20 countries. 501 Tech Club Austin in Austin, Texas. Nonprofit Neighbors Tech Club in Kansas City, Missouri. Busia, Kenya: Open Data Day. Busia, Kenya: Open Data Day. Upcoming Events.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 27, 2014

Our events are powered by a global network of volunteers dedicated to building strong, self-sufficient local communities of nonprofit technology practitioners. Baltimore, MD: February Tech & Social Change - Social Media Analytics. Kisumu, Kenya: Mozilla Make a Party Western Kenya joins together with Netsquared Kenya.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2015

San Francisco is taking a high-level view with its Tech and Philanthropy panel. So far we've scheduled events in Kenya and Uganda, and will be adding more cities throughout the fall. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Our events are powered by a global network of volunteers dedicated to building strong, self sufficient local communities of nonprofit technology practitioners. We’re a global movement with chapters in 20 countries. Kakamega Town, Kenya: Netsquared Kenya Regional Meeting /Kakamega County. Image : Liz Kearley.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2015

We''re a [global movement]([link] with chapters in 20 countries. Check out our newest groups: * [NetSquared Tanzania]([link] in Tanga, Tanzania * [501 Tech Club Austin]([link] in Austin, TX * [Nonprofit Neighbors Tech Club]([link] in Kansas City, MO --> Upcoming Events. IMAGE ATTRIBUTION GUIDELINES. Sunday, April 5, 2015.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

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. Community Boost_r is a project that inspires, enables, and promotes tech for civil participation in transparency and accountability initiatives in the Western Balkans.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

We are scheduling workshops globally. Nakuru, Kenya , November 4 with Mary Antonina. Malaba, Kenya , November 5 with David Wanga. Nairobi, Kenya , November 6 with Chrispine Okumu. Image : Chad Leaman via Elijah van der Giessen / CC BY-NC-SA. November 2015. spanhidden.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Our events are powered by a global network of volunteers dedicated to building strong, self-sufficient, local communities of nonprofit technology practitioners. We're a global movement with chapters in 20 countries. Katharine Bierce recorded her recent tech and philanthropy panel. Newest NetSquared Groups.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

But supporting a rapidly expanding global network of volunteers is difficult, so we've enlisted seven of our most engaged organizers to act as Regional Ambassadors. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Upcoming Events.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

TechSoup Global’s Dara Westling attended the recent Global Donors Forum in Washington, D.C. to report on Tech for Good trends and also to find out how things are going in one of the most challenging areas of philanthropy: providing much needed help and support to people in the Muslim world. Dara Westling.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2014

That’s why TechSoup Global also offers NetSquared, community of nonprofit technology meetups with groups in twenty countries. Washington, DC: Happy Hour: Celebrate Spring & Tech. Busia, Kenya: mozilla western kenya follow ups -openness,opportuni­ty on the open web. Image: Robert Kibaya of Net2 Uganda.

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2016

No more excuses are allowed about your New Year's resolution to power up your nonprofit tech skills — it's time to join a meetup and find your tribe! Just search at NetSquared.org and start leveraging tech to do more good. We're a global movement with chapters in 20 countries. Storymakers. Wednesday, June 8.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2013

The event is sponsored by Microsoft and organized by TechSoup Global , WorldLoop , and Mico E-Waste Solutions. Industry, including e-waste recyclers, refurbishers, environmental auditors, and consultants, as well as policy leaders from many countries globally, will be participating in this event. or European Union or Latin America.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

Pinterest is a social media photo-sharing website that allows users to create online image collections around specific events or subjects. For instance, users can pin images for planning a conference, celebrating volunteers, or encourage their supporters to pin images related to a topic for. Image: Digital Wallet, Shutterstock.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The big nonprofit tech trends this past year seemed to be in the areas of the emergence of mobile devices, social media stratification, the launch of Office 365 for Nonprofits, some huge digital inclusion initiatives, and lots of other things. TechSoup offers a low-cost npOffice Office 365 Assessment from our cloud partner, Tech Impact.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

This post is Development Director Ryan Ginard's first impression of seeing how powerful a virtual reality video is in putting the viewer in the middle of a compelling story at the most recent meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative. A Highlight at the Recent Clinton Global Initiative Meeting. Image : kevin / CC BY.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

mobile payment system in Kenya that allows people there to text each other money. Charity Digital News , Wired , and several other UK tech publications recently reported on Nominet Trust 100 , or NT100, which is a new comprehensive global list of promising applications of digital technology for social good.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2016

At each event, we're helping to build and sustain a self-supporting community of practice for tech-minded nonprofit staffers. Every month, our global network of community organizers host Tech4Good events in more than 70 cities. Mississauga, Ontario: Tech Entrepreneurs Mastermind. Casey Foundation Data Dive.

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Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2014

As part of Storymakers 2014, we offer a slate of interactive events including our global tweet-chat on September 4, 2014 and NetSquared meet-ups this August and September with storytelling workshops and presentations in your local community. Global Tweet-Chat. Join our global-tweet chat on September 4, 2014 at # Storymakers2014.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

We have another date for the end of the global digital divide! Way back in August I posed the somewhat rhetorical question: Will Facebook’s Internet.org Bridge the Global Digital Divide? that is experimenting with high tech balloons to supply Internet in remote places. Digital Inclusion. News flash. TechCrunch.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

I invite you to have a look at my list of 2013 forecasts on nonprofit technology trends with its handy infographic so you can see how right (or wrong) I am about this year's tech trends. Find my piece, “ Will Facebook’s Internet.org Bridge the Global Digital Divide? Image: Shutterstock. Smart Watches.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

I invite you to have a look at my list of 2013 forecasts on nonprofit technology trends with its handy new infographic so you can see how right (or wrong) I am about this year's tech trends for the sector. The images are called pins and collections are called boards. Here's the latest. Digital Wallets. " With PaperKarma.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

Back in 2012, in order to better meet the needs of the global philanthropic sector, the Foundation Center began an extensive review of their Philanthropy Classification System. BRIDGE is an acronym for Basic Registry of Identified Global Entities. Chad McEvoy of Global Giving is the BRIDGE project manager. Box.org Logo: Box.org.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

To kick off a series of profiles on leaders in nonprofit technology, we thought we’d start close to home by featuring our TechSoup Global founder, Daniel Ben-Horin. CompuMentor in due course turned into TechSoup when it became a national nonprofit, and TechSoup Global in 2008 after it had become an international organization.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

On September 4, 2014, join other story makers from India, Libya, Kenya, and across Europe to the United States and Canada for an amazing global discussion on Twitter. Image: Aya Tarek / CC BY-NC-ND. Are you ready to join Storymakers 2014 on Twitter for a conversation that spans the globe?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Ushahidi Board Meeting at iHub in Kenya. I’ve just spent the last couple of days in Nairobi, Kenya because I’m a board member of an NGO based here, Ushahidi , an organization that builds tools for democratizing information and increasing transparency. The Networked Nonprofit In Kenya. Response was laughter).

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2013

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. Announcing the Global Open Data Initiative (GODI). Image: NetSquared. It originally appeared on NetSquared. Open Data Applied.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

So, if that's something that's interesting to you, I can definitely talk to you about details afterwards, but my advice to you is, number one: don't be afraid of the tech. So for me, I actually often pick my parents [when writing about technology], because they have dial-up, and they're not very tech-savvy.

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