Tech Soup

MAY 15, 2013

Some big news this week as President Obama further commits to opening up government data by signing an Executive Order. Open Government Data. Landmark Steps to Liberate Open Data President Obama has signed an Executive Order to make government data more accessible to the public and entrepreneurs.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Although reports of the massacre appeared in the United States, Salvadoran army and government leaders denied them and, all too soon, El Mozote was forgotten. But, we still have to protect our users from attacks from many repressive governments around the world.

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Burma Analysis Guatemala Law 168

Byte Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Happily though, because of its size and the fact that it’s an open-source program, vulnerabilities in security for the main operating program as well as the thousands of plugins are often caught early thanks to many eyes keeping a faithful watch.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

The IT industry is overwhelmed with companies and courses and products aimed at the commercial world. When faced with this list of challenges, I've seen some nonprofits try and find a life-raft in the IT ocean by following what larger commercial or government organizations do. Where do our ideas about IT come from?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

A lengthy article in the Wall Street Journal highlights the effect that the One Laptop per Child Initiative has had on the pc industry.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2018

The common thread of all of these big hairy audacious goals is that they are measurable – and they involve ecosystems of dozens, hundreds, or thousands of organizations businesses and government agencies. as the commercial industry increasingly sells the books we used to give away! Complicated – but it’s good news for us geeks.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Benetech, like many nonprofit organizations building open source software for social good, often relies upon the contributions of experienced software developers to help its solutions grow and scale. In so doing, we launched Benetech’s newest program, SocialCoding4Good.

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Los Angeles Mobile Impact Technology 205

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 13-17, 2009 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process with staff and advisory board feedback. Open Source Disability Gadgets: DIY for PWD submitted by Liz Henry, Blogher.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

For nonprofit data, creating this language is becoming a self-organizing necessity in the same way that the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESGs) criteria are for the corporate world. Enter the Nonprofit Common Data Model (CDM) , originally stewarded by Microsoft as a founding creator and ongoing community sponsor.

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Model Data Tools Open Source 75

VisionLink

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

In order to survive, thousands of children fall victim to human trafficking, work in the sex industry, live in substandard orphanages or on the streets. Named Timoun, the Haitian Creole word for child, our solution leverages current open source software solutions and is designed to operate in low tech or bandwidth settings.

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Cloud 4 Good

JUNE 8, 2022

Cloud for Good complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company operates. The most competitive candidates will have the ability to promote Cloud for Good’s #BestTeamEver employer brand and ensure we have the absolute best people on our team. Location: ?Virtual:

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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. In a Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

I want our efforts to reach the broadest possible audience and at yet on a gut level, I loathe the restrictive nature of the journal industry. But most engineers do, and did even in the government-funded R&D world I entered in the 80’s. These resources and tools thus improve equality of opportunity. I’m still using it.)

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

Heartbleed is an OpenSSL bug that creates openings in cloud servers in which attackers can go in and extract passwords, private keys, and other data. OpenSSL is nonprofit open source software that provides security on e-commerce and other websites by creating an encrypted channel between your device and the website.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 16, 2013

While I hate to rub salt in the wounds of the many IT professionals working hard to get this new system up and running, I have to think this is a teachable moment for the technology industry. So, here are a few other articles on the topic that I found interesting: An Open Source perspective. Selection and Procurement.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Airbnb and Uber emerged as platform companies providing services without actually owning hotels (in the case of Airbnb) and vehicles (in the case of Uber—soon to be joined by Lyft), and quickly came to disrupt and dominate their respective industries.

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