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8 Apps That May (Actually) Change San Francisco

Tech Soup

In San Francisco, sometimes one can feel a bit cynical about the influx of frivolous technology with billion dollar valuations. The team members came up with a tool to make the cumbersome process of collecting, transcribing, and cleaning data easier for urban nonprofits and government agencies. No Place Like Home.

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NetSquared Volunteers Help Nonprofits Like You Master Technology

Tech Soup

San Francisco, California. San Francisco, California: Sustainability Unconference (All Day). San Francisco, California: Let's Learn About Airbnb's New Social Impact Experiences Program! San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. San Francisco, California.

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Using Software and Data to Change the World

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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. The way forward is exciting – and you can bet better open data is at the core of this social enterprise.

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Nonprofit Technology News for March 2014

Tech Soup

The most interesting thing about the report is not the end-date estimate, but rather the several dire predictions on the results of universal Internet access. " Facebook, Solar Drones, and Cheap Internet. These drones can supply Internet access at a fraction of the cost of near-earth satellites. TechCrunch. This 25 th.

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Nonprofit Technology News for April 2014 - The Green Issue

Tech Soup

A new software bug called Heartbleed has affected a significant number of online servers on the Internet. 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. Heartbleed: What Everyone Needs To Know. ICT for Development.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Back in 1995, in the early days of the internet, a San Francisco innovator named Craig Newmark started a small email distribution list for friends, highlighting local events across the Bay Area. Consider, for example, the case of Instacart, an on-demand grocery delivery platform founded in San Francisco in 2012.

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Social Media: Not Just a Revolution, but a Voice for the Silenced

Care2

People have been silenced throughout time by media outlets, governments and authority figures who strive to keep minorities and protestors at bay. In August 2011, a group that identified with Anonymous shut down San Francisco's BART public transit system's website after BART cut off all mobile phone service to prevent a projected protest.

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