Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

This new numbering system is a huge leap forward for global philanthropy and may one day enable individuals to donate online to any nonprofit with a BRIDGE Number – not through the BRIDGE Registry itself, but rather through an online or mobile giving service that uses the BRIDGE numbering system. The 2016 Global NGO Online Technology Report.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2012

Last month I did a Networked NGO training in Dubai for Pakistan NGOs where I experienced Internet censorship first hand. Unfortunately, yesterday, the Pakistan government decided to block Twitter – after we had just gotten everyone comfortable tweeting! More from GlobalVoices.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

When those NGOs receive funding they usually know how to use the funds very efficiently and are able to grow. Those initial fundings rarely come from online donations, most are community-based initiatives, companies, and local government incentives. As a fast-growing developing country, this problem it’s quite real.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

"The revolution will be mobile!" NGO Pulse (South Africa). From funding challenges to the need for better governance, find out about the current state of NGOs in South Africa and what must be done for it to improve. TechSoup Canada. Redesign or realign? " says TechSoup Canada. Image: gabindu.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 18, 2013

One thing that Namibia has going for it is a stable parliamentary democracy and a government that clearly believes in digital inclusion. An NGO with A National Mandate. MyDigitalBridge is an NGO that started its work fairly recently. In the U.S., Digital Inclusion Collaboration in Africa.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 29, 2011

" In addition to the film project, more than 50 partner organizations will launch related projects such as online and mobile games, interactive educational tools, and online community builders. Please take a few minutes to complete the NGO Media and Technology Survey. TechSoup, ITVS, and American Public Media. communities.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

According to our 2012 NGO Global Cloud Survey , collaboration is already one of the top ten current uses for cloud-based software among charities. It is usable with PCs, Macs, and mobile devices, and is available in 15 languages. I used it to project manage our recent global NGO cloud survey. To get down to specifics, Huddle.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

This change creates an incredible opportunity that will affect the entire world, making access an affordable reality as more and more people have a device in their pocket that is capable of being an accessible e-reader: from inexpensive mobile phones and MP3 players to braille notetakers that can store thousands of ebooks in digital braille.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

In my companion blog post on Why Apps Are Green , I talked about how apps permit the use of lighter IT infrastructure like mobile phones to accomplish things we previously used to do just on PCs. Mobile phones use much less electricity than PCs, and another benefit is that they make Internet and IT readily available in developing countries.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2011

We discussed cloud adoption in Brazil's NGO sector with Valter Cegal of TechSoup Brasil. ATN is an NGO association of over 2,000 telecenters. But ranked 96th in Internet affordability, especially for fixed broadband Internet and mobile phone Internet. Needless to say, the expense of Internet affects cloud adoption.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2015

Victoria, British Columbia: NGO Summer Social. Denver, Colorado: Not Your Grandmother's Website: Mobile/Responsive Web Development. Seattle, Washington: Governance Matters: Is Policy Governance for Your Organization? Mukono, Uganda: Second Term Solar Mobile Computer Training Meetup for Kibiribiri Primary School.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

San Francisco, California: Mobile Apps for Change Demo Day. Seattle, Washington: Governance Responsibilities for Nonprofit Boards. Peterborough, Ontario: Domains, Branding, and Identity — NGO,CA,ORG, and more. Governance Matters: Create a More Powerful Board Through Policy Governance. Thursday, March 2, 2017.

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2011

TechSoup's NetSquared Initiative partnered with the HRC in the first conference The Soul of the New Machine in 2009 to help select a winner in their Mobile Challenge. NGO capacity is still lacking, but they must learn to own technology. Lyman gives the example of the user interface of a website, which we often.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

First, in partnership with Colombian NGO Corporación Punto de Vista, we assessed a methodology for studying conflict-related sexual violence in the country. The Benetech Human Rights Program (HRP) is hard at work to ensure that technology and science best meet the needs of human rights defenders in these critical times.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Over the last decade the discussion around nonprofit technology ( #nptech ) has primarily been social media, mobile technology, and online fundraising, however as the internet enters its next phase, nonprofits need to better understand some of the more complicated concepts that will shape the internet and its use in the decades to come.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 3, 2011

In our work with nonprofits, we’ve helped many NGOs face these types of challenges by tapping into the inherent benefits of cloud computing platforms. give you on-the-go access to systems and information via the Internet and mobile devices. building a fundraising organization to supplement their traditional government funding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Election observers across Nigeria will be using mobile phones to text officials if they spot irregularities during Saturday's election. Check out Greenlight Nigeria and Mobile Monitors. Someone tagged the NGO-in-a-Box with nptech just today. Freecharity.org.uk shows us how to screencast with Linux and other open source tools!

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 20, 2016

While that's not earth shattering, it is native for mobile and computers both, and it reduces our reliance on our overburdened email. Probably the most amusing mobile story of 2016 was the overnight success of the Nintendo Pokémon Go scavenger hunt mobile app and how nonprofits attempted to use it for a hot minute.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

We want to leapfrog the current unjust equilibrium (blind people are read to, but mostly not) to a new place where the widespread availability of cheap mobile phones and MP3 players can be harnessed. Benetech successfully spun off our data team as the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, an independent NGO.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 26, 2015

The Metro4All project creates web and mobile apps that give people with limited mobility point-to-point directions on using their subway system. So far, their attempts to work with government transportation authorities have failed. So far, Metro4All has apps for 14 cities in Russia and other countries in Europe.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

My current favorite digital inclusion NGO is our newest TechSoup Global partner, Computers For Schools Kenya. I just had a chance to chat with Dr. Tom Musili who runs that incredible NGO to find out what all they’re doing to bring the knowledge economy to school children and electronics recycling to Africa. What the heck.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

My goal was to have a conversation with the folks in the room – who represented both traditional nonprofit institutions, government agencies, and free agents – and answer the question, “ I’ve found my free agent now what? &#. Fortunately, that’s not true for every agency Mark has collaborated with.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

While we had a decade to adjust to websites being important, we’ve had a lot less time to figure out social media, and even less time to adopt a mobile first world. Today, your next door neighbor is seen as just as credible a source of information as an academic, government, business or even an NGO.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

She chronicles the program's start up on her personal blog ) She shares why she started her NGO, "The economic situation is far worse in Kenya than China so volunteer teachers were the only option. Mobile communications are extremely accessible however, with very few dead zones."

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 13, 2018

Periscope is a mobile app connected to Twitter that enables nonprofits to easily broadcast live from special events or while on location. Layout from Instagram is a mobile app that lets you combine multiple photos into a single image that can be saved to your camera roll and shared on Instagram and other social networks.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2011

As Internet and mobile access grows, more data is made open online. It is being used and analyzed by the media, the private sector, governments, and civil society organizations to inform their decisions. And so are the ways in which governments, civil society. NGO representatives, parliamentarians, journalists, and.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Mobile Monkey :: mobilemonkey.com. Periscope is a mobile app connected to Twitter that enables nonprofits to easily broadcast live from special events or while on location. The service provides analytics, A/B testing, and mobile compatibility. Paper is a mobile app for organizing notes, photos, and sketches.

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