Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2016

Since the first NetSquared challenge in 2006, TechSoup has continued to offer people and organizations opportunities to connect, share ideas, and collaborate; they work on solutions online and offline through events, meetups, and hackathons. Making Everybody Part of the Process of Problem-Solving. How an Idea Becomes an App.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

Many years ago, NetSquared hosted challenges and conferences to highlight and bring together fledging social entrepreneurs. Digital organizing: Once communities are digitally literate, they can use the tools to advocate for addressing the challenges and problems they are facing. netsquared digital divide' Want to learn more?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 7, 2013

It was originally published on NetSquared. He says that open-data-idealists wrongly and dangerously believe that once information is shared more widely problems will be solved. Some great data resources are featured this week, along with telling insight on the use of big data for global development and the use of open data by citizens.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2016

But what if an app could be used to help nonprofits, public libraries, and other community groups organize and solve pressing problems? Jaeger explains that to be actionable, an idea must be concrete and address a problem or issue. That is the mission of Caravan Studios , a division of TechSoup. Images: Erica Mesker. spanhidden.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2016

What happens when you combine local government, open data, and creative and tech-savvy citizens? They reached to these communities through the NetSquared Warsaw groups, tech- and startup-focused meetups, and through local universities such as the Warsaw University of Technology. Apps4Warsaw. A Contest Built on City Data. spanhidden.

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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. This wiki can be a first step in providing those developers with information about the problems that can benefit from their support. NetSquared can help!

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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

MAY 23, 2013

It originally appeared on NetSquared. Through the Laura and John Arnold Foundation he set up with his wife, he plans to use the money to ambitiously solve some of America’s biggest problems like obesity and crime through data analysis and science, with an unsentimental focus on results. ?He

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

The conference bag is one of of her "out-of-studio experiments" to involve poor communities in the development of simple solutions to problems of un-managed consumer waste. Government and feedback loops - how can they take the field's learnings and incorporate in theirs? And if the correction creates new problems.".

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog.). Contest Details: Climate change is not a problem that can be solved by a single entity - be it government, business, civil society, or individuals. Do you have a guess at how it will play out? I’d love to hear it! Change Climage Change: Grant Proposals Open.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

You Are Not a Gadget discusses the technical and cultural problems that have unwittingly risen from programming choices - such as the nature of user identity - that were "locked-in" at the birth of digital media. Elijah van der Giessen, TechSoup's Netsquared Community Organizer and Curator.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

You Are Not a Gadget discusses the technical and cultural problems that have unwittingly risen from programming choices - such as the nature of user identity - that were "locked-in" at the birth of digital media. Elijah van der Giessen, TechSoup's Netsquared Community Organizer and Curator.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

If you discover that you are blacklisted, call your web and email host immediately to fix the problem. NetSquared :: netsquared.org. NetSquared in a group of volunteer leaders who host free #TechforGood in-person events every month in 120 cities worldwide. Ghostery :: ghostery.com. NonprofitReady :: nonprofitready.org.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

million-member political action committee who works on issues from universal health care to climate change, and energy independence to restoring democracy through getting rid of the torture clause that the Bush administration has written into the government charter, and trying to get public funding for elections. We are a 3.5

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 3, 2005

I love listening to Barack Obama's podcasts because he gives me hope that there is at least one person in the US government who is reasonable, sane, intelligent and truly cares about people as humans, not just as voters who can keep him in or out of office. With the Shiites increasingly in control of the government, the U.S.

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