Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2011

MacArthur Foundation and Humanity United , held their second Human Rights and Technology conference at the new David Brower Center. John Lyman from Google.org laid out three key themes in deploying technology products in the developing world: Remember the context and environment in which you are using technology.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Seattle, Washington: Governance Responsibilities for Nonprofit Boards. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Nonprofit Communications and Technology Conference (MCN). Governance Matters: Create a More Powerful Board Through Policy Governance. Los Angeles, California: Using Technology in Local Activism. Sunday, February 12, 2017.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Seattle, Washington: What You Need to Know About Board Governance. Seattle, Washington: Fall Nonprofit Technology Speed Geek. Kampala, Uganda: Digital Storytelling for Nonprofits Workshop. Matloding, South Africa: Technology for Rural Development. Katabi, Uganda: Using Social Media Applications for Development.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

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. Looking ahead to 2012, training NGOs in collection and effective use of data, and developing new technology tools to enable these efforts will be core components of our agenda.

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Care2

MARCH 12, 2012

Government to help capture Kony. Bottom line - millions of people who had never even heard of Joseph Kony, or the brutal civil war that the people of Uganda have endured for years are finally learning about it, and listening. Their goal is to make Kony a household name in the U.S.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2016

World leaders and technology firms should be paying attention to their solutions—and backing them up. Today, she is using technology to help fellow trafficking victims. World leaders and technology firms should be paying attention to their solutions—and backing them up. That’s just the beginning.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Recently, over 300 innovators and changemakers interested in the intersection of technology and social benefit work converged for a few days of idea-sharing, learning, and collaboration at NetSquared's annual conference. The 2009 N2Y4 Conference showcased the Featured Projects from NetSquared's Global Challenge focused on mobile technology.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Sustainability is still a real challenge, but the cost to value ratio of a school computer lab is shrinking to the point where you are starting to see governments and local communities invest more on their own to promote ICT access. . Technology makes it increasingly easy to be removed from the field and practice “armchair development”.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Ironically, many of these users might buy commercial ebooks, but the anti-piracy technology built into many ebook systems are not compatible with the technology these users employ to get the books in Braille or synthetic speech. The problem is that we provide technology that allows for security, privacy and circumvention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Ironically, many of these users might buy commercial ebooks, but the anti-piracy technology built into many ebook systems are not compatible with the technology these users employ to get the books in Braille or synthetic speech. The problem is that we provide technology that allows for security, privacy and circumvention.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Without a doubt big data is one of the most talked about topics in nonprofit technology and IT in general this year. MIT Technology Review recently cited Oracle’s definition : “Big data is the derivation of value from traditional relational database-driven business decision making, augmented with new sources of unstructured data.”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Consulted with some peer social entrepreneurs about whether we could help them with specific technology for their nonprofits. Met with a major international human rights defender group about our Martus technology and digital security more generally. Kampala, Uganda The Sixth Africa Forum was the main reason for my Africa trip.

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