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Green Technology Summit Heads to Europe (and It's Kind Of a Big Deal)

Tech Soup

Jim Lynch is TechSoup's director of green technology (here's the part where I embarrass him — he's also pretty much the man as far as electronics refurbishing and recycling goes). One example of great refurbishing work is Banco Informatico Tecnologico e Biomedico (TechSoup Italia) in Italy.

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Mobile for Good: Trends to Watch at Mobile World Congress

Tech Soup

Besides being a launch pad for shiny new gadgets, MWC has also been a forum for green technology news, digital inclusion efforts, low-cost smartphones, and other mobile for good innovations. As my colleague Jim Lynch noted in his January NPTech News column, wearable technology is hot this year. Image 1: miuet.

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TechSoup’s Refurbished Computer Initiative: You’ve Come A Long Way Baby

Tech Soup

And then the program really got going with a major grant in 2007 from California Emerging Technology Fund. How Green Is Refurbished IT Equipment? To be specific, they are our partners in Australia , New Zealand , Germany , France , Italy , India , Poland , and Romania. to scale up RCI in California. Fast Forward to 2012.

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Cybersecurity: What All Nonprofits Need to Know

The Modern Nonprofit

So, HTTPS and a green lock showing don’t alone prove that the website is legitimate, but a lack of HTTPS is a dead giveaway that inputting any sensitive information into this site is unsafe! Keep in mind, hackers can buy security certificates, too. Install software updates as soon as they’re available.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

You can use different technologies for these things, as easy or as difficult as you want. So for me, I actually often pick my parents [when writing about technology], because they have dial-up, and they're not very tech-savvy. How can we uplift people out of poverty with this new green boom and not leave some people out.

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