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Cool Apps Roundup: Green Apps

Tech Soup

This inaugural post will cover a variety of green or environmental apps that are already out there. 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. are a good example. greenMeter.

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How Digital Inclusion Is Done in Africa

Tech Soup

An NGO with A National Mandate. MyDigitalBridge is an NGO that started its work fairly recently. In Africa, Internet is wireless, and Africa uses mainly cell phone towers to provide broadband. The new 4G networks can carry much more data and so are suitable for both mobile phone and PC broadband. How 4G Works in Africa.

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Digital Volunteerism – Effective Disaster Relief the GreenTech Way

Tech Soup

Thousands of people - with the aid of their computers, mobile phones, and online applications - were able to do important work to save lives and bring resources where they were badly needed, without needing to travel. One of the main ones that anchors this work is Ushahidi.

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How Security Breaches Really Happen at Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

" Monochrome green code scrolls across his screen, and an unnecessarily large "Transfer Status" window shows stolen data in the process of being transferred. Unless your nonprofit or NGO has specific adversaries or is being spear phished , the hacking you may encounter is probably less sophisticated and less targeted.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

PCs aren’t going away, but mobile devices (phones and tablets) are flooding in to the nonprofit workplace. That basically entails figuring out how to allow staff and volunteers to get work email, documents and other data on their own mobile devices – and what to do when phones and tablets get lost or stolen.

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Let’s Connect at the NTC!

Amy Sample Ward

East-West Technology, Culture & Food Exchange: Innovation and culture sharing with NGO counterparts in India. One of the most significant advances in information technology (IT) today is the growing connectivity among devices— computers, mobile phones and even televisions. Listen First! Who : Speakers: Anna S. When : 1:30 p.m.

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[VIDEO] Using WhatsApp to Increase Engagement with Multicultural Communities

Bloomerang

all the green is WhatsApp. And it’s free with a phone plan. So in WhatsApp, you need to have the phone numbers of the person you’re communicating with. They had a phone that had WhatsApp so they could interact with the people from the NGOs and answer the questions that they were, you know, being asked immediately.