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The Davos Blur

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

James Moody of Australia’s national research organization was talking about an idea of a humanitarian license for patents that has been floated by the YGL community. Since I’ve been working on IP policy and licensing on Bookshare, I was quite interested and had ideas of how to work with companies to apply their IP to social needs.

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Advice from Grantmakers on Streamlining Your Tech Solutions

sgEngage

Through hurricanes, fires, floods, the pandemic, and more, Two Ten awards millions of dollars in emergency relief each year, and they rely 100% on donor dollars to do it. Additionally, she said, they consolidated their software subscriptions, and IT now holds the licenses.

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My Organization is in “the cloud”! – What does that mean?

3rd Sector Labs

Instead of being installed on computers that are owned and operated by the organization, and located in their offices, software “in the cloud” is owned by another company, located on their computer network, and licensed to the customer organization for remote Internet access and usage.

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Alexandra Rampy, Guest Post: The Cool Factor About Mobile

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Objective : Provide a home site for of CDC’s mobile information about hurricane preparedness and the flu season. Due to the increasing amount of dangerous hurricane like Katrina, Gustav and Ike, the CDC recently created a mobile Web site to further assist during times of emergency. Cool Factor : Government Goes Mobile.

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Tech Policies for Virtual Teams: A Leader’s Responsibility

Non Profit Quarterly

So, what do you do in case things go wrong, whether it’s with a technology system, or there’s a hurricane that wipes out your office or whatever? Remote work. And then, social media and digital communication. So, we’ll touch on each of those going forward here. so, take a moment to respond to that.

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Alli Chagi-Starr, Art in Action/Ella Baker Center, Podcast Interview Transcription

Have Fun - Do Good

It's an amazing act of love really in response to the hurricane and the racial neglect that occurred down on the Gulf. activism art youth green This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 I'll post all this information in my shownotes on my website, www.brittbravo.com. Thanks for listening.

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