Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2013

This week we learn about the Resilient Africa Network (RAN), which is helping African students use open data for disaster relief. There is also some interesting insight into the link between open development and social impact bonds, while the data dilemma is brought to the fore. It was originally published on NetSquared.

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Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2017

In a recent blog post , in which our nonprofit, TechSoup, advocated for Net Neutrality, there were several responses that have an interestingly identical structure: (a) Government should stay out of the Internet; (b) There are technical issues involved that TechSoup does not understand; and. (c) Images: Image : mirtmirt / Shutterstock.

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Asia Indonesia Poland Government 54

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

The free and open source software, which is a joint venture between Benetech and the Conservation Measures Partnership (CMP) , guides users through a series of step-by-step interview wizards, based on the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation.

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Guam Conservancy Software Help 124

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

Note on platform : During last week’s Twitter chat, not unlike previous chats, we dealt with some major issues around lag and load time. What’s the point in using “global” tools (social media) for local organizing? And in each local place, people are on different types of social media, some of which are global in scope.

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Community Build Local Los Angeles 132

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

About 700 people participated over two days, including some who had traveled to Santa Cruz from London, Indonesia, and across the US. There were some locals who stumbled in unaware, but mostly, this was an insider's event for people who know and love Ze's particular brand of emotional connection mediated through online participation.

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Reflection Community Museum Participatory 43

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

it doesn't have to be completely narrow, but you're going to get more of an audience if it's about a particular issue, rather than just everything. You don't want to write about everything, because then people won't find you in the same way as when they search on Google about "homelessness issues", or "the environment."

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Podcast Arts Oakland St. Louis 40

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2006

So I actually moved home to Texas and started to work on a local initiative to do some water resource protection and did everything right. At the polling place it passed by 75%, that we're wanted to protect this watershed, which 75% in an issue-based election is a huge margin. Went through the democractic system, went door-to-door.

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