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Reduce Travel by Telecommuting

Tech Soup

Telecommuting or telework allows employees and volunteers to work from home or in a remote location and still be in touch with their office. US workers alone commute an average of 10,000 miles per year each and consume 67 billion gallons of gasoline. They also do free telecommunications audit for US nonprofits and libraries.

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What Does Big Data Have to Do With Me and My Organization?

Tech Soup

Grameen has a team of community knowledge workers who go out in the fields of Uganda and collect agricultural information on their mobile devices. apps help volunteers identify and map useful social media data by breaking down larger, more complicated analytical tasks into small, easily completed microtasks. MicroMappers.

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