Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

T, December 10th, the international community is observing Human Rights Day to commemorate the 63rd anniversary of the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. First, in partnership with Colombian NGO Corporación Punto de Vista, we assessed a methodology for studying conflict-related sexual violence in the country.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Ushahidi is an NGO headquartered in Kenya. It is a nonprofit tech company that develops free and open-source software for information collection, visualization, and crowdsourced interactive mapping to help mitigate disasters. Here’s some news on a now famous NetSquared alumnus project. Find out more about this here.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2009

As readers of this blog probably know, I’m really excited about the work Social Actions is doing to help connect the sources of actions and opportunities across the web to push them further. Social Actions is “an open source database of actions people can take on any issue.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

and Sahana Foundation (which hosts a free open source disaster management system), have changed the way disaster relief is being done all over the world. Disaster relief is one of the primary activities of the NGO sector, and crowdsourced volunteer digital disaster work is an important and expanding part of it.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Large national and international nonprofits are often ahead of the curve. According to the Global NGO Technology Report , 44% of nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide use WordPress.org as their content management system (CMS) for their website ( 7% use Drupal and 3% use Joomla ). Study and implement modern design trends.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Treading Lightly | The Delicate Art of Internal Communications. Victoria, British Columbia: NGO Ho Ho: A Holiday Party for Victoria's Nonprofits. The link need to be like so: Africa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Some key points: Sopheak presented some research that what women blog about is family and more internal thoughts and that men blog about politics. The day before the conference, I spent some time at the Open Institute , the NGO that hosts the KhmerOS (Open Source Software) project.

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