Tech Soup

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Seemingly simple questions, such as how to precisely define the term "organization" in a manner that will be useful globally, have spurred spirited internal debates that have yielded interesting new insights. NGO globalgiving nonprofit Foundation Center bridge grantmaking international nonprofits philanthropy Guidestar'

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Tech Soup

JUNE 18, 2013

Half the population lives below the international poverty line, and the country has been hard hit by HIV/AIDS. 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. In the U.S.,

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

NGO Pulse (South Africa). From funding challenges to the need for better governance, find out about the current state of NGOs in South Africa and what must be done for it to improve. GuideStar International. Keisha Taylor from GuideStar International in the U.K. Keisha Taylor from GuideStar International in the U.K.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Get social at an NGO Ho Ho in Vancouver and Victoria or join Pittsburgh's Bagels & Bytes for its annual party. The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. New York, New York: Put Down Your Phone and Start a Movement: Introducing #DinnerMode.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Get social at an NGO Ho Ho in Vancouver and Victoria or join Pittsburgh's Bagels & Bytes for its annual party. The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. New York, New York: Put Down Your Phone and Start a Movement: Introducing #DinnerMode.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

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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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2011

We discussed cloud adoption in Brazil's NGO sector with Valter Cegal of TechSoup Brasil. ATN is an NGO association of over 2,000 telecenters. According to a recent UN International Telecommunication Union (ITU) report on Internet availability in 152 countries, Brazil ranked 64th in overall Internet availability to its people.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 3, 2010

President Michelle Bachelet initially refused foreign aid, but as the death toll has grown, the need for an international response has become obvious. Checking with everyone had required several hours of driving, as many homes are without phones or electricity. The first step, he said, is restoring communications.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

By Edward Granger-Happ, Global CIO, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). I often get the comment during a leadership seminar I teach that goes something like, "Well this is all well and good for large organizations, but what about my twelve-person NGO?" What can small nonprofits do to benefit from collaboration?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Under the theme “Achieving Our Vision through Empowerment and Partnerships,” this was the first-ever combined General Assembly of both WBU and the International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment ( ICEVI ), another world-class organization in the field. The November 2012 General Assembly took place in Bangkok, Thailand.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

East-West Technology, Culture & Food Exchange: Innovation and culture sharing with NGO counterparts in India. Bringing Community Organizing Into Online Campaigns – [International Ballroom C] (#co2oc). Unleashing Technology to Advance Social & Economic Development – [International Ballroom A] (#tech2adv). Listen First!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Many blogs, like the Razoo blog , went red on Thursday as part of Free Burma: International Bloggers Day. " Does that include cell phones? So, do check out the Audio/Video Edition of the NGO-in-a-Box which includes a collection of Free and Open Source Software tools. and color schemes for your blog. more about it here.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

Here are the plans: Salesforce1 for Windows and Windows Phone 8.1 This offer is international. It’s a new international charity classification system that will pave the way for better grantmaking, especially online and international philanthropy. Mifos provides a web app with mobile phone capability.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2013

This time I’ll review a yet another massive new digital inclusion initiative, the launch of a new free mobile phone calling and text plan, new technology in encrypted web browsing, a new NPTech news source find, scary stats on the looming Internet of things, and the coming of the bionic eye. Well, the time is upon us. smartphones.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

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. You need a phone.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Our vision is to put accessible books into the hands of disabled students on borrowed PCs or devices they already have, such as inexpensive MP3 players and cell phones. I'm especially excited about our efforts to reach students who haven't traditionally had access to assistive technology.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

Now the bad news: the international NGO sector saw a decline in online giving. The IT press has been covering lots new developments lately in paying by mobile phone. Of course mobile phone payments are not new. CNN Money: 5 pay-by-phone apps tested. Social Media. Digital Wallets. CNET Coverage on Digital Wallets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I’ve just spent the last couple of days in Nairobi, Kenya because I’m a board member of an NGO based here, Ushahidi , an organization that builds tools for democratizing information and increasing transparency. I ask people to share what is top of mind when they think about social media and their NGO. Book Giveaways.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

More and more nonprofit, library, and NGO offices worldwide will need to accommodate personally-owned tablets and smartphones on wireless networks in order to work and communicate. " Our internal IT staffs will struggle to integrate them into organizational email, security, and data collection. During the last week of December, 1.76

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