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MobileActive Strategy Guide Now Available for Download

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

a number of popular uprisings in the Ukraine and South Korea, to name just a. technology in nonprofit organizations. Mobile phones offer an. extremely effective way for organizations to get messages out to the public, monitor elections, and encourage voter participation.??? Other guides in the series will focus on. organizing.

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Provide the Nonprofit Voice to America's Broadband Plan

NTEN

As the United States continues its fall in international broadband ratings, it is clear that our current system, devoid of competition and consumer choice, is putting private interests above the public good. Consumers in South Korea and Japan can get broadband speeds reaching 1 Gigabit per second (Gbps) for less than the monthly price a U.S.

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Snapshot of Worldwide Electronics Recycling 2013

Tech Soup

According to the International Environmental Technology Center of the United Nations Environment Program. South Korea also has a developed electronics recycling system that now recovers and properly processes over 75 percent of discarded electronics. World Snapshot. percent, the highest in the world.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

New computer and internet technologies would facilitate direct connections between individual users anywhere in the world, using web- based platforms provided by companies like Craigslist, eBay, Airbnb, Uber, and Grubhub. It was the early stirrings of what we now call the “platform economy.”. What’s not to like? Not So Rosy After All.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Consulted with some peer social entrepreneurs about whether we could help them with specific technology for their nonprofits. Met with a major international human rights defender group about our Martus technology and digital security more generally. Interviewed several candidates for executive positions at Benetech.

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