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How the NetSquared Challenges Have Accelerated Tech for Good

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These challenges helped provide early publicity, support, collaboration opportunities, and funding for now-famous "tech for good" organizations such as Ushahidi , FrontlineSMS , and many others. The goal was to provide a platform for ordinary Kenyans to report incidents of violence happening around them.

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Ushahidi Develops Innovative Tools for Nonprofits and Others Working to Benefit the Public

Tech Soup

One of TechSoup's less-known areas of work has been to support and promote the work of other tech-for-good organizations, like Ushahidi in Kenya. Since then, it has since logged, mapped, and tracked more than 14,000 reports of petrochemical pollution. These folks do astonishing work. New Ushahidi Services for Nonprofits.

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Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

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Peter Deitz is a long-time member and contributor in the NetSquared (and TechSoup) community; he started the NetSquared Montreal group and his Social Actions project was a winner in the 2008 N2Y3 Mashup Challenge.

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Last Chance to Vote for Nonprofit SXSW Panels: Closes September 4th

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Community Funded Reporting : The news industry is dying but in its wake are new business models to support investigative journalism. One of these is "community funded reporting" which is being pioneered by Spot.us Check in with the game changers beautifully hacking tech to fight climate change. Let's discuss: join us!

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10NTC Science Fair Preview - Giveaways, More Giveaways and Free Apple iPads

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American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) in booth 39. Want to know how non-profit organizations are using geographic analysis and the power of maps to support their missions, report to stakeholders and funders, apply for grants more effectively, or conduct fundraising and marketing gap analyzes? Aqubanc in booth 58.

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10NTC Science Fair Preview - Giveaways, More Giveaways and Free Apple iPads

NTEN

American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) in booth 39. Want to know how non-profit organizations are using geographic analysis and the power of maps to support their missions, report to stakeholders and funders, apply for grants more effectively, or conduct fundraising and marketing gap analyzes? Aqubanc in booth 58.

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