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Nonprofit Technology Celebrates International Women's Day

Tech Soup

One of my great joys in my long career in nonprofit technology has been seeing the extraordinary success of so many women in our field. women became the majority of law students. The UN finds that 119 countries have now passed domestic violence laws, though enforcement remains a problem. The Women of Technology for Good.

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Increasing Accessible Publishing Globally

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

A copyright exception allows specialist organizations (generally a government agency or disability NGO or library) to make an accessible version of a published book without having to get permission from the author or publisher. It includes pressuring national governments to enforce existing accessibility laws.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

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Green Technology. In hardware life extension news, the grand award winner for software in Popular Science's Best of What's New 2013 this year is a server/software technology called Neverware Juicebox. This new technology has become available in time to help public schools in the U.S. Social Media. Adobe Creative Cloud.

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Towards Global Access for the Print Disabled

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I’m heading to Geneva later this month for the next major meeting at the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”), to hear the latest and make my three-minute oration as an accredited NGO representative (first time for me!). law (this is a wildcard issue right now). . law (this is a wildcard issue right now).

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Spotlight on South Africa: Nonprofit Profiles from SANGONeT

Tech Soup

There's also a library at the center with a cyber café for the students and the local community at large. The organization focuses on issues that affect South Africans nationwide, such as land reform, housing, refugee law, and environmental rights. Environment. About SANGONet.

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Youth Programs Benefit from Microsoft Donations

Tech Soup

demonstrates what nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup Global software donations to further their missions. This time I wanted to feature NGOs around the world that are making a humanitarian impact internationally across several countries. How One NGO Serves 70,000 Children.

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Benetech: the Equilibrium Change Machine

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The common link among our projects is information technology, which can be applied to just about every aspect of the social sector. Yet, nonprofits frequently lag behind the for-profit world in applying technology to their work. Benetech has a unique opportunity to repeatedly use technology as a social change agent.

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