Tech Soup

JUNE 18, 2015

Drones in Nepal. After the destructive earthquake in Nepal, drones provided crucial assistance to aid workers. GlobalMedic, a company that deploys drones (or unmanned aerial vehicles) for relief efforts, has been tasked to map the affected areas. A Wearable Tech for Relief Challenge. We've still got a ways to go.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

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 NetSquared Challenges Foster Tech Innovation. The information would be compiled and displayed in real time online on a map.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

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. Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. LABB created an Oil Spill Crisis Map in response to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

I did a post a few weeks ago on youth programs in TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map and decided I hadn’t covered this resource nearly enough. Our Local Impact Map. Read more stories on our Local Impact Map from around the world that show the impact of technology donations on organizations and communities like yours.

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MAY 1, 2013

Countries represented: 13 (US, Canada, UK, Korea, Australia, Switzerland, Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Ireland, Nepal, Mexico, and Ghana). Encouragement, Wise Words from Nonprofit Tech Devotees , Hilborn Charity. Cary Walski , MAP TechWorks. Resources from Tech Support Confidential , Cary Walski , MAP TechWorks.

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MAY 7, 2013

Countries represented: 13 (US, Canada, UK, Korea, Australia, Switzerland, Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Ireland, Nepal, Mexico, and Ghana). Encouragement, Wise Words from Nonprofit Tech Devotees , Hilborn Charity. Cary Walski , MAP TechWorks. Resources from Tech Support Confidential , Cary Walski , MAP TechWorks.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Conservation mapping and 3D imaging. After the recent Nepal earthquake , the Canadian nonprofit, GlobalMedic , flew drones over the affected areas to create 3D maps of the worst-hit zones. How Are Drones Being Used for Good? Assessing disaster-stricken areas. Tracking storms. Aerial surveying for wildlife preservation.

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