Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

s focused on an important problem ? s very innovative in its open-source and collaborative approach, it?s The GEO project is intended to collect and show data and geospatial information (on maps) of energy resources, generation, transmission, usage, and environmental impacts. Global Energy Observatory ?

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

s focused on an important problem ? s very innovative in its open-source and collaborative approach, it?s The GEO project is intended to collect and show data and geospatial information (on maps) of energy resources, generation, transmission, usage, and environmental impacts. Global Energy Observatory ?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

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. Since then, it has since logged, mapped, and tracked more than 14,000 reports of petrochemical pollution.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. Another problem in theory is fraud, and another problem is that many sites only included last and first names which in a mass of several hundred thousand displaced persons obviously included many duplicates.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

It is a nonprofit tech company that develops free and open-source software for information collection, visualization, and crowdsourced interactive mapping to help mitigate disasters. Here’s some news on a now famous NetSquared alumnus project. Ushahidi is an NGO headquartered in Kenya.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The tool will allow hackers and coders to get up to speed before the hackathon by reading problem statements written from the perspective of the people who are working to solve social problems on the ground: NGOs and activists. It also lists and maps hackathons worldwide. • Mapping • Cloud computing.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

The challenges included connecting African farmers to markets, creating an online networking space for women veterans, mapping Africa’s natural resources, and a few others. Another project was creating an easily accessible map of Hawaii's farmer's markets. Burlington, VT Day of Civic Hacking.

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Tech Soup

MAY 11, 2015

It seems like every day there's a new overhyped idea that claims to fix a problem you never thought you had, like a delivery service for laundry quarters. So it's refreshing to come to an event where techies and nonprofits convene to solve deep, real problems that plague our community. Data Collecting and Mapping.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

s Problems Through Social Networking Sites [link]. Aspiration Social Source Commons [link]. Maps 2.0 ??? Open Source, Open Standards Video [link]. 100 Innovators - the world's most important story has started to unfold [link]. A Global Neighbour Network: NABUUR.com [link]. Addressing Africa???s

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

KnowledgeTree excites me because it's an open, LAMP system that I'll be able to easily integrate with custom development here, such as our case information system and a recruiting frontend that we're developing for the web site. Humans are trouble. My advice is always smaller/fewer is better.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Surowiecki’s talk, drawing on his 2005 book , was about the surprising value of crowd-based judgments, from guessing the numbers of jelly beans in a jar, to mapping Martian craters , to open contests like the DARPA Grand Challenge for driverless vehicles. Hey – foundations used to be nervous about social networking, too!

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Those of us who sell strategy services for a living tend to rely on the desire for measured approaches to big problems. In the world today, one can get good open-source options for each flavor, meaning, point 2, you have a low initial investment. Want mapping? Heck, our language is littered with support for this view.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

#machine for machine problems; ex., ???#machine EP+your state if you have a serious problem and need help from the Election Protection coalition; ex., the best aspects of grassroots activism and digital technology combined with an open source ethos to really change the way we participate in elections.??? reg I wasn???t

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Forum One

JANUARY 22, 2010

During the camps, groups and leaders quickly self-identified and immersed themselves in solving humanitarian relief problems like coordinating relief workers and negotiating language barriers. Open source maps to help aid workers navigate damaged areas and coordinate their efforts.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Those of us who sell strategy services for a living tend to rely on the desire for measured approaches to big problems. In the world today, one can get good open-source options for each flavor, meaning, point 2, you have a low initial investment. Want mapping? Heck, our language is littered with support for this view.

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Forum One

MARCH 8, 2009

These are internet-related projects which we think are worthy of funding because they address important civic problems, they will catalyze important work by others, they are imminently scalable, and they are projects which the private sector lacks sufficient incentives to undertake. shovel-ready? In our view these ?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 11, 2014

Social enterprises are collecting more and more data: data about social problems; data about intervention outcomes; data for collective impact; data for learning; data for dashboards to better operate their enterprises; data for funders; and the list goes on. How can one app address the requirements of multiple social enterprises?

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In this article, we’ll cover how to create a donor data migration strategy with deep dives into data mapping, data cleaning, and testing. Build a data mapping plan: Understand your current data structure comprehensively, identifying the fields and attributes you use at your organization. What is Data Mapping? Sound exciting?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2005

It's no accident that services such as Gmail, Google Maps, Flickr, del.icio.us, and the like may be expected to bear a Beta logo for years at a time. And a day long unexpected outage, like Google's Blogger outage the other day, can be a real problem if it occurs at the wrong time. They can change your workflow. A real-life example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 21, 2005

Keep an eye on some future developments in Cambodia and blogging as the Open Forum 's Khmer Open Source expects to launch khmer language blogging software. The problem is what they have for posting in their blog. For a map of the Cambodian Blogosphere, check out the Global s Wiki. What will they write about?

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Targeting a very specific audience will make it easier for you to address the specific problems faced by that audience, and for your message to make a real connection with them. open source. instructional video. membership. Membership management. Micro-philanthropy. net2mashup. New releases. Non-profit Communications.

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VisionLink

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Named Timoun, the Haitian Creole word for child, our solution leverages current open source software solutions and is designed to operate in low tech or bandwidth settings. In Haiti, VisionLink tools are being used to deploy online resources, asset mapping and visualizations and to build collaborative networks of partner organizations.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

A platform to aid in, “solving global health and development problems for those most in need.”. Organizations that provide grants to address critical global problems are able to make smarter investments if they know who else is investing in similar problems and locations. Grand Challenges Awards Repository.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

We used a broad definition of crowd sourcing, simply stated as: Getting ideas, content, volunteer tasks, money, or other things from a wide swath of people. And that’s good thing for solving complex social problems with innovative ideas. The maps are made by community members.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Data Mapping and Visualization. Probably the clearest examples of the usefulness of data for charities is the explosion of infographics and maps that graphically illustrate the issues that nonprofits are working on. Microsoft enables charities to use Bing Maps free of charge. ESRI mapping tools software donations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

A group of individuals has more knowledge for solving a problem than any single individual. Ushahidi is an open source platform that facilitates crowdsourcing through the use of SMS/cellphones and online mapping. Hybrids include a mix of openness and curated decision-making by experts. 2) Crowd Creation.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 20, 2011

Building programs and services to support a community means not just learning about the problems they face, but understanding how technologies can help make a difference. WordPress is an open source blogging platform that lets you have any number of authors. The tool to try: Just communicate by email, privately.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This could include: Games Quizzes Polls Maps Petitions Ensure your interactive content is directly related to your nonprofit’s mission. She enjoys helping clients identify their problems, and then empowering the Kanopi team to execute great solutions. Anne is an advocate for open source and co-organizes the Bay Area Drupal Camp.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

The first is our International Strategy Meetings, where we convene our founding women from 26 different countries, who come together and really examine what the local issues are, what are the global trends, what is the work that they can do in partnership, and they really map out their plan and their goals and their work for the coming year.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

On a regular basis, USAID would leverage the community to run contests where students can propose new ideas for complex international development problems, particularly those that engage directly with young adults. Awards would be provided to students as publications of their ideas and USAID leadership recognition. Vote for this Idea].

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Care2

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Harassmap is a project that utilizes open-source mapping technology to allow women to report incidents of sexual harassment by sending a text message, an email or employing the Twitter hashtag, #harassmap. "It Harassmap seems to believe the latter is true.

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Care2

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Harassmap is a project that utilizes open-source mapping technology to allow women to report incidents of sexual harassment by sending a text message, an email or employing the Twitter hashtag, #harassmap. "It Harassmap seems to believe the latter is true.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

There are lots of alternative gift giving opportunities too, take for example Save the Children gift catalog that lets you and your children explore a map of the world and imagine how simple gifts make a difference. It's an ecofriendly laptop loaded with open source software and friendly to the environment.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

For instance, tech companies use algorithmic management to precisely surveil and manage the details of workers’ daily working conditions—tracking every delivery time, cataloging every customer review, mapping workers’ daily locations, even noting the length of bathroom breaks. 9</sup).

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