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350.org Is Greening the Planet with Lean, Green IT

Tech Soup

We use nonprofit, open-source Drupal to manage our main website. An example is 350 Mexico. It requires very little maintenance. We use and nonprofit WordPress for our microsites. These are for spin-off campaigns that are not on our main website. Also our network of informal national chapters are hosted in WordPress.

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Advancing Your Mission With GIS Tools

NTEN

" The Ushahidi project was so helpful, it quickly evolved from a one-off web site to an open source "software platform" that any organization can download and customize for similar projects. monitor election results in Mexico and India. monitor supply levels at pharmacies throughout Africa.

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350.org Is Greening the Planet with Lean, Green IT

Tech Soup

We use nonprofit, open-source Drupal to manage our main website. An example is 350 Mexico. It requires very little maintenance. We use and nonprofit WordPress for our microsites. These are for spin-off campaigns that are not on our main website. Also our network of informal national chapters are hosted in WordPress.

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Advancing Your Mission With GIS Tools

NTEN

" The Ushahidi project was so helpful, it quickly evolved from a one-off web site to an open source "software platform" that any organization can download and customize for similar projects. monitor election results in Mexico and India. monitor supply levels at pharmacies throughout Africa.

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Mobile Innovations for Social Good

NTEN

Mobile Voices offers an open-source multi-media platform optimized for low-cost mobile phones that lets users create, share, and reflect on stories about their lives and communities. Third Place: $10,000. Marginalized populations lack access to digital technology yet aspire to participate meaningfully in the digital public sphere.

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Women's Global Green Action Network: An Interview with Melinda Kramer

Have Fun - Do Good

So we convened our group in Mexico City in March of 2006, and it was an incredible three days. When we convened in Mexico City, two of our women had a shared interest in these water issues, and they deepened that connection and designed this first project in the Philippines, while they were still there in Mexico.

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Nonprofit Technology News for April 2014 - The Green Issue

Tech Soup

Heartbleed is an OpenSSL bug that creates openings in cloud servers in which attackers can go in and extract passwords, private keys, and other data. OpenSSL is nonprofit open source software that provides security on e-commerce and other websites by creating an encrypted channel between your device and the website.

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