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The Math Is Starting to Add Up: The Promise of Mobile

NTEN

According to Heeks, the field of ICT4D emerged really as an artifact of the telecenter model which was used successfully to extend basic ICT services at the periphery in North America and Europe. . Mobile phones have made the uptake of ICT services achievable because they have become incredibly available. Realizing Potential .

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

The NetSquared website was itself designed to be a model Web 2.0 'Net2 in Action' highlights more than 30 real-life examples of nonprofits using this new breed of Web-based technologies to tackle issues such as reaching and mobilizing constituencies. . 'Net2 Most of the content was (and is) user generated. Google Maps.

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The Wealth of Networks, Chapter 3

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

.&# He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia. He spends a fair bit of time talking about the Wikipedia model, and how, basically, amazing it is.

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Dancefloor and Balcony: What I learned about emergent online collaboration from Eugene Eric Kim

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are now 990 actively engaged Fellows— across the five focal countries of Ethiopia, Nigeria, India, Pakistan, and the Philippines—regularly participating in the Leadership Development for Mobilizing Reproductive Health network activities. Eugene talked about the importance of modeling to create. "You Modeling the norm.

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. She notes, "It doesn't specifically talk about open content, but discusses online and offline content income models in depth, with numbers." Check out Greenlight Nigeria and Mobile Monitors.

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22 Must-Read Updates to Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

After spending all that energy and time researching, writing, and editing 75,000+ words about social and mobile media best practices for nonprofits – living and breathing it for three months straight – it was frustrating, heart-breaking, mind-boggling even to have to let it go and accept that the book was going to be imperfect. .”

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Nonprofits Imagine a Better Sharing Economy

Tech Soup

The Sharing Economy -- the use of networked, often mobile, information technology to share goods and services -- offers nonprofits new possibilities for innovation and efficiency along with new paradigms to move from scarcity to abundance. Nonprofits should lead the sharing economy and demand more from the private sector.

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