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The Commons Introduces Grassroots Mobile Survey

Saleforce Nonprofit

This open-source, accessible solution enables workers and volunteers to collect data wherever they need to go. Trish Perkins (TP): I was working with a disability nonprofit in Nepal that wanted to put together a database of people who needed their services. Enter: Grassroots Mobile Survey, now available to install.

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Data Digest: Open Data for Africa Platform, Silent Data Revolution in MENA and Data Strategies

Tech Soup

In this post Madeleine Clark, an AidData Summer Fellow, talks about the need for open data programs to be responsive to citizens needs. Open Source data NetSquared big data' Some examples of NGOs using data visualization to tell important stories are also given.

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Ushahidi Develops Innovative Tools for Nonprofits and Others Working to Benefit the Public

Tech Soup

Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. These posts have benefited an estimated 20 million people in stricken areas like Haiti in 2010 and Nepal in 2015. These folks do astonishing work. For example, during a severe snowstorm on the East Coast of the U.S.,

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Tech Across Your Org: Program and Fundraising Innovation Sprung from an Internal Technology Project

NTEN

In the early years, we were working in China, Nepal, Cambodia, and Ethiopia, where we now purify water for over 200,000 kids daily. We do this in in urban settings in Asia and Africa, where children live at the intersection of two streets: (1) worst water quality conditions and (2) greatest degrees of poverty. It isn’t perfect.