Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Here’s a sample of our accomplishments: Martus , our secure, open-source information management software for human rights defenders continued to empower many human rights groups worldwide to secure thousands of stories of human rights violations and to use this information strategically to advance their causes. and Catherine T.

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2011

NGO capacity is still lacking, but they must learn to own technology. Namely, while activists use technology to organize, authoritarian regimes use technology to censor information, increase the channels of surveillance on its citizens, or in the extreme case, cut off telecommunications entirely like in Egypt.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

According to the Global NGO Technology Report , 44% of nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide use WordPress.org as their content management system (CMS) for their website ( 7% use Drupal and 3% use Joomla ). Use a top-rated Content Management System (CMS). Comparitech has compiled 300+ cybercrime and cybersecurity statistics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2007

They are organizing the first " Cambodian Blogger Summit (aka Cloggers Summit) " to take place 30-31 August 2007 in Cambodia. Have at least three or more new t-shirts from a tech or nonprofit tech organization? at 14 different universities in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap with more than 1700 students participating.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

It’s a great day for tapping into holiday generosity and increasing exposure for your organization, which is why you need to start preparing now. Taking part in Giving Tuesday can mean many different things—from participating in an organized service project to donating to a nonprofit to smiling at a stranger. Read on to learn more!

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

TechSoup's mission is to build a dynamic bridge that enables civil society organizations and changemakers around the world to gain effective access to the resources they need to design and implement technology solutions for a more equitable planet. Victoria, British Columbia: NGO Ho Ho: A Holiday Party for Victoria's Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Dee Dee is one of two women on the five-person Clogger Team responsible for organizing the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. The day before the conference, I spent some time at the Open Institute , the NGO that hosts the KhmerOS (Open Source Software) project. Can someone please leave their names in the comments?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. A quick review of the results of Isovera Survey of Open Source Content Management Satisfaction in Nonprofit Organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

VTVigils VT Vigils VTvigils.org is a project of a diverse group of national campaigns and organizations not affiliated with Virginia Tech. shows us how to screencast with Linux and other open source tools! Someone tagged the NGO-in-a-Box with nptech just today. The site was developed by Democracy in Action. Expo Ignite!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

" If your organization is using social media, perhaps you've been wondering how to measure or whether if you can even measure "embeds" (that cut and paste script for videos, badges, widgets, and the like). Here's some inspiration if your organization gets a camera from YouTube. Not sure if they reached their threshold.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

Brigade will merge Votizen and Causes to create a political organizing site that will that will “tackle the problem of declining citizen power and engagement in democracy.” These organizations house data for a combined total of three million NGOs worldwide. The name is an acronym of "micro finance open source."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

Being an open source and open data geek, the menu was accompanied with some open data about what was ordered most during the previous month! I also used Twitter to get 300 t-shirts donated to bring over for the conference. Here’s a video and blog post I wrote for Blogher back then.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

It is open source software, but we're experimenting with a revenue model to sustain the project over the long term. We are nearing completion of our assessment of Darfur-related NGOs and their qualitative documentation on human rights abuses. We've just launched Miradi.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 19, 2009

Guest Beneblog by Vijaya Tripathi As a Program Associate for the Benetech Human Rights Program (HRP), I train and support human rights advocates who use Benetech’s free and open source Martus program to securely document human rights violations. Past partners have included NGOs and nine truth commissions.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

More and more nonprofit, library, and NGO offices worldwide will need to accommodate personally-owned tablets and smartphones on wireless networks in order to work and communicate. Increasingly people there are demanding transparency and an open-source Internet as a necessary condition of democratic society in a deepening information age.

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