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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

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SocialCoding4Good brings together individual software professionals as well as corporate social responsibility teams from companies such as Cisco, Google, Hewlett Packard, LinkedIn, and VMware to volunteer their technical skills to nonprofit partners that develop and maintain free and open source software addressing critical social problems.

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Receiving the 2013 Migel Medal

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From capturing the stories of human rights violations in Guatemala, Burma, Syria and Uganda, to helping a biologist plan a better restoration of a wetlands, or matching up an open source geek with the social good project of his or her dreams, Benetech’s team is using technology to make the world a better place.

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Building the Tech Capacity of Nonprofits Everywhere with TechSoup's NetSquared Events

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Kampala, Uganda. Kampala, Uganda. Kampala, Uganda. Kampala, Uganda: Kampala Transport Hackathon 2016. Kampala, Uganda. Kampala, Uganda. Birmingham, United Kingdom: Open-Source Software for Charities. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Wednesday, December 28, 2016.

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NetSquared Volunteers Help Nonprofits Like You Master Technology

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Bagels & Bytes "Open-Source Summer Fiesta" San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Mukono, Uganda. Kampala, Uganda: Social Media Surgery — Blogging as a Business. Kampala, Uganda: Office 365 at Its Best. Wednesday, June 7, 2017.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Kristen Cibelli is on her way to Uganda right now. Plus, we recently spotted this article on the Open Source Africa site. And all this is on top of Martus work we're actively engaged with in Kenya, Nigeria and Egypt.

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Growing the NetSquared Community

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Austin, Texas: CiviCRM: Free, Open-Source CRM for Nonprofits and Startups. Mukono, Uganda: Hands-on Web 2.0 Mississauga, Ontario: Hustle Hour — Bring Your Work! Tuesday, February 23, 2016. Victoria, British Columbia: Women in Technology Panel #2. Wednesday, February 24, 2016. Thursday, February 25, 2016.

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Advancing the New Machine: A Recap from the Human Rights and Technology Conference

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" While there are still contradictions in terms of the unpredictable nature of crises and a delay in data, his project attempts to test out these ideas in different "labs" around the world by coalescing data from public and private sources, with the first one starting in Uganda shortly.