Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
SEPTEMBER 8, 2014
Jerry and I had a great conversation about open sourcing of agricultural scientific models, such as those used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in their climate change reports. agriculture CIMSANS climate change CSR food security Gerald Nelson open data open source SocialCoding4Good'
VisionLink
SEPTEMBER 4, 2014
As the project manager for Crisis Cleanup , an open source collaborative work order management platform, Aaron has helped connect more than 230 organizations and 40,000 volunteers to more than 11,000 families needing assistance after 15 disasters in four countries, producing an astonishing $26 million in value for disaster survivors.
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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
APRIL 10, 2007
at last week's NTC conference in Washington, a woman took the microphone to comment on a conundrum her non-profit is facing. Independent Software Vendors (ISV's) have been wrestling with this for years, as the success of the Open Source movement places a downward pressure on the value of software. At a session on Web2.0
Care2
NOVEMBER 7, 2011
This milestone was a global event, so we knew that changing the conversation would be a challenge for a small nonprofit in Washington, D.C. Instead of hearing old white men call for population control, we wanted to highlight the lives of women in developing countries, millions of whom want but lack access to basic contraception.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MARCH 6, 2013
Why You Don’t Want this Job: You’ll have to show you have a unique combination of both social justice and technology cred; You’ll probably be paid half of what you’d be worth to a for-profit company; You’ll have to travel to both developing countries and Washington, D.C. and work often with people in miserable conditions (yes, in both places!);
AFP Blog
JUNE 10, 2013
At Grameen Foundation, an international nonprofit becomes a software developer - The Washington Post : hree years later, the foundation’s thesis has given rise to an open-source software platform called Mobile Technology for Community Health, or MOTECH, that an increasing number of nonprofits, non-governmental organizations and humanitarian groups (..)
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
APRIL 20, 2013
And second, Donna McNear, the itinerant teacher of the visually impaired from Minnesota, who kept telling me that I had to go to Washington and talk to the Department of Education. Washington? We were following in his footsteps, on a path he helped create! Isn’t that where good ideas go to die?”
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