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Open Challenges Harness Local Knowledge for Local Change

Tech Soup

In the last six years, Community Boost_r , ReStart Challenges , and Things Camp have used an open community challenge model. These open challenges help activists, nonprofits, journalists, techies, and community members identify, refine, build, and launch technology tools to solve pressing local and regional problems. spanhidden.

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The Future of Fundraising, Part Two

Tech Soup

Surprisingly, 35 percent of respondents to a Nielsen study indicate being open to making online payments on their smartphones. The Restart Romania challenge resulted in citizens proposing technological solutions to a range of real world problems such as corruption in the medical system.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2013: Free WiFi in Forbes Magazine and Braille Phones

Tech Soup

They will be powered by the same operating systems used on desktops and laptop PCs – mostly Windows and Mac OS. African countries are the primary users of mobile banking and a hotbed of innovation in this field like the Safaricom M-PESA mobile payment system in Kenya. NPTech Innovation in Eastern Europe.

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Good Ram Gone Bad On My Dell Desktop: OMG

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

see those pink arrows) This took about an hour on the phone with the technical support guy at Dell who walked through opening up the CPU and swapping out the four bars of RAM and rebooting. The latter is annoying, but I could fix that blue screen of death and by reinstalling the operating system. I don't need this to happen to me.

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Nonprofit Technology News for April 2013

Tech Soup

They will be powered by the same operating systems used on desktops and laptop PCs – mostly Windows and Mac OS. African countries are the primary users of mobile banking and a hotbed of innovation in this field like the Safaricom M-PESA mobile payment system in Kenya. NPTech Innovation in Eastern Europe.

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