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New on SSIR: #4Change Examines Social Media for the Climate Change Movement

Amy Sample Ward

Think about a tool like YouTube, where people can share videos (uploaded and created in various ways from mobile phones to laptop computers to high quality cameras) and then find others who care about similar issues.

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NetSquared's November Community Events for Nonprofit Techies

Tech Soup

New York, New York: Put Down Your Phone and Start a Movement: Introducing #DinnerMode. Taipei, Taiwan: Data for Social Good - ???????????. Houston, Texas: The New Knowledge Economy and the EdTech Advantage. Wednesday, November 12, 2014. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night (weekly). Thursday, November 13, 2014.

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NetSquared's November Community Events for Nonprofit Techies

Tech Soup

New York, New York: Put Down Your Phone and Start a Movement: Introducing #DinnerMode. Taipei, Taiwan: Data for Social Good - ???????????. Houston, Texas: The New Knowledge Economy and the EdTech Advantage. Wednesday, November 12, 2014. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night (weekly). Thursday, November 13, 2014.

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

It covers 10 topics including humanitarian uses of drones: • Mobile and cell phones • New uses for TV and radio. Other important websites in the world include the Yandex search engine in Russia, Yahoo in Japan and Taiwan, and Baidu in China. There’s a lot in there. • Mapping • Cloud computing. All Things D.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

Tech Soup

It hooks up to a phone, tablet or computer so the information can be messaged to a hospital. The device is useful for emergency medical situations involving blood loss requiring transfusions. Find more on this project here.

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Snapshot of Worldwide Electronics Recycling 2013

Tech Soup

In Taiwan, the recycling rate for IT equipment and appliances combined is 82. We dispose of over 130 million cell phones every year of which 11 percent are recycled. About half of all people in Africa own mobile phones. Africa now has more mobile phone users than either the U.S. Asia is also a good news-bad news story.