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Saving the World One Tech Innovation at a Time

Tech Soup

A new report called Technology for Good: Innovative Use of Technology by Charities identifies ten technologies that are already having this kind of impact in the world. The report also highlights the deep impact of technology in a wide range of other issue areas, from agriculture to education to the environment. Download the report.

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A History of How Modern ESG Came to Be

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1980s – The concept of ESG continues to accelerate, especially around actions taken by the United States Government in the “Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act”, which outlawed any additional investment in South Africa. . In the same year, the Global Reporting Initiative was founded in Boston. Billion. . .

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Data, Data Everywhere: But How Does It Relate to You and Your Work?

Tech Soup

everyday media’s use of data for reporting provides a practical. reporting are listed below. The Guardian is one of the news agencies at the forefront of using data for reporting. It has a section of their website dedicated to using data for reporting and has made available information on open government data.

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Crowdsourcing Crisis Information: Tracking the Eastern Congo Conflict / Democratic Republic of Congo

Forum One

An interesting, and hopefully valuable, effort to mitigate the situation is the "Ushahidi" web site for reporting of incidents of violence and abuse. This site uses " crowdsourcing " , to try to collect reports via email and SMS. The phone number to send the SMS reports to is +243992592111 and the site to view the reports is [link].

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Edwin, who explained the process of completing the standard rape reporting form paperwork while treating a rape victim. Kipp’s idea was that we could take this paper-based rape reporting system and build it on top of our Martus secure human rights software platform. This time, I had the benefit of help.

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