Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 10, 2013

The more we use technology in our education and health systems, the more data we collect about how people learn and what keeps us healthy or makes us sick. I knew we could help a lot of people if we focused on finding a sustainable—instead of a highly profitable—way to develop technology for the social good.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2013

This is the field where I found my life’s calling, applying technology to meet critical needs of society, where the market is likely to fail. Together, we all hope to have a world where technology fully serves all of humanity, not just the richest or most able 5%. Thank you again for this honor!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Photo and Caption via Mercy Corps : Mohammed and Amna Lelayesh fled their home in Syria with their four children over a year ago. Nonprofit Technology Network :: nten.org. . Free photo editing tools like PicMonkey and Photo Gallery enable your NGO to easily re-size and crop photos. Idealware :: idealware.org. .

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AFP Blog

MARCH 15, 2016

Amnesty’s Stunning Virtual Reality Video Reveals Depth of Syria’s Apocalypse | Nonprofit Quarterly : "Amnesty International has partnered with Junior, a San Francisco design and technology agency and a group of Syrian activists called Lamba Media Production to put us directly in the middle of the conflict—literally. via Blog this'

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Turkey and Syria earthquake: In early 2023, a massive earthquake impacted Turkey and Syria. Whether you fundraise for a nonprofit or lead CSR initiatives for a company, you can use dedicated technology to drive participation in corporate giving.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

On September 17, 2017, leaders from government, business and nonprofits gathered alongside celebrities, activists, journalists and concerned citizens at the 92 nd Street Y in New York City for the 8 th annual Social Good Summit (#2030NOW ) to discuss how technology , media and activism can build a better world.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 15, 2017

We have a special contest give-away in store at this year's Nonprofit Technology Conference: a free year-long subscription of Adobe Creative Cloud. Eligible Sweepstakes posts must made by Nonprofit Technology Conference ("17 NTC") attendees in Washington, DC. Stop By and Visit Us — Booth 217. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Time to catch up on some nonprofit technology trends and news again! As always, I invite you to have a look at my list of 2013 forecasts on nonprofit technology trends. In the June Nonprofit Technology News I mentioned the coming of FreedomPop’s free phone service for Android users. Well, the time is upon us.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Ironically, many of these users might buy commercial ebooks, but the anti-piracy technology built into many ebook systems are not compatible with the technology these users employ to get the books in Braille or synthetic speech. The problem is that we provide technology that allows for security, privacy and circumvention.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

The common link among our projects is information technology, which can be applied to just about every aspect of the social sector. Yet, nonprofits frequently lag behind the for-profit world in applying technology to their work. Benetech has a unique opportunity to repeatedly use technology as a social change agent.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

To kick off a series of profiles on leaders in nonprofit technology, we thought we’d start close to home by featuring our TechSoup Global founder, Daniel Ben-Horin. I think this trend has a lot to do with technology. The growing class of technology-oriented people are very inclined to share the knowledge wealth.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Serving as a geographical and cultural bridge between Europe and the Middle East, Turkey is a country that shares borders with both Syria and Iraq (not to mention another six * countries). In addition to Syria and Iraq, these are Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, Armenia, Iran, and the Azerbaijani exclave: Nakhchivan. (If

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Ironically, many of these users might buy commercial ebooks, but the anti-piracy technology built into many ebook systems are not compatible with the technology these users employ to get the books in Braille or synthetic speech. The problem is that we provide technology that allows for security, privacy and circumvention.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2014

And that is the whole point of the Impact Awards : recognizing nonprofits that use technology to make our world a better place. Best Use of Integrated Marketing – ANERA – Due to the influx of new refugees from Syria to Lebanon’s refugee camps, ANERA had to raise funds quickly to respond to the increased need of essential supplies.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Each year, Blackbaud recognizes nonprofits that are using technology to make a positive impact on their mission, constituents, and society through the Nonprofit Impact Awards. The fact that they used Blackbaud technology to leverage their social media success makes it even more cool! Read the case study.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

In the US, there are several terrific benchmark studies of nonprofits and technology , including some on social networking but these are focused mostly on US nonprofits. I spent some time searching for similar studies or compilations for international organizations as well as some specific examples. Benchmark Studies and Examples.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 30, 2011

This week marked a first-ever gathering of human rights activists with Silicon Valley technology developers. The Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference hosted a series of discussions about how technology is used to expand and sometimes undermine essential freedoms around the world. This blog first appeared in the Huffington Post.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 19, 2009

Over 8 weeks this last fall, I had the privilege of working with NGOs from Afghanistan, Cambodia, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria, in a series of trainings that took place in Phnom Penh, Beirut and Istanbul. Past partners have included NGOs and nine truth commissions.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 12, 2015

It aims to connect dissidents in closed societies with legal, media, PR, and technology experts in open societies. David Keyes is very clear that the mission of Movements.org and in fact all of the Advancing Human Rights programs is to empower human rights activists in closed societies like Russia, China, Iran, Syria, and North Korea.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2017

Our world – politically, economically, socially, technologically – is changing before our eyes. From Syria to China to Mexico, mass economic and politically-driven migration and refugee crises are triggering social tension, the rebooting of nationalisms and the emboldening of old prejudices. Mass migration. Future shock.

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