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NetSquared in May: Get Face-to-Face with Your Nonprofit Peers

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Taipei, Taiwan: Nonprofit organizations accountability and transparency. Denver, CO: Content Management Systems. Mukono, Uganda: Net2uganda Computer Training Meetup for Poor Rural Primary School&Community. Tuesday, May 13. Westmoreland, PA: Bagels & Bytes. Toronto, Canada: An Accidental Techie’s Guide to IT Success.

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Earth Day 2010: Recycle

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The only countries that have laws that set up electronic recycling collection and processing systems are South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, the 27 countries of the European Union, five provinces in Canada, and 20 states in the United States. As a result, it is only done on an industrial level in a few dozen countries.

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Worldwide Lexicon and Volunteer Translation

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WWL maintains a database of user contributions and uses its own ratings system to give higher priority to better translators. Before the guide even officially launched, TechSoup Taiwan had already begun an ambitious project to translate it into Chinese Traditional.

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

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mobile payment system in Kenya that allows people there to text each other money. Other important websites in the world include the Yandex search engine in Russia, Yahoo in Japan and Taiwan, and Baidu in China. Sending Money By Email. Back in my May Nonprofit Technology News edition, I covered the emerging field of digital wallets.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

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The case went through the European court system and he won the case. The case originated in Spain where a man there filed a complaint arguing that Google's search results infringed on his privacy. A search of his name brought up an auction notice of his repossessed home from 16 years ago. Find more on this project here.

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Snapshot of Worldwide Electronics Recycling 2013

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Switzerland was the first country in the world to adopt an electronics recycling system is 1991.Things In Taiwan, the recycling rate for IT equipment and appliances combined is 82. South Korea also has a developed electronics recycling system that now recovers and properly processes over 75 percent of discarded electronics.