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Data Digest: African Students Using Open Data, Social Impact Bonds, Digital Smoke Signals, and the Data Dilemma

Tech Soup

This week we learn about the Resilient Africa Network (RAN), which is helping African students use open data for disaster relief. It harnesses locally based solutions to decrease the effects of disasters and rehabilitate communities in disaster-prone areas. It was originally published on NetSquared.

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The 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

AFP / Boston, MA / Price varies. The Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship is the premier international platform for advancing entrepreneurial approaches and solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. EverTrue / Boston, MA / $300. AIDF Global Disaster Relief Summit. AIDF Global Disaster Relief Summit.

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Tech Policies for Virtual Teams: A Leader’s Responsibility

Non Profit Quarterly

The problem they had was they didn’t really have policies to really govern and guide their staff towards effectively transitioning. We’ve covered some cloud-based apps that have had data problems where your own data is compromised because of a vendor. This is not a model policy, all right? This is an example policy.

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Small Groups Can Change the World: An Interview with Marianne Manilov of The Engage Network

Have Fun - Do Good

We do that through a model of living room circles, circles in cafes, and circles in yoga studios It's a place for people to actually plug in and get trained to be leaders. Can you talk a little more about the kind of the organizing model that this is based on? That is a model that I call "Core to Community."

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