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Bitcoin for Nonprofits: Cryptocurrency Fundraising for the Future

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Alex Wilson , Director of BlockShop DC and founding partner of The Giving Block. The government printed money like never before to pay for quantitative easing in an attempt to save the economy, devaluing everyone’s savings in the process. If you’re in the Washington DC area, stop by for one of our happy hours.

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Open Source and the Promise of Sustainable Nutrition Security

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Recently I had the opportunity to get introduced to Gerald Nelson , senior climate change researcher and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. This week, on September 10-12 at Purdue University, CIMSANS will be co-hosting a workshop and summit focused on improving food systems data and models.

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Please Join VisionLink In Welcoming Aaron Titus To Our Proud Family!

VisionLink

Aaron has spent seven years as the Privacy Fellow for the Washington DC policy institute Liberty Coalition. He has testified before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs. from the George Washington School of Law, and his undergraduate degree in Architecture from the University of Utah.

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Amnesty International at 50

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Today, I gave a presentation on human rights in DC, with a focus on our work with truth commissions. The newly formed organization initially based its demands on select parts of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and on the Prisoners of Conscience campaign.

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Online Strategies for Open-Government / Ideas from the Obama Team

Forum One

The incoming Obama administration is pledging to use some innovative internet strategies to expand citizen access to government information and processes. government CTO, spoke about how DC has created more than 200 data feeds on D.C. A tall order. For example, Vivek Kundra, the Washington, D.C. city issues and indicators.

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Data Are Not Information

NTEN

By Jeff Stanger, Director, Center for Digital Information We are obsessed with data — big data, open data, linked data, personal data, government data, visualized data. Joe Hellerstein, a computer scientist at the University of California in Berkeley, calls it 'the industrial revolution of data.' And rightly so.

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Research Friday: Volunteering and Financial Statements - What’s Missing?

ASU Lodestar Center

Governance. Professor & Co-Director, Social Economy Centre, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. ^ [4] Betty Jane Richmond, Ph.D., Faculty of Education, York University. ^ [5] Alan J. . ^ [3] Jack Quarter, Ph.D., Faculty of Education, York University. ^ [5] Alan J. High school. consultants.