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Open Source and the Promise of Sustainable Nutrition Security

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Jerry and I had a great conversation about open sourcing of agricultural scientific models, such as those used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in their climate change reports. Such efforts are necessary to address global nutritional needs in a world facing the challenges of climate change.

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The First Global Martus Users Group Meeting

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Martus is Benetech's free and open source software package designed for human rights activists to collect stories and data about human rights abuses. And, support from the Open Society Foundation made this event possible! For me personally, the meeting was a rare experience. This is a truly unique moment in Martus’ history.

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How an Effective Partner Ecosystem Strives for Collaboration Over Competition

Saleforce Nonprofit

Think about that for a moment — we have over 300 consulting and product partners that are serving thousands of organizations and institutions globally. OFM: A Model for Partner Participation in Open Source Community Projects. Senior Director, Global Partner Engagement, Salesforce.org. See you at Unite!

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Report: Insights from the Google AI Impact Challenge

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are also research reports , events, fellowships, and bootcamps , and an annual AI4Good Global Summit. Last year, Google made an open call to organizations around the world to submit their ideas for how they could use AI to help address these social challenges. Have a clear idea of the responsibility guidelines to be followed .

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Data Digest: Building the YouTube of Data, Big Data and Global Development, and Data Resources

Tech Soup

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. Big Data and Global Development. Open Source data big data crowdsourcing' It was originally published on NetSquared. Data Resources.

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Veterans Leverage Their Pro Bono Skills to Rise to the Call of Duty from Afar

Saleforce Nonprofit

Allied Airlift is made up of veterans and volunteers who scoured open source intelligence reports to provide Afghan allies with critical information necessary to find a place aboard one of the limited U.S. Air Force aircrafts evacuating people from Afghanistan. and Afghani citizens from tyranny.

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It’s Not Slowing Down! Data Trends For Social Sector Organizations To Track In 2019

Global Giving

Excellent data tools will continue to get cheaper and easier to use… This trend has been going strong for a while now, particularly as more and more of the data landscape has shifted to using open source tools. Featured Photo: Help Kids Learn How to Code Globally by CoderDojo Foundation. EXPLORE MORE TRENDS.

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