Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2011

This is a communique on the current state of cloud adoption in India from Prashant Pandit and Pooja Jayna from TechSoup Global's, NASSCOM Foundation BIGTech Program , which is an NGO committed to building ICT capacity in civil society in India. It is one of the BRIC nations with its economy growing at 8% annually.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Scheduling tweets is a must for nonprofits that want to engage an international following. Use hashtags strategically to mention important causes, campaigns, and events, but hashtag spamming to try to increase your reach doesn’t work and has a negative effect on engagement. Retweet your own tweets.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2010

with print disabilities, with more than 70,000 copyrighted works in our library, the majority of which have been created under the US copyright exception by volunteers, mainly people with disabilities themselves, helping each other. • We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

Grant research tip : As you look over the list and peruse potential funders, take notes of those who best align with your work. International Paper Foundation. They currently partner with 48 local organizations in 17 countries that work to secure equal educational access and high-quality education for all children. The Andrew W.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The nexus for this work is the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United Nations agency that deals with such matters. WIPO has a mandate from its member states, and is working to address the need to change laws and get more accessible books flowing. law works: the one that made Bookshare possible.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

I’m excited to share highlights from our work and its significance for the multitudes we serve. students, we also serve adults, seniors, veterans, and international subscribers in over 40 countries. We’re going to demonstrate what this could look like by piloting Bookshare International at scale in India.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Many of us will purchase hundreds of dollars in holiday gifts over the next six weeks, and with some conscious consumerism those dollars could also help some of your favorite nonprofits continue their work in 2012. It’s fun and you’ll be bringing hope to girls and women around the world. [ Send a CARE Package ].

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

As always, I’m delighted to share the latest Benetech highlights as we work on these ambitious 10X dreams! First, we are working to lower the barrier to the use of strong encryption to automatically protect the privacy of sensitive information. Bookshare is helping Kevin— who had suffered a brain injury—to keep up with his school work.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 16, 2011

Canada, Europe and India. As a result, we are increasingly working with other disability organizations in other countries to extend Bookshare’s ability to serve people with disabilities. Bookshare has successfully piloted an international library for the blind, but we’ve barely begun to remedy the global book famine.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

This is a guest blog from Anna Reid, an Amherst student who interned with Bookshare.org International this past summer. Article 19 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights says that all people deserve "the right to seek, receive and impart information."

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

have been asking about the Treaty of Marrakesh (formal name: The Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities. First, it makes creating a national domestic copyright exception an obligation of countries that ratify the Treaty. Works Covered.

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Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

But today, many people think of a great workplace as not even one specific place at all, with many employers opting for a permanent remote work setup after a trial proved prosperous during the pandemic. Are folks busy enjoying their work, or working to look busy? Work-life balance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2017

Beyond the First Click examines innovative volunteer engagement work by 35 organisations empowering people to scale change and win by learning and doing more. Dr. Dietmar Kress puts his PhD in Sociology to work as Director of Actions and Volunteering at Greenpeace Germany. We make expectations very clear.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. India has a reading problem and the problem is two fold.

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Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

Correction error: In the podcast, I suggest the East India Company first moved into their office in Britain in the 19th Century, when it was in fact the 18th Century. Are folks busy enjoying their work, or working to look busy? The idea of an office, or a physical place in which a person sits down to work, isn’t new.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

exception model works well here. We go to great lengths to ensure the digital works we provide are restricted to bona fide patrons with disabilities. People with disabilities should both be able to use libraries on terms similar to those of people without disabilities, and be able to purchase books that work for them.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

A Policy Update from an engineer, Jim Fruchterman of Benetech June 8, 2010 The international copyright negotiations in Geneva around a proposed Treaty for the Visually Impaired (“TVI”) have been steadily heating up. trade publishers (and some in India and the UK), and over 1,000 international members in 35 countries today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2012

In line with its focus on turning data into knowledge through powerful, insightful measurement and analytics of social media efforts, we wanted to share three simple tips and resources that nonprofits can put to work. How can you make your web footprint work for you and complement your social strategy?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2014

TechSoup has been running international video and photo competitions for some years now. Any charity anywhere in the world can send us a short video or five-picture Flickr slideshow that tells about their work and will be entered to win some cash prizes. We appreciated the opportunity to work with TechSoup and tell our story.”

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Across the nation, as summer draws to an end and mother nature prepare for her fall showstopper, so does the nonprofit sector. The answers to those questions can fill entire books, but at the very least it will take time and hard work to make sure you get the support you would hope for this fall and winter. How do we expand that list?

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

We’re also working to ensure that advocates have the data and evidence they need to push for faster change on gender equality. . Through our global data and analysis work, we aim to provide a global snapshot of the progress being made towards SDGs for girls and women.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

We’re also working to ensure that advocates have the data and evidence they need to push for faster change on gender equality. . Through our global data and analysis work, we aim to provide a global snapshot of the progress being made towards SDGs for girls and women.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

We discussed Chafee, especially in the context of the Amazon text-to-speech brouhaha, and the proposed international treaty that was tabled at the WIPO SCCR meeting in Geneva last month. national experience. Of course, if there is an international treaty on the topic and the U.S. The Chafee Amendment The U.S. copyright law.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Previously, she produced the Our Social Times and Influence People’s North American Social Media Marketing and Monitoring conference series and started a web development and social media business, which leveraged an international team of programmers and designers across India, Romania, and the U.S.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 5, 2011

As a company, they works to have a positive impact on the local communities around the world where it has offices. Many of us have worked at companies that offer a small form of gift matching, but Symantec's efforts to promote volunteerism push that to an even higher tier.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

For example, I'm planning on going to India and Bangladesh next month for the first time, and to Uganda and Sudan next year. Under our new CTO, Patrick Ball (see my last President's letter), we are building a tech team to work on our incredibly varied list of projects in literacy, human rights and the environment.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2011

He is an electrical engineer, having worked for several years in management for large electronics companies like Philips Electronics and Advanced Micro Devices. It is one of the rapidly emerging " BRIC " economies, along with Russia, India and China. Valter is the chief operating officer of ATN.

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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

Someone in Indiana could connect with someone in India around a cause they care about." "The I started working with the UN. Thought with all that you''d have all these people around the world rally around clean water crisis, but it didn''t just "work." It goes back to working together and collaborating.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2011

A Review of the “Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development” Report. ” While the report does not claim to predict the future, it provides a lot of room for thought to all working in the development sector and for technologists eager to use technology for social good.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

He is also the co-founder of the International Folk Art Market. Before moving to Santa Fe, he was the Director of Aid to Artisans , an international artisan enterprise development NGO. That can mean, for example, language; it can mean architecture; it can mean food; it can mean artisan work, or artistic work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Since the beginning , Hughes has said that Jumo is “an online platform to connect individuals and organizations working to change the world.&# GuideStar does have Jumo International listed as a nonprofit organization but very little information is shown and likely won’t be until they file their first 990 with the IRS.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Beth has over 30 years working in the nonprofit sector in technology, training, capacity building, evaluation, fundraising and marketing. While there are larger numbers of Gen Z in India, China and Nigeria compared to UK or US, they are truly a global organization. Tips for Engaging Gen Z on Social and Mobile Channels.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

This new paradigm offers great potential to improve how we all work. A team led by the International Institute of Information Technology in Hyderabad, India, is working on a battery-powered diagnostic device, costing less than US$100, which can monitor a patient's heart rate, blood pressure and oxygen levels.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

This new paradigm offers great potential to improve how we all work. A team led by the International Institute of Information Technology in Hyderabad, India, is working on a battery-powered diagnostic device, costing less than US$100, which can monitor a patient's heart rate, blood pressure and oxygen levels.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America , or go international with events in. Atrisco, New Mexico: Working Group and Help Desk: Bring Your Projects and Tech Challenges. Mumbai, India: Storymakers 2017. Ilorin, Nigeria: Recession: Reviving the Nation's Economy Through Technology.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2005

Civic Ventures , a San Francisco nonprofit group, will award 5 Americans over 60, whose work has fostered significant social innovation, $100,000 to further their work. The awards will be given out in June at a national summit that will recognize the leaders and 60 semi-finalists. 28 by mail and online.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

This is technology for good news from India. This is similar to the success of projects like Restart Romania in which social activists got help to develop online tools to address corruption in high places, and also a national website for tracking medication shortages in Romania. Accessibility. Social Media. Very, very cool, I must say.

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