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Ushahidi Wins MacArthur Award: Changing the World One Map at a Time

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Following the earthquake in Haiti in 2010 and the tsumani in Japan in 2011, the Ushahidi platform was used to organize emergency responses in real-time. With Ushahidi’s help, election watchers, human rights activists, international media, and foreign governments will have a much better view of developments on the ground.

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Mapping for Impact: This Week's Free TechSoup Webinar

Tech Soup

Perhaps some organizations make it look simple, but behind the scenes there may be some sophisticated Esri tools that map disease outbreaks and aid distribution. Direct Relief International was involved in the Haitian earthquake in 2010 and the Japan earthquake in 2011, providing aid to thousands.

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Youth Programs Benefit from Microsoft Donations

Tech Soup

I did a post a few weeks ago on youth programs in TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map and decided I hadn’t covered this resource nearly enough. Our Local Impact Map. Childreach International serves a large network of international partners in work that involves a great deal of organization and coordination.

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

It also lists and maps hackathons worldwide. • Mapping • Cloud computing. Speaking of maps, the Oxford Internet Institute has used Internet traffic data from Alexa to figure each country’s most popular websites. See the map here. • Tracking technology (like GPS) • Translation tools. All Things D.

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Supporting Nonprofit Tech Educators Across the Globe

Tech Soup

The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. London, United Kingdom: Effective Data Mapping for Charities. Tokyo, Japan: #NPOxITは仕事になるのか? Check each month that there are events in each region, and comment out the un-necessary regions. Africa and Middle East.

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Digital Volunteerism – Effective Disaster Relief the GreenTech Way

Tech Soup

Many of these tools use crowdsourcing techniques, which engages large groups of people via the Internet to do important tasks like raise money, collect information on needs in a stricken area and get them out to first responders, translate information in to several languages, or map the crisis in useful ways.

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How the Cloud Can Make a Difference for Disaster Relief

Tech Soup

One of the scenarios where it's especially important to be able to handle unusually high amounts of traffic is after a disaster, which is why Second Harvest Japan decided to host its Emergency Response Portal in the cloud. TechSoup Japan Disaster Relief Program Launches to Assist Local NGOs.