Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 20, 2022

Web3 is a new version of the internet that uses blockchain (IE a secure but transparent record keeping system) to decentralize the management of the internet, thus reducing the control of prominent companies such as Google or Meta. Web3 draws its name as the third iteration of the internet. What is Web3? What is the Metaverse?

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Google has explored plenty of daring projects over the years, but most of them never see any commercial implementation beyond a few trial runs. That's because the company has cultivated a culture of embracing failure as a way to test ideas and quickly kill the terrible ones before they suck.

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Wired

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The Alphabet moonshot project is launching a new chip to deliver high-speed internet with light instead of radio waves.

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 31, 2024

On February 18, 2024, a missile attack by Houthi militants in Yemen struck the cargo ship Rubymar in the Red Sea, setting off a chain of events that would expose a critical vulnerability in the world's internet infrastructure. As the disabled vessel drifted for weeks before finally sinking, its anchor. Read Entire Article

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The Open Data Project [ español , français ] seeks to gain a better understanding of how nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide use technology for digital marketing and fundraising. To access the complete data, please take the Global NGO Technology Survey and then visit the Open Data Project Hub. Why the Open Data Project?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Amazon has purchased three Falcon 9 launches from SpaceX to support deployment of its Project Kuiper mega-constellation, the company said Friday.

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The Verge

AUGUST 17, 2020

Microsoft will end support for Internet Explorer 11 across its Microsoft 365 apps and services next year. In exactly a year, on August 17th, 2021, Internet Explorer 11 will no longer be supported for Microsoft’s online services like Office 365, OneDrive, Outlook, and more. Legacy Edge will go away next March.

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Engadget

APRIL 14, 2025

Ubisoft says that no internet connection is required to play the game. The company disbanded the team that was behind the project at its Montpelier studio, redirecting most of its developers to "other projects that will benefit from their expertise." You can use either touchscreen controls or an external controller.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Amazon’s Project Kuiper successfully validated key technology that will increase throughput and reduce latency for customers using its satellite internet service, the company said Thursday.

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The Verge

JANUARY 21, 2021

Alphabet is shutting down Loon, its division that provides internet from floating balloons, according to a post on the blog of Alphabet’s X moonshot division. Loon launched its first commercial internet service in Kenya in July , comprised of a fleet of about 35 balloons that covered an area of around 50,000 square kilometers.

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The Verge

JULY 7, 2020

Alphabet’s Loon division, which uses floating balloons to provide internet, has today launched its first commercial service in Kenya. It’s a significant step for Loon, which started as a moonshot project in Alphabet’s X division before being spun out into its own company in 2018. It also has several other projects in the pipeline.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Alphabet’s X lab, the former Google division that launched the Waymo self-driving car unit and other ambitious projects, has officially announced its latest “moonshot”: a computational agriculture project the company is calling Mineral. But the project does have high-minded ambition.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The Internet Archive — the non-profit digital library known for the Wayback Machine — announced that it will now preserve Flash animations and games , ahead of Adobe’s planned demise for the defunct web software at the end of 2020. Image: Puffballs United. Image: Bad_CRC.

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Engadget

APRIL 7, 2025

Developers who release projects on the Switch 2 will have the option to sell their work as a " Game-Key card ," which looks like a traditional physical game cartridge, but has no game data stored on it. The hardware will need an Internet connection and enough space for the game files on its system memory or microSD Express card.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2017

As personal computers, smartphones, and the Internet of Things evolve, so must your nonprofit. The Internet of Things. By the year 2020, over 50 billion things – cars, appliances, roads – will be connected to the Internet of Things. Mass adoption of giving through the Internet of Things will likely take 5-10 years.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 25, 2022

1) Embedded newsletter opt-in on the Marshall Project blog. Fueled by a strong passion for the Internet, Heather spends her days (and some nights) helping nonprofits, charities, and NGOs worldwide utilize the internet as a tool for social good. 2) Embedded donation form on the Human Rights Watch blog.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

But despite its central role in Antarctic research, McMurdo is lacking something most scientists working at 21st-century laboratories take for granted: high-speed internet. The idea was first raised a little over a decade ago but lost traction as other projects took priority. That could soon change, however.

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The Verge

MAY 22, 2020

Researchers based out of Australia’s Monash, Swinburne, and RMIT universities say they’ve set a new internet speed record of 44.2 What our research demonstrates is the ability for fibers that we already have in the ground, thanks to the NBN project, to be the backbone of communications networks now and in the future.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Project Taara link | Image: X. In January, Google’s parent company, Alphabet, shut down Project Loon , an initiative exploring using stratospheric helium balloons to distribute wireless internet (an attempt to use solar-powered drones folded in 2017 ). Project Taara pointing and tracking system.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2021

See also the Noun Project. Internet Archive Wayback Machine :: archive.org/web. The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is an online library of almost 500 billion screenshots of websites since 1996. Slack is a cloud-based tool for teams of staff and volunteers to collaborate on projects and communicate through focused messaging.

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

The Federal Communications Commission has approved Amazon’s plans for its ambitious Kuiper constellation, which entails sending 3,236 satellites into orbit to beam internet coverage down to Earth. Amazon said it will invest “more than $10 billion” in Project Kuiper in a blog post.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Internet Archive Wayback Machine :: archive.org/web. The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is an online library of almost 500 billion screenshots of websites since 1996. Coolers is a color scheme generator that allows users to explore hundreds of color palettes for graphic design projects. See also the Noun Project.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s internet infrastructure service that is the backbone of many websites and apps, is experiencing a major outage affecting a large portion of the internet. An Amazon AWS outage is currently impacting Adobe Spark so you may be having issues accessing/editing your projects.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2019

11: Safer Internet Day — #SID20. 29: World Internet Day — #WorldInternetDay. Day of Service — #MLKDay. 28: Data Privacy Day — #DataPrivacyDay. 2: World Wetlands Day — #WorldWetlandsDay. 4: World Cancer Day — #WorldCancerDay. 13: World Radio Day — #WorldRadioDay. 14: World Bonobo Day — #World Bonobo Day.

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TechSpot

MARCH 14, 2023

The standard terminal is roughly 11 inches square, an inch thick, and weighs less than five pounds (sans mounting bracket) According to Amazon, this model can deliver speeds of up to 400 Mbps and should cost less than $400 to produce. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The Internet Archive (IA) is once again busy saving the history of computing and digital culture with a new preservation project: a "software library" is full of Palm and PalmPilot applications. Thanks to Palm OS emulation, users can now experience how people were managing their digital stuff on the go.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2022

Howell sees the rise of new projects in the web3 space as an opportunity to reshape how these open source developers are compensated for their work. They fixed the bug, but they pointed out quite fairly that no one sponsors their project or gives them any money in [exchange for] their free time,” Howell said.

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TechSpot

APRIL 5, 2022

Amazon has commissioned 38 launches from United Launch Alliance aboard its Vulcan Centaur heavy-lift vehicle, another 18 from European space line Arianespace using its upcoming Ariane 6 rockets and a dozen from Blue Origin courtesy of its New Glenn heavy-lift launch vehicle. Amazon can exercise options for up to 15.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2018

Published by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. 2018 Fundraising Effectiveness Project :: Download. For Nonprofits in the United States: 6. 2018 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report :: Download. Published by Nonprofit Marketing Guide. Social Media Use in 2018 :: Download. 2018 Digital Outlook Report :: Download.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In a video showing off the project and the process behind it, Dupont says he was inspired when his mother-in-law gifted him the old iPod. Dupont put a Raspberry Pi Zero W inside the iPod because Spotify requires an internet connection — something most iPods don’t support. He calls it the sPot. GIF by Guy Dupont.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

Source: Rothschild’s Giraffe Project. 6) By 2018 more than half the world will have access to the Internet and by 2020 global internet users are expected to reach 4.2 Today, out of roughly 6,000 languages in use, ten languages make up 82% of the content on the Internet. Source: eMarketer. Source: Global Web Index.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 27, 2018

To fill in the gap, social good entrepreneurs worldwide have built upon the momentum of crowdfunding and extended crowdfunding services to nonprofits, NGOs, and charities in regions where online fundraising has been challenging up to this point in the Internet’s short history. HelloAsso (France). helloasso.com. iDonate (Ireland).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The internet is loaded with amazing free or low-cost tools and resources! Internet Archive Wayback Machine :: archive.org/web. The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is an online library of almost 500 billion screenshots of websites since 1996. Internet Live Stats :: internetlivestats.com. Social Media.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 21, 2023

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is the research and development agency of the US Department of Defense, and is well known (among many other things) for creating ARPANET. Much like ARPANET started the original internet revolution, the US federal agency is now interested in kickstarting an integrated lunar.

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Medium Technology Section

MARCH 14, 2025

Project Taara: Beaming Internet Through Light Without Cables Continue reading on Medium

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 27, 2023

Internet Archive Wayback Machine :: archive.org/web The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is an online library of almost 500 billion screenshots of websites since 1996. Coolers is a color scheme generator that allows users to explore hundreds of color palettes for graphic design projects. See also the Noun Project.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2019

2018 Fundraising Effectiveness Project :: Download. Published by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Published by Classy. 2018 Benchmarks Study :: Download. Published by M+R. Published by the Association of Fundraising Professionals. Social Media Use in 2018 :: Download. Published by Fidelity Charitable.

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