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Investing in fair, inclusive data

Candid

As most savvy funders know, our collective future hinges on whether this era of unprecedented technological innovation finally breaks down decades of systemic exclusion for those without access…or only further encodes long standing biases. At the heart of the struggle is data.

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Acceptable Usage Policies (AUPs) Protect You and Your Organization

Tech Soup

An acceptable usage policy (AUP) is a set of rules applied by the. owner or manager (you) of a network, website or large IT system that. restricts the ways in which the network, website or system may be used. For schools and libraries that offer Internet as well as internal. Who should develop your policy?

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Nonprofit Technology Celebrates International Women's Day

Tech Soup

women became the majority of law students. The UN finds that 119 countries have now passed domestic violence laws, though enforcement remains a problem. As in so many fields, nonprofits, religious organizations, libraries, and foundations are important change agents toward a world of gender equality. Law and Advocacy.

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Is Privacy for Everyone (Including Donors) Dead?

Bloomerang

However, Page and Brin believed that they could create a better system to rank the relationships between websites. The new system was initially called BackRub because of the backlinking. Ashley Madison had a policy of not deleting any user information, including real names, addresses, credit card information, and other information.

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A Brief History of Nonprofit Organizations (And What We Can Learn)

NonProfit Hub

During this time, we saw policies such as child labor laws, suffrage for women and prohibition. The two developed a system of fundraising that had never been seen before: setting a time limit on their campaign for constructing a new building in Washington D.C., From the late 1800s up until 1920, the U.S.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

This virtual desktop solution connects to a nonprofit or school’s existing computer system very quickly and allows older computers to run Windows 7 and Windows applications as well as new PCs. It’s also looking like relatively few charities and also libraries are getting the hang of it. Adobe Creative Cloud.

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Preparing for the Next Disaster: The Future of #crisisdata

NTEN

Multiple organizations and systems were having trouble coordinating and sharing information. government, discussed one of the challenges of this new media, remarking that while her county's 9-1-1 systems operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week, no one is monitoring social media around the clock.