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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SocialCoding4Good brings together individual software professionals as well as corporate social responsibility teams from companies such as Cisco, Google, Hewlett Packard, LinkedIn, and VMware to volunteer their technical skills to nonprofit partners that develop and maintain free and open source software addressing critical social problems.

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How Mobile Phones Are Saving Lives in the Developing World

AFP Blog

How Mobile Phones Are Saving Lives in the Developing World : "In six months, our pilot in Malawi saved the clinical staff 1,200 hours of follow-up time and more than $3,000 in motorbike fuel,” Nesbit says. FrontlineSMS:Medic is now known as Medic Mobile and runs off open-source data from OpenMRS, Ushahidi, Google Apps and HealthMap.".

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Mobile Innovations for Social Good

NTEN

Mobile Voices offers an open-source multi-media platform optimized for low-cost mobile phones that lets users create, share, and reflect on stories about their lives and communities. million patients in Malawi and Uganda, they've seen that text messages and cheap mobile phones are great tools on the front-lines of global health.

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Vote for the Best Social Change and Technology Projects at Netsquared!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Community-Owned Telecenter Project in Malawi. Open Source, Open Standards Video. Community Technology Centres for Children And Young Adults in Low and Moderate Income Communities in Madurai India. Digital Divide Data's Project: A Networking Resources for Disadvantaged People in Cambodia and Laos. Farmer 2 Farmer Learning.