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BiGTech India Connects Nonprofits with IT Students

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To celebrate, TechSoup's partner in India, BiGTech , held the Find an IT Partner event in Mumbai to connect local nonprofits with IT students. The event was hosted by the Don Bosco Institute of Technology (DBIT), giving the IT students at the school a chance to hone their professional skills in a real work environment.

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Data Digest: African Students Using Open Data, Social Impact Bonds, Digital Smoke Signals, and the Data Dilemma

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It was originally published on NetSquared. This week we learn about the Resilient Africa Network (RAN), which is helping African students use open data for disaster relief. Data for Public Service Delivery.

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Apps for Youth, By Youth

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The app was a finalist in Microsoft's 2011 Imagine Cup, a student technology competition. Targeted toward 18-29 year olds, the app links Facebook users with the MyVote online service for voter registration and information. Our Time (Facebook) is a nonprofit dedicated to youth empowerment through the voting process.

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

VTVigils VT Vigils VTvigils.org is a project of a diverse group of national campaigns and organizations not affiliated with Virginia Tech. Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. The media here IS the service. plus two file sharing services sendspace and box.net.

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Campus Party H4SB — Hacking for Something Better Coming to US in 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In the States, nonprofits have generally concentrated on the relationship between the volunteer and the organization receiving services, with a spiffy volunteer interface in the middle. It’s a student crowd, including grad students, and it’s a first job — of the “Is this all there is?&# billion to date.

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Hackathons for Good: Techies, Thinkers, and Activists Unite

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meets LinkedIn for students. The events challenged participants to brainstorm and code mash-ups of WorldCat, the world's largest bibliographic database, with other web services. NetSquared can help! Another project at the Saturday Hackathon 4 Good was Qeyno , which is described as Khan Academy.

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DIY Online Collaboration: Wikis

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Typical wiki communities are work groups within a company, educators and students, and hobbyists. This wiki was built as a collaboration between TechSoup and the Corporation for National and Community Service. If desired, different users can have different levels of control over sharing, editing, and removing information.

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