Policing Project: gathering, sharing data on police-civilian interactions
The Policing Project is hosted by the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG), a human rights statistics organization. HRDAG's evidence of abuse by government and other forces has been key to...
View ArticleIt's not always Tech For Good
Earlier this week, Redditors were given an amazing opportunity by a VSO Volunteer from Britain working in Kenya: two leaders from the Maasai tribe, a seminomadic people living in Western Kenya, signed...
View ArticleYogera allows Ugandans to anonymously report corruption, poor service
Yogera is a new initiative that allows residents in Kampala, Uganda to report a request for a bribe for government service, poor service delivery or corruption, or celebrate someone who has denied a...
View ArticleeNGO Challenge - awards for tech4good projects in India, Afghanistan,...
The eNGO Challenge is open to the eight SAARC countries: India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Maldives, Bhutan and Nepal. Any project which has been developed or has the customer...
View Articlehow "technology is making so much possible for women everywhere" -...
"At World Pulse, we see so many signs of the good. Every day, women and men creatively embrace tech tools to solve the pressing problems facing our communities and our world. From mobile apps designed...
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Louisiana Flood Relief Options
Louisiana Flood Evacuation - CC BY 2.0Just wanted to let everyone know some of the primary Louisiana flood relief options and to compile them in one place. This is another bad long-term...
View ArticleHumanitarian OpenStreetMap summit, Brussels, Sept. 22
The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) is hosting its annual summit in Brussels, Belgium on September 22, 2016. YThis is part of a week-long series of map related events called Maptember. HOT is 6...
View ArticleKentucky & Tennessee: examples of why community tech centers are...
Back in the 1990s, I got into a heated debate somewhere online with someone who said community technology centers and computer literacy programs would be gone by the turn of the century. I knew there...
View ArticleLeveraging Tech Volunteer Programs (networking event in Seattle)
Leveraging Tech Volunteer Programs and Networking SocialThursday, September 29, 2016, 6 to 8 PMSeattle, Washington1218 3rd Ave "Looking for help from tech volunteers? In addition to networking with our...
View ArticleUnited Nations Solutions Summit picks finalists, including tech4good initiatives
The second annual Solutions Summit is a catalytic gathering that will take place at UN Headquarters in New York on the evening of 21 September 2016during UN General Assembly week. Solutions Summit is...
View Article1000s of volunteers in India mobilized for a digital literacy day: 10K...
The Telangana Information Technology Association (TITA) will organise a 10K Digithon 2016 on October 2, honouring the father of the nation of India on Gandhi Jayanthi. The event will mobilize...
View ArticleBicycle-Riding Internet Tutors Are Getting Rural Indian Women Online
The internet fails to reach millions of women in the small towns and villages of India, so Internet Saathi, the joint program of Alphabet, Inc., Google and local philanthropy Tata Trusts have built an...
View ArticleTech tool to help migrants/refugees: The Virtual Volunteer
The Virtual Volunteer is a tech tool that helps connect migrants with vital, reliable information, such as where to find medical services, legal services, refugee camps and other support services. It...
View ArticleOpenZika distributed computing project
Hands On Orlando has recruited nearly 1,000 people to donate their computers, tablets and phones to the OpenZika project, part of the World Community Grid, to create a collective supercomputer for...
View ArticleCS 50 : Using Technology for Good at Stanford University
CS 50 : Using Technology for Good at Stanford University (Palo Alto, USA) is behind the awesome projects at cs50.stanford.edu where students work with project partners (people behind Black Lives...
View ArticleAfghanistan's female-only coding school & other Internet-access initiatives
Code To Inspire opened Afghanistan's first female-only coding school, in Herat, in 2015 and will expand to Kabul and Mazar-e Sharif. Code To Inspire is a USA-registered nonprofit, Afghan lead, that...
View ArticleEnsuring women's inclusion in ICT initiatives
Two excellent resources from the Association for Progressive Communication’s (APC) Women’s Rights Programme (WRP): Gender Evaluation Methodology is a guide to integrating a gender analysis into...
View Articleapps4good, hacks4good, etc. not living up to hype:
"Take Refoodgee, an app launched by Berlin-based startup Memorado to connect newly arrived refugees with locals through food. It’s been praised by the media, but the app hasn’t been updated for months...
View Articledrones in humanitarian action: crisis mapping
-- forwarded message --One of the main applications of drones in humanitarian action is crisis mapping.In August 2015, the Swiss humanitarian organization FSD kindly hired me as a consultant to work on...
View ArticlePayPal employees in Ireland hold hack4good
PayPal in Ireland held a "24-hour" hackathon at Dublin’s Castleknock Hotel, where 15 of its staff from its offices in Dundalk and Blanchardstown volunteered to help five Irish charities to address some...
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