Technology Association of Oregon's 'People's Choice' award
Technology Association of Oregon's 'People's Choice' award is being crowdsourced. The winner of this award will be an individual, company, project or program that best exemplifies the spirit of the...
View ArticleGirls Can Code! tech camps organized by volunteers in Zambia
At Girls Can Code! technology camps organized by volunteers in Peace Corps Zambia, girls learn basic computer skills, from typing to using a mouse. By the end of the camp, they are skilled in popular...
View ArticleWhen the Government Uses Facebook as a Weapon
Putting this under the "tech4good" forum branch because it's an example of how the tools that can be so effective for advocacy that helps people can also be used to suppress and oppress. What Happens...
View Article1st Global Editathon Girls in ICT (en Español tambien)
Register to participate in the 1st Global Editathon Girls in ICTWe are organizing the 1st Global Editathon Girls in ICT on April 28 coordinated between the Women's Special Interest Group of the...
View ArticleEurope Is Smuggling E-Waste to Nigeria Inside Used Cars
A landfill is a terrible place for old smartphones, televisions, or computers. Electronic waste can be composed of heavy metals, rare earth metals, and other potentially hazardous material. Much of it...
View ArticleMicrosoft 365 for Nonprofits & Technology for Social Impact group
In September 2017, Microsoft announced a new Technology for Social Impact group"dedicated to serving nonprofit organizations worldwide and helping them move to the cloud and provide the support they...
View ArticleApp4Good blocked by company whose data it needs
In 2016, Propel, a Brooklyn-based start-up and “anti-poverty software company,” released a smartphone app that lets food stamp recipients easily look up how much money was left in their accounts,...
View ArticlePhilly's Civic Engagement Month-long Hackathon
More than just a hackathon, Code for Philly's Civic Engagement Launchpad began on April 28! This month-long, project-launching "sprint" is focused on improving democratic systems and creating tools for...
View Article"Apps Against Abuse" - did they take the wrong approach?
The Challenge.gov website was launched in 2010 as an offshoot of U.S. President Barack Obama's Strategy for Innovation, a federal policy agenda meant to spur entrepreneurship in the wake of the global...
View ArticleOnline volunteer receives Illinois Governor's Volunteer Service award
Alice McGowen, a digital volunteer from Jerseyville, Illinois has received the Illinois Governor's Volunteer Service award. She is the Team Leader of the Vulnerable Population/Service Dog Team for...
View ArticleTeaching Community Tecnology
There are times when you make a discovery too late, this is what I felt when I found the 'Teaching Community Technology Handbook'. If only I had this when I started working in Community Education, it...
View ArticleDigital Impact Grants
Digital Impact Grants fund research and innovation to strengthen the safe, ethical, and effective use of digital resources in civil society. A fundamental goal of the program is to support better...
View ArticleThe Tech Volunteering Group Urgently Needed Everywhere
When people talk about helping seniors, they usually focus on food or transportation. That’s nice and necessary, but seniors – people 65 and over – often have great need of a different kind of critical...
View Article"almost like we have the Internet" - a rural Africa school uses Kiwix to...
Students in rural Eswatini, in Swaziland, are expected to perform at comparable levels to their city dwelling counterparts. "While teaching my students, I noticed that we are attempting to educate...
View ArticleOnline volunteers help children & families separated by US Government / ICE...
Gives new meaning to the phrase digital #activism : an article from Wired on how librarians and other humanities academics and geeks banded together to figure out where the government had sent...
View ArticleUN High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation
The United Nations has launched the High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation, its latest in a long line of #tech4good / #ICT4D / #DigitalCooperation initiatives.The Panel has a total of 20 members,...
View ArticleWFP’s Dalili App is empowering Syrian refugees in Lebanon
In Lebanon, where the World Food Programme (WFP) operates entirely on cash assistance, the organization established a retail team to support its 500 contracted shops in providing quality products, fair...
View ArticlePanel re: National Day of Civic Hacking, Aug 11, 2018
Saturday, August 11, 2018noon – 1 p.m. PT / 3 – 4 p.m. ETCode for America155 9th St.San Francisco, CANational Day of Civic Hacking is fast approaching, and to kick it off we've teamed up with Code for...
View ArticleNational Day of Civic Hacking Highlights 2018
Last weekend, people across the country convened for #NationalDayofCivicHacking — a day of action where designers, coders, data scientists, and community members partnered with their local governments...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Council for Digital Good calls on US policymakers to promote...
In an open letter to U.S. law- and policy-makers, Microsoft's Council for Digital Good is calling on government to address digital-world realities like cyberbullying and "sextortion" by modernizing...
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