Ability Hacks: story of two hackathon teams focused on helping people with...
Microsoft held its annual One Week Hackathon, where employees from around the company work to "hack" solutions to various challenges. In 2014, Microsoft had 10 ability hack projects and last year...
View ArticleUSAID’s Development Innovation Ventures (no deadline)
USAID's Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) fund, housed in the U.S. Global Development Lab, is the Agency's venture capital-inspired, tiered, evidence-based funding model that invests comparatively...
View ArticleSept 25, 2018 Event: Leaving No One Behind in an Age of Tech Revolution
Curse or Cure? Leaving No One Behind in an Age of Technological RevolutionTuesday 25 September 2018, 11:30 am – 1 pm New York time (8:30 a.m. Los Angeles time)Livestream the event via webtv.un.orgFor...
View ArticleEU Copyright Directive
A central thread in the evolution of the open sourcesoftware movement has been a concern about the extension, use and misuses of copyright law, another example of this is currently taking place in the...
View ArticleTechnology for Social Justice Project new report
The Technology for Social Justice Project (T4SJ) is excited to release a new report, #MoreThanCode: Practitioners Reimagine the landscape of technology for justice and equity. Download the Full...
View ArticleConference in Romania on fighting misinformation: Megaphone 2018
Megaphone is an international event with an "unconference" spirit that provides space for collaborative discussions and peer-to-peer learning to brainstorm new ideas between activists, action groups,...
View Articlethe ethical guide to app & other tech tool development
Ethical OS Toolkit: a guide to anticipating the future of impact of today's technology Or: how to not regret the things you will buildFrom the guide:As technologists, it’s only natural that we spend...
View ArticleOST to PST Converter
ATS OST to PST Migration tool has a scanning process which scans all the errors and removes them instantly without consuming more time. This is the best facility of this application. Using this tool...
View ArticleHustle N’ Code hackathon December 15 in Los Angeles
reposted from the subreddit volunteer, about a hackathon in Los Angeles, California seeking volunteers:Teens Exploring Technology (TXT) is hosting its annual Hustle N’ Code hackathon on December 15th....
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 ArticleCyberRwanda: using digital education to address youth issues in Rwanda
CyberRwanda, a project of YLabs and Youth + Tech + Health, uses digital education tools targeted to urban adolescents and their healthcare providers that address youth unemployment, unplanned...
View ArticleUSAID's 2nd annual Digital Development Awards (“the Digis”)
USAID's Center for Digital Development works to ensure that everyone, even the poorest, has access to digital services. The Center also supports the effective use of technology and advanced data...
View ArticleBefore you develop that app4good, you need to get stakeholder input! A lesson...
Developed in a ‘bubble’, many apps for refugees duplicated existing well-used communication platforms. They didn’t take into account complex issues of trust, how information (+ rumors) spread, nor how...
View ArticleProliferation of SmartPhones leads to proliferation of rape videos
Talking with women who help manage or even just use community tech centers all over the world - in Egypt, Afghanistan, Jordan and various countries in Africa, they would tell me something that they...
View ArticleTech can’t win the battle against online misinformation
In summer 2017, Pew Research Center and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center conducted a large canvassing of technologists, scholars, practitioners, strategic thinkers and others, asking...
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I Love Free Software Day 2019
Having caught your attention the disappointing news is that 'I Love Free Software Day 2019' is today February 14th and it is probably too late to participate, or plan your own event but there is plenty...
View ArticleProfile: Hack4Impact
Hack4Impact is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization founded at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, with chapters at various colleges across the United States. Hack4Impact collaborates with...
View Article7 trailblazers in tech comment on Black History
This article is on opensource.com at https://opensource.com/article/19/2/trailblazers-black-history-month it was written by Shilla Saebi and is worth reading by those with an interest in technology and...
View ArticleLiberation Technology discussion group has moved
Liberation Technology is an online discussion group (list) regarding the research, design, use, and possible use of how technologies can foster social good. This includes everything from software to...
View ArticleBlockchain for good
Before paying, each shopper, a Syrian refugee living in the Azraq camp in Jordan, peered into a black, rectangular iris scanner, which confirms users’ identities with the camp’s organizing group, the...
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