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Shipping Containers Become Solar-Powered Internet Hubs in Rural Africa : TreeHug...

Fri, 01/13/2012 - 19:21
Shipping Containers Become Solar-Powered Internet Hubs in Rural Africa : TreeHugger http://ow.ly/8sKQA


Shipping Containers Become Solar-Powered Internet Hubs in Rural Africa
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Long-predicted, now real: Solar power, old shipping containers and the internet are combining to help rural African communities survive and even...

Unreasonable Institute pioneers market-oriented development solutions with socia...

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 23:30
Unreasonable Institute pioneers market-oriented development solutions with social entrepreneurs http://ow.ly/80XTM


Unreasonable Institute Teaches New Paths to Social Missions
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The Unreasonable Institute in Colorado offers a six-week course to entrepreneurs who want to make a profit while helping the world.

PacX Challenge: 4 Wave Gliders journey across the Pacific powered by waves, post...

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 23:20
PacX Challenge: 4 Wave Gliders journey across the Pacific powered by waves, posting real time data. http://ow.ly/80XBc


PacX Challenge
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PacX Challenge: 4 Wave Gliders journey across the Pacific powered by waves, posting real time data. The robots will travel together to Hawaii and...

BigScience Challenge: Finalists announced in hi-perf scientific cloud computing....

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 21:15
BigScience Challenge: Finalists announced in hi-perf scientific cloud computing. Winner gets 30 hours on 10000 cores. http://ow.ly/80Qaz


BigScience Challenge: Winners
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Finalists announced for hi-perf scientific cloud computing. Winner gets 30 hours on 10000 cores, for biotech, neurology or energy

Dani's Perspective on SaaS: The Black Swan Event in SaaS Operations. Advice we...

Sat, 12/31/2011 - 21:15
Dani's Perspective on SaaS: The Black Swan Event in SaaS Operations. Advice we take to heart every day http://ow.ly/80PX7


Dani: The Black Swan Event in SaaS Operations
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Advice from a friend, that we take to heart every day: ' “Prepare for Failure"... Take into account that at any given moment something might break. '

Sahel's looming food crisis can be forestalled, say aid agencies (Unicef, Oxfam,...

Wed, 12/28/2011 - 21:00
Sahel's looming food crisis can be forestalled, say aid agencies (Unicef, Oxfam, WFP). 12m people at risk in 2012. http://ow.ly/80P9A


Sahel's looming food crisis could be forestalled, claim aid agencies
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Calls for unprecedented effort from world governments to stave off threat posed by food shortages and rising prices. 12m people, 1m children, at...

Start-ups find niche where art and technology meet. ArtVenue, Turning Art, Tour...

Tue, 12/20/2011 - 20:50
Start-ups find niche where art and technology meet. ArtVenue, Turning Art, TourSphere, Mosaic Loft - IT works for art.http://ow.ly/80OFP


Start-ups find niche where art and technology meet - The Boston Globe
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Start-ups find niche where art and technology meet. ArtVenue and Turning Art loan out artwork, TourSphere makes apps for museums, Mosaic Loft uses...

International Development Volunteer Group in Transition: VSO Chief Marg Mayne on...

Sat, 12/17/2011 - 20:50
International Development Volunteer Group in Transition: VSO Chief Marg Mayne on Staying Local While Going International http://ow.ly/80OxG


International Development - Volunteer Group in Transition: VSO Chief...
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VSO CEO Marg Mayne speaks about the group’s transition from a U.K.-based volunteering organization to a global development charity.

Fertile Ground in Africa for Computer Science to Take Root - Makerere University...

Thu, 12/15/2011 - 20:37
Fertile Ground in Africa for Computer Science to Take Root - Makerere University continues to lead http://ow.ly/80Ohb


Fertile Ground in Africa for Computer Science to Take Root
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Computer science study in Africa shows great promise. Uganda's Makerere University charts its own course in many aspects of mobile computing ahead...

Scaling Social Impact by Giving Away Value - Steven Song continues to promote de...

Tue, 11/22/2011 - 20:00
Scaling Social Impact by Giving Away Value - Steven Song continues to promote development communications http://ow.ly/7jpFC


Scaling Social Impact by Giving Away Value
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An interview with Steven Song, ong-time development telecom expert, about appropriating lessons from open source thinking for social change.

Startup Weekend - The Kauffman Foundation sponsors events around the world for...

Sun, 11/20/2011 - 19:55
Startup Weekend - The Kauffman Foundation sponsors events around the world for technologists, investors, non-profits.http://ow.ly/7jpmY


Startup Weekend
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The Kauffman foundation sponsors weekends in cities around the world to match visionaries, technologists, and investors, both commercial and...

Social technologies on the front line: Seven ways Web 2.0 is improving communica...

Fri, 11/18/2011 - 19:50
Social technologies on the front line: Seven ways Web 2.0 is improving communication among employees at all levels http://ow.ly/7joOA


Social technologies on the front line: M-Prize winners
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Seven ways Web 2.0 is improving communication among employees at all levels. Examples for both commercial and non-profit orgs.

The Cloud's My-Mom-Cleaned-My-Room Problem - cloud 'parental computing' cleans u...

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 19:45
The Cloud's My-Mom-Cleaned-My-Room Problem - cloud 'parental computing' cleans up our messes http://ow.ly/7joDj


The Cloud's My-Mom-Cleaned-My-Room Problem
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Welcome to the era of parental computing, or how the cloud makes children of us all - Someone else fixes all the messes. What we lose in freedom...

International Development - In Numbers: Private vs Public Aid Sources. Private a...

Mon, 11/14/2011 - 19:45
International Development - In Numbers: Private vs Public Aid Sources. Private aid doubled, public aid up 80% since 2003 http://ow.ly/7jogD


International Development - In Numbers: Private vs Public Aid Sources
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Private foundations are expanding their global development role. The chart above begins to shed light on the extent of this giving in the context...

Android malware now twice as common than six month ago. Few mobile-phone users...

Fri, 11/11/2011 - 19:40
Android malware now twice as common than six month ago. Few mobile-phone users have taken precautions. http://ow.ly/7jo9y


Android malware now twice as common than six month ago - Consumer...
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Android-powered smart phones are gaining in popularity with consumers—and with hackers and criminals. Fewer than one in three mobile-phone users...

Data Without Borders match non-profits with pro bono data scientists for data co...

Wed, 11/09/2011 - 19:35
Data Without Borders match non-profits with pro bono data scientists for data collection, analysis, visualization http://ow.ly/7jnDQ


Data Without Borders
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Data Without Borders seeks to match non-profits in need of data analysis with freelance and pro bono data scientists who can work to help them with...

The NGO World - a linked in group for those people engaged in the NGO sector htt...

Mon, 11/07/2011 - 18:05
The NGO World - a linked in group for those people engaged in the NGO sector http://ow.ly/7jge7


The NGO World | LinkedIn
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“The NGO World” is a linked in group for those people who are engaged in the NGO sector.

Cloud computing's real creative destruction may be the IT workforce IT job losse...

Sat, 11/05/2011 - 17:05
Cloud computing's real creative destruction may be the IT workforce IT job losses could be larger than offshoring.http://ow.ly/7jgeI


Cloud computing's real creative destruction may be the IT workforce | ZDNet
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Few disagree that cloud computing will be disruptive. IT job losses could be larger than offshoring.

Bill Gates on improving aid: diaspora bonds; improving crops for climate change;...

Fri, 11/04/2011 - 16:54
Bill Gates on improving aid: diaspora bonds; improving crops for climate change; reforming remittances http://ow.ly/7jg74


Bill Gates’s plan to assist the world’s poor
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Why and how to improve development aid, including diaspora bonds; improving crops for climate change; reforming remittances

D-Rev: - A new non-profit close to Stanford develops technology and products for...

Fri, 10/21/2011 - 21:35
D-Rev: - A new non-profit close to Stanford develops technology and products for the 'bottom of the pyramid'. http://ow.ly/70fWe


D-Rev: Design Revolution
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A new non-profit close to Stanford develops technology and products for the 'bottom of the pyramid'.