What is the Value of the Cloud for NGOs in the Developing World?</h1> <article> <h1>What is the Value of the Cloud for NGOs in the Developing World?</h1> <p>Glenn Hirsch — Mon, 14 May 2012 17:21:28 +0000</p> <div class="blog-teaser-image"> </div> <div class="blog-teaser-content"> <p>Over on the TechSoup Global's GuideStar International blog, TSG communications manager Keisha Taylor <a href="http://blog.guidestarinternational.org/2011/03/01/what-is-the-value-of-the-cloud-for-csos-in-the-developing-world/">has posted a very interesting item</a> about cloud computing in developing nations.<span class="read-more"><a href="/blog/what-value-cloud-ngos-developing-world"></a></span></p></div> </article> <article> <h1>(ICT) for Development: TechSoup gives expert testimony to the US International Trade Commission</h1> <p>Glenn Hirsch — Fri, 11 May 2012 20:54:10 +0000</p> <div class="blog-teaser-image"> </div> <div class="blog-teaser-content"> <p align="left">TechSoup Global has been asked to present expert testimony to the <a href="http://www.usitc.gov/">U.S. International Trade Commission</a> in Washington, D.C. next Tuesday, May 15.<span class="read-more"><a href="/blog/ict-development-techsoup-gives-expert-testimony-us-international-trade-commission"></a></span></p></div> </article> <article> <h1>Grantmakers Ask IRS to Approve Equivalency Determination Repositories Like NGOsource</h1> <p>Sheila Warren — Mon, 07 May 2012 19:18:23 +0000</p> <div class="blog-teaser-image"> </div> <div class="blog-teaser-content"> <p>Close to 20 foundations and philanthropy organizations in the United States have recently submitted Letters of Support to the Treasury Department and the IRS, urging those bodies to formally authorize equivalency determination information repositories (EDIR) like <a href="http://www.ngosource.org">NGOsource</a>, a project of <a href="http://www.techsoupglobal.org">TechSoup Global</a> and the <a></a><span class="read-more"><a href="/blog/grantmakers-ask-irs-approve-equivalency-determination-repositories-ngosource"></a></span></p></div> </article> <article> <h1>New Impact Map Links Global and Local</h1> <p>Glenn Hirsch — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:53:42 +0000</p> <div class="blog-teaser-image"> </div> <div class="blog-teaser-content"> <h3>TechSoup Global’s GreenTech computer recycling director Jim Lynch writes <a href="http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/community/b/tsblog/archive/2012/04/30/youth-programs-featured-in-techsoup-global-s-local-impact-map.aspx">in his blog post</a> about youth organizations which have made the most of technology in Staatsburg (New York), Ottawa (Ontario), and Tamil Nadu (South India).</h3> <p> <span class="read-more"><a href="/blog/new-impact-map-links-global-and-local"></a></span></p></div> </article> <article> <h1>Cisco Webex Gets Green IT Summit Award for Best Telework and Teleconferencing Solution</h1> <p>Jim Lynch — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:49:14 +0000</p> <div class="blog-teaser-image"> </div> <div class="blog-teaser-content"> <p>As our GreenTech director, I’d like everyone to know that our TechSoup donor partner, <a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/ciscosystems">Cisco</a>, has just won the <a href="http://www.greenitsummit.org/">Green IT Summit 2012</a> award for year’s <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/4/prweb9435335.htm">best telework and teleconferencing solution</a>.<span class="read-more"><a href="/blog/cisco-webex-gets-green-it-summit-award-best-telework-and-teleconferencing-solution"></a></span></p></div> </article> <article> <h1>Collaborative Innovation in Malaysia brings makers and doers together</h1> <p>Glenn Hirsch — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:23:50 +0000</p> <div class="blog-teaser-image"> </div> <div class="blog-teaser-content"> <p>Over on the <a href="http://www.ssireview.org/blog/entry/building_better_solutions_together_faster">Stanford Social Innovation Review</a> blog, TechSoup Global’s Glenn Fajardo describes Malaysia’s *Weekend Movement and its approach to “time-bound collaborative innovation,” where talented people team up and race against the clock to build out audacious new products and services.<span class="read-more"><a href="/blog/collaborative-innovation-malaysia-brings-makers-and-doers-together"></a></span></p></div> </article> <article> <h1>An interview with Video Volunteers’ Jessica Mayberry: “because it can be replicated, is it no longer an innovation?”</h1> <p>Daniel Ben-Horin — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 15:51:24 +0000</p> <div class="blog-teaser-image"> </div> <div class="blog-teaser-content"> <p><em>Continuing with the theme of how technology-driven innovation can achieve maximum impact, I asked <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/jessiekmayberry/status/171555766489186304"><u>Jessica Mayberry</u></a> for her thoughts. She founded <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQVY8TxvbpM"><u>Video Volunteers</u></a></em> <em>in 2003 after she spent a year as a fellow of the American India F</em><span class="read-more"><a href="/blog/interview-video-volunteers%E2%80%99-jessica-mayberry-%E2%80%9Cbecause-it-can-be-replicated-it-no-longer-innovat"></a></span></p></div> </article> <article> <h1>Growing and Scaling Impact: More from blueEnergy’s Mathias Craig</h1> <p>Daniel Ben-Horin — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 18:02:58 +0000</p> <div class="blog-teaser-image"> </div> <div class="blog-teaser-content"> <p><em>Today, I follow <a href="http://www.techsoupglobal.org/blog/building-better-filter-isnt-whats-holding-us-back-interview-blueenergy%E2%80%99s-mathias-craig">yesterday’s post</a> with <a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/mathiascraig">Mathias Craig’s</a> analysis of the issues surrounding innovation in the social sector, especially as that innovation is applied to benefit the poorest, most isola</em><span class="read-more"><a href="/blog/growing-and-scaling-impact-more-blueenergy%E2%80%99s-mathias-craig"></a></span></p></div> </article> <article> <h1>Building a Better Filter Isn't What's Holding Us Back: An Interview with blueEnergy’s Mathias Craig</h1> <p>Daniel Ben-Horin — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:18:07 +0000</p> <div class="blog-teaser-image"> </div> <div class="blog-teaser-content"> <p><em>Over on the Stanford Social Innovation Review blog, I will soon publish a post entitled “Innovation Obsession Disorder”. My basic point is that we get all hot and gooey about great innovations but we tend to lose interest after the innovative pilot has been launched. The world is full of great innovative projects that can’t move beyond the pilot stage.</em><span class="read-more"><a href="/blog/building-better-filter-isnt-whats-holding-us-back-interview-blueenergy%E2%80%99s-mathias-craig"></a></span></p></div> </article> <article> <h1>Generations of Global Tech Activists Talk: Comment on the Stanford Social Innovation Review Blog</h1> <p>Glenn Hirsch — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 18:02:28 +0000</p> <div class="blog-teaser-image"> </div> <div class="blog-teaser-content"> <p>On the <em>Stanford Social Innovation Review Blog</em>, a dialog has begun in response to TechSoup Global co-CEO Daniel Ben-Horin’s “<a href="http://www.ssireview.org/blog/entry/tension_and_possibility_the_new_dynamics_of_change">Tension and Possibility: The New Dynamics of Change</a>.” </p> <p><strong>The post</strong><span class="read-more"><a href="/blog/generations-global-tech-activists-talk-comment-stanford-social-innovation-review-blog"></a></span></p></div> </article> </main></body></html>