Data-Centering the Community
Endeavoring to be a good neighbor, Microsoft supplements its data centers with local investments to boost economic and social development. A Field Report from the Summer 2020 issue.
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Bank You
BanQu is the world’s first non-cryptocurrency blockchain app to help the world’s poorest people establish a verifiable economic identity. A Field Report from the Summer 2020 issue.
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Grecian Urns and Trend Reports
The value of a nonprofit is the presence and participation of its stakeholders and constituents. Technology creates the framework to make that value real. Part of the Technology for Change supplement sponsored by Salesforce in the Summer 2020 issue.
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Invading the Darkness of Child Sex Trafficking
How Shared Hope International uses digital tools and meaningful grassroots experiences to activate support.
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From Measurement to Success
Urban Institute’s work highlights the transformative potential of investing in data and tech.
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Technology Is Her Compass and Data Is Her Guide
Pencils of Promise CEO Tanya Ramos blazes new trails as an early adopter of digital tools.
How the Social Sector Can Use Natural Language Processing
Uncovering invisible patterns in vast datasets cannot only automate a variety of tasks, freeing up people to do more valuable and creative work that machines can’t do, but provide new kinds of learning.
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Tech and Data That Inform, Inspire, and Involve
The public radio and television station KQED has thrived amid a tumultuous period in the media industry by using technology and data to optimize the delivery of its grassroots journalism and improve relationships with its listeners. Part of a series produced with the support of Salesforce.
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When a Business Goes Digital
An excerpt from The Forever Transaction examines how Under Amour transformed its business by going online.
Countering Coronavirus With Open Social Innovation
Germany’s first government-hosted crisis hackathon offers seven lessons on how to make the most of a messy-but-promising way to kick-start social innovation.