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New Digital Document Storage Could Help Asylum Seekers
According to Wired, Innovation Law Lab, a nonprofit that develops technology to help human rights advocates, has created a digital storage locker that allows users such as immigrants seeking asylum to upload vital documents to a secure cloud storage That way the documents are available even if the hard copies go missing.
Last month, a young transgender woman from Central America applied for asylum in the US. Unlike thousands of others requesting asylum at the US-Mexico border, this person was especially fortunate. She had her birth certificate as well as a lawyer to represent her.
Read more...Helping Women in Tech
Only 18% of computer science degrees are obtained by women, so a new nonprofit was created to help women feel more comfortable in tech, reports Tech Wire. Rewriting the Code connects women who are majoring in the technology fields.
Not fitting in, feeling like the outsider and having “imposter syndrome” are all things women majoring in the computer sciences said they have experienced.
Read more...Nonprofit Turns Seawater into Clean Water
Nonprofit GivePower may have found a way to turn seawater into clean drinking water, reports Business Insider.
People have been trying to turn seawater into drinking water for thousands of years, but the process is not usually energy-efficient or affordable.
Read more...Students Create Technology Nonprofit
According to India West, a new nonprofit startup 18TechVentures, created by two high school students, aims to help young students the tools they need to build the next wave of technology inventions.
A pair of Indian American high school students in San Jose, California, have created a nonprofit with the goal of helping high school and college students build and launch new technology ideas.
Read more...Consumerization and the Nonprofit
Consumers are the end users of most technology, and that does affect organizations such as nonprofits, reports Forbes. Nonprofits might find themselves investing in more hardware or software than before in order to connect with audiences.
In the days before personal computers and smartphones, software and hardware products were primarily geared toward organizations. Today, many tech companies have shifted gears and now focus on individual consumers as their end users.
Read more...Good Email Open Rates for Nonprofits
A recent survey by Campaign Monitor finds that nonprofits are seeing good open rates on their email campaigns, reports the Nonprofit Times.
Nonprofits enjoyed higher-than-average email open rates last year compared with other industries but were in line with other email metrics, according to a survey of millions of campaigns in 2018.
Read more...Using Augmented Reality for Good
Nonprofits can use Augmented Reality to bring their exhibitions to life, reports Biz Tech Magazine.
Point your smartphone or tablet at the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway in Boston this summer, and you just might see a historical image floating in space, or find yourself walking through the shattered shards of a contemporary art piece
Read more...Making Volunteering Fun
According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, a new app called ‘Pay it Forward Live’ encourages friendly competition among nonprofit volunteers to make volunteering fun again.
Smith, 16, a rising junior at Mastery Charter School-Pickett Campus, was tiring of volunteering, something he has done since fourth or fifth grade. He has fed the homeless, cheered on children with disabilities competing in Special Olympics, picked up trash, and delivered Christmas presents to the critically ill
Read more...Donation Apps Aren't Money Transmitters
The Pennsylvania appellate court has provided a ruling that clears up whether a donation app is a money transmitter under Pennsylvania law, reports, Payment Source.
Read more...Microsoft Offers Election Safety
According to NBC News, Microsoft is offering election machine vendors an opportunity to get free, open-source software product called ElectionGuard to prevent tapering with election results.
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