Using Technology for Social Change

Using Technology for Social Change

A little bit about TechSoup Global

1. We identify and understand NGOs.

41% of the globe and 70% of its population.

2. We get NGOs stuff.

$2B worth of technology products.

Answer questions from more than 400,000

unique visitors every month.

3. We share the ways those organizations

create change.

After two decades doing this work, I’ve come to

believe:

Nongovernmental organizations are community hubs.

NGOs provide unique access to and insights about

some of society’s most intractable issues and least

visible populations.

But organizations must change to remain relevant.

And by relevant I mean: matter to and create impact

in their communities.

But they need help.

And by help I mean: you.

But first, some trends.

1. Free agents.

2. Open data initiatives.

3. Corporate Social Responsibility.

So how do NGOs need to change?

1. Access.

The UN says:

“For broadband is really an investment in an

interconnected world of ideas and knowledge that can be spread in seconds

from one corner of the earth to another.”

2. Data.

3. Innovation.

Thank you!

Please! Contact me:

Marnie Webb- [email protected] Work: http://www.techsoupglobal.org - Twitter: @webb- Skype: extension337- Blog: http://ext337.org- Delicious: http://www.delicious.com/ext337

Colophon

• NetSquaredhttp://www.netsquared.org

• Show Your Impacthttp://www.showyourimpact.org

• Networked Nonprofits and Free Agentshttp://www.slideshare.net/kanter/techstate-5699675?from=ss_embed

• Twestivalhttp://www.twestival.com/

• Data.govhttp://www.data.gov/

• Opening Up Governmenthttp://data.gov.uk/

• Data Store: World Government Datahttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world-government-data

• 2011 Edelmen Trust Barometerhttp://www.edelman.com/trust/2011/

• UN’s Broadband Commission for Digital Developmenthttp://www.broadbandcommission.org/outcomes.html

• MoveSmarthttp://movesmart.org/

• Chlorine Bankhttp://www.actionatlas.org/humanitarian/water-sanitation/clean-water-intiative-central-america/summary/pa36C84DDBE6E92B7524

• DatAgrohttp://www.datadyne.org/programs/mip/datagro

• Heroes by videoplaceboisnothttp://www.flickr.com/photos/videoplacebo/2476230102/

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