projectswearewatching

The Tech Awards, an annual event that honors projects which use "technology to significantly improve human conditions", just unveiled their laureates for this year.

Nonprofit organisations and the public are at the heart of a new Open Government Data initiative in Philadelphia!. OpenDataPhilly, a catalogue of online data, applications and APIs is now freely available to the public.

At TechSoup Global, we are committed to supporting libraries for the community hub they provide—especially in the wake of a disaster.

A winner of the recent Vodafone Americas Challenge, NETRA (Near-Eye Tool for Refractive Assessment) utilizes one of the most rapidly proliferating technologies in the developing world—mobile phones—to help diagnose the most common, treatable visual impairments—including nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism and age-related vision loss&m

When TechSoup Global began (as CompuMentor), we were a volunteer matching organization—using the Well to connect technically skilled volunteers with the needs of nonprofits.

Medic Moblie (formerly FrontlineSMS) is worthy of watching for several reasons—not least because it is helping to create a healthier planet—one person at a time.

Welcome to the launch of our new “Projects We're Watching” blog series. We will be exploring what we consider to be the most interesting and inspiring initiatives that are doing good in ways that are not only sustainable, but that also have the potential to create wide-reaching systemic change.

Earlier this year, I wrote about "Why Innovation Matters" on Frogloop. Since then, I've found myself, more than ever, thinking that innovation happens in the place where will and constraint meet.