Last month I joined an unusual group of techies gathered at Oxford for an Oxfam sponsored event that allowed us to get cracking at code to help with social problems like flood forecasting, fair-trade, and international aid transparency. Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) sponsored
Over on the Netsquared Blog, an interesting series on high impact, limited term volunteering has been kicked off with Bari Samad’s post about how a three-week long volunteer project on the Pine Ridge Indian Reserva
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.
TechSoup Global-sponsored challenges try to find that sweet space wherein people are motivated to do their very best, and to do so in a fully collaborative way.