So sorry, apparently the event tomorrow (5/6) didn't have the location
info. It's at 1402 Third Ave,Suite #201. I think the building
lets people take the elevator up to the 2nd floor but in case there's
trouble, feel free to call Sameer at: 650.996.0998.
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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:58:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: Natalie Linnell <linnell(a)cs.washington.edu>
To: change(a)cs.washington.edu
Subject: Bonanza week for tech/NPO geeks!
A friend of mine asked me to pass along these two events coming up at the
intersection of technology and nonprofit:
*May 4, Tuesday: Bellevue Seattle Net Tuesday Meetup: The Nonprofit
Technology Giving
Event<http://www.facebook.com/event.php?invites&eid=110649718954511>
*Join Seattle Net Tuesday (SNT) and Bellevue Tweetup for a mixer matching
altruistic techies in Greater Seattle with the nonprofits who need their
urgently needed skills. If youre a nonprofit who could use an extreme
makeover in social media, web site design, software training, graphic
design, mobile marketing, or you name it in tech, this exclusive mixer is
for you! Likewise if youre a techie who can partner with nonprofits to find
free and low-cost technical solutions to social issues affecting us all.
*
May 6, Thursday: Tech Mafia Happy Hour, organized by the Win/Win
Network<http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=103928206310631>
*Join us to to enjoy *free *beer, and talk about tech lessons learned during
the wildly successful 2009 campaign to approve Referendum 71, the domestic
partnership equality measure. Thanks to that campaign and the tech
strategies it employed Washington voters are now in the history books as
the first in American history to vote affirmatively to recognize gay and
lesbian relationships. At Tech Mafia, we share best practices, lament worst
practices, imagine new ways of exploiting technology to achieve our goals,
and enjoy the company of other like-minded folks.
This Thursday at Change, Waylon Brunette and Nell O'Rourke will be leading a discussion about banking in the developing world and how technology can be used to improve financial services.
This discussion will be based around a talk by Ignacio Mas of the Gates foundation during the April TEDxSeattle. W will start of by watch the brief video of his talk (view online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ0RQDo_vJs) and will follow up with additional details about the M-PESA mobile banking system (http://www.safaricom.co.ke/index.php?id=745) described in the talk. We will then discuss the benefits and costs of alternate banking systems such as M-PESA, and debate its social and financial implications.
See you all then!
What: Waylon Brunette and Nell O'Rourke on Mobile Banking
When: Thursday, May 6th at noon
Where: Paul Allen Center, Room 203
Eric Blantz, Development Director at Inveneo will be visiting UW on Tuesday, May 4, and will give an informal introduction to Inveneo, 3:30-4:30, May 4 in CSE 503.
Inveneo is a San Francisco non-profit specializing in the design and delivery of highly sustainable and affordable ICT solutions for organizations that provide vital services - education, health care, economic development - in rural and under served regions in the developing world. Inveneo played a major role in establishing communication services for NGOs performing relief work in Haiti following the earthquake.
http://www.inveneo.org/
Hello,
I am a researcher in the Department of Communication at the UW, and am
helping coordinate a sub-project of the World Information Access Project (
http://www.wiaproject.org/ ) with Dr. Philip N. Howard.
We are seeking graduate students interested in learning about and helping
collect data on several universal service access funds around the world,
particularly in developing countries. If you are interested and would like
to learn more about this, please feel free to get in touch with me off-list
at: *muzammil@uw.edu*
Sincerely,
Muzammil
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Muzammil M. Hussain :: muzammil(a)uw.edu
Department of Communication :: University of Washington-Seattle