GeekWire

JUNE 5, 2023

LinkedIn Photo) Washington STEM, a nonprofit focused on statewide STEM education and social change, named Lynne K. Founded in 2011, Seattle-based Washington STEM has 10 partner networks across the state, provides communities with investments and open-sourced tools, as well as advocating at the state and federal level.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2023

Maven Youth Maven Youth is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering LGBTQ+ youth to “network, organize, and educate for social change through technology and the tech sector.” The nonprofit was born after IBM sponsored a focus group in 2005 at the Human Rights Campaign headquarters in Washington, D.C.,

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GeekWire

JANUARY 12, 2022

You want to be very careful to maintain the trust of the nonprofit enterprise, while at the same time finding ways to get the best of the private infrastructure to bring to bear on collaborating to build better solutions for patients. It’s a tricky thing to navigate.

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GeekWire

MARCH 26, 2024

And the finalists for Next Tech Titan are … MotherDuck , a serverless data analytics platform built on the open-source platform DuckDB, an in-process online analytical processing database, or OLAP. Submittable , a social impact platform that helps corporations, governments, and nonprofits manage programs focused on social good.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

“We’re not surprised scammers are taking advantage of this opportunity because each of the states are rolling out the vaccine a little bit differently,” Sandra Guile of the Better Business Bureau, a nonprofit that focuses on consumer and marketplace trust, told Recode. And these fakes aren’t just popping up on social media.

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GeekWire

JULY 12, 2023

The City received pro-bono support from the Google.org Fellowship program , a part of Google’s philanthropic arm that provides technical expertise to help nonprofits and civic entities solve technical challenges. Smart Cities Connect named CiviForm one the 50 most transformative smart projects of 2023.

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I'm not lost, I'm wondering

JULY 26, 2008

SocialTech: Open Source Social Software. Social Source Commons. Social Source Commons is a place to share lists of software tools that you already use, gain knowledge and support, and discover new tools. tags: nonprofits , tools , free. tags: videoblogging , wordpress. Listed & described.

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Vox

AUGUST 5, 2024

Just as social media companies did years ago, they make voluntary commitments to safety to placate those concerned about risks, then fight tooth and nail to stop those commitments being turned into law. That’s why OpenAI, initially founded as a nonprofit, had to create a for-profit arm and partner with Microsoft.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

More and more criminals are identified through open source intelligence (OSINT). Find out what Daniel looks for and how he does digital forensics using social media and other open source resources. And they did, relatively quickly, using something known as Open Source Intelligence, or OSINT.

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Vox

MARCH 6, 2023

And open source generative AI firm Stability AI says it has paying clients in the film industry who use its software to autogenerate images. But most of their startups are still extremely early-stage, with either just an idea, or a rough demo, to show.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 16, 2014

The awards honor innovative, mature, and results-oriented use cases for CDH, the world’s most popular open source Hadoop-based distribution and key component of the Cloudera Enterprise platform. Social Impact. ? Government, Nonprofit, & NGO. ? Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). ? Intel Corporation. ?

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Vox

MARCH 9, 2021

After years of allowing anti-vaccine groups and pages to rack up followers on its social network, Facebook announced last month that it wants to lead the world’s largest Covid-19 inoculation information campaign and encourage its users to get vaccinated. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In a recent paper , she and her co-authors explained why “open source” AI isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. And when, in March, AI leaders (and Elon Musk) signed an open letter urging all labs to press pause on powerful AI, she withheld her signature. She has a long history with AI and a strong track record of dissenting.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In a recent paper , she and her co-authors explained why “open source” AI isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. And when, in March, AI leaders (and Elon Musk) signed an open letter urging all labs to press pause on powerful AI, she withheld her signature. She has a long history with AI and a strong track record of dissenting.

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Vox

MARCH 4, 2023

Generative AI is already starting to find its way into mainstream applications for everything from food shopping to social media. And the open-source model Stable Diffusion can generate detailed and specific images in all kinds of styles from text prompts. In other words, the AI wars have begun.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

These moves, part of a broader push by the company, are significant because with nearly 3 billion users, Facebook is one of the most influential social media networks in the world. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network. All Open Sourced content is editorially independent and produced by our journalists.

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GeekWire

MAY 10, 2024

GeekWire Award / Kevin Lisota) The gist: The Seattle-based institute released OLMo, the open-source large language model in, February along with the underlying data and code, meant to significantly improve understanding of how generative AI actually works. Tell your friends that work at social networks about it.

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Vox

MARCH 30, 2023

A lot of people who saw it thought it was fun, too, so they spread it around social media. You might even call it a turning point in the war against mis- and disinformation, which the people fighting were, frankly, already losing simply because social media exists. We’ve had this issue with text and misinformation on social platforms.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

She led a research project on the Future of Data and investigated topics such as 3D printing, social enterprise, and the evolving role of the state. Chung has been a Co-Curator of TEDxSingapore, and she continues to advise teams of undergraduate students about their management consulting projects for clients in the social sector.

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Vox

JANUARY 12, 2021

Signal, once a niche messaging service for the privacy-minded, is currently the most downloaded app in the United States, unseating perennially popular social media and gaming apps. Previously, the number of new Signal users has rocketed up following social or political unrest. What makes Signal different?

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Vox

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Like Wikipedia, social media companies run on user-generated content, and they’re once again scrambling to come up with ways to stop the spread of misinformation and disinformation on their platforms. Wikipedia is hosted by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, which covers its associated costs, including servers, software, and legal fees.

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Vox

APRIL 15, 2021

The CommonPass was launched by the Commons Project, a nonprofit initiative that focuses on digital health. For example, one privacy advocate told the Washington Post it took him just 11 minutes to create a fake Excelsior Pass by looking up someone else’s details on social media. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network.

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Vox

DECEMBER 14, 2020

But over the coming weeks and months, she’ll be far from the only person showing up in social media feeds getting inoculated. At the dawn of the pandemic, celebrities and influencers flooded our feeds with content urging us to take preventive measures, like hand-washing, social distancing, and mask-wearing. Kennedy Jr.,

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

All of it is basically in keeping with how American social platforms manage these concerns, though it’s worth noting that 2-year-old TikTok built this infrastructure much faster than its predecessors did. Do social networks pull us into self-reinforcing echo chambers, or don’t they? Trending up : Google is giving more than $8.5

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Vox

JANUARY 20, 2021

Here are some of the most pervasive election conspiracy theories and false claims being shared on social media around Inauguration Day. That these theories continue to spread on social media impacts all of us, regardless of whether or not we believe them. We live in a social world, and people’s beliefs do have consequences.”

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Vox

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Ultimately, the platform is facing the same challenges of polarization and misinformation as other social networks like Facebook and Twitter. The company has long aspired to be a social network where civility and neighborliness prevail; there’s even a guide to being respectful to your neighbors in the Nextdoor help center.

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