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Computers to Africa scheme criticised

The Digital Divide will not be solved by hand me down computers. It turns out that computer donations to Africa have been a costly mistake, according to a report from the UK Centre of International Education.

Posted: 5/7/03; 12:41:08 PM #

Open Source Resistance to Interoperability

For years I have asserted that interoperability between nonprofit software tools would be a key to both innovation and affordability. This has generally been met with vague agreement, but no action by developers. I have sometimes hoped that open source developers would be strong supporters of this, but in many cases they have done the least. As it turns out, according to some observers, this resistance to interoperability is a characteristic of open source development in general.

Posted: 5/7/03; 12:41:01 PM #

The Early Days of a Better Nation

I'm linking to Ken Maclead's weblog here not because it has anything to do with nonprofit organizations, but because I love the title: The Early Days of a Better Nation. The title derives from two quotations. Alastair Gray: "Work as if you lived in the early days of a better nation." Graydon Saunders: "If these are the early days of a better nation, there must be hope, and a hope of peace is as good as any, and far better than a hollow hoarding greed or the dry lies of an aweless god."

Posted: 5/7/03; 12:40:50 PM #

Critique of The Nature Conservancy

This remarkable critique of The Nature Conservancy in the Washington Post reminds me that journalism is of far more value to nonprofit accountability than databases full of financial metrics.

Posted: 5/7/03; 12:40:43 PM #

First National Business Plan Competition for Nonprofits

The winners of the First National Business Plan Competition for Nonprofits have been announced. There are some familiar faces among them.

Posted: 5/7/03; 12:40:30 PM #


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