The Transparency and Accountability Initiative (T/A Initiative) is a ‘donor collaborative committed to strengthening democracy and development through empowering citizens to hold their governing institutions to account.’ The Bridge Meeting is part of their ‘New Technologies’ programme and is designed to foster collaborations between organisations working on transparency and accountability […]
Six years ago I left the US non profit tech scene and had swore never to return (more about that in an upcoming blog post – stay tuned). There’s only one person who could possibly persuade me to come back to attend a non-profit techie event, and that is Gunner […]
Ten years ago, I travelled to a small town in Missouri, with a fellow Circuit Rider, Arif Mamdani, to help a small low-income organising group called GRO migrate from Windows to Linux. The lead-organiser, Robin Acree, had her computer completely wiped out by a virus and she’d had enough. So we spent a […]