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Blog Post: How Microsoft Can Help You Prepare and Respond to a Natural Disaster

Microsoft Citizenship Team

By: Molly Bull, Senior Communications Manager, Microsoft Disaster Response Supporting humanitarian relief and disaster response efforts is core to our commitment to develop technology solutions, tools, and practices that can foster social and economic change. That’s why we want to make it easier for...

on12 May 2013
Blog Post: Announcing the Windows 8 Apps for Good Contest

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Do you have an idea to help people better track their energy usage? Do you want to help students learn math or science? Have an idea about how to track online donations? Show us how Windows 8 apps can help the world and you can win up to US$15,000. To celebrate the launch of Windows 8 and Windows Phone...

on5 Nov 2012
Blog Post: Update: Supporting Hurricane Sandy Relief Efforts - November 2nd 2012

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Akhtar Badshah, Senior Director, Citizenship & Public Affairs, Microsoft Our thoughts and best wishes are with all those impacted by Hurricane Sandy which earlier this week left a devastating trail across the eastern region of the United States. While relief and recovery efforts are well underway...

on2 Nov 2012
Blog Post: Hurricane Sandy - Northeast Coast, USA (October 29, 2012)

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Molly Bull, Senior Communications Manager, Microsoft Disaster Response As has been widely reported, Hurricane Sandy is bearing down on the U.S. East Coast, with extensive shut-downs and evacuations from Washington D.C. to New York. Microsoft is closely monitoring the situation, and has already...

on29 Oct 2012
Blog Post: September is National Preparedness Month

Microsoft Citizenship Team

By the Microsoft Disaster Response Team “We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn’t have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.” – Petra Nemcova , Disaster Survivor and Founder of Happy Hearts Fund ...

on6 Sep 2012
Blog Post: Tropical Storm Isaac

Microsoft Citizenship Team

By Molly Bull, Senior Communications Manager, Microsoft Disaster Response Situation Analysis: August 29, 2012 Recently downgraded to a Tropical Storm, many continue to watch and track the progress of Isaac, which made landfall Tuesday evening in the U.S. Gulf Coast. At landfall the storm was a...

on29 Aug 2012
Blog Post: Relief organizations to share real-time needs during disaster response through Microsoft’s “Notes From The Ground”

Microsoft Citizenship Team

By Microsoft Disaster Response Team On the heels of Microsoft’s Local Impact Map announcement , we are pleased to share that we are now also able to provide relief organizations with the ability to broadcast stories and highlight needs during times of disaster through a tool called Notes from the Ground...

on16 Jul 2012
Blog Post: Computerworld Honors Microsoft’s Disaster Response Portal

Microsoft Citizenship Team

By Microsoft Disaster Response Team Recently our team had the opportunity to attend the Computerworld Honors Program which recognizes organizations that use information technology to promote and advance public welfare, benefit society and change the world for the better. Event attendees came from organizations...

on2 Jul 2012
Blog Post: How can you help when a natural disaster strikes?

Microsoft Citizenship Team

By the Microsoft Disaster Response Team Following the devastation of a natural disaster, one of the first questions people ask is how can I help? The challenge is most response organizations require pre-training for disaster relief volunteers so many are unable to provide volunteer assistance during...

on27 Jun 2012
Blog Post: How Technology Helps Achieve Sustainable Development for the World’s Refugees

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Mr. Alexander Aleinikoff, the Deputy High Commissioner for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, which appears in full at Microsoft on the Issues. The post commemorates World Refugee Day, which is marked yearly on June 20th by the United...

on20 Jun 2012
Blog Post: National Hurricane Preparedness Week: Are you ready?

Microsoft Citizenship Team

The U.S. National Hurricane Center has named May 27th –June 1st National Hurricane Preparedness Week . Eastern Pacific hurricane season kicked off on May 15th and Atlantic hurricane season starts June 1st, both lasting through November. As residents in potentially impacted communities and response...

on29 May 2012
Blog Post: Community technology centers can provide critical emergency infrastructure

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Guest post by Maria Garrido, Research Assistant Professor, Information School, University of Washington The two-year anniversary of the devastating, magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Chile offers a unique vantage for grasping the value of investing in community technology. The earthquake revealed that community...

on6 Mar 2012
Blog Post: How does a nonprofit use technology to support global operations?

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Since 1968, Concern Worldwide has been working with the poorest people in the poorest countries of the world to enable them to transform their lives. Today, Concern is one of the world’s largest humanitarian NGOs, with almost 4,000 staff working in nearly 30 countries in Africa, Asia and Central...

on23 Feb 2012
Blog Post: Skype’s Disaster Response Platform

Microsoft Citizenship Team

At the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, we’re hosting the Microsoft Vision Center a dedicated facility that not only showcases the latest technology from Microsoft and our partners, but also shows how technology is being used to address many of the world’s most pressing problems. One of the most...

on25 Jan 2012
Blog Post: Do Volunteer Efforts During Humanitarian Crises Help?

Microsoft Citizenship Team

By Akhtar Badshah, Senior Director, Citizenship and Public Affairs, Microsoft I am in Bangkok and have been very impressed with the work our local team is doing in delivering needed supplies to people that are still living in water and who have not received any help and many of them are in this situation...

on12 Dec 2011
Blog Post: More public awareness needed of the devastation in Pakistan

Akhtar Badshah

The floods in Pakistan have caused devastation of an unprecedented scale. A huge swath of the country is submerged under water and we are seeing millions of people suffering. The number of people impacted is of a scale not seen before. The world is watching, learning more, and realizing the scope...

on20 Aug 2010
Blog Post: Video: How technology can enable nonprofits

Akhtar Badshah

The second session at our recent Accelerator Summit was a panel discussion I hosted that looked at the role technology can play in helping NGOs to have an even greater impact in our society. We were delighted to have a great line-up including Daniel Ben-Horin, Founder and Co-CEO, TechSoup , Vida Durant...

on4 Jun 2010