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Government Employees and Contractors: Attend 10 Apr Dialog With @LorenSiebert on Open Source DigitalGov Search Tech

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The kind of things he has been involved in include helping government agencies understand the power of open source technologies for search solutions. It’s no longer enough to make our government data available for simple browsing or downloads. Popular open source search technologies. What You’ll Learn.

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Google is releasing an open source harassment filter for journalists

The Verge

Google’s Jigsaw unit is releasing the code for an open source anti-harassment tool called Harassment Manager. It’s debuting as source code for developers to build on, then being launched as a functional application for Thomson Reuters Foundation journalists in June. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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David Bray of FCC @FCC_CIO Discusses Public Service and Data Analytics at 2014 Analyst Forum 

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Bray has observed the increasing blurring of the lines differentiating the public sector, the private sector, academia, and nonprofits. The app tested users’ Internet speeds three times per day (downloading and using the app was strictly voluntary and was not incentivized). — David A. Bray (@fcc_cio) July 30, 2014.

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Some thoughts on volunteer tech support to non-profits

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As part of our study, 2019 State of Nonprofit Digital Giving, we secretly donated to 100 organizations across the nonprofit spectrum from humanitarian, healthcare, environment, food, animal groups, arts & culture, youth charities and more. Source: State of Nonprofit 2019: Digital Giving Study.

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AI2 researchers release new multimodal approach to boost AI capabilities using images and audio

GeekWire

The c4 and mmc4 corpuses are both derived from data collected by Common Crawl, a nonprofit organization that crawls the web, then provides its archives and datasets to the public for free. An open-source reproduction of DeepMind’s Flamingo model, OpenFlamingo was developed to make its capabilities more widely available.

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Apple and Google roll out their new exposure notification tool. Interest seems limited.

Vox

Apple, specifically, rolled out a software update to iOS devices that some users could download immediately. Built by the nonprofit Mitre Corporation, Sara Alert is an open source project developed with the cooperation of several state public health authorities, which is similar in some ways to what Apple and Google are trying to do.

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What is Signal, and why is everybody downloading it right now?

Vox

The encrypted messaging app is currently the most downloaded app on both app stores. 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. Signal’s software is open sourced, so others can download or copy it.

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