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Three year research project explores possibilities to tackle the digital divide in Kent This article is sponsored by:

Aided by LatCo Cantium Business Solutions, the project saw how the use of tablets, Alexa and internet-enabled services could help tackle the digital divide in the ‘Garden of England’, Kent

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Guide Dogs leads with data and flexible working This article is sponsored by:

The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association CIO describes how the right approach to flexible working has helped the UK charity respond to the pandemic and the Vaccine Economy

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Francis Crick Institute builds its own ‘Trusted Research Environment’ toolkit with Snowflake This article is sponsored by:

Europe’s largest biomedical research center, Francis Crick Institute, says use of Snowflake can turn a two-year build into 30 minutes

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Using cloud tools and donated technology to aid people experiencing homelessness over Christmas This article is sponsored by:

The UK’s largest homeless charity aims to mount an even bigger Crisis at Christmas than ever, thanks to use of free provision of Office 365, Teams, secure endpoints, and refurbished devices

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Third sector organizations turn to Adobe to visualize their message This article is sponsored by:

The importance of creating meaningful visual assets to help get your message across cannot be underestimated these days. A UK-based children’s cancer charity and Mexican community-led development NGO explain how they used tech to do just that.

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COP27 - why Salesforce is among tech giants hitting the accelerator on climate change initiatives This article is sponsored by:

Nature Accelerator will take a bet on organizations with great ideas, explains SVP of Philanthropy Naomi Morenzoni.

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Prostate Cancer UK taps into low-code technology to boost its data collection activities This article is sponsored by:

By adopting Toca’s platform, the charity has reduced the need for manual intervention and can send timely information to key business decision makers.

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How can you measure the ‘social value’ of your products, goods and services? This article is sponsored by:

The idea of measuring the ‘social value’ outcomes of collaborative projects between the private, public and third sector is gaining weight in the UK. One organization that is providing the tools to do so is marketplace, whatimpact.

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Helpall Social - a new social media platform that wants to be the ‘Uber for helping others’ This article is sponsored by:

Hari Subramanian, Founder of ServiceMax and Appify, is now on his third venture: a social media platform that aims to assess people’s ‘goodness quotient’

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Using technology to help preserve Ukraine’s cultural heritage during the war This article is sponsored by:

Cultural heritage is closely bound up with cultural identity, which is why work is going on in Ukraine to try to save it. Here are two organisations that are digitizing important buildings so they can be restored and reconstructed after the war.

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How MDA uses FinancialForce to capture the 'moment of truth' that drives results This article is sponsored by:

Getting a real-time view of data across the organization with FinancialForce and Salesforce has helped MDA save $14 million in annual running costs to support its mission.

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