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Posted by Sonal Shah, Head of Global
Development Initiatives, Google.org and Bob Boorstin, Washington
Director of Policy Communications

Last month, Google and Google.org hosted more than 80 technology
decisionmakers from international development non-profits for an
interactive discussion at our Washington D.C. office. Over lunch,
case study presentations and hands-on sessions, participants
discussed the ways technology is changing the landscape of
international development — and how to take advantage of new tools
for fundraising, communication, data visualization, and online
collaboration.

Speakers highlighted the benefits of href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing" id="h9x4" >cloud
computing and demonstrated how to display data on maps and
interactive graphs with products like href="http://www.google.com/earth/outreach/" id="um5h" >Google
Earth and href="http://www.gapminder.org/world/" id="zj2i" >Trendalyzer. A
representative from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum discussed
how the Museum created a href="http://www.ushmm.org/maps/projects/darfur/" id="k5to"
>Darfur layer on Google Earth that gives
"publicly accessible evidence of destruction to help visually
refute claims of minimal collateral damage from war." The
YouTube breakout session explored how cheap video cameras paired
with an on-the-ground presence can help document and spread
awareness of ongoing crises abroad. Participants even made their
own videos to talk about how the Internet is changing the
development world:

Special thanks to our friends at the href="http://www.theirc.org/" id="ycg4"
>International Rescue
Committee, >MercyCorps, and the href="http://www.ushmm.org/" id="homs"
>U.S. Holocaust Memorial
Museum for sharing stories of their experiences in taking
advantage of new technologies. For those who are interested,
we're posting the href="http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=0C7A75D936163C8C"
id="pafl" >presentations on YouTube.

We hope that this event will be the first of many discussions,
workshops, and other public events we hold with non-profits in our
new D.C. space.

Tags: , Development, Global, Head, Initiatives, Posted, Shah, Sonal

Posted by Megan Smith, VP of New
Business Development, and Nicholas Creswell, University Programmes
Manager, EMEA

Googlers care deeply about creating a workplace that affords equal
treatment for all our staff, and while we do it regardless of any
accolades we think our efforts might bring, recognition from
outside organizations does mean a lot to us. Which is why we're
really pleased about our href="http://w3.hrc.org/Template.cfm?Section=Search_the_Database&Template=/CustomSource/WorkNet/srch_dtl.cfm&srchtype=QS&searchid=1&orgid=5117"
id="wah1" >strong performance in the
U.S. Human Rights Campaign (HRC) href="http://www.hrc.org/placestowork/" id="ps-m"
>Corporate Equality Index for
the second year in a row. It's particularly exciting given that
this is a time of rapid growth for our population of gay, lesbian,
bisexual and transgender employees (whose group name is, naturally,
Gayglers) around the world.

This summer marked the first time Gayglers coordinated a presence
at Pride parades globally. In San Francisco, New York, and Dublin,
we had the largest (and perhaps rowdiest) presence of any
corporation, and href="http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=5qtS9bnQCj4" >we went one
further at Europride in Madrid where we were the only
global company present among 45 floats. We had lot of fun at all of
the marches, and it was a great way to bring Gayglers and their
friends together in the communities we call home. We're
passionate about our href="http://www.google.com/jobs/gayglers/" >diverse workplace,
and we hope anyone who shares our commitment to equality will
consider id="zray" >joining us.

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Tags: , Business, Development, Megan, new, Posted, Smith, VP