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I will leave it to others to try to guess what the election of Donald Trump means for child welfare policy, aside from pointing out that in addition to all the other reasons to worry, as far as I know …
Introduction: A couple of months ago, I was speaking with a man who teaches computer programming part-time at a university in the Midwestern United States. At some point in the conversation, he asked me what I thought the biggest problems …
Most people I would guess walk around each day with at least one thing on their mind beyond what they are doing at the moment. Could be the family pet is in rough shape, there’s some house repairs that should …
Last month, we joined leaders within tech, philanthropy, the social sector, the White House and former foster youth who convened at Google in San Francisco to think of ways that technology could help improve the foster care system. The result …
Jessica MockVoice of an FCNI Staff It’s summertime. And that’s means loading up on sunscreen and trying to find ways to entertain your family during long days without school. For some kids, summer also means an increase of screen time. But …
The broad adoption of social media, mobile devices and responsive web content demands that human services agencies think differently about their outreach and engagement tactics with today’s connected citizens. If not, they risk the possibility of failing to meet their …
Joseph Clark, a 25-year-old Oakland, Calif., native, has always enjoyed figuring out how things work. “If I had any old radio system or any old computer, I’d try to break into them and try to reattach them,” Clark said. Clark, …
Santa Clara County, Calif., is located in the heart of sunny Silicon Valley, where, as former president Bill Clinton put it in opening remarks at the July 2015 Clinton Global Initiative meeting: “Believe it or not, not everyone is rich.” …
Tomorrow kicks off the first ever White House Foster Care & Technology Hackathon, and participants’ home court, the web, is buzzing with excitement as leaders in technology and child welfare leaders from around the country head to Washington to #HackFosterCare. …
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are well utilized in politics, city planning, environmental science, landscape architecture, business and public health. Increasingly, GIS is being utilized to better assess, understand and respond to various social challenges such as food deserts, housing instability …