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Corporations in the US and Japan are participating in programs that allow employees time each week to work for a non-profit. They find that employees in the program become more motivated and productive in their regular jobs.

Coder Dojo, a successful Irish not-for-profit, is branching out to the U.K. to help schoolchildren learn how to program.

CMYN was established in February 2010. It provides prevention, protection, rehabilitation and integration programmed to Cambodian vulnerable children and youths.

"So I offer up a different call. In high school, teach students how to apply technology. Teach them how technology fits with their domain of interest. Teach them how to use the components not how to build them. Those students that want to become more technical can choose to learn down the stack to real engineering (aka CS, CE, EE) or up the stack to become expert in technical domain applications (IS, CIS, Project Management, Bioinformatics). There are FAR FAR FAR more jobs out there today for someone with the technical skills to build a SharePoint portal, or light up a CRM instance or build a bioinformatics database than there are for someone who can build the next Python compiler. Let's stop trying to train the mass of high school students to become preservation carpenters, and instead make them very good contractors."

This short film was produced in five days during a social media training program in Northern Thailand near the Thai/Burma boarder. It was made by Kayan Indigenous youth who are fighting for justice and peace for their Indigenous peoples living in Burma.

Marketers understand that user-generated content such as ratings and reviews are required elements of a comprehensive location-based search program.

Facebook is opening up their server technology used in their data centers. Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said he hoped the unusual technology-sharing program, which Facebook is calling the "Open Compute Project" would encourage industry-wide collaboration around best practices for data-center and server technology. "By sharing this, we will make it more efficient for this ecosystem to grow," he said.

Free, teach-yourself-web-development materials covering a wide range of topics including HTML5, JavaScript, PHP, and Ruby on Rails