We held our California Nonprofit Technology Festival in Fresno, CA on June 20-21, where CA-based nonprofit staff, community organizers, educators, media-makers, journalists, social justice techies and capacity builders focused on sharing knowledge, building tech capacity, and fostering relationships for social change.

Dev Summit 2018 is 14-16 November! The 2017 Nonprofit Software Development Summit took place last November Oakland, California! Our largest, most global group of nonprofit staff, developers, capacity builders, and activists shared knowledge and collectively envisioned, learned, and worked on free and open technology to support social change efforts.

After 113 days in prison on trumped up charges, our friend Ali Gharavi has been released, along with seven other activists. This news means that all of the #Istanbul10 are now free on bail. Although they still face trial, the decision by the prosecutor to request their release is heartening.

Our experience in the human rights technology sector is that most efforts tend to focus on short-term horizons or be reactive in nature. With support from Ford Foundation, we explored the concept of a long-term "Research and Development Lab" for Human Rights Tech, and published our findings.

The third Reproducible Builds Summit took place in Berlin in early November 2017, focused on software development practices that create a verifiable path from source code to binary code. Check out the Agenda and Documentation.   Diagram by Lunar/Debian

We had an awesome time visiting with folks working at social justice nonprofits and organizations in Oakland, Santa Cruz, Watsonville, Fresno, and Los Angeles to inform and help shape our Technology Capacity Building Program.

At CampaignCon 2017 in Johannesburg South Africa, activists, technologists, and NGOs worked collectively toward a more nimble, responsive civil society better able to mobilize in the face of growing authoritarianism and shrinking civic space. Participants shared ideas, honed skills and co-created strategies while exploring modern campaigning theory and practice.

On 10 and 11 July in New York City, we held a participant-driven gathering where nonprofit staff, social justice organizers, techies, activists, journalists, and students shared knowledge, built skills and capacity, and fostered relationships around using technology in support of social change efforts.

Consumer Reports announced the release of The Digital Standard, a privacy and security framework designed to safeguard consumers. Aspiration worked with Consumer Reports, Disconnect, Ranking Digital Rights, and The Cyber Independent Testing Lab on new, open guidelines for evaluating products, apps, and services. Provide your feedback on GitHub.

We welcome all your nonprofit technology questions, from proposal reviews, nptech brainstorming and referrals, to career advice and technology relationship counseling. Our ears and inboxes are open: info@aspirationtech.org.