Press Releases

NetHope Summit - Hosted by Cisco - Brings Together IT Leaders from 22 International NGOs to Focus on Closing the Humanitarian Productivity Gap, 05/06/08
Technology leaders from 22 of the largest international NGOs, all members of NetHope, Inc., a new-generation collaborative consortium, are being hosted this week at Cisco Systems Inc. headquarters to make progress against the challenge of closing the “humanitarian productivity gap.” The summit, co-sponsored by Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corporation, brings together chief information officers (CIOs) and other technology leaders from the nonprofit sector and from leading technology companies to share their expertise and insights...

NetHope works with University of Waterloo on graduate-level course focused on the international NGO community, 02/18/08
The University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, has created a unique graduate-level course in project management designed to give future expert project managers a hands-on education while aiding international development agencies such as the Red Cross. But the school lacked a flexible collaboration system to support the students, who take the program online. To give students a central collaborative workspace to exchange information, track decisions and collect the details they needed to meet course requirements...

Tuck research center appoints Save the Children CIO and NetHope founder as executive fellow and CIO-in-Residence, 02/15/08
The Center for Digital Strategies at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth has announced that Save the Children's chief information officer (CIO) Edward Granger-Happ will join the center as an executive fellow and the CIO-in-Residence. In 2007, the editors of eWEEK, CIO Insight, and Baseline selected Granger-Happ as one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in IT and one of the Top 100 CIOs. During the upcoming spring quarter, Granger-Happ will work with students and pursue research on leadership and technology, including projects on "The 'Good Enough' Principle: What CIOs Can Learn from Nonprofits" and "Disruptive Innovation and International Nonprofits."
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WaterAid Joins NetHope, 12/19/07
WaterAid is delighted to announce it has become the 21st member of NetHope, an information technology consortium of leading non-governmental organizations (NGO’s), specializing in humanitarian relief, emergency response and conservation. WaterAid is an international development agency working in 17 countries helping some of the world’s poorest people gain access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene education. To date, WaterAid has helped over 11 million people gain access to these basic services...

NetHope Welcomes New Members at Dell-Sponsored Summit in the City of Knowledge and Reinforces Panama as an Excellent Place to Innovate, 10/23/07
NetHope welcomed its new members during its annual summit, sponsored by Dell Inc. in Panama’s City of Knowledge. “We look forward to partnering with NetHope during this summit and beyond to explore how Dell can help the NGO community expand technology to serve the half-million people coming online every day, many in emerging markets,” said Martin Alvarez, general manager of the Dell Panama site...

Global Information Technology Alliance to enhance humanitarian operations in East Africa, 07/06/07
NetHope International – a US based global information technology alliance of 19 of the world’s largest aid agencies announced the formation of its East Africa chapter today in Nairobi – a move that is designed to facilitate cooperation and collaboration among humanitarian agencies operating in the region...

NetHope Selected as Grand Prize Winner of Cisco's Growing with Technology Awards 2006, 11/30/06
NetHope Inc. was named a Grand Prize winner in the Non-Profit Category of the Cisco Growing with Technology Awards 2006. Winners were announced during a ceremony at the Hotel Valencia in San Jose, Calif...

NetHope Appoints First Chief Executive Officer, 06/11/06
NetHope Inc., a global non-profit organization serving as a catalyst for collaboration in the International NGO community and an enabler of best use of technology for connectivity in the developing parts of the world, has announced the appointment of Dr. William A. Brindley as its next Executive Director and first Chief Executive Officer...

NetHope Honored as a 2004 Tech Museum Awards Laureate, 11/16/04
NetHope, an information technology consortium of fifteen of the world’s leading humanitarian organizations, was one of several organizations honored by The Tech Museum Awards: Technology Benefiting Humanity on November 10, 2004. NetHope received the Agilent Equality Award for their use of technology to benefit mankind...