Bits: Conference to Discuss Municipal Wi-Fi and Broadband Projects Planned for July

May 31, 2007 | Read Time: 1 minute

“Impact: The Digital Revolution,” a conference to discuss municipal wi-fi and broadband projects, is scheduled to take place in Houston July 26-28. One of the meeting’s sponsors is Technology for All, an organization in Houston that focuses on technology as a way to increase educational and economic opportunities in poor neighborhoods. For more information: Go to http://www.impact-beyond.org.
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has awarded $20-million to help start the Encyclopedia of Life, an effort to create Internet pages for all 1.8 million species of animals, plants, and other forms of life on earth. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation also has awarded $2.5-million for the project. For more information: Go to http://www.eol.org.

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Nicole Wallace is features editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has written about innovation in the nonprofit world, charities’ use of data to improve their work and to boost fundraising, advanced technologies for social good, and hybrid efforts at the intersection of the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, such as social enterprise and impact investing.Nicole spearheaded the Chronicle’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast and reported from India on the role of philanthropy in rebuilding after the South Asian tsunami. She started at the Chronicle in 1996 as an editorial assistant compiling The Nonprofit Handbook.Before joining the Chronicle, Nicole worked at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and served in the inaugural class of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.A native of Columbia, Pa., she holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.