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Katrin Verclas - Orginal Panelist |
 Katrin Verclas is currently the Executive Director of NTEN: the Nonprofit Technology Network (www.nten.org), a professional community that connects people involved in nonprofit technology and strives to help them effectively use technology in their work. She also runs the Secretariat of MobileActive (www.mobileactive.org), a global community of activists and nonprofits using mobile phones in civic engagement and advocacy.
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To maximize their effectiveness and, in turn, change the world, nonprofits need strategies that integrate technology into their work, knowledgeable and affordable technical support, and affordable, useful, and relevant software.
--Katrin Verclas |
Based in Amherst, Massachusetts, Katrin is building community and knowledge base about ICT investments and innovative practices and campaigns. The NTEN and MobileActive, each in their own way, are bringing together innovators, campaigners, funders, and tool developers to use technology to make the world a better place.
She previously managed the Innovation Funder Network, an affinity group of funders exploring how information and communications technology can advance social change, and she co-directed Aspiration: Better Tools for a Better World, a nonprofit organization focused on providing software-related services and resources to other nonprofit organizations.
Her background is in IT and project management in various nonprofits; community organizing, community engagement, political advocacy, and relationship management. She has also worked for a number of years as a program officer for several grantmaking and philanthropic initiatives. Katrin has published, written, and presented widely at major technology conferences, symposia, and events. She is the author of numerous white papers and articles, including the forthcoming chapter on use of open source software in civil society organizations in the "Handbook of Open Source" by the University of Texas.
Her values and professional life has been guided by her belief in the importance of community, the power of networks, the good will of people, our ability to collaborate for a common good, the inherent political-ness of everyday life, and the power of people using technology to improve and better their own and other’s lives.
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