You can make sure you’re the first to hear about upcoming events by joining our Meetup or Facebook Group. We usually meet at 7pm on the third Tuesday of each month at the Affinity Lab, DC’s entrepreneurial launch space.
NetSquared DC is a vibrant local community thriving at the intersection of social change and technology. We’re part of a global NetSquared movement that focuses on the exponential impact we can have when we combine our hunger for change with powerful new technologies.
We’re proud to be one of the largest and longest-running NetSquared groups around, and thank our amazing members who come out in force each month to share what they’ve learned and get to know each other better.
We usually rotate between two event formats:
1. Expert speakers discussing how to use emerging technologies for social change (such as mobile tech, telling your story with video, US Internet policy, using APIs for change, open government web tools, tech and innovation in Africa, GIS and Mapping tools for nonprofits, and using wikis to help Congress with legislation, just to name a few!
2. A crowd-sourced discussion to help a featured nonprofit take their work to the next level. We’ve featured To nominate a nonprofit to be featured, just fill out this quick form. We’ve featured groups like Eat Well Guide, Student Movement for Real Change, AmericaSpeaks, SocialActions, Workplace Fairness, Global Giving, OneWorld.net, Oil Change International, ThinkProgress.org, Our Voices Together, Code PINK, Project HOPE International, Hip Hop Caucus, Network For Good, Trees for the Future, and Care2.
A full archive of our past events is available on our Meetup page at http://www.meetup.com/net2dc.