Gregg Swanson is the Executive Director of HumaniNet, a nonprofit that provides assistance in ICT (information and communications technologies) to the humanitarian community.

A former Air Force officer and fighter pilot, Gregg served for 20 years in line and staff positions with Air Force headquarters, NATO forces, and operational units in Asia and Europe. He has held executive and management positions in several Silicon Valley companies, largely in operations and international programs. A graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, he has studied in Germany as an Olmsted Scholar and has graduate degrees in international affairs from the American University and in business from Stanford University. Before founding HumaniNet in 2002, Gregg was Director of Technology at Northwest Medical Teams in Portland, Oregon.

You can hear my interview with Gregg at the  Aspiration Tech Nonprofit Software Development Summit on the NetSquared Podcast.

 

Teresa Crawford is a strategic technology consultant based in Washington DC who I met at the Aspiration Tech Nonprofit Software Development Summit yesterday. She has been working in the field of NGOs and technology since 1998. Over the last few years she has worked in 30 countries with organizations both large and small to help them make better use of information and information technology in their work.

You can listen to the interview on the NetSquared Podcast, and a transcript will be up in about a week.

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Nonprofit software development and the environment aren't two topics that are always associated with each other, but I was very happy to that the Aspiration Tech Nonprofit Software Development Summit is a "green" event.

I talked with Mary Munat, or "Green Mary", who was an Event Waste Reduction Consultant to Aspiration Tech about how you can green your next tech conference or event.

How many tech conferences do you go to where you aren't allowed to use your laptop, text on your cell phone, or chat on an IRC channel during sessions?  Where you are encouraged to truly listen and pay attention to what people are saying?  Where a Waste Reduction Consultant is brought in to create a green event?  Not many I bet.