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• Sony and Tour de Cure back virtual reality cancer research projects

  ​Three Australian research teams have been awarded $520,000 to develop virtual reality content and tools to support young people with cancer.

• Optus seeking tech start-ups with social impact

  Optus has opened applications to its four-month tech accelerator program – Future Makers – to start-ups, social entrepreneurs and charities.

• What it’s like to be CIO for a not-for-profit

  Richard Parry of Stand Children’s Services Tu Maia Whanau taps disruptive technology to reduce IT ‘cost centres’

• Easy to read websites pay off for Vision Australia

  Text heavy websites which readers found hard to navigate are a thing of the past at not-for-profit Vision Australia.

• Google to fund purchase of Raspberry Pi devices for UK schoolchildren

  Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt pledged to provide 15,000 Raspberry Pi model B computers to British students today during a visit to a school in Cambridge, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced in an official blog post.

• Fake bushfire appeal emails flagged: ACCC

  Scammers are targeting Australian households with emails asking people to donate to phony bushfire appeals, according to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).

• New Android app turns ad revenue into famine relief

  An innovative new type of mobile advertising is being used to funnel money to support hunger relief efforts. Dubbed GetCharitable, the new Android app replaces the background image on a phone with a periodically updated ad, revenue from which is then directed to an international anti-famine group -- offering users a way to help combat famine for free.

• Australian Workplace Giving Awards winners

  Winners of the inaugural Australian Workplace Giving Awards were announced at NSW Parliament House in Sydney. Initiated by the Australian Charities Fund to grow awareness of workplace giving and celebrate the difference it makes to the community, the Australian Workplace Giving Awards recognise leadership, innovation, collaboration and best practice in workplace giving by employer and community organisations.

• Spammers still mining Japan, NZ earthquake appeals: Symantec

  The charitable nature of Australians has been under threat, as spammers continue to hijack Japan and New Zealand disaster relief funds.

• Barnado’s children's charity cuts costs with online training

  Online conferencing tools help the charity fill gap left by budget cuts

• Techies gather for a lunch to save the world

  The 43rd floor of the Spear Tower in downtown San Francisco is empty. Possibly because of the slumping economy, there's just a big, open office space with unfinished white walls overlooking a million-dollar view. It was an appropriate setting for Lunch for Good, an event on Wednesday that brought together nearly 100 people deep in the Bay Area's social-networking industry to talk about a futuristic question: how online social networks can help humans find common ground.