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January 22, 2002 Vol. 3 No. 2:   


Published: 01/22/2002

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NPTalk: File Sharing Among Nonprofits

NPTalk considers some benefits, and costs, around peer-to-peer for organizations.

"Peer-to-peer," an effort to broaden the network capacity of individual users by distributing the workload and access to files among individual users, has usually only been considered in the context of file sharing and attendant copyright issues. Should nonprofits be taking a "napster" on the technology, or are there applications which can serve as a wake-up call to the sector. NPTalk considers some benefits, and costs, around peer-to-peer for organizations.