Alternative Technologies

Alternative Technologies Empowering progressive organizations with the technology infrastructure they need to change the world.

We provide and maintain the technology nonprofits and small businesses use to connect their employees and volunteers with the people they serve. You'll find us plain-spoken, direct, and above all, honest in our recommendations. We are experts in the installation, maintenance, and training of all types of office technologies and can help you combine and customize them to suit your needs cost-effect

ively. These technologies include:

• Telephone Systems, VoIP and Voicemail
• Computer Networks
• Security cameras
• Cabling and Wireless

We are proud of our tradition of friendly and fast customer service, and our field technicians are simply the best in the business.

This Asian-American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, let’s celebrate technology innovators in U.S....
05/26/2026

This Asian-American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, let’s celebrate technology innovators in U.S. history:

Nainoa Thompson, Native Hawaiian navigator (born 1953) combined traditional wayfinding principles and modern science to develop the star compass, a conceptual direction system.

Ajay Bhatt, Indian and American computer architect (born 1957) created Universal Series Bus (USB) technology, allowing users to connect different components to computers without extra hassle.

Ching Wan Tang PhD, Hong Kong and American physical chemist (born 1947) invented the organic light-emitting diode (OLED) in 1987. It produces a more vibrant display than LCD because it generates all colors, provides higher contrast and does not require a backlight.

Steven Shih Chen, Taiwanese and American entrepreneur (born 1978) co-founded YouTube, and served as YouTube’s first chief technology officer, ensuring that users did not run into issues when uploading and streaming videos.

AANHPI month gives us an amazing opportunity to highlight and thank these innovators in our shared U.S. history.

Source: https://ideas.ted.com/8-asian-americans-and-pacific-islanders-whose-innovations-have-changed-your-life-really/

05/20/2026

Alternative Technologies can’t stress strongly enough how important nonprofits are at bringing communities together; through their commitment, effort and compassion. California nonprofits keep people housed, healthy, and able to defend their rights, to name just a few.

Here are some of our favorites. Check them out. They do great work and are always looking for volunteers or donations to keep them caring for people in the way that is most needed.

Middle East Children's Alliance - MECA
EBALDC (East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation)
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area
Clinic by the Bay

Are you a co-op or thinking about becoming one? The CCCD is a great place to meet like minded people with a wide range ...
05/13/2026

Are you a co-op or thinking about becoming one? The CCCD is a great place to meet like minded people with a wide range of experience in the co-op world.

We’ll be there!
Hope to see you too.

https://cccd.coop/

What if you only had to remember one password ever again? tl;dr: Password manager apps like Bitwarden save time and hea...
05/06/2026

What if you only had to remember one password ever again? tl;dr: Password manager apps like Bitwarden save time and headaches by keeping track of all your passwords in one place.

The backstory: every app and website requires a password these days. That can mean you have to come up with countless unique passwords, 16 digits long, a mix of letters, numbers and symbols.
New research suggests the common number of passwords used by an individual is about 168 across personal accounts.
That’s a lot of passwords to keep track of, which is why on World Password Day, we’re here to say that a password manager might be right for you. We recommend Bitwarden , but there’s also Dashlane, LastPass , 1Password and more. Many integrate with browsers to autofill passwords in commonly used websites.

Password manager apps are a cornerstone to digital security, along with strong unique passwords and passphrases. Keep yourself and your organization safe in these troubling times: keep your passwords locked up.

This International Workers Day is your opportunity to get involved in the movement for better workplaces. Consider givin...
05/01/2026

This International Workers Day is your opportunity to get involved in the movement for better workplaces. Consider giving a follow to these organizations:

Workers’ Rights
* UFW
* Athena
* SBWorkersUnited

Worker Ownership
* Democracy At Work Institute
* US Federation of Worker Cooperatives
* California Center for Cooperative Development

Workplace rights and workplace democracy are great places to start for a more inclusive and just society.

As we close out Earth Month, share the love. Consider giving a follow to these terrific environmental and environmental ...
04/27/2026

As we close out Earth Month, share the love. Consider giving a follow to these terrific environmental and environmental justice groups:

* 350 Bay Area sponsors monthly climate action meetings where you can learn more and get involved right here in the Bay Area.
* Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN) is turning a beloved rec center into a hub of climate resilience in Oakland’s Chinatown.
* San Francisco Baykeeper just won a major court battle over water pollution in the South Bay’s Creeks.
* California Environmental Justice Alliance is celebrating a coalition victory against big oil which means that the hard-won SB1137 (establishing 3,200 ft setbacks between oil drilling and communities) will go into effect immediately.
* California Environmental Voters just issued its 2025 scorecard for California legislators.
* Center for Environmental Health is exposing chain stores selling products that contain lead, cadmium, and BPA.
* Communities For A Better Environment is pushing California's lead air quality agency to stand up to big oil.
* Justice Outside has expanded its No Child Left Inside advocacy to include children incarcerated and impacted by ICE.
* Rising Sun Center for Opportunity inaugurated the first Heat Pump Week in California (heat pumps use electricity to heat and cool homes instead of gas, and are one of the most effective ways to reduce carbon emissions from homes).
* Sunrise Movement Bay Area chapter is organizing against fossil-fueled fascism and Flock surveillance. Get involved if you want to make supersized protest art!

📣 CCCD is hiring a new Executive Director!The California Center for Cooperative Development is seeking their next Execut...
04/24/2026

📣 CCCD is hiring a new Executive Director!
The California Center for Cooperative Development is seeking their next Executive Director to help grow cooperative enterprises and shape the future of cooperative development in California!

CCCD believes in the power of cooperation to build more just, sustainable, and democratic communities. Help CCCD find it’s next Executive Director to do just that!

Learn more and apply at: https://cccd.coop/hiring-executive-director

Applications due: May 21st

What if your tech support company was as well-known for emotional intelligence as for finding solutions? What if your te...
03/30/2026

What if your tech support company was as well-known for emotional intelligence as for finding solutions? What if your tech support company hired employees based on their ability to listen? What if your tech support company was 42% women?

Let’s make some noise for Black women in technology history this Black History Month!🍿And pop some popcorn because we’ve...
02/18/2026

Let’s make some noise for Black women in technology history this Black History Month!

🍿And pop some popcorn because we’ve got a movie recommendation: HIDDEN FIGURES (2016)(PG)(HBO and Hulu). Starring Janelle Monáe, Taraji P. Henson, and Octavia Spencer.

In the movie, Katherine Goble works at the West Area of Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, in 1958 through 1961, alongside her colleagues Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughan, as human "computers", performing mathematical calculations and later operating an IBM 7090 electronic computer. The movie covers their pivotal roles in launching and landing Friendship 7, the first crewed American orbital spaceflight.

A movie epilogue notes that Mary Jackson obtained her degree and became NASA's first Black woman engineer; Dorothy Vaughan continued on as NASA's first African American supervisor; and Katherine Goble performed calculations for the Apollo 11 and Space Shuttle missions. Katherine Goble was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015, and NASA dedicated the Langley Research Center's Katherine Johnson Computational Building in her honor the following year.

Don’t miss this gripping story and essential piece of history!

Today, we are sitting with Martin Luther King Jr.’s call to urgent action. What does that mean for you in 2026? ...
01/20/2026

Today, we are sitting with Martin Luther King Jr.’s call to urgent action. What does that mean for you in 2026?

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