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TechSoup Global at National Day of Civic Hacking

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TechSoup, Caravan Studios , and NetSquared were on the scene to observe and participate in hackathon events all over the country. Arthur Grau of NetSquared Honolulu reported back on the National Day of Civic Hacking/Code for Hawaii event in Honolulu. ReWrite Oakland. Image 1: National Day of Civic Hacking, IntelFreePress.

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Fighting for Civic Transparency with Technology in the Western Balkans

Tech Soup

TechSoup Global and NetSquared attended hackathons across the country—from Hawaii to Vermont—that tackled local, statewide, and national civic issues. For example, Code for Oakland hosted an event called ReWrite Oakland, which focused how to make the Oakland city government website more accessible and easier to use.

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Apps for Youth, By Youth

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The Global Kids Online Leadership Organization partnered with the New York Public Library to create a mobile game called NYC Haunts for the iPhone. Youth Radio's Mobile App Lab connects Oakland, CA-based youth with professional app developers and entrepreneurs to propose, develop, and market apps that serve community needs.

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Hackathons for Good: Techies, Thinkers, and Activists Unite

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or Code for Oakland ). Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) is a global-wide community of hackers and social leaders with the common goal of building open technology for a better world. NetSquared can help! Serbia) in partnership with TechSoup Global and Zasto ne (Bosnia and Herzegovina). Image credit: Hackathon, hackNY.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

So for me as an artist, I got together with some other activists to figure out how could we build beautiful images that would attract the media, attract other human beings of our same species to care about these things as well, and that was the road to doing Art and Revolution. What I do is, I write for several blogs, as she mentioned.

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