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TechSoup Global at National Day of Civic Hacking

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While the challenges were focused mainly on local or statewide issues, they came up with solutions that could be adopted for national issues as well. TechSoup Global's Ale Bezdekian attended another San Francisco event, but it was much different from the one at San Francisco State. ReWrite Oakland. freespace], San Francisco.

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Fighting for Civic Transparency with Technology in the Western Balkans

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The site will then publish responses from local officials and encourage further transparency. The site will publish the problem in hopes that it will pressure local government officials to solve them. EkoVizija is a mobile app that enables users to take pictures and report environmental problems in their community. From Serbia.

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NetSquared Events for September: Featuring #Storymakers2014

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Join your local NetSquared group. No local group? Join our global tweet chat on September 4 for the best examples of nonprofit storytelling. Oakland, CA: Office 365 for Nonprofits. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members. Submit your digital video, five photographs, or a super-short story.

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Bay Localize & Green Roofs: An Interview with Ingrid Severson

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Ingrid Severson is the lead project organizer of the Rooftop Resources project, a project of the Oakland non-profit Bay Localize. Ingrid: Bay Localize is a non-profit project that started back in December of 2005. This is in response to global warming and peak oil. Britt: What are some of Bay Localize's projects?

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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. Serbia) in partnership with TechSoup Global and Zasto ne (Bosnia and Herzegovina). meets LinkedIn for students. The ReStart Challenges.

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Apps for Youth, By Youth

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You can also create a special reading list, locate books in your local library, and share what you're reading with friends over social media. The Global Kids Online Leadership Organization partnered with the New York Public Library to create a mobile game called NYC Haunts for the iPhone. Apps Made by Youth.

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Interviews with 69 Changemakers: 6th Anniversary of the Big Vision Podcast

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2012 Stacey Edgar, Founder, Global Girlfriend listen 2011 Gabriela Masala, Founder, One Love Alliance listen Robert Wolfe, Co-Founder, Crowdrise listen Aneesha Raghunathan, Founder, Hope Line Fashions listen Rachel Cohen, Founder and Executive Director, Hand2Paw listen Kathy LeMay, Founder, Raising Change. Happy listening!

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