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Fighting for Civic Transparency with Technology in the Western Balkans

Tech Soup

The goal was to find the best web or mobile ideas for social projects in Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia. Three project winners were chosen from each country: From Bosnia and Herzegovina: Centar 72 aims to solve community problems within 72 hours. Ttaram aims to improve education in Kosovo. Image: Community Boost_r Facebook.

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Hackathons for Good: Techies, Thinkers, and Activists Unite

Tech Soup

When you hear the term "hackathon," you might imagine a group of coders getting together to break into a protected website or engaging in some other shady activity. meets LinkedIn for students. AT&T is very active in the hackthon space, holding weekend events for mobile app creation. The ReStart Challenges.

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Solutionary Women: Heddy Nam

Have Fun - Do Good

It was founded in 2001 by a group of college students from all over the world who wanted to ensure that “Never Again” became a reality rather than a rhetorical sound bite. Later, they learned that it happened again and again – in the cases of Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda - and it was still happening but nobody was doing anything about it.

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