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Spotlight on Social Media, Crowdsourced Translation, Egyptian Protests and Diplomacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The New York Times reported on the use of social media and protests suggesting that Egypt’s government was afraid of the power of social networking tools. According to Ed Bice, the short term goal is to just make sure that information is flowing between language communities and the longer term goal is to network these communities.

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Metro4All — Making All Metro Systems Accessible

Tech Soup

It is now a diverse international group with team members in Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany, and the U.S. So far, their attempts to work with government transportation authorities have failed. We are interested and engaged in the international community mapping movement. Tech for good often knows no geopolitical boundaries.