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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A new book, “The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom,” by a young Belarus-born American scholar, Evgeny Morozov , has made the case most provocatively, describing instance after instance of strongmen finding ways to use new media to their advantage. Right now there is not anyway to crowdsource and attach a translation to Tweets.

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Metro4All — Making All Metro Systems Accessible

Tech Soup

Metro4All was founded by Maxim Dubinin in Moscow a few years ago as a social good project of his interactive mapping company, NextGIS. The Metro4All project creates web and mobile apps that give people with limited mobility point-to-point directions on using their subway system. Sustainability of the Project. What Is Metro4All?