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Using Technology to Build a More Accountable Bosnia and Herzegovina

Tech Soup

"), have risen as leaders in grassroots organizing and civic activism in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). After weeks of communication online, they all decided to create a movement and Dosta! was the pre-election campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2006. (“Enough!” "Why not?"), and Zašto ne?

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Fighting for Civic Transparency with Technology in the Western Balkans

Tech Soup

Through technology, data, and resource-sharing, Community Boost_r seeks to empower Balkan citizens to voice their opinions, demand solutions to everyday problems, and stay informed on accountability and transparency issues. This past spring, FTS was on the ground in the Western Balkans, helping organize the Community Boost_r Challenge.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

Tech Soup

It’s called the TechBridge Nonprofit Exchange and it is designed to address the problem of grantmakers’ reluctance to fund infrastructure improvements for charities. Pathways to Education is dealing with the large and troubling Canadian high school drop out problem. The concept of the Nonprofit Exchange is that any U.S.

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Solutionary Women: Heddy Nam

Have Fun - Do Good

This project will tackle big questions such as: What are the most pressing human rights problems in our world? 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. They would rather opt for MTV.

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