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Hackathons for Good: Techies, Thinkers, and Activists Unite

Tech Soup

The events challenged participants to brainstorm and code mash-ups of WorldCat, the world's largest bibliographic database, with other web services. Serbia) in partnership with TechSoup Global and Zasto ne (Bosnia and Herzegovina). For example, one of the projects presented was called "Netflix at My Library."

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

We are testing it out at hackathons this month in San Francisco and also in Sarajevo in Bosnia. " It is intended to be a dynamic public database of tech innovators for good around the world. Hacker Helper is currently in beta. After that we hope lots of people will contribute content to it.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2013: Free WiFi in Forbes Magazine and Braille Phones

Tech Soup

Fundacja TechSoup in Poland, in a close partnership with Dokukino and other local organizations from the Western Balkans, has launched open challenges for the best technology-based social projects that address transparency and accountability issues in the the Bosnia and Hercegovina, Kosovo, and Serbia. Very, very cool, I must say.

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Nonprofit Technology News for April 2013

Tech Soup

Fundacja TechSoup in Poland, in a close partnership with Dokukino and other local organizations from the Western Balkans, has launched open challenges for the best technology-based social projects that address transparency and accountability issues in the the Bosnia and Hercegovina, Kosovo, and Serbia. Very, very cool, I must say.

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