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Hackathons for Good: Techies, Thinkers, and Activists Unite

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But more than anything, hackathons are fun events to network and meet allies interested in supporting your cause. Libraries have also been getting in on the hacking fun. The Digital Public Library of America held a hackathon to test the prototype DPLA platform and build apps for it. Hackathons for Social Good.

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Beijing 2008 Olympics Potential Catalyst for Human Rights

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Disband the Publicity Department (the former Propaganda Department), which exercises daily control over content in the Chinese press. Release all journalists and Internet users detained in China for exercising their right to information. End the jamming of foreign radio stations.

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Interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International

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This is our own form of public diplomacy, where women are reaching out to each other despite all of their boundaries, or their differences, or whatever, and looking at their connections and similarities. We work in countries like Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, among others. You get her picture.

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Solutionary Women: Heddy Nam

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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. Politicians do have a responsibility to improve society as public servants, but ordinary people also have an individual responsibility to be informed and engaged citizens.

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