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Fighting for Civic Transparency with Technology in the Western Balkans

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The goal was to find the best web or mobile ideas for social projects in Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia. Three project winners were chosen from each country: From Bosnia and Herzegovina: Centar 72 aims to solve community problems within 72 hours. This online reporting system is both a website and mobile app.

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Upwardly Global: Bridging the Opportunity Gap for Skilled Immigrants

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Although that plant was considered a model employer for refugees at the time, Jane met employees who included a former engineer from Iraq and a surgeon from Bosnia. All images used with permission of Upwardly Global © 2017. at their full potential. UpGlo Continues to Grow. spanhidden.

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Hackathons for Good: Techies, Thinkers, and Activists Unite

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The Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) has also held a few hackathons with the New York Public Library. Serbia) in partnership with TechSoup Global and Zasto ne (Bosnia and Herzegovina). Image credit: Hackathon, hackNY. The District of Columbia Public Library has held as series of Accessibility Hackathons.

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

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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. NPTech Online Fundraising Trends.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

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Once we post something online, it lives on some computer somewhere forever. Europe’s highest court in a ruling against Google has decided that search engines should allow online users to be “forgotten” after a certain time by erasing links to web pages unless there are particular reasons not to erase that information.

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

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Hacker Helper is a free online tool that will allow volunteer developers to prepare for hackathons. We are testing it out at hackathons this month in San Francisco and also in Sarajevo in Bosnia. The NT100 will form the basis for a growing online resource for social enterprises called “The Social Tech Guide."

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Nonprofit Technology News for April 2013

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This month the news is about ultramobile devices, NPTech innovation in Eastern Europe, Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Winners, online fundraising trends, a new Pinterest analytics tool, the emergence of digital wallets, and Ginny Mies pick for the environmental mobile app of the month in honor or Earth Day 2013.

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