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Fighting for Civic Transparency with Technology in the Western Balkans

Tech Soup

The goal was to find the best web or mobile ideas for social projects in Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia. The submitted projects were shared in a project gallery on the Community Boost_r website where the public could vote on their favorite project. Based on the number of votes, seven projects from each country were chosen.

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Hackathons for Good: Techies, Thinkers, and Activists Unite

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meets LinkedIn for students. The Digital Public Library of America held a hackathon to test the prototype DPLA platform and build apps for it. The District of Columbia Public Library has held as series of Accessibility Hackathons. Serbia) in partnership with TechSoup Global and Zasto ne (Bosnia and Herzegovina).

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

Tech Soup

The Microsoft Imagine Cup is a student competition to create innovative IT projects and ultimately bring those ideas to market. Very sophisticated for a student team. Team Confufish Royale from Australia developed an app called Foodbank Local that allows businesses to easily donate excess food. Find more on this project here.

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Solutionary Women: Heddy Nam

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It was founded in 2001 by a group of college students from all over the world who wanted to ensure that “Never Again” became a reality rather than a rhetorical sound bite. 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.

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