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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. Ttaram aims to improve education in Kosovo. From Serbia. Niš 2.0

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Hackathons for Good: Techies, Thinkers, and Activists Unite

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meets LinkedIn for students. Serbia) in partnership with TechSoup Global and Zasto ne (Bosnia and Herzegovina). The challenges invite social activists and techies to create web-based tools to tackle local issues. Another project at the Saturday Hackathon 4 Good was Qeyno , which is described as Khan Academy.

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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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