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Fighting for Civic Transparency with Technology in the Western Balkans

Tech Soup

This past spring, FTS was on the ground in the Western Balkans, helping organize the Community Boost_r Challenge. The goal was to find the best web or mobile ideas for social projects in Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia. The goal of OBJEKTIVno bolje is to stop hateful graffiti in Serbia. The Power of Technology Challenges.

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

The Hacker Helper project is closely aligned with our NetSquared vision of bringing communities together to solve social problems – including nonprofits, beneficiaries, activists, technologists, concerned citizens. We are testing it out at hackathons this month in San Francisco and also in Sarajevo in Bosnia.

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Solutionary Women: Heddy Nam

Have Fun - Do Good

I came across her work while researching examples of nonprofits using the social web for social change for NetSquared and am looking forward to meeting her in person when she speaks at the NetSquared Conference next week. Heddy also writes for the Global Youth Fund blog. They would rather opt for MTV.

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