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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

Tech Soup

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. The Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) has also held a few hackathons with the New York Public Library. NetSquared can help!

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

The project is soft launching this month, and going public in March 2014. 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. TechSoup Technologies for Good.

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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.

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