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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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Hackathons for Good: Techies, Thinkers, and Activists Unite

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meets LinkedIn for students. 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). 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

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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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