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Using Technology to Build a More Accountable Bosnia and Herzegovina

Tech Soup

"), have risen as leaders in grassroots organizing and civic activism in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). "Add to that the fact that we are frequently brought to the brink of war by ongoing ethnic tensions, and you’ll understand why most people here feel a mixture of apathy and disempowerment." (“Enough!”

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2013: Free WiFi in Forbes Magazine and Braille Phones

Tech Soup

Mashable reports that the world's first mobile phone specifically designed for sight-impaired people is under development. It will be a Braille phone and it is due to come out the end of this year at an affordable price ($185). The phone is a project of Sumit Dagar and the Indian Institute of Technology.

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Generation Rwanda: Two Stories

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It includes personal testimonies, photographs, and artifacts. Another exhibit looks at past massacres in Armenia, Bosnia, Cambodia, The Holocaust, and other places of the world where genocide has taken place. The profits from the business help both Germaine and these other families.Germaine uses her Windows Phone as her virtual store.

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The Future of Fundraising, Part Two

Tech Soup

Globally, 34 percent of people report owning smartphones. which means "enough," began online and moved offline to solidify a movement to create a better Bosnia and Herzegovina. Text-to-Give Tweet Chat Recap : Did you know more people worldwide have regular access to mobile devices than computers ?

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

The tool will allow hackers and coders to get up to speed before the hackathon by reading problem statements written from the perspective of the people who are working to solve social problems on the ground: NGOs and activists. We are testing it out at hackathons this month in San Francisco and also in Sarajevo in Bosnia.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

Tech Soup

The court has decided that people can request the removal of data related to them that seem to be "inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant, or excessive in relation to the purposes for which they were processed. It hooks up to a phone, tablet or computer so the information can be messaged to a hospital.

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Nonprofit Technology News for April 2013

Tech Soup

Fundacja TechSoup in Poland, in a close partnership with Dokukino and other local organizations from the Western Balkans, has launched open challenges for the best technology-based social projects that address transparency and accountability issues in the the Bosnia and Hercegovina, Kosovo, and Serbia. CNN Money: 5 pay-by-phone apps tested.

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