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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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Fighting for Civic Transparency with Technology in the Western Balkans

Tech Soup

How can people fight back? 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. Through 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. They wanted to share their stories on my blog and through video and photos. Here is their stories.

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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 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. Pinterest is a social media photo-sharing website that allows users to create online image collections around specific events or subjects. Accessibility. This is technology for good news from India.

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Beijing 2008 Olympics Potential Catalyst for Human Rights

Have Fun - Do Good

For fifteen years China has refused to press its closest ally to allow its people human rights, and used its veto power to block the UN Security Council from acting. We are calling on people of conscience throughout the world to boycott the 2008 Chinese Olympics." Claire of Free Aung San Suu Kyi!

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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. Social Media. " With PaperKarma.

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