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Using Technology to Build a More Accountable Bosnia and Herzegovina

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"), have risen as leaders in grassroots organizing and civic activism in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). was the pre-election campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2006. This known issue had prompted public discontent and the side of his building had been vandalized with graffiti that read: "Give back the apartment, you thief!"

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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. 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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Upwardly Global: Bridging the Opportunity Gap for Skilled Immigrants

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are unemployed or considerably underemployed despite having worked as engineers, doctors, scientists, accountants, and nonprofit professionals in their home countries. Upwardly Global, also known as "UpGlo," is working to combat this disparity. college-educated immigrants in the U.S. It provides skilled immigrants to the U.S.

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

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The project is soft launching this month, and going public in March 2014. 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. Hacker Helper is currently in beta.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

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The way The Fog will work, as Christopher Mims describes it in the Wall Street Journal , is that our smart devices will send software updates to one another, rather than routing them through the cloud, a bit like how peer-to-peer music and movie sharing is done via services like Bittorrent. Find out more on this new service here.

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Beijing 2008 Olympics Potential Catalyst for Human Rights

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Abolish forever the restrictive articles in the Foreign Correspondents Guide that limit the media’s freedom of movement and work. Disband the Publicity Department (the former Propaganda Department), which exercises daily control over content in the Chinese press. End the jamming of foreign radio stations.

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Interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International

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This is our own form of public diplomacy, where women are reaching out to each other despite all of their boundaries, or their differences, or whatever, and looking at their connections and similarities. We work in countries like Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, among others. You get her picture.