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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. 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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Use Social Media to Reel in Big Fish Donors

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

An organization dedicated to “never again” a genocide — such as those in Europe, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur — must raise awareness and advocate with as much energy as it raises money. All departments of the organization need to know what the other departments are doing. Conflicting statements become confusing.

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The Future of Fundraising, Part Two

Tech Soup

, which means "enough," began online and moved offline to solidify a movement to create a better Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Restart Romania challenge resulted in citizens proposing technological solutions to a range of real world problems such as corruption in the medical system.

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

Tech Soup

They will be powered by the same operating systems used on desktops and laptop PCs – mostly Windows and Mac OS. African countries are the primary users of mobile banking and a hotbed of innovation in this field like the Safaricom M-PESA mobile payment system in Kenya. Of course mobile phone payments are not new.

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

We are testing it out at hackathons this month in San Francisco and also in Sarajevo in Bosnia. mobile payment system in Kenya that allows people there to text each other money. Hacker Helper is currently in beta. After that we hope lots of people will contribute content to it. Sending Money By Email.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

Tech Soup

The case went through the European court system and he won the case. Our TechSoup Global partners there are also working hard on disaster relief in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia through the Community Boost r program and also a project called Mapa Poplava. It’s storm season in the US and also in the Balkans of Eastern Europe.

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Nonprofit Technology News for April 2013

Tech Soup

They will be powered by the same operating systems used on desktops and laptop PCs – mostly Windows and Mac OS. African countries are the primary users of mobile banking and a hotbed of innovation in this field like the Safaricom M-PESA mobile payment system in Kenya. Of course mobile phone payments are not new.

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