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Open Challenges Harness Local Knowledge for Local Change

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Since the first NetSquared challenge in 2006, TechSoup has continued to offer people and organizations opportunities to connect, share ideas, and collaborate; they work on solutions online and offline through events, meetups, and hackathons. He said that roughly half of the people who participate in these challenges are programmers.

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The Future of Fundraising, Part Two

Tech Soup

The Restart Romania challenge resulted in citizens proposing technological solutions to a range of real world problems such as corruption in the medical system. Please visit the site to view this video). The power of technology and social media to create change is real as evidenced by movements like the Arab Spring.