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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 finalists were paired up with technologists to develop a platform that could be worked on in a series of code sprints. From Serbia. The goal of OBJEKTIVno bolje is to stop hateful graffiti in Serbia.

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Hackathons for Good: Techies, Thinkers, and Activists Unite

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Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) is a global-wide community of hackers and social leaders with the common goal of building open technology for a better world. The Digital Public Library of America held a hackathon to test the prototype DPLA platform and build apps for it. meets LinkedIn for students. Library Hackathons.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

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TechSoup Global donation partner, Cisco , is starting to talk about an alternative to cloud computing, the paradigm that relies on huge data centers to do all our processing. The First Crowdfunding Platform for Nonprofit Technology Projects. Find what TechSoup Global thinks about the new FCC net neutrality decision here.

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

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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. CNET Coverage on Digital Wallets.

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Face-to-Face Communications with Zoom Help NGOs Around the Planet

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This milestone was made possible in part by the use of the online conferencing platform Zoom. As a nonprofit and part of the TechSoup Global Network of 70 civil society organizations, TechSoup has come to rely on Zoom. How does Zoom compare to other conferencing platforms? We Shopped Around, and Zoom Is a Great Solution.

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Face-to-Face Communications with Zoom Help NGOs Around the Planet

Tech Soup

This milestone was made possible in part by the use of the online conferencing platform Zoom. As a nonprofit and part of the TechSoup Global Network of 70 civil society organizations, TechSoup has come to rely on Zoom. How does Zoom compare to other conferencing platforms? We Shopped Around, and Zoom Is a Great Solution.

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Nonprofit Technology News for April 2013

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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. CNET Coverage on Digital Wallets.

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