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Open Challenges Harness Local Knowledge for Local Change

Tech Soup

These open challenges help activists, nonprofits, journalists, techies, and community members identify, refine, build, and launch technology tools to solve pressing local and regional problems. Worman said that the challenge platforms also promoted local champions who had actually solved a social problem. Video : TechSoup Romania.

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Restart Romania Social Justice Challenge Spotlights User-Generated Content

Tech Soup

To get diverse perspectives from TechSoup Global staff about user-generated content, we asked Marc Manashil, Community Evangelist for NetSquared, to share how challenges like Restart Romania enable users to get engaged at all levels. Restart Romania: A Spectrum of Engagement. By all accounts, Restart Romania was a huge success.

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Update: Philanthropy’s response to Ukraine crisis

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Grants from public charities increased 580%. These countries are, in the main, ones that share a border with Ukraine: Poland, Romania, Hungary, Moldova, and Slovakia. Public charity. Public charity. Public charity. Care and protection of children account for 26% of grant dollars. Giving by populations served.

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Turning City Data into Apps with Apps4Warsaw

Tech Soup

What happens when you combine local government, open data, and creative and tech-savvy citizens? Because of TechSoup Europe's involvement in other app challenges, such as Restart Romania and Community Boost_r , the organization has experience in this work. Apps4Warsaw. A Contest Built on City Data. Second Place: Curtain up!

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Apping Out Illegal Waste: Free Download to Target Illegal Dumps

Tech Soup

On the most basic level, illegal dumping confronts us with garbage in public spaces, which is unpleasant and unhealthy. It is cheaper to illegally dump than it is to play by the local rules for legal waste disposal. They want local public authorities to be aware of the problem and commit themselves to take action.

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Around the TechSoup Global Blogosphere, January 1-12

Tech Soup

Get great content curation tips in Susan's recap of the TechSoup and TechSoup Romania's tweet chat. Use our newly launched Local Impact Map to learn how organizations are using technology products and knowledge to further their missions. Sarah reports on the Public Access Technology Benchmarks project. From NetSquared.

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TechSoup Global: Springing into Action

Tech Soup

The contest was judged by a panel of expert judges , but the public could vote for their favorite. For the past few years, TechSoup for Libraries has been part of the Edge Initiative , an effort to create benchmarks and tools that support continuous improvement and drive investment toward public access technology. The ReStart Romania.

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