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Restart Romania Social Justice Challenge Spotlights User-Generated Content

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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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Turning City Data into Apps with Apps4Warsaw

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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. For example, real-time data might track a public bus and show the time it arrives at a particular stop. "We knew how to crowdsource and incubate applications."

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Apping Out Illegal Waste: Free Download to Target Illegal Dumps

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On the most basic level, illegal dumping confronts us with garbage in public spaces, which is unpleasant and unhealthy. At its most basic level, you photograph the dump and post a pin on a global Trash Map. They want local public authorities to be aware of the problem and commit themselves to take action. The Problem.

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Around the TechSoup Global Blogosphere, January 1-12

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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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Bridging the Digital Divide? Tell Us About It!

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Whether you are teaching a community about sustainable agriculture in Colorado or organizing a hack-a-thon in Romania, we want to help you tell your story. One of our favorite ways to share success stories is through our Local Impact Map (LIM). But, besides all the publicity, what’s in it for me? That sounds great.

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Bridging the Digital Divide? Tell Us About It!

Tech Soup

Whether you are teaching a community about sustainable agriculture in Colorado or organizing a hack-a-thon in Romania, we want to help you tell your story. One of our favorite ways to share success stories is through our Local Impact Map (LIM). We at TechSoup are proud to support the important work of nonprofits around the world.

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