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DECEMBER 12, 2012
In celebration of the launch of Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, Microsoft announced the Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Contest in partnership with NetSquared. Apps to Address Real-World Problems. A good app idea will not only solve a problem your audience has - it will be easily accessible to them. Test and Refine.
Tech Soup
JULY 16, 2013
Through technology, data, and resource-sharing, Community Boost_r seeks to empower Balkan citizens to voice their opinions, demand solutions to everyday problems, and stay informed on accountability and transparency issues. EkoVizija is a mobile app that enables users to take pictures and report environmental problems in their community.
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Tech Soup
MARCH 12, 2015
Many years ago, NetSquared hosted challenges and conferences to highlight and bring together fledging social entrepreneurs. Digital organizing: Once communities are digitally literate, they can use the tools to advocate for addressing the challenges and problems they are facing. netsquared digital divide' Want to learn more?
Tech Soup
MARCH 26, 2013
The Digital Public Library of America held a hackathon to test the prototype DPLA platform and build apps for it. This wiki can be a first step in providing those developers with information about the problems that can benefit from their support. NetSquared can help! Library Hackathons.
Tech Soup
FEBRUARY 12, 2016
NetSquared DC organized a panel discussion on Engagement Strategy: Empowering Champions* and Influencers* on November 3, 2015, to delve into this question. NetSquared DC Engagement Strategies Panelists — Maddie Grant, Andrew Nachison, and Dale Pfeifer (left to right). Brand it and test it. The panelists included.
Tech Soup
NOVEMBER 14, 2013
The tool will allow hackers and coders to get up to speed before the hackathon by reading problem statements written from the perspective of the people who are working to solve social problems on the ground: NGOs and activists. They can go straight to work to create useful apps and other tools for solving social problems.
Tech Soup
MAY 23, 2013
It originally appeared on NetSquared. Through the Laura and John Arnold Foundation he set up with his wife, he plans to use the money to ambitiously solve some of America’s biggest problems like obesity and crime through data analysis and science, with an unsentimental focus on results. ?He
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