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Fighting for Civic Transparency with Technology in the Western Balkans

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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. The goal was to find the best web or mobile ideas for social projects in Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia.

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Hackathons for Good: Techies, Thinkers, and Activists Unite

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This wiki can be a first step in providing those developers with information about the problems that can benefit from their support. Serbia) in partnership with TechSoup Global and Zasto ne (Bosnia and Herzegovina). Here are even more hackathon resources from TechSoup and beyond: Want to host your own hackathon? The ReStart Challenges.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

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It’s called the TechBridge Nonprofit Exchange and it is designed to address the problem of grantmakers’ reluctance to fund infrastructure improvements for charities. Pathways to Education is dealing with the large and troubling Canadian high school drop out problem. The concept of the Nonprofit Exchange is that any U.S.

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