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Fighting for Civic Transparency with Technology in the Western Balkans

Tech Soup

The goal was to find the best web or mobile ideas for social projects in Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia. From Serbia. The goal of OBJEKTIVno bolje is to stop hateful graffiti in Serbia. This past spring, FTS was on the ground in the Western Balkans, helping organize the Community Boost_r Challenge. Niš 2.0

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Happy Birthday! The Charitable Deduction Turns 100

ASU Lodestar Center

On June 28, 1914, political assassins killed Austria’s archduke and his wife, leading to the Austro-Hungarian invasion of Serbia and the beginnings of war across Europe. posted by Mark Hager Associate Professor ASU School of Community Resources and Development. The United States was drawn into the war in the spring of 1917.

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Hackathons for Good: Techies, Thinkers, and Activists Unite

Tech Soup

Serbia) in partnership with TechSoup Global and Zasto ne (Bosnia and Herzegovina). Community Boost_r is a project that inspires, enables, and promotes tech for civil participation in transparency and accountability initiatives in the Western Balkans. The project is run by Fundacja TechSoup and Dokukino. The ReStart Challenges.

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5 Ways to Gain The Upper Hand in Facebook’s Newsfeed

Connection Cafe

Facebook recently announced a test in Sri Lanka, Bolivia, Slovakia, Serbia, Guatemala, and Cambodia. So the Newsfeed algorithm tries to predict what each user wants to see in their Newsfeed. But no algorithm is perfect. So they test and tweak. Users in these countries can only see Page posts that their friends comment on or share.

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

Tech Soup

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.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

Tech Soup

Our TechSoup Global partners there are also working hard on disaster relief in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia through the Community Boost r program and also a project called Mapa Poplava. The floods are so bad there that Pope Francis has made an appeal on behalf of victims there.

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

Tech Soup

TechSoup's staff also uses it to facilitate philanthropic support to tens of thousands of nonprofits, from the Girl Scouts of Eastern Oklahoma to the Tax Busters in Serbia. TechSoup uses Zoom to help staff members coordinate to deliver resources and education. We Shopped Around, and Zoom Is a Great Solution.