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“There is a prophecy that one day, a group of special people called eduwizards will arrive and create new ways for us to facilitate education and learning.” So begins the video which describes Restart Education, a partnership between the Romanian-American Fou

Over on the Stanford Social Innovation Review blog, read this post by TechSoup Global’s Sheetal Singh on new collaborations between nonprofits and volunteer tech wizards participating in hackathons and mashups to create new tools for civic engagement.  Policy makers are becoming increasingly aware th

Last year TechSoup participated in an average of one event per week somewhere in the world – speaking, testifying, and exhibiting -- in conferences, workshops and government hearings.

Here’s the list for just the month of May 2012:

On May 23, 2012, the United States Embassy in Romania’s Deputy Chief of Mission Duane Butcher spoke at the launch of the TechSoup Restart Romania project "Bani Pierduti.”

Over on the TechSoup Global's GuideStar International blog, TSG communications manager Keisha Taylor has posted a very interesting item about cloud computing in developing nations.

TechSoup Global has been asked to present expert testimony to the U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington, D.C. next Tuesday, May 15.

TechSoup Global’s GreenTech computer recycling director Jim Lynch writes in his blog post about youth organizations which have made the most of technology in Staatsburg (New York), Ottawa (Ontario), and Tamil Nadu (South India).

Over on the Stanford Social Innovation Review blog, TechSoup Global’s Glenn Fajardo describes Malaysia’s *Weekend Movement and its approach to “time-bound collaborative innovation,” where talented people team up and race against the clock to build out audacious new products and services.

On the Stanford Social Innovation Review Blog, a dialog has begun in response to TechSoup Global co-CEO Daniel Ben-Horin’s “Tension and Possibility: The New Dynamics of Change.” 

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Read TechSoup Community-Driven Innovation organizer Alicja Peszkowska’s post on the NetSquared Blog for a roundup of hope in dark times, as civil society continues to crowdsource and data map citizen action around the world.