Posts tagged with Chris Worman.

“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

This is the third of a four-part series in which you will find excerpts from twenty participant impact evaluations provided one year after the February 15, 2011 TechSoup Global Contributors Summit.

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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So what happened to Restart Romania, are those sites evolutionizing citizenship yet?  Romania was out rioting to kick off the new year, protesting various things, where were the Restarters?

The American Ambassador to Romania, Mark Gitenstein, took the time to offer this comment on my Huffington Post article about the Restart Romani

In today's Huffington Post, TechSoup Global founder and co-CEO Daniel Ben-Horin illuminates the genesis of TechSoup's Restart Romania challenge in a wide-ranging post referencing Soros Foundation Romania's Radu Motoc, Adbusters

“The problem is we don’t have a civil society, not really. We’re 20 billion neurons without synapses…which means only one neuron, not a brain."  – activist attending the Restart Romania gala

As mentioned in a previous post, it was a big inspiration for us when 200,000 people got out to clean-up Romania last year, as was the later harnessing of the web for the Arab Spring.  We were not seeking an Eastern European Spring but what North Africa managed through

The finalists in Restart Romania  represent small business owners ‘looking to do more,’ journalists, programmers and long-time activists.  Their diverse backgrounds offer insight into broad discontent with the status quo and led to productive discussions about the role of non-traditional leaders an

Since 2009 we have watched Romania adopt and experiment with social media for social change while building a network of techie friends.  As we began testing various models to get these programmers engaging with the world-beyond-code, we found a group of (mostly) young Romanians trained to think about solving problems, knowledgeable of a wide range of tool sets and just as passionate about