Posts tagged with Restart Romania.

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.”

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?

In my last post I looked at the USA’s decision to become an International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) signatory and what such an open data stance could mean for aid effectiveness.

December 13 marked an evolutionary moment, check out this video webinar (with guest Todi Pruteanu from Microsoft Romania) as we explored the technology which made Restart Romania a su

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