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Restart Romania Challenge: Taking it to the Streets…and to the Web (Part 3)

Chris Worman
11:41pm
November 22, 2011

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

Restart Romania Challenge: Taking it to the Streets…and to the Web (Part 1)

Chris Worman
2:22pm
November 18, 2011

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

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