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Lost (and Found) in Translation: My Experience at RightsCon (Part I)

From Expression to Listening by Marc Manashil, TechSoup Global Community Evangelist

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to participate in the Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference (a.k.a. RightsCon.org) sponsored by ACCESS-- an advocacy organization that focuses on digital and internet rights.Read More

A Social Media Case Study: Where Did the Apathy Go? by Daniel Ben-Horin

The young Romanian guy looks at the camera and straight facedly enumerates the three contributions of his new website and specifically how it will benefit Romanian "regular Joes." The first contribution is,

"Regular Joe will learn from the website where bribe prices are lower and will use free market principles to get the price of bribery down, down, down."Read More

Occupy, Digital Activism and Social Hacking

On the NetSquared blog, Alicja Pezkowska of our Warsaw-based team, Fundacja TechSoup, has been watching the Occupy/Indignantes/M-15 movement spread worldwide and has taken a critical look at the role of social media iRead More

Report from RightsCon: Digital Access as a Human Right by Sheetal Singh

The Arab Spring has reminded us of the power of technology and the prominent role it can play in social upheaval. But despite the extraordinary events of the Spring, it remains to be seen if technology is the great equalizer it could be, or yet another tool that concentrates power in the hands of the few who try to speak for the many.Read More

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