Meet and Code Purpose Talks starts next week! Join a conversation about #girlsinSTEM on April 20th at 16.00 CET. Now in its fifth year, Meet and Code remains Europe’s favorite digital skills program for youth, and continues to grow in popularity and reach. This growth has added fuel to our purpose of promoting digital inclusion, by fostering […]
Together with Hive Mind, we are launching a 5-episode MEGAPHONE webinar series “ACTIVISTS WINNING THE ATTENTION ECONOMY GAME” dedicated to helping activists and NGO professionals better fight for the audience’s attention. Join us every Thursday of April (8, 15, 22, 29.04) and on May 6, 2021, always at 13.00 CET. Everyone and everything is fighting to get our attention […]
March 16, 2021, we celebrated the virtual Meet and Code Awards 2020. Almost 900 entries were received, and 15 finalists were shortlisted by an expert panel of judges. The following NGOs were awarded this year’s winning titles and received €2,000 in prize money: Girls do IT! Germany’s Webseminar by Mar de Colores e.V. Led by […]
It feels like AI4Good is going to be the BlockChain4Good of 2021 – lots of people talking about it, lots of hype and donor interest – but what does it mean for civil society really? Where is civil society already engaging? And if I were interested in leveraging AI, where would I begin? Watch the […]
On Friday, November 27, 2020, we completed the fourth edition of the Personal Democracy Forum Ukraine. This time, due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, it took place online, and thanks to live streams in social media, it reached over 20,000 users! This year’s # DFUA2020 program focused on the local dimension of digital transformation. […]
Below, you will find some of GAME CHANGER CAMP highlights and access to resources presented during CAMP as well as some of our CAMP-goers favourite sessions. About Game Changer The aim of the Game Changer project is to support NGOs, CSOs, and activists every step of the way in guiding young people to create youth-led […]
This year’s Personal Democracy Forum Ukraine will take place online on 25th – 27th November 2020. Registration is open until November 20. For three days we will discuss how to ensure sustainable and balanced digital transformation, in which central government agencies and mega-cities will not leave behind any region, including mid to small cities and […]
Normally, this time of the year we would be making travel arrangements for over 100 activists from Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia to come together at the MEGAPHONE 2020 event in one of the European cities. But this year has been nothing like normal that is why, for everyone’s safety, MEGAPHONE 2020 will be happening online. All the participants will meet […]
Game Changer’s CAMP is a free interactive 4-day ONLINE event coming 13-14, 20-21 October 2020. This is an inclusive and participant-driven unconference that examines and strengthens the relationship between online and offline technology and tools, and organisations working to address radicalization and polarisation among young people. Mission Our aim is to gather and build a network of […]
On September 1st, Kick-Off Event “Meet And Code” 2020 will begin two months of coding! On September 1st, at 11.00 CET Germany‘s Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community (BMI) including State Secretary Dr. Markus Richter for the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Hartmut Thomsen (President Middle & Eastern Europe, SAP) and Fabrizia Benini, Head of […]
Meet and Code 2019 has come to an end with Virtual Awards Ceremony. Lots of inspiring projects and progressive ideas were brought to life within the Meet and Code project. Today we met the best ideas in four categories: Community, Diversity, Girls Do IT!, Code for Planet. Scheduled to take place in Budapest during the month […]
On March 31, 2020, TechSoup Europe organised a webinar “True or False? How to Respond to Disinformation”. It was a local event in Poland dedicated to teachers, educators and academic lecturers. The numbers of registrations were 905, with 305 participants and a variety of partners who helped us spread the word about the webinar. The […]
The strategic development of NGOs is not possible without good leadership, but also without the wise use of technology. Digital tools can help organizations accomplish their mission better – but you must learn to use them well. ✅What is the role of NGO leaders in the digital transformation of their organization? ✅How should organizations improve […]
Artificial intelligence (AI) has an enormous potential in finding solutions that can solve problems that disadvantaged people are facing on a daily basis. Take part in the first Central & Eastern European AI Hackathon organised by VIA Association, TechSoup Partner from the Czech Republic, with support of Microsoft. The event is coming on February 4, […]
Earlier this year 100 activists, NGO professionals and journalists gathered in Budapest for MEGAPHONE 2019 – a 2-day event which centred around collaborative discussions and peer-to-peer learning. Participants came from 28 countries in Central Eastern Europe and Central Asia to share their experiences from working on the issues such as the environment, women’s rights, LGBT+ […]
