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Great reads from around the web on April 14th

Amy Sample Ward

.)" The DigiActive Guide to Twitter for Activism | DigiActive.org - "Following the recent protests in Moldova, the value of Twitter as a tool for digital activism is more prominent than ever. " Penguin Day Agenda - pd.aspirationtech.org - Are you heading to the NTC this month?

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Twitter for Activism Tool VS Strategy Debate and A New Twitter Activism Guide

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And while quite, different from the "mainstream" use of Twitter by nonprofits , Ivan warns against tool-driven decisions for activism campaigns: It's certainly exciting to see technology being used in ways that amplify and extend the impact of movement organizing. What are some of the best examples of digital activism that use Twitter?

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Authorities have taken down the dark web’s largest illegal marketplace

The Verge

German law enforcement arrested the Australian man believed to be the operator of the illegal site, and seized 20 servers that hosted it, bringing an end to what had become a hotbed of illegal activity. Before its closure, DarkMarket hosted close to 500,000 users and had facilitated over 320,000 transactions, according to Europol.

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Governments should invest in their diaspora founders

TechCrunch

the global hubs of entrepreneurial activity ?all Yet, for every public intervention that spurs entrepreneurial activity, there are many failed efforts that waste untold billions in taxpayer dollars … [The book] reveals the common flaws undermining far too many programs ? Silicon Valley, Singapore, Tel Aviv ? Canada and Europe.

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IFC and other impact investors return to backing Ukraine startups, with new $250M fund aimed at founders under the gun

TechCrunch

Horizon Capital , an investment firm based out of Kyiv, is in the process of raising a $250 million fund that it plans to use to back tech startups in the country and neighboring Moldova. Just one year later, in 2021, ffVC noted that CEE investment rose to $3.6

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Mark Pesce at CUA09 - Think Like a Cloud, Make a Storm, Kill the Tower!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The power of sharing allows individuals to come together in great “clouds” of activity, and allows them to focus their activity around a single task. Without that constant activity, the cloud dissipates, evaporating into nothing at all. Ethan Zuckerman recently did an analysis of tweets from Moldova and found this to be true.

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Guest Post by Ivan Boothe: Social change takes more than social media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Which is not to diminish the hard work of social justice organizers in Moldova. The author's point about social media providing an outlet for people's activism that sucks away people's time for real social change is an excellent one. (A Mad props to them.)