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Weekly Roundup 5/31/17
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This past week, NDI attended the Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF). Nicknamed the “Davos for Human Rights”, it seeks to bring together high-profile activists…
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Bitcoin agreement reached at Consensus 2017 Conference
In this week’s news, a scaling agreement for Bitcoin was reached, with implications for both…
FixMyCommunity Platform in Kosovo Starting to Show Results
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Guest Post by Jetmir Bakija:
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Weekly Roundup 5/3/17
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As we start up the weekly roundup after a break, we’ll be grabbing some news from the past few weeks. One significant event that happened in that period was…
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Using Redis as a Twitter Ingest Buffer
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Why use Redis?
Using Redis is a great way to buffer ingest operations in the event that there is a database issue or some other piece of the process fails. Redis is fast. Extremely fast. Up to hundreds of thousands of SET…
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Citizens monitoring election data in Zambia
Exciting news, readers! NDItech is offering a chance for you to become involved with our team. Thats right, NDItech is hiring an intern for the…
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Mojokerto: OpenGov & Technology
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Brainstorming city priorities and next steps.
In November 2016, NDI convened government officials and citizen leaders for workshops in three cities in order to assess progress on strategic innovation plans, and discuss approaches to technology and open data that would improve citizen…
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