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FLIP Contest – now begins the evaluation

The betterplace lab team is excited. By the time our official deadline for the FLIP video contest ended yesterday evening, we had received ideas and stories from 240 applicants worldwide. And from this pool, 68 sent us their film ideas. 48 of those followed our contest criteria and are now being evaluated. By this weekend, [...]
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Pan-handling for the homeless

The Pennergame Team appears unbeatable. Almost 800 virtual homeless players have gathered together on the online role-playing “Penner Game” (penner means “pan-handler”) and have collected over 27,000 Euros. And about 4,000 of that is directed to mob Inc. and their project to renovate the common room. The Ostkreuz School photographer Daniel Seiffert has captured this [...]
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Happy World Day for Cultural Development!

Today (the 21st of May) is the World Day for Cultural Development. Yesterday’s world was set on its differences but today we focus on unification. UNESCO is celebrating this with an International festival of Cultural Diversity. Here in Berlin we have a Carneval of cultures (Karneval der Kulturen). Lets celebrate our cultures together and keep [...]
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Better city, better life makes the world a better place

EXPO in Shanghai Arriving at the EXPO sight makes you feel like you have entered a modern city with electric buses and one building is more impressive than the other. Not all of the pavilions focused on the topic of a better city as in being more environmental friendly. A visit to the astonishing Saudiarabian [...]
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Kamruzzaman and Mrs. Schmidt

The last photo slideshow blogpost showed frollicking ponies and happy children. Now it gets more serious. The AKINDA project, a network for one-on-one guardianship in Berlin, provides unaccompanied refugee minors in Germany with mentors who see their side of things. I this way, AKINDA brought together Kamruzzaman Sarker and Mrs. Schmidt, whose shared everyday lives [...]
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A Chinese Tail of censorship and butterflies

After spending a couple of days outside of Shanghai in Hangzhou, a tourist paradise in China I already feel my addiction to Facebook and twittering to share my life with friends and family is kicking in. I can get online and access all the international media websites that I wished to. I could read about [...]
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An equestrian feast for the eyes

Last year we sent out out betterplace works! brochure (in German only). But we think the photos that Ostkreuz Photo School photographers made about five different projects continue to be beautiful. We only published photos from three projects in our printed version of the brochure since there are limits where paper and printing is concerned. [...]
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Journalism for all

We can all be journalists – citizen journalists. Start right away by writing what cool projects you are working with or supporting! Maybe you could even get the chance to see your article featured by BBC one day! We would also love to read your stories. Write us a comment with your website so that [...]
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The Garden of Freedom

3rd of My 2010: Today is the international freedom of Press day: Reporters without borders states that already this year (20101): 9 journalists have been killed 167 journalists have been imprisoned 9 Media assistents have been imprisoned 120 netizens have been imprisoned We would like to invite you to take a tour through the virtual [...]
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Fun can create change

We often hear that betterplace.org is great because we think that making the world a little bit better is fun and nothing that should be misused by appealing to someone’s bad conscious. We are how ever not alone with this perspective: an Image-campaign called the Fun Theory, claims that fun is the easiest way to [...]
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