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Ashoka is implementing for the first time in Greece the Impact program, a social impact strengthening program of selected Greek initiatives. The non-profit organization Ashoka has been in the field of social entrepreneurship for 35 years. Today it is the world's largest network of social entrepreneurs - men and women who put their innovative ideas into practice to systematically solve social problems.

Having supported over 102 initiatives in Europe through the Impact program, Ashoka aims to identify the most promising social initiatives in Greece, help them at an organizational level and support them to grow so as to multiply their positive impact in the society. More information about the program can be found here.

The selection criteria of the participants were, inter alia, their innovative character, their positive social impact and their dynamics. The organizations selected are SciCo, Paths of Greece, Alma, Bloode, Recycle at Source, Sarantaporo.gr and StartUp Boat.

Postgraduate Thesis: "The Exploitation of Digital Technology as a Growth Factor in Remote and Rural Areas - The Case of the Sarantaporo Nonprofit Organisation"

The purpose of this postgraduate thesis is to investigate how a nonprofit organization, in this case the Sarantaporo.gr NPO, has undertaken the installation, operation and expansion of a Community Wireless Network in the greater Sarantaporo area, Elassona Municipality, in collaboration with residents and stakeholders of the region, can benefit the socio-economic development of a rural and remote area.

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On Saturday, April 16, 2016, as part of the FOSSCOMM 2016 event that will take place at the University of Piraeus, the documentary "Building Community of Commons in Greece. A Documentary about The Sarantaporo.gr Community Network" will be shown for the first time publicly at the Amphitheater 002.

The documentary has been shot over the last 3 years in the Greater Sarantaporo area by Personal Cinema with the support of Sarantaporo.gr and crowd funding through a crowdfunding campaign on the Goteo platform involving 88 people from Greece and abroad.

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Transmediale is a festival of media art and digital culture that has been held every February for a week in Berlin since 1988. The main pillars on which the festival's themes are developed are reflective, aesthetic and hypothetical that develop between art, technology and culture. As Wikipedia puts it: "The festival seeks to express a critical understanding of technology as something more than the digital world, as well as culture as something more than what emerges through the regulated fields of production".

The workshop that Sarantaporo.gr participated in and presented the community network as well as excerpts from the upcoming documentary: "Building Community of Commons in Greece. A Documentary about The Sarantaporo.gr Community Network" was the "Off-the-Cloud Zone" co-organized in collaboration with the ΜΑΖΙ project. The term or otherwise is used to describe the applications, transfer and storage of information in large databases commonly owned by companies, such as Google or Facebook, a practice that is at the heart of criticism nowadays as security, privacy and ways of using content that users produce and market, are questioned.

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