NetSquared enables social benefit organizations to leverage the tools of the social web.

Hot Spot

Be NetSquared: Year 3

Want a N2Y3 recap? View attendee blogs, vlogs and comments at Be NetSquared.

Congratulations to the N2Y3 Winners, in order: Ushahidi, KnowMore.org and Social Actions! Continue to show your support for all 21 Featured Projects. See the DonateNow and Yahoo! Green winners on the Challenges and Awards page.

VoteRightNow

The Idea:

What will change in the world because this Project happens?

VoteRightNow is about changing the way our democracy works, right now! It's simple but elegant, really. Viral voting will sweep the land as the voters refuse to wait out time consuming and overpriced campaigns. THE PEOPLE will instead opt to instantly elect a candidate with a basic online or mobile phone button/code that asks them to answer one easy question: "Who do you want to be elected...candidate X,Y, or Z?" When political office holders are not coming through, instant recall buttons can similarly allow any and all voters to virtually throw the bum out with another press of the button and the instant tallying of local, regional, national, or international results. The more people that participate on VoteRightNow, the more powerful and accurate a tool it becomes. And the more powerful it becomes, the less usefull long, drawn out election campaign cycles and expensive formal voting become. VoteRightNow saves everyone time and money, and helps to foster greater democratic participation in the process.

What information will people interact with to make this change?

People with interact with a smallish widget on any website or cell phone that asks them a voter-relevant question, like who do you want to be President of the United States: Hillary Clinton, Barak Obama, or John McCain?" Or it could say "Should local city mayor X stay in office?". All votes are instantly tallied and a current, up to date vote count is made visible on the screen overlayed with a map of all voter locations. Finally, The mashup will include a sidebar for advertising. That's how it gets paid for and is part of the business model for long term improvements and sustainability. And we need it to be sustainable so we can do things like translate the tool into multiple languages and ultimately host a site where global, up-to-the-minute voting becomes centralized and easily searchable.

What else have you done in this Cause Area?

Not nearly enough...but time's a wastin so let's not talk about me!

The Assessment

What kind of help or resources do you need to turn your project idea into a completed mashup?

Any and all you can throw at us!!! Graphical designers, techies, product managers, marketers, and ESPECIALLY deep-pocketed pals who are committed to political reform.

Mashup Data Sources

Please help us spread the word...Daddy didn't leave me a URL or link trust fund! And Momma certainly didn't want me to have a hand-me-down mashup. I need a brand new shiny one!!!

The Team

Additional Project Idea Representative: Sign on comrades - we need you!!!
Project Designer Hopefully a damn good one.
Project Engineer Preferably a geek with attitude!

Host

Cisco

Sponsors

  • Microsoft
  • Yahoo
  • Business Objects
  • Raincity Studios
  • Mozilla Foundation
  • Ready Talk
  • .
  • Adobe
  • Linden Lab
  • Network For Good
  • Wild Apricot
  • Stanford Social Innovation Review
  • L'Atelier North America
  • The Panelist
  • Good
  • Fora.tv
Partner with Net2
Net2 is a project of TechSoup.org

User login

Subscribe to Net2News

Sign up for NetSquared's e-newsletter


Sitemap

About

Share

Projects

Conferences

Partner