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N2Y3Con: 21 Featured Projects - Two Minute Wrap-Up

Hi again. It's Brenda Hough here, live-blogging one of the final events. It's hard to believe that it was just yesterday that I was blogging the 21 Featured Project Two Minute Introductions. Now I'm back in the same room, blogging the 21 Featured Project Two Minute Wrap-Ups!

1. MoveSmart.org "Would not have made sense a few years ago, but now.... MoveSmart.org drectly confronts prejudices and barriers about integrated neighborhoods."

2. Squarepeg "Help filter social data" "We're a lean mean software production machine."

3. Freecycle Network "We've got 5.1 million members. We're about community and paying it forward in your own community. We're growing by about 40,000 members per week. Taking to next level with cell phone in developing world. This is a powerful tool for re-use."

4. Map This! "Take what we have learned in building healthycity.org and expand to a broader range."

5. Ask Your Lawmaker "We're mashing up the best of shoe leather level reporting... with the best of Web 2.0.... Now more than ever it's important that citizens have a voice at the table.... Citizen-driven content.... A way of holding power to account."

6. Green Map "Taking down barriers to participation... the open green map. Now only open to 460 registered green map subscribers... want to open it up to everyone."

7. Greener One "We build eco-ratings for consumer products.... We believe in using market forces for changing the marketplace. We offer something that's attractive for retailers to publish to their customers. We create a marketplace where companies compete on environmental attributes and that's how we bring about large-scale change."

8. MAPLight.org "Mapping money and politics.... We're witnessing a growing trend towards transparency and my organization is part of this trend towards transparency... transparency accountability and change."

9. City of New Orleans "Citizen monitoring of the recovery"

10. Assetmap.org "Assets are connections that you can leverage.... Visualization of assets within and across organizations. Asset mapping has had a transformative effect.... The scope of this methodology is limited currently by ability to train practitioners. It needs to be digitized.... Needs to be systematized, democratized, and scaled."

11. OpenCongress.org "Now everyone can be an insider." "Comments from real-world people who engage on opencongress.... Starting a discussion and encouraging people to get involved. Help us build public knowledge about congress."

12. Your Mapper "Put the pwer of unlocking government data into hands of local citizens and also allow local governments to input their data." "Running in Louisville, KY for two years and is amazingly successful."

13. Anti-Genocide Action Tracker "What if we made it easier for people who care to do more? Gives tools to take simply meaningful action...."

14. KnowMore.org "Firefox extension.... ratings.... corporate accountability... enables more informed purchasing decisons."

15. A Mashup of 29+ Social Action Platforms "Social actions search interface... an open API."

16. Rosetta Project "Global archive of language information. More than 100,000 pages of material that cover 2500 different languages. There are 7000 languages spoken in world now. 90% expected to disappear. Want to prevent that. Proposing geographic portal. Representation of where their language is spoken. Lang revitalization."

17. OneWorld Connect "A trusted space... over 13 years in this space... every 5 years we scratch what we have and re-build; 2008 is one of those years...."

18. Ushahidi "crowdsourcing crisis information... allows anyone around the world to report crisis information... deployed in Kenya and in South Africa... "

19. MetaVid "have build a framework of interfaces which open archive of congressional video to participation... open source... open content.... political transparency..."

20. CorpWatch "create a mashup of Edgar database that demonstrates

21. Volunteer Now! "a latent volunteer economy waiting to be unlocked? matching spare time with desire to give back"

Reps from each of the 21 featured projects have spoken and now ... conference attendees will vote!

 

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