Net Tuesdays or Net2 Local gatherings provide a chance to connect locally with all those interested in the intersection of social technologies and social change. There are new groups forming every week: Join in!
One of the Featured Projects, Innovatorz, has been recording some of their fellow Featured Projects' stories about their "moment of inspiration."
You can hear stories from MAPLight, FamilyFarmed.org, HELP International Telemedicine Humanitarian Emergency Mobile Medical Clinic Network, Grassroots.org, Global Women's Leadership Network, Nabuur: The Global Neighbour Network and Kabissa.org here.
And the link is..
Many thanks go out to the innovatorz.org folks for organizing this nifty audioblog for us.
In case you're having trouble finding the link, it's hidden behind the word 'here'. :-)
Or here:
http://blog.innovatorz.org/
I enjoyed participating in this experiment - though I have to say it's a little frightening to hear my voice uncut! And I missed some critical bits: I've told that story so many times, I can't believe I forgot to mention that Kabissa was dreamed up on the back of a napkin, literally, at a bar in Ikeja, Nigeria called "Goat Hunters".
Kim and I wrote down the story back in 2002 for the ICT Stories Competition, link here:
http://www.iicd.org/photos/iconnect/Stories/Story.import4959
The most fun part is here:
Cheers,
Tobias
Kabissa - Space for Change in Africa
http:/www.kabissa.org