Be NetSquared: Year 3
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NetSquared is an initiative of TechSoup
NetSquared enables social benefit organizations to leverage the tools of the social web.
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PulseWire: Connecting women to transform our world.
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
We envision PulseWire as an electrifying new tool with the power to unleash the transformative potential of women’s and girl’s voices ─ at a time when empowering women is recognized as the most effective way to solve global problems.
NiJeL: Community impact through mapping – Harnessing the local knowledge of refugees
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
Refugees spend valuable time searching for nearby services and a social network. NiJeL will create an interactive mapping tool to give refugees and their providers a valuable baseline of spatial data and allow refugees to map their new communities.
Hear Our Pain Action Network
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
People are fed up with quality/availability of communications services. Markets and policymakers fail to listen. We aggregate data/public pain across media/telecom services, and provide means for that pain to put weight on levers of power.
Dropping Knowledge
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
dropping knowledge is participatory democracy and idea generation for the 21st century.
HIV ATLAS: Serving positively proud people
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
HIV ATLAS is an international technology initiative connecting Wants and Haves in the field of HIV/AIDS with a local perspective and global mindset.
MicroMentor 2.0 - Social capital for microentrepreneurs
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
MicroMentor 2.0 is an online community connecting microentrepreneurs (low-income entrepreneurs growing very small businesses) with a network of volunteer business experts to help them build their businesses (think LinkedIn for the little guy).
Telecommunications and Microfinances for The Poor and The Poorest
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
This project will provide rural families in the Andes of Peru with access to telecommunications and microfinancial services in their communities for the first time.
Amplafi: A Social Network for Organizations
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
Amplafi turns up the volume on the good stuff. Our web-based communications tool allows orgs to build responsive interest-based coalitions. We harness tagging—connecting change-makers—and cut background noise to increase desired communications.
HIV Collaborative Fund
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
Shouldn't people living with AIDS be involved in figuring out how AIDS money is spent? We raise the money. People living with HIV/AIDS around the world decide where the money goes through a process relying on social networking and technology.
Fallout - Bootcamping Progressive Candidates and Serving Local Communities
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
We fast track progressive political candidates and community activists through a well connected network of charitable organizations and non-profits, rapidly building up their political resumes and community exposure.
