StuffBee aims to promotes “give and take” on Mobiles

StuffBee gives the opportunity to anybody having redundant objects to avoid trashing them by meeting other persons in need of those objects within the same geographic area, thanks to their mobile and Internet.

Benefits are multiple: increasing interaction between unknown persons, save time and money, avoid recycling.

At first sight, this project may seems exactly the same as "Freecycle Cellular Osmosis" but the application is operational and the project scope is broader:

- Deploy the ultimate "give & take" application in hands of 3 billion users.

- Broadcast the free object database created by mobile users with existing "give & take" websites to unify users of Internet and Mobile communities.

- Help bulky object departments to broadcast reusable stuff to persons living within the publication area instead of recycling usable objects.

- Help local humanitarian associations by increasing visibility of available items and give a better service to people in need.

StuffBee has been designed initially for Android mobiles. It will soon be ported to all other mobiles.

StuffBee is operational and shows an attractive, compelling, multithread design optimized to offer a rich give & take user experience.

Languages available are English and French.
In June, StuffBee will feature 10 Languages scaled to a total of 70 languages in September.

Our country is facing the Iraq War, the War on Terror, the Drug War, environmental policies, support for Africa, education, and health.

Our congressional representatives are supposed to represent our interest, but are under increasing pressure from lobbyist, corporations, and big money. 

Govit is a website that is inspired to help balance the power, and get your voice heard on the issues.

•  On Govit you can learn about popular legislation, and discuss it
• Vote on legislation and have your vote sent instantly to your representatives
• Compare your votes to your representative and other members
• Connect with other members and rally support for issues

Givvy is a comprehensive online giving management system launching in early June. This is a real project with a dedicated team working without funding at this point.

Charitiable giving is personally and emotionally rewarding. By providing a framework and set of tools to improve the way we support our causes, Givvy users will feel more satisfied and successful with their giving.

Givvy is a system to enable donors to accomplish the following:

1. easily create and manage their giving plan
2. research over 1 million charities/nonprofits
3. execute their giving (donate thorugh Network for Good) and track donations made via other methods (mail, phone, etc.)
4. analyze their giving footprint - what types of charities, what geographic reach, how close their actual giving is to their plan, etc.

At Givvy we believe that better tools for giving can result in a better world.

This is a simple mashup using Network for Good’s donation API, with a particular focus on enhancing the donor experience with a virtualization of recent donations.

The NFG API mashed-up with a Google map would show all donations made to specific causes (by location) for a given time period over a US or World map.

This could be used on the homepage of Network for Good - to inspire others based on the action currently taking place.

This will make it so easy to donate small amounts that it will rapidly gain acceptance, and raise oodles of money like never before. Hopefully, this will allow us to find the cure for brain tumors.

The idea is to create a mashup that would allow major online retailers like amazon, ebay, buy.com, etc to add one line of code to thier checkout form, which interacts with the network for good API.  This API will allow people to manage thier preferences - which would be to select a non-profit to donate to, as well as to elect to round up the purchase price to the nearest dollar - and then add 1 dolllar to it. For example: Once a user registers, there is a cookie set in thier profile which says they want to support the musella foundation and to OK the addition of the donation to the order. They go to amazon.com, and when they checkout, the network for good API alerts the checkout form that we are participating - and to add the donation to the total. If the total is 25.25, this would round up to 26, then add 1 for a total of $27.  Of this, the $1.25 goes to the charity.

   Nobody will really object - it is such a small amount at each transaction, but there are millions of such transactions each week, which could raise over a million dollars in donations per week!

Unfortunately, I don't have the know how to program the api part and would need a volunteer to help!

Young Racers of America was created simply due to the need of so many children that have a passion to participate in motorsports. Some children dream of playing Pro-football or Baseball when they grow up.  They see their favorite player out there playing the game.  They join the local little leagues and practice hard, they grow up and get scholarships and play in college and pray they make it pro.  Now what is the difference between the children who want to play ball compared to the child who wants to race?   Non-profit corporations that will help make their dreams come true.  Just about every sport or performing arts division has a financial support system to help them along the way; racing was left for those whose families had money, or connections.  We wanted to help

If we join the user base of Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger and AOL AIM, we have more than 300 million people around the world.
Plus, if we consider that the best method to communicate/inform about a cause is the mouth-to-mouth.
Then, we have the P2P Donation via Instant Messaging mashup.

My idea consist in a serie of Instant Messenger add-ons that permit the users donate and invite more users to get more information and
donate for a charity through the Network for Good API, giving quick and easy access to donation, and improving the donator experience.

The features of this add-ons are:
* Search for charities or volunteer oportunities
* Share/Tell your friends about a charity
* Make a donation for an specific charity
* Get news/information about the charities that you support
* Use Badges/images/icons for the charities that you support

Please, feel free to leave feedback/suggestions about this idea.

Today Grameen Phone has more than 10 million subscribers, connects 100 million people through 250,000 phone ladies, who buy phones on microloans from the Grameen Bank and lease air time to villagers to make a living after paying off their loans. Today a phone lady earns on an average $750 a year, which is double the average annual income of a Bangladeshi. Grameen Phone has revenues of $1 billion and annual profits of $200 million.

Despite the success of microfinance around the world, nearly two billion people still lack access to financial services. In several countries, technology approaches are emerging that have the potential to bring financial services to those that microfinance has found difficult to reach up to now. Brazil’s banks use 90,000 electronic terminals in retail outlets as a low-cost channel for hard-to-reach areas. Millions of people in the Philippines receive remittances and make purchases using their mobile phones. Banks in India are sharing their technology platforms with microfinance institutions (MFIs) to expand their product range and reduce costs. Mobile technologies can be used to serve those without access to formal financial services.

Mobiles will be the PC for the people who don’ t have the resources to get computers and connect to the Net. Some 70-80% of poor consumers in the world are still without mobile phones, but millions of subscribers are added each year as the price of handsets drops and coverage expands.

Research by the London Business School has shown that 10 phones per 100 people add 0.6% to the GDP of a country and the United Nations estimates that 0.6% growth cuts poverty by 1.2%. 4 billion people living on less than $2 at the bottom of the pyramid. A recently report estimates that these 4 billion people in poverty are a $5 trillion market.

Our inspiration is the notable story of Grameen Phone. The project will provide rural families in the Andes of Peru with access to microfinancial services in their communities for the first time. The project will in particular employ an extremely economical open source technology for cellphones, " OpenMoko ", which support all Web2.0 services and an unique, cost-efficient and effective way to deliver, commercialize and financing these services.

Agri Mashup is a strategic tool to increase data utilization for creating new economic opportunities and will have a considerable impact on facilitating access to information and knowledge for the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) segment.

Agriculture is possibly the most important sector at the BoP. It provides livelihoods and subsistence for the largest number of people worldwide. The technology and knowledge largely exist today to make agriculture profitable, inclusive and sustainable.

Farmers and entrepreneurs at the BoP, especially those in rural communities, face many barriers due to a variety of obstacles:
- Informal business environments and inadequate management of processes.
- Insufficient information and know-how to adapt to markets needs and demands
- Lack of productivity, quality and excellence, their products are often unfinished.
- Serious difficulties to built relationships with suppliers, costumers and partners.
- Low levels of capitalization

Our project will target inclusive and sustainable agriculture at the Base of Pyramid (BoP) in order to boost income, employment, quality of life and help to alleviate poverty. It will help to incorporate farmers and low-income entrepreneurs into the value chains of big agro-industrial businesses in a sustainable and inclusive way.

Agri Mashup offer relevant content by visualizing key information in areas such as market demands, legal advice, sources of financing, government services, business opportunities and technical information. It also addresses some of the major problems facing farmers and low-income entrepreneurs: access to formal economy, integration with global markets, fair trade conditions, better prices and how to giving aggregate value to their products. These people have limited education and understanding of business models. However these creative and successful people are true entrepreneurs who are generating real income, they are able to get themselves out poverty and all they need is access to right tools.

This project also present opportunity for visionary companies looking for new markets to increase competitive advantage while helping BoP communities meet their basic needs but also accelerate economic growth, reduce inequality and poverty.

The Social Actions mashup will free peer-to-peer social change campaigns from the social action platforms on which they were created, resulting in the unrestricted flow of active campaigns from the people who created them to the people who are most likely to get involved.

Please have a look at the widget we are using to promote the mashup proposal.

Update 3/14/08: On Monday, March 17, we are planning to have a proof-of-concept version of the mashup available at:

http://mashup.socialactions.com

What is it?
The Social Actions mashup will popularize an open-standard for indexing peer-to-peer social change campaigns using the hListing micro-format, or something similar, and will provide stunning examples of how this semantic data once aggregated can be mapped visually according location, area of interest, or active participation.

Here's a screen shot of the front end:

How will it work?
The mashup will combine 29+ XML feeds of the latest peer-to-peer social change campaigns from a range of social action platforms.

Social action platforms that may contribute content include: BetterPlace, BringLight, CanadaHelps, Care2, Change.org, ChangingthePresent, ChipIn, Convio, DemocracyInAction, DonorsChoose, Facebook Causes, Firstgiving, Fundable, GiveMeaning, GlobalGiving, Helpalot, Kiva, ModestNeeds, MyCause.com.au, Nabuur, PledgeBank, Razoo, ShoutBack, SproutBuilder, SixDegrees, ThePoint, and ZaZengo.