NetSquared teaming up with Sun Microsystems to produce global Hack Days. Sao Paolo, Brazil was a success on October 1, stay tuned for an update. Next up, China!
NetSquared is an initiative ofTechSoup
NetSquared enables social benefit organizations to leverage the tools of the social web.
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A Citizen Meeting for Justice with Local Faith Communities. R.S.V.P.
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
Congregation-Based Community Organizations create public meetings to leverage social change. To win hard issues grassroots leaders must engage more people to build larger events.
Stop Family Violence
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
Stop Family Violence will use Web 2.0 technologies to empower local programs, enhance information sharing, help people find the services they need, promote local leadership, and coordinate activism that will keep women and children safe.
Games for Change
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
Dubbed an early “Sundance of Video Games”, G4C is an exciting new activist movement and supporting non-profit dedicated to using games for positive social change.
Grassroots.org Toolbox
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
The Grassroots.org Toolbox will empower nonprofit organizations by granting free access to a suite of fully configured & hosted online tools, including content management, online event registration software, and CRM.
Technology Vision:
Many of the tools we are integrating into the Grassroots.org Toolbox are open source, and thus have been freely downloadable for years. However, “Free” though they may be, these tools cost thousands of dollars to install, learn, configure and support. In short, these tools may have no list price, but they are far from free to implement. The result? They're not empowering as many nonprofits as they could be.
- The Toolbox will automatically:
- provision and install these technology tools,
- configure them correctly for immediate use,
- host them permanently,
- -provide comprehensive training and support resources (both in traditional text and in new media, such as screencasts and training videos)
All for free.
To achieve this, we'll build an integrated user interface to manage Toolbox applications and services, under which we'll develop a flexible and scalable automatic provisioning system. We are assigning multiple staff members to develop exhaustive training and support materials in response to the needs of incoming clients and creating a publicly-available end-user guide for each of the tools we offer. The goal is the technological empowerment of nonprofit organizations everywhere.
Digital Divide Data's project: A networking resource for disadvantaged people in Cambodia and Laos
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
DDD provides socially responsible outsourcing services to clients and creates better futures for our employees in Cambodia and Laos. DDD will build an online forum for our graduates as a way to provide ongoing networking and growth opportunties.
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.
YouthAssets - Connecting the World's Most Vulnerable Youth
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
YouthAssets will develop a web-based knowledge management tool that utilizes the latest mapping technologies and collaboration tools to enable youth and their supporters to share critical information about and for HIV/AIDS orphans in Southern Africa.
Technology Vision:
Current technical components of YouthAssets are: (1) Collaborative website that will include user profiles and shared spaces (Drupal or other) (2) Collaborative database that will integrate existing data as well create an interface to add new data on youth in Africa and resources available (SQL server or Oracle, ESRI, etc.) (3) Maps of aggregated data into visual format (Google Earth or other) (4) Use of software to be used on mobile devices
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.
OpenPlans.org
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
OpenPlans is a free, hosted, and integrated suite of web-based tools intended to give active citizens the resources they need to organize virtually to effect real world change.
Dropping Knowledge
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
dropping knowledge is participatory democracy and idea generation for the 21st century.
