Net Tuesdays are a chance for social changemakers interested in the social web to come together offline to share success stories, learn about projects and tools, and collaborate. View up-coming Net Tuesday events:
Douala, Cameroon
Washington, DC
Montreal, QC
Find out if there is a Net Tuesday in your city, or start your own!
NetSquared is an initiative ofTechSoup
NetSquared enables social benefit organizations to leverage the tools of the social web.
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Sms based HIV/AIDS education quiz in Uganda
Is education in Africa changing as mobile telephony expands to rural areas and rates keep dropping?
WITNESS and the HUB
As we have said in previous post the power of the video have no limits. Just think about the images that we saw coming from the Beijing Olympics ceremony, or the images we saw coming from the quick war between Russia and Georgia. But there are other important issues that go uncovered. There are heart-breaking stories that go unheard. What news networks tend to cover are the political side of the issues, but hardly the human side. The reason being that they think they are not news worthy.
Why I think PulseWire is a major tool we should all support...
HI all,
I wanted to add a personal comment to the project description for PulseWire (www.pulsewire.net) because I truly believe that the mission and features of the project and web portal could dramatically change women's lives by putting needed resources and tools into their hands. I hope you will take another look at this project and realize how significant a project it is and help us to get it developed to share with all.
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.
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.
The Nata Village blog. A unique opportunity to witness the battle to control the spread of HIV/AIDS in an African village
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
Nata, Botswana is a village of hope. Donations from the blog:
http://natavillage.org are used to help the 400 orphans, people living with HIV/AIDS, Nata clinic, and a youth group.
Sharing and engaging
Well I'm glad I found Net2 yesterday, right up my street as we say, as that's where we're coming from. A selection of other projects on the go which I haven't submitted here.
First, there's the campaign to raise awareness of the Holodomor, or Famine-Genocide in Ukraine, the aim being to leverage public support and encourage MEPs to sign up to a UN declaration.
Then there's the current day issue of HIV/AIDS awareness and a collaboration with others using the medium of music to spread the message:
