NetSquared teaming up with Sun Microsystems to produce global Hack Days. First stop, San Paolo, Brazil on October 1, 2008. Next up, China! Register: Collaborate for Change.
NetSquared is an initiative ofTechSoup
NetSquared enables social benefit organizations to leverage the tools of the social web.
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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.
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
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.
HELP International Telemedicine Humanitarian Emergency Mobile Medical Clinic Network
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
A telemedicine-based on-line community of physicians, financial donors and emergency personnel bringing advanced medical assistance to disaster zones and areas of chronic humanitarian need around the world.
Technology Vision:
One of the big challenges is making sure everyone (hospital networks, physicians and the public) can communicate on this platform.
Both ISDN and IP teleconference protocols need to be enabled so Polycom and Tandberg (two biggest teleconference medical platforms) can be used. The problem is those two companies don't play nice together. Thus we need another system that can talk to both. I met with Global Media (based in Scottsdale AZ) at the ATA conference earlier this week. They have a platform that could work. I'm not sure if they are just re-selling or if this is OEM they placed their logo on.
We need network building, blogs, etc. What ever works best is fine with me.
We need to keep in mind bandwidth requirements on teleconferencing as many times this will be done from remote locations with limited abilities.
We need satellite BGAN units (higher speed) and various broadband and wifi capabilities for use in various countries. While we have used the INMARSAT network, ideas of how to lower high sat costs would be great.
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:
