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First Day in Africa!
Note from NetSquared: Jennifer Sly is the Founder of YouthAssets, a Featured Project at the NetSquared Conference.
Well, I made to Johannesburg! It was a looooong flight - around 15.5 hours, not including the hour we sat on the tarmac. Has anyone travelled to Dulles lately? I forgot about the StarWars like "mobile lounges" they use to transport passengers to and from terminals, gates, and DIRECTLY TO THE PLANE. They packed everyone in it reminded me of New York subways!
Two weeks until NetSquared Conference!
Hi everyone,
First, I want to thank everyone from the netsquared community for all of their support. We are very excited and appreciative of this opportunity and have been thinking, writing, brainstorming, discussing, informational-interviewing, and working hard in preparation. As we enter the two weeks before the conference, I wanted to share with you all that we are doing to prepare for conference and to get your feedback and ideas!
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
