NASA, USAID, The Department of State, and NIKE joined together to form LAUNCH: Energy Challenge in an effort to identify, showcase and support innovative approaches to global sustainability challenges. LAUNCH searches for visionaries whose world-class ideas, technologies or programs show great promise for making tangible impacts on society in the developed and/or developing worlds.

Thanks everyone who's invovled with the NetSquared Mobile challenge this year! I'm excited about all the projects, and thrilled to launch I Am Your Witness. Check out the project page and the website, iamyourwitness.org.

The Change the Web Challenge from Social Actions is now officially open! Change the Web Challenge is about building innovative tools to help people find and share opportunities to take action on the Web sites, blogs, and social networks that we all visit every day. "We want you to dream up a new tool to help people find and share actions.

Earlier this week, conn+ipedia had its public launch. It is a wiki designed for those working for the common good as a place to share knowledge and connect around People, Places and Things. It's a new kind of wiki, built on Wagn, that combines wiki with database functionality. Here are some links to get you started:

Read some of my thoughts on what I learned from the development process of connec+ipedia!

Read some reasons why I think connec+ipedia will change how you think of a wiki!