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My Very Favorite 5 (+3)
OK, I’ve checked them all out and here are my favorite NetSquared Innovation Award proposals. Britt asked us to choose just five, but I saw a good twenty to thirty that had potential:
1. Throngz: The Online Discussion Space That Comes And Gets You*
- Throngz can be used by everybody, not just by people working on hunger, say, or homelessness, or the environment, or whatever issue it might be.
- Throngz is a tool that can add value to every social networking site and to every community of people who long to make deeper, more substantive connections on the Internet.
- The challenges that motivated the creation of Throngz resonate with other Internet users.
- Throngz doesn’t depend on others being present at a particular site for you to interact with them. It helps cure us of “portal-itis.”
- Throngz counters the “diffusion of attention” that occurs each time we go on the Internet.
Sobering Truth or Cyber-Heresy?
Tom Watson at onLine discusses many of the frustrations that led to the development of Throngz.
A Global Neighbour Network: NABUUR.com
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
NABUUR is an internet platform where villages in developing countries get direct assistance. Online volunteers help create whatever is needed in 150 villages now, and with your help in 10,000 villages soon: a societal revolution in the making!
Social Web Tools for Developing Countries: Yankana.org
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
Yankana is a project designed to help non profits located in developing countries to adopt and benefit from social web tools in their fields of work, without technical skills, financial resources for infrastructure or english language knowledge.
Technology Vision:
Web based services working on GNU/Linux servers. Open source customized tools: CMS/Blog (i.e. Joomla, Drupal), Web based e-mail (i.e. Squirrelmail + Sendmail + Spamassassin), Community website (PHP based), Wiki (MediaWiki) and others.
