It has been a while since I have posted on the WCDP blog.  This is a way of provding an update and informing about the projects we have been working on. 

We have, for the past 4 years, been providing micro credit loans to women in Uganda.  Currently we have provided nearly $10,000 in loans to almost 100 women over the course of 7 loan cycles.  We have had over 99% of the loans repaid without default. 

NewsTrust is a N2Y2 Featured Project that was created as a free online social news network to help people find and share good journalism. Three years later, NewsTrust is still helping people make more informed decisions through journalism and offers an integrated online service which includes a news filter, media literacy tools and a civic engagement network.

Recently, NewsTrust has been expanding its platform and over the next six months plans to run pilot programs for use of the following tools:

I recently had the opportunity to connect with John Brennan, the driving force behind OpenAction.org, which empowers individuals and organizations by helping them tell the world about the positive impact their actions have.  John participated in the Change the Web Challenge from Social Actions in 2009 and received $5,000 for his winning Project: Social Actions Interactive Map.  You ca

I recently had the opportunity to catch up on the work the Digital Democracy team is doing.  Digital Democracy was an N2Y4 Featured Project.  Here's a great recap from Emily and Mark:

I've been working head down for so long that I've forgotten to pull up and look around.  My aggregator's groaning with the weight of items I want to share via the net2 tag. I'll tell the truth: I've been head down because I've been suffering from a little doubt.

We started this with, well, if you've been around for a while you remember the first version of this site. And in the labs here, we've been working hard to make our vision real -- a community coming together to share knowledge, build solutions and connect with one another.  As I look around, it feels like it's starting to happen.