NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoup.org - Peace

The story behind Assetmap.org/Uganda

nlwhittemore — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:36:41 -0400

As you know, we’re currently competing in Netsquared’s Mashup Challenge competition with our project, “Assetmap.org/Uganda”

Have you no respect for human life?

idearist — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:45:34 -0400

Vote for Honoring Historymakers & Storytellers mashup. Your sex worker could change health law. Grátis.

Twelve groups win in the Peace Primary -- TrueMajority takes home grand prize

mstein63 — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:42:40 -0500

Twelve groups are sharing in an amazing $327,000 raised from thousands of voters in the first-ever Ploughshares Fund online Peace Primary. The Vermont-based TrueMajority garnered the most votes and came away with the grand prize of a $100,000 grant from Ploughshares Fund. Every other group experienced a fundraising boost at this critical time, and most came away with new members and new donors.

Peace Primary final results:

1. TrueMajority
2. Refugees International
3. American Friends Service Committee
4. Union of Concerned Scientists

volunteers needed

smallsteps — Sun, 06 May 2007 15:14:06 -0400

hi there,

we're a small group of people from the UK who are travelling to israel and the palestinian territories overland this summer. we go with the intention to learn about non-violence, ourselves, the world and what individuals can do to effect social change.

Ten Tech Proposals Empowering Social Change: Human Rights, Community Education and Local Leadership

quixotic — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:49:52 -0400

As everyone has mentioned, picking just a few selections from the excellent proposals to nominate for the NetSquared Technology Innovation Fund is very hard, given the quality of the proposals — I can't imagine anyone will be voting for fewer than 10!

I helped to develop the Genocide Intervention Network's proposal — An Anti-Genocide Community: Building the Political Will to End Genocide — and thus one of my ten votes will be going to that project.

I had a few qualifications in building my list — criteria that encompass our own proposal:

At least half of the projects I nominated would be located in the Global South, because of the large divide that already exists between technology in the Global North and the Global South — and NetSquared's position to help alter this.
The projects I nominated would be grounded in community concerns or community initiatives. For me, that is broad enough to encompass a "community" of human rights workers or even, potentially, nonprofits. But I wanted to see a demonstrated need for the technology or service.
Needless to say, the projects I nominated would be involved in innovative community-building and/or social networking. A number of projects seemed like very worthwhile charities but outside the scope of this particular conference/fund.

An Anti-Genocide Community: Building the Political Will to End Genocide

quixotic — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 05:23:56 -0400

International Network of Victims of Terrorism and War

barry — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 16:24:08 -0400

ArtHeart

artheart — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 03:21:57 -0400