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Environment
Kabissa Connections
Challenges Entered:
Building Reputation and Trust of Organizations By Revealing Relationships Online
Summary
Kabissa Connections will address trust concerns by providing a platform revealing the connections that organizations have with networks, international organizations, supporters and service providers. We will do this for organizations working in Africa while collaborating with others on open source tools, standards and approaches that can be replicated in other regions.
Tole-rants Connect
Challenges Entered:
60 Seconds of Hope
Tole-rants is an international multimedia project that harvests the communication of inspiring and creative solutions to social problems. It empowers anyone to record and share a 60 second video of hope in the form of a constructive rant (a tole-rant) that points to a solution. Videos are shared and voted on by the public.
Location
global tolerance headquarters
Victoria Embankment HMS President 1918
London EC4Y 0HJUnited Kingdom
See map: Google Maps
Wikirate.org - Rating Companies On CSR Issues Via Crowdsourcing
Challenges Entered:
Helping consumers integrate social and environmental considerations into their buying decisions
Description
Location
Chicago, IL
United States
See map: Google Maps
Expanding Worldview
Challenges Entered:
Expanding People's View on World Issues
On the Twitter account our goal is to present little known facts (ex: the formation of America including the addition of the phrases of "In God We Trust" and "One Nation Under God" in 1954/1956 during the Red Scare of the McCarthy era and against the wishes of the founding fathers). We have news updates from Human Rights organizations, Major News providers and Environmental Agencies.
Our website is constantly updating and has articles relating to Human Rights issues such as Equal Rights for Women, Online (and off) Stalking and Harassment, Donations for National disasters, Links and information on organization where you can receive help or volunteer, etc.
Location
Place of Business
Oklahoma City, OK
United States
See map: Google Maps
Building a Sustainable Supply Chain for Portable Appropriate Technology
Challenges Entered:
PowerMundo strives to improve people's lives and conserve nature by connecting millions of people in developing countries to market driven, affordable, appropriate technology.
Location
Fort Collins, CO
United States
See map: Google Maps
BloodMoney Project
Challenges Entered:
On the simple user level people will use the site to search for products from their shopping lists, and companies they are interested in or recognize as the manufacturers of the said products. By submitting querries on certain products and companies, users will give us an indication of where research is needed, and become integrated into a community as they receive prompt feedback and see the new information incorporated into the database. On the research level we will welcome submission of new data as it comes along - news items, financial info from less accessible local sources (other than the SEC and other government sources that make financial data public), and anything else that might prove helpful. The two categories of information on the BMP site are articles of critical nature with a business element, and financial affiliation networks.
Location
Jerusalem, J
Israel
Lobby Congress! Vote on legislation, send your vote to your reps, track your votes, and build grass roots support for issues
Challenges Entered:
You'll get access to all the legislation, voting records, analytic tools, district maps, charts and graphs. You'll get to connect with other members, discuss issues, and rally for support.
Location
San Francisco, CA
United States
See map: Google Maps
Community Based DigiMapping
Challenges Entered:
The shift from a corporate paradigm to an assessment approach that is proactive and grassroots requires a layering of information that builds over time. As a live and open research platform, the community based DigiMapping system would be ‘live’, open integrate information from a host of sources. Data from existing needs surveys would function as a layer of information. Ethnographic data would function as another layer- ethnographic information such as interviews with residents would offer a holistic picture of neighborhoods for comprehensive community profiles. Spatial data from a Geographic Information System (GIS) would be integrated, providing information that relationally identifies technology access centers and hubs within a neighborhood. Other layers such as building zones, number of clinics, census data, broadband cable routes, would be organized and accessible through our proposed mapping system. Once the mapping system is developed and accessible, the information would be open and available to community members via web portals in neighborhood hubs such as libraries, community centers and schools. As neighborhoods change, layers of information would continue to build and shift in the DigiMapping system.
Location
Oakland, CA
United States
See map: Google Maps
Project Bija
Challenges Entered:
The primary interface is a map api - eg google maps.Divide the map on a country basis. Individual countries can be clicked upon. the second stage will divide those countries into clickable regions and the third stage dividing those regions into clickable local areas. Each scale provides more focus and filter.Clicking on a country zooms into the country. On the navigation bar are a series of links (Challenges, Resources, Organisations etc. Links open up to further sub links which then lead to information feeds (feeds are either RSS or scrapped using dapper) for that country divided into:1. Challenges. 2. Resources. 3. Non-Profit Sector.4. Private Sector. Zooming into the map allows more detail of filtered results for example, local newspapers, closer detail of which charities and companies are working in the area. Due to the greater detail required at local level users may log in to the site to add information via a wiki.
Location
London
United Kingdom
See map: Google Maps
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