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From politics to business to society, we envision a more democratic world.

There's a link between money, speech and the ability to participate. Political MicroDonation (under $1) with Electoral/Geographic Networking is vital for scaling representation. Especially in grassroots issue or legislative lobbying and for new candidates and ideas. It's the Power of Small Money, Large Numbers & Immediate Feedback!It's a fundamental of speech and association. (Chagora is NOT Monetized via any addition to transaction costs!)

Mountain Media uses videophones to empower mountain communities to network across geographic distances and communication barriers and represent themselves in democratic processes and policy discussions on regional, national and global scales.

Media literacy tools Calendars Media Ownership (history, policy, effects, $$$) Washington D.C. Policy change efforts (issues legislation, representatives' contact info) Media Justice, Reform, Democracy sector activities Cross sector activities Local, regional, national, international media/communication rights activity More robust organizational information for partnerships and collaborations.

People with interact with a smallish widget on any website or cell phone that asks them a voter-relevant question, like who do you want to be President of the United States: Hillary Clinton, Barak Obama, or John McCain?" Or it could say "Should local city mayor X stay in office?". All votes are instantly tallied and a current, up to date vote count is made visible on the screen overlayed with a map of all voter locations. Finally, The mashup will include a sidebar for advertising. That's how it gets paid for and is part of the business model for long term improvements and sustainability. And we need it to be sustainable so we can do things like translate the tool into multiple languages and ultimately host a site where global, up-to-the-minute voting becomes centralized and easily searchable.

Link TV has already launched a linear website that allows people to post “video letters” about the 2008 U.S. presidential election, with an emphasis on international submissions. Visitors can watch short videos uploaded from all around the world, of people speaking to the camera on diverse issues like aid to Kenya, Burmese autonomy and America’s image abroad. They can upload video letters themselves, or leave text and video comments. We envision making these videos more accessible by plotting them on a world map with pinpoints indicating where the videos come from. A concurrent project at Link TV records and logs TV news reports from countries all over the world (Global Pulse). We would like to take as many as 30 world reports covering the U.S. election from countries like China, Russia and Iran, and plot these videos on the map, too, using a different color pinpoint, adding new news reports as the election cycle progresses. These pop-up windows could play the news video, and also have a tab for an RSS feed from the featured broadcaster. Other tabs could have RSS headline feeds for that country from alternative news sources like Global Voices. As a “nice-to-have”, it would be interesting to incorporate other statistical details with these video popup balloons, such as country statistics on GDP, poverty level, and (optimistically) broad assessments of U.S. aid and military involvement.

As a one-stop shop for voting-day logistical information, MyPollingPlace will allow people to interact with the following information: Where to vote Polling place data from secretaries of states' polling-place databases, county election boards, and third-party databases of polling place informationHow to get there GoogleMaps mashup with polling place data What they'll need to bring State requirements for voter identification How to cast their vote For each state, information on what kind of voting machines or ballots are used and instructions on how to use them