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Call for ideas for the next Social Innovation Camp

amysampleward — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:12:05 -0400

Social Innovation Camp is back and looking for your ideas for web-based tools that could change something important. SICamps bring software developers and social innovators together for an action-packed weekend, 48 hours to take new ideas and put them into working parts.

Submissions are due by 7 November, so enter yours soon!

Learn more and get involved with SICamp!

Moving from "Open source" to "Open roadmap"

Rolf Kleef — Wed, 21 May 2008 06:14:29 -0400

Many NGOs are good at forming strategic alliances to achieve their objectives (they're usually also good at competing each other nearly to death, often at the same time, but I'll keep that for a different post maybe). Yet, at the level of web technology, this usually seems to be limited to the level of exchanging tips and tricks, perhaps some RSS feeds, and referring each other to providers and vendors.

Two major developments are changing that situation now:

Another Social Platform for Development Cooperation?

arjencito — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:02:21 -0400

I am receiving some interesting reactions on the launch of my idea to start developing a social networking platform for all players in the development cooperation sector.