Poverty Alleviation:
- open source business
- Facebook Causes: http://apps.facebook.com/causes/2621?facebook_url=true
- http://apps.facebook.com/causes/view_cause/47112
- Ripple: make money thru clicking and searching http://www.ripple.org/
- Also, facebook application: http://utulsa.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2424070831
- Make Poverty History: awareness rasing http://www.makepovertyhistory.org/
- Health text messaging- nytimes article
- AIDS questions
- TB medicine reminders
- Grameen Phone- microloaning to setup phone centers http://www.grameenphone.com/i
- Technology for non-profits: http://techsoup.com/
- Mobile Banking- e.g. http://www.wizzit.co.za/, M-Pesa,
- Kiwanja - http://kiwanja.net/
- facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2219125374
- nGOmobile- getting grassroots ngo's mobile technology http://www.ngomobile.org/
- FrontlineSMS - SMS hub for NGOs -http://www.frontlinesms.com/
- Internet speech: http://www.internetspeech.com/ Call to hear the internet
- Media Lab Asia: http://medialabasia.in/index.php
- Digital Ecosystem for Agriculture and Rural Livelihood
- aAQUA: An archived multilingual multimedia Question Answer based communication system. --- aAQUA (almost All Question Answered) is a multilingual online question and answer forum - which provides online answers to questions asked by farmers and agri- professionals over the Internet.
Econ or social growth:
- Base of Pyramid
- micofinance
Technology:
- - Cell phones change the world: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/magazine/13anthropology-t.html?ex=1208577600&en=528280c6bccfef1b&ei=5040&partner=MOREOVERNEWS
- "Chipchase’s theory that in an increasingly transitory world, the cellphone is becoming the one fixed piece of our identity" "A cell phone in the developing world gives a person a fixed location, particularly important for those displaced by war or drought."
- "Eighty percent of the world’s population now lives within range of a cellular network"
- "A 2005 London Business School study extrapolated the effect even further, concluding that for every additional 10 mobile phones per 100 people, a country’s G.D.P. rises 0.5 percent."
Empowerment:
Technology:
- shift space
- facebook, and other social networks
- blogs
- wikis
- Dream cell phone drawing- get's people thinking about what they want from life, especially with refugess, etc.
- Computer clubhouse - after school technology mentoring , empowerment thru technology http://www.computerclubhouse.org/
- Hear our voices: young female empowerment thru technology http://www.computerclubhouse.org/programs/hov/index.htm
- Women representations in media: http://shiftspace.org/trails/63e4
- Media Lab Europe http://medialabeurope.org/
- Textable Movies - video generated thru text from group or individually archived video and images
- Mixer-Subverter: http://web.media.mit.edu/~pauln/research/mix-subvert/index.html group remixing and retelling of stories
- MIT Media Lab
- Confectionary: http://mf.media.mit.edu/confectionary/ storytelling app
- Digital Hub: http://www.thedigitalhub.com/ to create an international centre of excellence for knowledge, innovation and creativity focused on digital content and technology enterprises.
- Digital storytelling: http://www.thedigitalhub.com/community_learning/article.php?id=45
- Digital beat: http://www.thedigitalhub.com/community_learning/article.php?id=43# use of stills, sounds and voices for storytelling thru digital means
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