Thanks David!

Hooze and Wagn are from onetters Ethan McCutchen and Lewis Hoffman. Sourcetree Commons was put together by Arthur Brock, Mickki Langston, and Arthur Brock...and has been developed by many geeks through conversations at Recent Changes Camp 2007.

Michael Maranda also submitted Hear Our Pain Action Network which he states is about: "Our Freedom to Connect is impaired by a divide and conquer market and policy regime. We're here to change that and to transform the communications/media policy sphere."

Thanks for posting David! I hope we can get the Omidyar Network community out in full force and viral spread of support to push our projects, together, toward the awards.

Thanks in advance for anyone who will be voting on TEN’s Building a Community of Modern Abolitionists .

This project actually got started on onet in This Thread . The volunteer who is developing (Andrew Maffei) it, contacted us through onet as well.

hey dave,

I already voted!

bjo li

Thanks for promoting all these, David. But now I'll have to vote again. Then again, as a Chicagoan, it's kind of expected. Voting early and often. So many worthwhile projects, but I want to support O/Net generated ones first and foremost.

BTW, I don't see Jeff Mowatt's project on that list. Targeted development for social, economic and gender empowerment

Jeff is doing some very good work in the Ukraine.

It is so exciting to see such a great community of new leaders emerging here....when I sat down to look through the 150 projects at Netsquared we had direct friendships and connections with 18 projects; difficult to pick 10 to vote for!

ManorMeta was nominated by the staff of TechSoup/CompuMentor for our work integrating nonprofits and awareness efforts in Second Life over the last year. We have recently purchased our own island there to organize events like the Digital Be-In, art exhibitions and ManorMeta machinima. Our teen team IAMAMO is now starting with three new amazing youth Second Life builds growing later this year for awareness, education, activism and community-building for young leaders.

Yesterday we sent out an email to our supporters highlighting the innovation awards with special shoutouts to the other amazing ONet projects nominated for these awards. I hope many of us can come together for the NetSquared gathering at the end of May!

Fantastic! Props to David for highlighting the myriad of innovative efforts by community members.

Inspiring, indeed.

One more to add - Mark Hanis & team's Genocide Intervention Network Project An Anti-Genocide Community: Building the Political Will to End Genocide.

Could you add to the above list?

Excited to vote!

Cheers~

Hey Folks

Thanks for all the kudos and the points!

If you want to have a project added to the list, please paste in your 250 character summary from Net2 as well as that'll save me some time and allow me to update faster.

Thanks!!

-D

Thanks for adding GI-Net!!!

Thanks for the thread, David. It's great to see so many of us are participating. And thanks to Haney for the heads up about the competition and this thread.

Here's our project on Netsquared: Access to Markets and Education: Speak Shop

We connect language learners and tutors in an open marketplace where tutors are microentrepreneurs setting their own rates and hours. Main offering right now are personal lessons via webcam, and we're working on other networking tools and using Second Life technology for contextual, group learning.

Key social objectives:

• Virtual immersion: Great way to learn a language and increase cross-cultural understanding. With web 2.0 it's the closest thing to immersion.
• Poverty reduction: Leverage the web to reduce poverty by transforming language tutors in developing countries into microentrepreneurs.

Ultimately we are aiming to operate worldwide for numerous languages and cultural exchanges.

David, thanks for adding the projects to your list. Our summary from Net2 is:

Speak Shop reduces poverty by creating a global marketplace of language tutoring via webcam, linking tutors in developing countries with a world market of learners, forging microentrepreneurs and fostering cross-cultural learning and respect.

Good luck everyone!

Ok, I've added all the additional projects now! Phew. I had no idea that so many ONeters would submit. Just goes to show that this is the place to be:)

Now my question is: Why have 29 members clicked on this conversation a total of 219 times? How do we stop obsessively clicking back and get the rest of the ONet world to click here?

Re: Cindy's project--very very cool. I checked out the website, it's brilliant. I have a friend here in São Paulo who does the same thing just to practice his english via skype voice. He's made a lot of friends that way.

Also some good news for Global Lives--we got listed as one of ten "Hot Projects to Keep Your Eye On" by official NetSquared blogger, Sean Stannard-Stockton from TacticalPhilanthropy.com.

Now that the ONet list has 9 projects on it though, I suppose that diehards might want to ignore the link above and stick with our more organic slate:)

Anyhow, good luck to all and keep up the good work!

Hey, I like clicking back to see new comments and add points to comments. :-P Just ignore the 219 and focus on the 29 if you are concerned about member views. Also, keep in mind that people who are not logged in, do not show up on that tally. So non-onetters reading this thread are not being counted.

Ok, good point, Jean. Also good to see that somebody is reading every last paragraph of my posts!

Abraços

I'm new to o-net and the Net^2 community, but I just wanted to chime in to say "Cool - way to go!", and that I'm very impressed with the importance and breadth of work o-netters are doing. Kudos to David and all of you who've brought this to our attention!

Keep up the good work! I'll surf on over to the Net^2 projects site right away and have a look, and I urge ("challenge?") all new o-netters to do the same:

http://www.netsquared.org/projec ts/vote

(for convenient clicking, a re-post of the link in the original thread, at top)

David and friends, thanks for keeping track of the dialogue and projects here! So many great endeavors to track, share and integrate....I hope we have a chance to spotlight many of these amazing projects in our work as we grow, and vice versa....

Congrats to all of you for being recognized as innovation leaders!

Too good ...

Lars said:

DONE!

Go O/Netters!!

Lars Hasselblad Torres said:

Hi Lars!

This badge is great! Would we be able to post it on the Net2 site and make it available to others?

Britt

Britt Bravo /Community Builder/ NetSquared

oh, thanks! sure, please do! hmmm, how about $1.00 to Peace Tiles for everyone who uses it ;P

Hi,

Check also our proposal Social Web Tools for Developing Countries: Yankana.org and include in your ballot!

http://www.netsquared.org/projec ts/proposals/social-web-tools-de veloping-countries-yankana-org

Regards,

Eduardo Bejar

Hey folks -

Voting has been extended until next Monday!

Please don't forget to add Kabissa to your ballots, and a number of other projects that will be tremendously empowering to African civil society - our faves are listed below and discussed in more detail here:

http://www.kabissa.org/blog/2007 /04/11/get-out-the-virtual-vote- for-kabissa-at-netsquaredorg/

and here (where I actually list all 10 that I voted for):

http://www.netsquared.org/blog/t obias/casting-ballot-africa-kabi ssa-hub-anti-genocide-community- nabuur-com-and-maps-2-0

• Kabissa 2.0: Strengthening the Social Web in Africa http://www.netsquared.org/kabiss a-2-0-strengthening-the-social-w eb-in-africa Marries power of Web 2.0 with passion of 900+ African orgs in our network. Savvy Web 2.0 Ambassadors will collaborate through the Kabissa site and face to face to develop and promote homegrown strategies for employing Web 2.0 for social change.
• The Hub http://www.netsquared.org/projec ts/proposals/hub Imagine a My Space meets You Tube for human rights - an online destination where global citizens could learn the strategies and access the tools they needed to use their visual documentation of abuses to create community action and change.
• Social Web Tools for Developing Countries: Yankana.org http://www.netsquared.org/projec ts/proposals/social-web-tools-de veloping-countries-yankana-org Yankana is a project designed to help non profits located in developing countries to adopt and benefit from social web tools in their fields of work, without technical skills, financial resources for infrastructure or english language knowledge.
• A Global Neighbor Network: Nabuur.com http://www.netsquared.org/projec ts/proposals/global-neighbour-ne twork-nabuur-com NABUUR is an internet platform where villages in developing countries get direct assistance. Online volunteers help create whatever is needed in 150 villages now, and with your help in 10,000 villages soon: join a societal revolution!
• Maps 2.0 - Geospacial tools for Nonprofits and Humanitarian Relief http://www.netsquared.org/projec ts/proposals/maps-2-0-geospatial -tools-nonprofits-and-humanitari an-relief Maps 2.0, a collaboration already under way, will launch the first online resource for nonprofit and humanitarian organizations to share best practices in geographic information systems (GIS) and digital mapping tools.

Happy voting - and thanks!

Cheers,

Tobias

ps - apologies for my useless linking abilities ;-) still becoming acquainted with the syntax! jimminy crickets!

Hi,

Check also our proposal Social Web Tools for Developing Countries: Yankana.org and include it in your ballot!

http://www.netsquared.org/projec ts/proposals/social-web-tools-de veloping-countries-yankana-org

Regards,

Eduardo Bejar

My top vote went to ATSTAR - Assistive Technology: Strategies, Tools, Accommodations and Resources This pilot program is by Knowbility.org, an organization I've supported as a volunteer since 1997. I'm very careful about what organization I donate my time and money too, so that I've been associated with Knowbility for so long should be a statement in and of itself about what I think of this organization.

The ATSTAR project is bringing tools and resources to teachers and parents to build their capacities at schools across the USA regarding assistive technologies, to give more educational (and ultimately, career) opportunities for K-12 children with disabilities. This pilot program already has a lot of successes under its belt, but being chosen as one of NetSquared's projects would take ATSTAR to full capacity, benefiting a far greater number of students and creating resources that will help for many, many years to come.

Eduardo Bejar said:

Check also our proposal Social Web Tools for Developing Countries: Yankana.org and include it in your ballot!

Hi Eduardo - I love your project idea and voted for it. I hope we meet at the Netsquared conference!

Cheers,

Tobias