:Title:    Introducing Nabuur
:Author:   Tom Munnecke
:Date:     Tue, 23 Nov 2004 21:32:42 PST
:URL:      http://www.omidyar.net/group/community-general/news/270/

I just thought I'd introduce `Nabuur`_ to this group.  They are based in the Netherlands (Nabuur is Dutch for "neighbor") and have attended several GivingSpace workshops, and have a lot of energy.  I thought it would be good to get some more European members on this net:

.. _`Nabuur` : http://www.nabuur.com/modules/news/


"The idea behind NABUUR is to give local communities access to people
elsewhere in the world who care about that place, access to their virtual
neighbors. Not through institutions, but directly, from person to
person. The virtual neighbors can be emigrants or their children. They
can be people who worked in the village for some time and now live
somewhere else again, frequent visitors, etc. Most local communities in
the world have such virtual neighbors. They present a formidable
source of potential energy for the local communities, if there was a
way to access them."