[DDN] Netsquared's Innovation Fund Award - voting extended to April 16

[Michael Maranda]

The NetSquared voting period has been extended to April 16th, there is still
time!

The prize for the 20 projects receiving the most votes is an expenses-paid
trip for two to the Net2 conference in Silicon Valley, where project members
will mingle with representatives of major foundations, companies and tech
gurus who will provide support for their work in cash and in-kind
contributions. In short, a gold mine for a new project.

You can vote for up to ten projects (minimum five).
http://www.netsquared.org/projects/vote

Here are a few I'd like to bring to your attention...

   * Hear Our Pain Action Network - 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.

   * Hooze & Wagn: Organically Grown Public Data on Products and Companies -
Hooze.org <http://hooze.org/> and its Wagn underbelly are for
collaboratively gathering and broadcasting convenient, trustworthy public
data about products and companies. With wiki spirit and database power,
Hooze gives citizens a new economic voice.

   * ManorMeta - The living learning lab ManorMeta is a visionary multimedia
series sharing problem solving adventures, diverse young leaders, musical
stars and AI characters in an amazing mashup for web, virtual worlds,
television, film, comics and print media.

   * Sourcetree Commons: Geeking our way to a better world - To develop
better social software, we must use these very tools in the communities that
are building them. We leverage social software to amplify the creative power
of geeks and provide increased resources, efficiency, feedback and support.

* Grassroots.org <http://grassroots.org/> Toolkit - Dave Chakrabarti just
pitched that one, so I'll leave it at that.




On 4/10/07, Eduardo Bejar <wonka at fundapi.org > wrote:
>
>
> Thru Saturday April 14th at 12 noon PDT (GMT -7) you can cast your vote
> for
> your favorite project proposal for the 2007 NetSquared Conference. A total
> of 152 proposals have been submitted; however, only 20 proposals will be
> selected and will get the opportunity to receive support from the
> NetSquared
> Innovation Fund to become a reality.
>
> You can check all nominated projects at:
>
> http://www.netsquared.org/projects/project-proposals/all-project-proposals-b
>
> y-name
>
> Also, you can check our project proposal "Social Web Tools for Developing
> Countries: Yankana.org" at:
>
>
> http://www.netsquared.org/projects/proposals/social-web-tools-developing-cou
> ntries-yankana-org
>
> Please support our project proposal with your vote, as it will help many
> non-profit organizations in developing countries.
>
> Thank you and best regards,
>
> Eduardo Bejar
> Director
> Fundacion de Ayuda por Internet, Fundapi.org
> www.fundapi.org
> Guayaquil, Ecuador
>



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