Skoll World Forum:(2) internet, mobile technology and cross-cultural communication

Each panellist was asked to give three “takeaways”.
Ami Dar – Idealist.org
He said they now have 74,000 NGOs signed up in 200 countries. 60,000 visitors every day. They send out (automated) 100,000 emails every night. I really liked his philosophical approach.
1. good intentions are hard and difficult to realise
He gave the example of an [...]

Skoll World Forum: internet, mobile technology and cross-cultural communication

This session at the Skoll World Foum was a natural choice to me. I met Katrin Verclas at the first ever NetSquared two years ago when I went to research how to set up Mentoring Worldwide. Now, like then, I took leave from my job and paid my own way to the conference [...]

social enterprise (netsquared contd)

Lee Davis from NESst summed things up nicely for me in the session on new web tools and their revenue models when he talked about the need to match the values of the work you want to do with the business model chosen. “social enterprise is the current term for this kind of funding [...]

old media is the new new media

the netsquared session on the developing world was fascinating. It contrasted two approaches to thinking about connectivity – one in India the other in Africa.
Partha Pratim Sarka from Bytes For All talked about how the telecentre network in India was being used in creative and ingenious ways far beyond the humble [...]

Don’t speak! Point! (thanks to Ethan)

So, NetSquared. Lots of good posts and commentary here. Great gathering by Compumentor of clans from charity, ngo, philanthropy, funders, technology partners and activisits to discuss where next for remixing the web of social change. This is something we don’t do yet in the UK, I wonder why..I feel a plan coming [...]

netsquared

I’m taking a week of the day job and going on holiday to see friends and to go to this conference. Meeting up with various pledgers, and people who have blogged the pledge and the project some of whom have offered to help and take on specific roles. I’ll be introducing them [...]