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AMISPROJECT-CAMEROON , A Win-Win for All
Your Vote Today For AMISPROJECT shall be a win- win for all . In this age when people will stop at NOTHING to get a livelihood for themselves ( and this calls to mind the hostage taking sprees along the Somali Coast where fishing has become less lucrative), we believe that when communities numbering into the millions (70% of 20Million Cameroonians Practice Farming) get a means of living honest lives, then the wider society to which we all belong shall be safe and protected from menaces.
We believe in the ability of AMISPROJECT to inform and transform farmers from beggars into well to do individuals, and when this happens they shall not feel the need to endulge in activities that endanger our common existence.
N2Y4 Mixed Reality Health Panel, Wed. May 27, 11:15 AM
My name is BJ Wishinsky, and I'm the Communities Program Manager at the nonprofit Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology. I had so much fun live-blogging the mixed reality at last year's NetSquared conference that I volunteered to do it again today. There are Health Panels all day today in Second Life, celebrating the launch of the new inworld Health Commons. The 11:15 panel on Mobile Health Information is mixed reality: Second Life and Real Life (here at Cisco's Vineyard Conference Center in San Jose, CA).
Handheld Human Rights & the need for tech in Burma
Digital Democracy’s co-founders Mark and Emily are representing Handheld Human Rights at N2Y4, in addition to Morgan Sully, our project champion. We're thrilled to be meeting all the inspiring folks at the conference focused on supporting projects on the ground.
Handheld Human Rights uses mobile phones to securely connect human rights workers around the country. Mapping text messages, it helps groups quickly share critical information to coordinate their responses and save lives.
N2Y4 Conference: Social Engagement for Social Actions Case Study - Garage
I'm blogging live from the "Garage" session. Apologies in advance if I don't all get it exactly accurately, but will do my best!
There are two topics, so they've split the room into two sides, one on the topic of "Social Engagement for Social Actions", and the other on the topic of "Viral Storytelling for Social Justice - LGBT Advocacy and Equality." I happened to already be sitting on the Social Actions side, but given the Prop 8 vote yesterday that rejected gay marriage in California, the other group would be timely! About 2/3 of the room came to the Social Actions side - maybe they see it having more applicability to their particular project.
Special NetSquared Conference Mixed Reality Event, Wed. May 27, 11:15 AM
[originally posted on NonprofitCommons.org by gooddogzbeth]
The Health Panel Expo planning is coming together and the event is right around the corner! Here are the details!
PRESS RELEASE
How Women Approach Philanthropy Differently Than Men [1]
How women approach philanthropy
WHY AMISPROJECT CAMEROON?
Why would we want YOU to vote for AMISPROJECT Cameroon?
First our farmers constitute 70% of a population of over 20Million people
More than half of these farmers have access to a Mobile phone
Less than 1% of these farmers will get an internet access by 2020
So, if we give them the information they need via SMS, this means more farmers will get informed and take decisions that change their lives, preserve the ecosystems, and increase food production and fight hunger, famine and the need to beg! beg !beg!
a <3 shout out to the #NPSLexpo
I vowed to post something from my heart about the Health Panel Expo to the two "hall monitors" when they asked….. so here I am, showing up, giving the love. One long run-on sentance at a time. <3
140 Smiles
One of the best things about moving to the Bay Area is that I can attend some of the Social Media Conferences without having to get on an airplane. I’m attending TWTRCON next weekend! When I registered, I also signed…
N2Y4 Featured Project: FrontLineSMS:Medic
FrontlineSMS:Medic
Focused on very basic sms systems. "The lowest common denominator". In Malawi, 10% have internet access, 90% have mobile phone access, 93% of which are simple SIM based phones without data access.
Can do GIS modeling on things like disease outbreaks. OpenMRS is an electronic medical record system, predominant system in the developing world but limited to being inside the clinic. FrontLineMRS is the patch to this system to bring it to the village.
Can do disease diagnostics with simple camera phones.
HopePhones.org - Can send in your phone and repurpose it for global health.
