GoSomething: Go Somewhere, Do Something

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The Idea:

What will change in the world because this Project happens?

Those who want to contribute while traveling will be able to get the information and support they need; they will also be able to give back information and support needed by others.

The world will change because contributive travel will become easier and more commonplace: more contributive acts -> more good examples, more help given, traveler is better in touch with a community, community is better in touch with the traveler. we all learn, we all improve.

What information will people interact with to make this change?

why the mashup: because we need to leverage every single technology tool out there to turn what used to be an old-school, slapshod exchange of info into a systematized, easily searchable source of information for travelers and communities

who: engaged travelers, host communities, donors and contributors.

what: make a small contribution of time, skill, goods, effort on every trip; we'll help you make it happen. we all need it to happen.

where: the GoSomething platform, but very much in the real world -- anywhere one goes, and not just North -> South. we all go places, we all are guests, it make sense to get deeper into the community by giving back something (and yes, that includes San Jose)

why: because contributive travel is a way of giving back, of getting deeper into a visited community, of giving a sense of purpose to all travel, of showing one cares, of feeling fulfilment from caring while traveling, and implementing that back home

What else have you done in this Cause Area?

GoSomething has helped all sorts of travelers achieve their contributive goals by providing them with information, putting them in touch with the right people, endorsing their projects and finding them goods; matching existing projects with volunteers; incubating projects born from contributive acts by travelers.

Cause Area:
Cause Area Tags:
Project URL:
http://www.gosomething.org
Supporting Organization:
GoSomething, Inc.
Supporting Organization URL:
http://www.gosomething.org/concept/GS_conceptual_overview.pdf
Financial support?:
Yes
City:
San Francisco
State/Region:
CA
Country:
United States

The Assessment

What kind of help or resources do you need to turn your project idea into a completed mashup?

a way to scrub information on existing projects and include it on a GoSomething project map, a calendar that is cross-referenced to the map and to a forum of information. basically we need to populate the field where travelers can look at pre-existing projects; a secondary necessity is to represent visually and spatially the ongoing projects, make them trackable, add all elements that make the information more valuable to others.

what kind of help: technical, technical. and ideas/concepts are also always welcome.

Mashup Data Sources

www.volunteermatch.com

check out the map on the GoSomething page for a sense of the visualization of the projects.

The Team

Project Designer	Andrea Armeni

Submitted by Andrea_GoSomething on May 24, 2008 - 11:58am

Comments

hm... A picture worth a thousand words?

Gosomething,

I was quite taken by your project's name but i must say that they picture explaining the mashup didn't do much good for my understanding. Your website does a bit of a better job.

Still, you might want to look into some of the tools that are freely available. Your idea of putting travelers in a better position to help out is very strong. People have tried it before but the tech part will be easier for you now. Tomorrow at the conf try to see some of the people that can give clarity to the vision. Specifically, I think you should talk to other providers about how to scrub easily volunteering information and projects. No point in reinventing the wheel. Look forward to hearing about how you're envisioning your network.

Avery -- Tecnologica del Pacifico

TAGS: n2y3, mashup

Submitted by avery on May 27, 2008 - 12:52am.