NetSquared teaming up with Sun Microsystems to produce global Hack Days. First stop, San Paolo, Brazil on October 1, 2008. Next up, China! Register: Collaborate for Change.
As we grow, we will need technical support in growing the software: adding plug ins, tools, and implementing the ideas that the community requests.
WiserEarth is an international directory and networking forum that maps, links and empowers the largest movement in the world–-the hundreds of thousands of organizations within civil society that address social justice and the environment.
NEAR TERM: help us determine open source options vs. custom build. ONGOING: advice on state of the art server, website and user security features since our members are at high risk of cyberstalking.
Stop Family Violence will use Web 2.0 technologies to empower local programs, enhance information sharing, help people find the services they need, promote local leadership, and coordinate activism that will keep women and children safe.
To bring together a secure web-based network that can provide telemedical connection between physicians/hospital networks (ISDN & IP) to mobile medical clinics. In addition, also limited access for donors to see pre-scheduled live feeds from these clinics around the world (includes blogs, photos and live video). Additionally, we want to enable donors to designate what they wants funds allocated to and provide accountability documentation for them to see this was done, with nothing being deducted for operational overhead. 100% of what they give goes to the project and we want to prove it…CLEARLY.
Long story short. telemedicine plus complete transparent accountability to the donors all through one web site (obviously some aspects of this site will be very secure = medical/ HIPPA, etc).
A telemedicine-based on-line community of physicians, financial donors and emergency personnel bringing advanced medical assistance to disaster zones and areas of chronic humanitarian need around the world.
Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse design to augment AIM's workflow/transaction strengths. Need to leverage reporting/analysis capabilities.
AIM replaces a network of incompatible systems with a single, web-based system. This allows our 450 agencies to go-to-scale using a true work-flow system with powerful performance management capabilities.
We need social networking technology skills with an understanding of how to extend these into for low bandwidth networks.
The Quality of Women's Leadership equals the Quality of Life on this planet
We are requesting assistance with software design and coding. Components of YouthAssets include a collaborative website, database, mapping tools, and mobile device applications.
YouthAssets will develop a web-based knowledge management tool that utilizes the latest mapping technologies and collaboration tools to enable youth and their supporters to share critical information about and for HIV/AIDS orphans in Southern Africa.
Need: Programmers to write scripts to scrape state government web sites and translate bills and votes data into XML; and programming to automate searches for legislation in U.S. Congress, using Google and news databases.
MAPLight.org illuminates the connection between money and politics. We connect campaign contributions and votes for U.S. Congress, providing groundbreaking transparency so that bloggers, journalists, and citizens can hold legislators accountable.
Expertise in beta testing, specifically on technical specifications; testing on contents is taken care of within our groups
Farmers in developing countries can become more efficient and market oriented when they learn from experiences of themselves and their colleagues. Our tool will provide them with the means to learn by comparison.
BRING THE SITE TO THE NEXT LEVEL
- Make site multilingual
- Combine site with mobile phones, SMS, chats,twitter,etc.
- Make concrete tasks on the site available to other sites (e.g API)
- Make creation and upload digital story easy
NABUUR is an internet platform where villages in developing countries get direct assistance. Online volunteers help create whatever is needed in 150 villages now, and with your help in 10,000 villages soon: a societal revolution in the making!
We need development assistance specifically for:
The Grassroots.org Toolbox will empower nonprofit organizations by granting free access to a suite of fully configured & hosted online tools, including content management, online event registration software, and CRM.
Single Sign-on: BBBS is stringing together best-of-breed services on the web and needs simple/powerful administration that can be done by non-techies at local agencies.
AIM replaces a network of incompatible systems with a single, web-based system. This allows our 450 agencies to go-to-scale using a true work-flow system with powerful performance management capabilities.
Our platform is built on Wordpress MU. We need the assistance of a PHP coder with expertise in the Wordpress platform and someone with expertise in server administration.
This decade, the impacts of leading social entrepreneurs will explode. It's the world's most important story, and Innovatorz.org will tell it. We produce and distribute killer online media for award winning social entrepreneurs.
We need an evaluation of our current technology and a plan to use state of the art technology to build a truly interactive web community.
FamilyFarmed.org is a revolutionary system connecting consumers and trade buyers with a network of organic farmers and artisanal food producers. Consumers meet their farmers and re-establish connections with their food, community, and the land.
Usability is a huge issue for us - improving the usability of our site is a top priority. Secondly, we need to expand our infrastructure to provide faster response times to users in developing countries. A PHP volunteer would also be of great help!
What if youth everywhere came together to inspire each other, get informed about social issues, and involved in their communities? TakingITGlobal evolved from this idea to a Social Network for Social Good, inspiring youth to create a better world.
Need: Robust hosting services and additional servers.
MAPLight.org illuminates the connection between money and politics. We connect campaign contributions and votes for U.S. Congress, providing groundbreaking transparency so that bloggers, journalists, and citizens can hold legislators accountable.
Are we on the right "social networking" path? We need to hook up our project manager with Silicon Valley folks who speak the same sort of language as him as much as possible during his brief visit here in the US from Birmingham, UK.
By empowering globally local social networking, we have created a gift economy/community. The magic: it’s easier to give something away than throw it away & keeps it out of landfills; a cyber-curbside; a digital segue from commodity to community.
We need performance analysis/optimization for our Ruby on Rails application, and analysis to make the platform more accessible for visually impaired and other special-needs user communities.
The Social Source Commons helps nonprofits find appropriate software to support their work, and share knowledge about tools. It is the only venue on the net striving to build a complete inventory of what software is available for nonprofit needs.
We would love expertise in customizing Drupal to be extremely user friendly for people working in difficult low-bandwidth environments, e.g., creating new modules, browser and usability testing, email/mobile phone integration, working offline, etc.
Marries power of Web 2.0 with passion of 950+ African orgs in our network. Savvy Web 2.0 Ambassadors will collaborate through the Kabissa site and face to face to develop and promote homegrown strategies for employing Web 2.0 for social change.
Expertise on web usability techniques for people with disabilities and expertise on deep customization of open source software to accelerate developing time.
Yankana is a project designed to help non profits located in developing countries to adopt and benefit from social web tools in their fields of work, without technical skills, financial resources for infrastructure or english language knowledge.
Someone who has the technical expertise to create a customizable template. That way, all I would have to worry about is the costs for hosting, travel and administrative costs.
African producers depend on middlemen to access outside markets and, as a result, earn very little from their labor. This project will roll out country-specific social networking sites to give African producers direct access to outside markets.