I recently had the opportunity to connect with Avi Kaplan, the Community and Events Director at Epic Change, to discuss the upcoming TweetsGiving campaign and events.  Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year's TweetsGiving proceeds.

Find out more in the interview below!

"Every 30 seconds, a child dies of malaria"

- Global Fund

According to US President, Barrack Obama, malaria is a disease that doesn’t have to take lives. That therefore accounts for why on the day of his inauguration, he declared his committement to "step up US focus on prevention and treatment of malaria around the world".

We wish to appeal that you kindly accept to sponsor a child for the African Youth Development Foundation (AFRYDEF).

In Africa, many families live under the poverty line of USD 1 per day and therefore cannot afford to feed their children. Think of it, how would these poor families then be able to pay for their children’s medical needs as well as provide them with the basic education needed to empower them for life?  

These uneducated and unhealthy children therefore grow up into adulthood, get married early and begin to make their own large families (of at least ten children each) like their parents due to idleness and frustration.

The cycle of poverty continues . . !

If I'm remembering this correctly, I first heard about Jonathan Gosier from Nathaniel Whittemore, the Social Entrepreneurship blogger at Change.org. Nathaniel and I have known each other forever and ever, and he's the kind of guy who really lets you know about someone when he thinks that someone is awesome, and when he does this, I pay attention.

I have been invited to return to Netsquared as champion for Ipeace, a featured project of the N2Y4 Mobile Challenge. The innovative project is described as follows:

Ipeace, is a safety open source mobile telephony platform and Web 2.0 platform to allow journalist, human rights activist, scientist and people to expose war crimes and human rights violation in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Ipeace open-source mobile telephony platform will uses J2ME code that can run on a wide range of java-enable phones. 

I just want to introduce our IJCentral featured project and welcome any comments - I look forward to receiving comments or questions from N2Y4 conference participants.  You can find the project at: http://www.netsquared.org/projects/ijcentral

 Here is a trailer of The Reckoning, the documentary that will be driving the IJCentral project:

Every month, the NetSquared Community comes together offline at Net Tuesday events around the world to mix, swap stories and ideas, build new relationships, and collaborate to help the local community. Our local organizers are volunteers dedicated to helping create local opportunities for learning, sharing and using technology to make a difference.  In this Organizer Spotlight series we bring you interviews with organizers from around the world.

We're happy to introduce: David Kandie!

Every month, the NetSquared community comes together offline in cities around the world at Net Tuesday events to mix, swap stories and ideas, build new relationships, and collaborate.  There are 5 new Net Tuesdays to introduce, and I hope you'll join me in welcoming: Beirut, Canberra, Cape Town, Sydney and Traverse City!

Welcome to all the new Net Tuesday groups!

Collegiate Women Walk Together Nationwide to Bring Clean Drinking Water to African Families

Hundreds of Students from 11 College Campuses to Host BH2O+ Clean Water Awareness Events

Great news that we made it into the N2Y4 Mobile Challenge!  It's nice to receive the approval of your peers!