When: Tuesday, July 8thth, 5:30pm-7:30pm
Where: Workspace (400-21 Water Street) Vancouver BC
Price: FREE!
RSVP: Facebook, Meetup

As everyone has mentioned, picking just a few selections from the excellent proposals to nominate for the NetSquared Technology Innovation Fund is very hard, given the quality of the proposals — I can't imagine anyone will be voting for fewer than 10!

I helped to develop the Genocide Intervention Network's proposal — An Anti-Genocide Community: Building the Political Will to End Genocide — and thus one of my ten votes will be going to that project.

I had a few qualifications in building my list — criteria that encompass our own proposal:

• At least half of the projects I nominated would be located in the Global South, because of the large divide that already exists between technology in the Global North and the Global South — and NetSquared's position to help alter this.
• The projects I nominated would be grounded in community concerns or community initiatives. For me, that is broad enough to encompass a "community" of human rights workers or even, potentially, nonprofits. But I wanted to see a demonstrated need for the technology or service.
• Needless to say, the projects I nominated would be involved in innovative community-building and/or social networking. A number of projects seemed like very worthwhile charities but outside the scope of this particular conference/fund.

I'm planning to be in NYC on June 27-28 for the Games for Change Conference and am wondering if any other net2 folks attending ...?     So far, npmarketing blogger will be there as well as some folks discussing Games for Social Good at Omidyar. 

The program looks fantastic and the mix of people is also diverse.  And, while looking through the program I found noticed that Nelson Layag from Compasspoint is presenting on "Educating to Mobilize the Masses."   The description is:

Leda Dederich who juggles two projects, ScoutSeven and dotOrganize talks to us at the Northern Voice blogging conference & Netsquared North in Vancouver, Canada. She helps social change organizations & campaigns utilize tools effectively to accomplish their goals.

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This came into the Dot Org Webmaters email list.  It seems like a good NetSquared collaboration opportunity. 

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This June, we're planning a one week email forum on the Internet and Social Change. I'm now looking for innovative panelists to join the conversation. I'd appreciate recommendations although it may be best to send them to me directly rather than on the list. -- Our vision: a simpler, more humane society that actually solves its problems, treats everyone fairly, and helps everyone achieve their full potential.

John Watkins Founder and Creative Director The Simple Society Alliance for Human Empowerment 379 Amherst Street #234, Nashua, NH 03063 http://simsoc.org