Ivan Boothe has asked me to vote for Genocide Intervention Project’s mashup via Facebook so I shall and I’m asking you to consider doing so as well. You have until 8 PM EDT tonight to vote. To vote for the mashup, I suggest you login to Netsquared and then go to this URL in your browser:
I think Ivan Boothe is one of the brighter nonprofit technologists out there and has a great instinct for both the social uses of the media and for understanding how the logic of advocacy and the logic of programming can be married to great effect. The idea behind his project is to create a website called genocidescores.org, which will be used to track genocides as it is occurring around the world and any legislation that is tied to it. This project is also in conjunction with facinghistory.org which draws a tremendous amount of traffic and is itself a great example of real-deal cause advocacy going hand in hand with smart web initiatives.
Other projects that I think you should vote for are:
Ushahidi – http://snurl.com/22hvl
New Orleans – http://snurl.com/22hvb
These projects are being advised by Andrew J. Turner, noted neogeographer and all around programming badass. He says:
The projects are addressing real world issues with real solutions – so far they have had success on their own and are making a difference. Independently, the projects will still be successful and important. Their success will only be improved upon by support of the NetSquared community.
He singles out the New Orleans project in particular:
New Orleans is neat because they’re using the tools that are appropriate to them currently. Spreadsheets — to gather and store data. Mapufacture [the open source mapping database that Andrew Turner helps to run] will aggregate these together and allow them to build maps using their existing tools and workflow.
Well, five hours left — go to it! Feel free to leave your choices in the comments below.
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