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Aden Van Noppen of Brown University discusses a youth initiative and campus engagement strategy, supported by the Acumen Fund, to involve college students in social causes. The initiative is focused on how finance and business can be used as a tool for social impact in fighting poverty and advancing other social causes — and making […]
Activism
Witness puts tools for empowerment online
This post originally appeared Jan. 31, 2006, at Socialmedia.biz: Over the past couple of months, I’ve been having discussions with the good folks at Witness.org about how Witness and Ourmedia could work together. Witness has announced an ambitious plan to build a set of publishing tools that would let those in repressive or abusive conditions […]
Amazee: a platform for social activism
Amazee from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Dania Gerhardt, co-founder and chief of finance and operations for Amazee.com, discusses “the world’s first social collaboration platform.” Her company, based in Zurich, Switzerland, launched in September 2007 and the platform went public in May 2008. Amazee is a platform for social activism and enabling groups and movements to […]
Micki Krimmel: How to make yourself more green
Environmental activist Micki Krimmel — a former community manager at Participant Productions and Revver — talks about sustainability how to make yourself more green in this interview I conducted at the 2007 Pixelodeon video festival in Hollywood. Watch MPEG-4 video at Internet Archive Watch or download video on Revver See low-quality Flash version on YouTube
Social mobile: A moral duty to do more?
Is the future of social mobile an empowered few, or an empowered many? Mobile tools in the hands of the masses presents great opportunity for NGO-led social change, but is that the future we’re creating? In “The White Man’s Burden – Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and […]
