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is an email list that tells the stories of innovative nonprofits and social entrepreneurs around the world that could use help with the projects they’re working on. (more…)
A report came out recently from Forrester Research which summarizes the media sources that adults in the US trust most. Do you think that people who change their brand loyalties based on socially responsible information trust different sources than the average American? (more…)
The Computing Culture group at MIT’s Media Lab is publishing an information sharing service that extends the Buy It Like You Mean It open source code. The Landman Report Card will allow land owners to negotiate with oil and gas companies (more…)
It’s nice to see the seeds of a movement using technology to enable individual socially responsible actions. Cool People Care and Free Rice represent different ways that the internet can help people make a difference. (more…)
Non-profit lifers coming to terms with a younger generation of online social citizens are the intended audience of this Case Foundation report. But after the first couple pages it offers a deeper discussion about mobilizing tech savvy youth. Can you help us figure out what we’re doing right and what we could do better? Leave a comment or send us an email.
ThoughtAndMemory.org’s user generated educational content is freely available (so is our open source Community Information Platform). By signing the Capetown Declaration we have joined a global community of educators and organizations in support of this movement. Go team!
Estimating the carbon footprint of a product is more difficult than it sounds. British market Tesco is attempting to label the carbon footprint of all of its products. So far only one product has been labeled. Perhaps ThoughtAndMemory.org’s decentralized system will make accuracy in life cycle analysis easier in the long run.
Did you know that you can automatically estimate and offset the carbon footprint of the purchases that you make when you shop at climatecooler?
A study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project suggests that teenage girls are more frequent bloggers, web page designers, and online social network contributers than their male counterparts.
The number of female students who go on to take college level computer science classes is still remarkably low. A study by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School “suggests that girls’ online practices tend to be about their desire to express themselves”. [Photo and story from The New York Times, February 21, 2008. P. E1]
Remember Alice? Alice is a new computer science curricular tool that teaches computer programming fundamentals through 3D story design. It is testing very well with female students (and its really fun to use!)
Here is an example of an organized community that has adapted technology and business to meet its concerns.
In Israel, ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities have used combined purchasing power to alter the pricing system and functions of “kosher” phones.
There’s a group of Australian folks who have put a virtual candidate up for office, Senator On-Line. The idea is that every time a vote is required they’ll simply poll the internet and see how their senator should vote!
