NetSquared Challenge: Last Day to Submit Your Mashup

Submitted by Holly on Fri, 03/14/2008 - 7:26am.

Do you have an idea for a mashup that could be a tool for social change? Can you imagine a way to combine data from more than one source into an integrated tool that would increase awareness around an issue? NetSquared, a project of TechSoup, is awarding a share of $100,000 in prize money, and a trip to the NetSquared Conference, to the top 20 winners of the NetSquared Mashup Challenge.

Submit your idea for a mashup with social impact by March 14, 2008 at 5 PM PST. Submission forms are available at http://www.netsquared.org/mashup.

There are three parts to the Challenge:

  1. Application. You don't have to have the tech skills to create your mashup, just the idea. Your application will explain the change that you are trying to make, as well as the information/data sources that you believe can be married to help create that change. It is a short application form that we estimate will take you less than an hour to fill out.
  2. Recruiting and Specification-Building. The NetSquared Team will reach out to web-savvy collaborators to help translate your idea into a Mashup Project.
  3. Mashup Development. Teams of developers will start building your mashup.

The week of March 17th, the NetSquared Community will vote for the mashups they think are the most innovative, and that will create the greatest social impact. On March 24 the top 20 mashups will be announced, and the winners will be invited to attend this year’s NetSquared Conference (N2Y3) in San Jose, CA May 27-28, 2008. Each of the top 20 mashups will get an allowance for travel (including airfare to and from the Conference, along with a hotel room for two nights).

At the Conference, project teams will have an opportunity to display and discuss their mashups, and attendees will vote to select the top three. All twenty projects at the Conference will receive a share of $100,000 in prize money. The share will be determined by voting at the Conference.

To submit your project, go to http://www.netsquared.org/mashup

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Assetmap.org/uganda - a Mashup Challenge project
Submitted by Nathaniel Whittemore (not verified) on Tue, 03/18/2008 - 12:44pm.

Hi Holly,

I saw that you were writing about the Netsquared Mashup challenge and I wanted to share a little bit about our Mashup Challenge entry: Assetmap.org/uganda. You can read more at http://www.assetmap.org/uganda

The question behind the project is this: with peace on the horizon after 20 years of war in northern Uganda, and the big NGOs soon heading off to other war zones, who is going to support community organizations and northern Ugandan civil society as it transitions to peace time?

By mapping information about ongoing community-led philanthropic partnerships in northern Uganda, assetmap.org/uganda helps American citizens aggregate their resources to support post-conflict transformation.

We hope to facilitate collaboration among American donors and volunteers by providing a digital tool that:

•maps project locations so you know who's working where
•tags information about the specific issues projects and organizations seek to address
•links tagged and mapped projects to the facebook and LinkedIn profiles of participating donors or volunteers

If you're interested in supporting us, please visit and vote for us here:
http://www.netsquared.org/2008/conference/projects/assetmap-org-uganda

Thanks!

Nathaniel Whittemore
Director, Northwestern University Center for Global Engagement
www.mycge.org
globalengagement at gmail

Thanks!
Submitted by Britt Bravo (not verified) on Fri, 03/14/2008 - 3:56pm.

. . . for spreading the word about the NetSquared Mashup Challenge, Holly!

Britt

Britt Bravo
Community Builder
NetSquared • A Project of Tech Soup
www.netsquared.org
bbravo@techsoup.org