mashup

NetSquared Mashup Challenge Needs Mobile Ideas

March 5, 2008 | webb

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mashup, mobile, n2s, netsquared, prize, techsoup

Over at Netsquared we're running a Mashup Challenge. In a nutshell, we're asking folks to contribute their ideas and then working, heads down crazy, to get them resources -- brains and $ -- to help move those ideas forward. And we want more mobile mashups represented.

There are three parts to the Challenge:

1. Applications: Individuals working to create change will share with the NetSquared Community what change they are trying to make, as well as the information/data sources they believe can be married to help create that change. Applications will be available online February 1 and accepted until March 14, 2008.

Text for Poverty Alleviation in Micro Lending: A Prototype Mashup

October 30, 2007 | KatrinVerclas

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mashup, microcredit, microlending, mobile, mobileactive, thomashowe, VON

Imagine an industry conference of IP communciations where coders are mashing up an SMS application for a small NGO researching best practices for poverty alleviation. We were curious about what that might look like, so MobileActive.org is at the annual VON conference, the industry gathering of IP communications firms. At its unconference-style Innovation Track, there will be gathering of coders producing an SMS platform for an NGO focused on evaluating poverty alleviation efforts in developing countries. The mashup sponsored by the Thomas Howe Company, a Voice over IP (VOIP) communications firm that focuses on mashups for the enterprise.