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Notes from October meeting
- unfortunately a lot of late "No" RSVPs.
- Light discussion about NTEN and NetTuesday collaboration
Mark
- Serial entrepreneur with aN iffy record
- Started with Omidyar - self sustainable community network, 4+ years ago, before social networking. Had to be invited or find your way there.
- Left after a while because people had great ideas, but nothing was happening.
- Early days found a natural "open-trust" network.
- Kiva first real micro-financing website - starting at $25 loans and now existing at million dollar loans a weekend
- 1/3 of Ned users are living on less than $1 a day, reason for the entirely text based Ned.com
- $25 loans go out, odds are good that the money returns, and then you make it go back out
- in the 1200-1300 loans Mark has done, he's lost $2.50
- There is no financial incentive, but the ability for high philanthropy is well worth
- Feb 2007, open-spaces conference in Uganda, Gulu(sp?) - largest gathering of Ned users
- Ned.com was born of Omidyar's closing
- Invisible Children (filmmakers made film about kids in Uganda)
- amnesty int'l, carter ctr. , film-makers in hollywood was how they were able to help this group that was helping people
- What do you have? And what do you want? Trade. Collaborate and be specific about how you can collaborate. Lead with your offer, and have more things to offer, to better your chances of return.
- Kaboom (playgrounds around US)
- MakerFaire in Ghana coming - great example of collaboration because nobody plans to own this, it becomes everybody's project.
- Story: 14 year old boy sees a photo of a windmill, and in two months creates one from scrap wood and bicycle parts... and converts it to generate electricity.
- Micro-finance: you have the money, it is your decision. do what you will.