Thank you to everyone who voted for the best projects in the NetSquared/UC Berkeley Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge last week. NetSquared just announced the top 10 finalists – including our project, Handheld Human Rights. We couldn’t have made it this far without your support, votes and comments.
Congratulations to Freedom Fone, Guardian, and others for [...]
D2 is a finalist in the Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge
Mar 31, ’09
12:34 PM
Digital Drinks – a great success!
Mar 26, ’09
8:35 AM
Thanks to all the folks in New York who attended our event, Digital Drinks, last night. The Sunburnt Cow provided the perfect atmosphere, allowing for great interactions and conversations. Most importantly we met our goal for the night: To get out the vote for our Handheld Human Rights project. We appreciate everyone taking the time [...]
Innovation from New York to Amsterdam
Mar 25, ’09
6:03 AM
This year marks the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s journey across the Atlantic, and in celebration the Dutch government is sponsoring a series of events and programs called NY400, reflecting on four centuries of Dutch-American relations.
One of these programs, Pioneers, brings a group of ‘movers and shakers’ from New York and Amsterdam to engage in [...]
Vote for us in the Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge
Mar 23, ’09
12:36 PM
Voting just began for UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge. There’s an impressive gallery of projects and we are excited to have our proposal for Handheld Human Rights among them.
There are approximately 50 projects in the gallery, and the 10 projects that receive the most votes between now and Friday, March 27 will be [...]
UC Berkeley Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge
Mar 13, ’09
9:21 AM
We have been working on Handheld Human Rights, a mobile component of the Virtual Community Center. We just entered it in UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge being presented by Netsquared.
The mission of this challenge is to encourage innovations for applying mobile technologies for human rights investigations and advocacy.
Handheld Human Rights provides a secure [...]
Drupalcon DC 2009
Mar 10, ’09
4:06 PM
Last week Mark traveled to Washington DC to attend Drupalcon, an unconference for Drupal users and developers.
Drupal is an open-source content management platform, with which we’re considering building the VCC. The users that attended this event had the opportunity to learn how to use the platform from the people that are creating the code, and [...]
