Social Networks

Social networks is a theory based upon the premise that relationships are useful for understanding social structure and behavior. Research has shown that social networks, from families to nations, play a critical role in determining the way problems are solved, organizations are run, and the degree to which individuals succeed.

Reuters Digital Vision Program

Announcement 
The Reuters Digital Vision Program (RDVP) at Stanford University is accepting applications for the 2006-07 academic year (September 2006 - June 2007). The deadline is April 3, 2006. Fellowships will be awarded at the end of May, 2006.
 
The Program
 
The Digital Vision Program supports social entrepreneurs who seek to leverage technology-based solutions in the interest of humanitarian, educational, and sustainable development goals. The Program fosters interdisciplinary projects and prototyping efforts that address real needs in underserved communities. For the 2006-07 academic year, the program will focus on the following broad categories:
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Sahana - Open Source Distaster Management System -- useful for hurricanes

Sahana means "Relief" in Sinhalese. As the name itself implies, Sahana is a free and open source Disaster Management System.It mainly facilitates management of Missing people, disaster victims, Managing and administrating various organizations, managing camps and managing requests and assistance in the proper distribution of resources. http://cvs.opensource.lk/
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RecentChangesCamp 2006: Building Communities Worth Having

Submitted by Brian Kerr on January 12, 2006 - 2:33pm

RecentChangesCamp is an open space conference in Portland. The conference conveners write:

"As caretakers of primarily online communities, we (the Wiki community) are especially looking forward to cross-pollination with folks who nurture offline communities (ProcessArtists) and those who develop the OpenTechnology tools we depend upon to build our wikis."

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Design and Development of BiblioCommons

Submitted by Paul Resnick on October 31, 2005 - 8:54pm
BiblioCommons is a Toronto-based initiative that is developing hosted web services to integrate with libraries’ OPAC and circulation systems. It will enable library patrons to easily annotate the libraries’ bibliographic records with evaluative, associative and synoptic “tags”.

BiblioCommons is premised on a conviction that libraries not only can, but should play a leading role in the emerging field of “social knowledge discovery”. … Read more »

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PledgeBank - dada dada dada dada

Submitted by Lev Rickards on October 8, 2005 - 2:47pm
I pledged on PledgeBank to help Rebecca and Kyle bring a group of students to New Orleans. You can too: http://www.pledgebank.com/ArchivesNOLA The best part was when I thought only 10 people had signed up, and it turns out they have more like 46 out of 50 necessary pledgers. Talk about social capital - what we cannot do alone, what we could never do alone - can be done with a group of people working together. Like sending a team of students to New Orleans.
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