Tom Munnecke on Omidyar Network


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I just ran across the Microformats web site. (Those who know me will recognize my attraction to all things "micro" or better yet, "nano"). Microformats define code that can be embedded in web pages to be interpreted by applications. For example:

• hCard format for exchange of user address information

• RelPayment is meant as a general way to facilitate acts of support, and thus this specification makes no assumptions on the type of support.

It seems to me that this opens some interesting doors to a scalable model for better world activities, allowing folks to embed web pages to include Better World Opportunities and tracking information. For example, we might define a microformat to define Better World Opportunities which might include:

• tagging information to categorize it,
• a chain of trust specification to indicate who is recommending this opportunity, as well as their reputation and track record or commitments.
• links (or specifications) to the opportunity "flow," be it currency ("real" or complementary/targetted), matchings, pooling requirements, etc.
• link to a discussion thread about the opportunity
• link to the follow-up/feedback mechanism, allowing folks to understand what happened and how to do it better next time.
• link to an uplift pattern, describing the pattern(s) of uplift employed in this opportunities. This allows the pattern itself to get smarter over time, learning from its many specific instances.
• location of the opportunity (if any), allowing the opportunity to presented in a google mash-up ( for example, see the mockup of the Nano Finance Pattern map)
• Virtual world location, perhaps linking the opportunity to a place/group/activity on Better World Island in Second Life.

The cool thing is that folks could identify their better world opportunities with a common format on their own sites, emails, tags, blogs, or whatever, and then aggregate them via RSS or ATOM. The flow activities would link back to the appropriate sources, and this would also open up a mechanism for large scale feedback at a fine level of granularity."

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Doug Solomon is Vice-president of Omidyar Network.

"Doug brings over 20 years of leadership experience in the information industry and a passion for applying business concepts and practices far beyond the business world itself. Most recently, Doug was Chief Strategy Officer and Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at Palm Inc. where he was responsible for strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and its Advanced Technology Group. Before joining Palm, Doug was co-President of Interval Research Corporation within Paul Allen's portfolio. He was responsible for commercializing Interval's technologies, mainly in the area of broadband applications and services. Previously, Doug was a Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy at Apple Computer. There, he pioneered the concept of Information Industry Convergence, which resulted in significant collaborations and alliances between previously unaffiliated individuals and companies in media, content and technology."



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Join the French speaking & other cultures experiment or the whole debate about this tools

This is a kind of airlock used for facilitating the connection of ‘French speaking and culture’ with people from other languages and cultures who share the same ideals and projects.

The vocation of this tool is :

• helping French speaking people who are not comfortable with English speaking, in finding people, resources and projects that concern them
• helping French speaking people who speak English, who have the same ideals and projects than Onet, but who hasn’t enough time for being comfortable with navigating Onet, in finding quickly their way
• helping Onet members who don’t speak French, in finding some French speaking projects and resources that concern their projects, and having some synergic connections in French speaking countries (specially Africa)

French is an official language in about 30 countries, including about 20 African countries.

French is one of the 6 official language of the UN (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish).

World map of La Francophonie members and participants

Dans ce groupe on parle le français.

Drapeau de la Francophonie

Un nouveau groupe sur Omidyar Network [Onet] pour les français et les francophones :


Pam Omidyar (la femme de Pierre Omidyar, le fondateur de eBay) a déjà exprimé (en français !) son intérêt pour cette démarche, et le staff semble aussi trouver intéressante l’idée d’ouvrir un peu plus Omidyar Network aux langues et cultures non américaines.
Cet espace représente un formidable potentiel de collaboration transversale. L'idée est de considérer cet espace comme un sas permettant aux initiatives menées de part et d’autres de profiter d'intéressantes synergies. Les idées et projets de la communauté francophone pourront ainsi trouver des ressources et des contacts intéressants parmi les pointures en NTIC en particulier, mais aussi dans des champs de compétences aussi variés que la biochimie, l'art, la linguistique, la philosophie et encore bien d’autres domaines. Seul point commun qui cimente toute cette communauté : une réelle foi dans l’Éthique et dans le fait que « Chaque individu possède le pouvoir de faire la différence ».

Un groupe germanophone a aussi été tout récemment créé : Deutsch

In the thread:

UPLIFT EXPEDITION: The Philo as a Means of Stimulating Microenterprise at omidyar.net

"Challenge - Is it possible to create an alternative currency that will act as an incentive for member participation in better world building activities at omidyar.net? Can a pilot project stimulate microenterprise?"

By Tom Munnecke (869), Mon, 15 Aug 2005 08:09:32 PDT

Nonprofit Technology Taxonomy Creation

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