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We need your help

Daniel Daboczy - Editor in chief — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:09:57 +0000

During the last year, while testing features and promoti

ng the IdeasForChange concept we received alot of feedback.

Although we already reached some of our goal we still don´t think that we have accomplished what we have set out to do. We wanted to use the knowledge of the grassroots to connect it to the right idea. For instance irrigation knowledge from Idaho is valuable in Congo, grass root knowledge from South Africa is useful in Gaza, enthusiasm from Sweden is invaluable in India.

We know that you guys can make a difference. And we know that our team at IdeasForChange have the knowledge, networks and enthusiasm to redevelop IdeasForChange into an open tool where anybody can start a group on an issue and receive help, knowledge and ideas from global networks.

But at this point we are really low on funds and a lot of our technical development ha

s halted. So we need some help. We need you to donate any amount you can to help us grow a bit and develop this dream tool.

Please use this ChipIn widget to donate to us.

/Daniel

The dilemma of the social entrepreneur

Daniel Daboczy - Editor in chief — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:36:57 +0000

During the last months we have met a lot of eager, interesting, individuals and organisations that like we, want to make some good in the world. We get very inspired by the energy, enthusiasm and devotion that many have. Like them we also do this project for the greater good. We see that a connected world and global networks actually make change. We can also see that the response we got globally is that what we are building is needed and wanted.

Stay tuned, we will launch our method manifesto soon, telling what we are about to build and how your knowledge can make a real impact.

Google displays all requests from governments for shutdown

Daniel Daboczy - Editor in chief — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:57:43 +0000

Government requests directed to Google and YouTube

Like other technology and communications companies, we regularly receive requests from government agencies around the world to remove content from our services, or provide information about users of our services and products. The map shows the number of requests that we received between July 1, 2009 and December 31, 2009, with certain limitations.

We know these numbers are imperfect and may not provide a complete picture of these government requests. For example, a single request may ask for the removal of more than one URL or for the disclosure of information for multiple users. See the FAQ for more information.

http://www.google.com/governmentrequests/

We are building our funds

Daniel Daboczy - Editor in chief — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:15:31 +0000

You might have been wondering why we don’t have updated in a while. Thruth is that we are overwhelmed with the interest out there and with our goal to build this site into an active tool.

We are at this point securing funds and creating the plan for the next step of the project. And that is building the tool that really, really uses and put´s your knowledge, input and enthusiasm into the right place.

It will be open, free, usefull and powerfull.

So please have patience and if you will please continue donating. We really need the funds and we are heading toward something great.

Daniel Daboczy

Can you feel the winds of change?

Daniel Daboczy - Editor in chief — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:41:37 +0000

I´m not talking about Obama, nor Google leaving China, nor Iran, Thailand or other. I´m talking about We The People.

I´m talking about the new times where more and more people migrate from Facebook, couchsurfing, aimless consumption of media and become involved. They begin to share, to spread, to interact. Never before has the opinions and the knowledge of the grassrots been more effective, saught for or relevant. We are used to listen. We are used to look upwards to leaders for guidance bur now projects like ours builds forces on connecting the dots. On harvesting the wast ammount of knowledge that you and your friends might have.

Please share your cognitive surplus and do some good.

Click here to view the embedded video.

http://laughingsquid.com/clay-shirky-on-cognitive-surplus/

http://www.shirky.com/

Wikileaks ensures our freedom. Now they need your help!

Daniel Daboczy - Editor in chief — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:35:32 +0000

“ Wikileaks has probably produced more scoops in its short life than the Washington Post has in the past 30 years ”
— The National, November 19, 2009

They have received hundreds of thousands of pages from corrupt banks, the US detainee system, the Iraq war, China, the UN and many others that they do not currently have the resources to release. You can change that and by doing so, change the world. Even $10 will pay to put one of these reports into another ten thousand hands.

Courage is contagious.

Please do something important today here:

http://wikileaks.org/

Click here to view the embedded video.

The Idea of the Year AWARD

Daniel Daboczy - Editor in chief — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:02:56 +0000

We are announcing “The Idea of the Year Award”. The first annual prize to the best idea received to IdeasForChange from 2010 -01 -01 untill 2010-10-01. The prize and the amount is growing for each day and consists of all of the donated amount, google ad revenue and some other. If you have a good idea, want to share a great idea, know about a great idea for our world please Contribute or if you wish to donate please use the DONATE button on the top right corner and help us build the funds and make the prize bigger. Any ammount big or small will be highly appreciated and used in fully for the prize.

The 10 finalists will be presented on october 02 and the winner will receive the prize on October 30.

For more information please e-mail daniel@ideasforchange.tv

/Daniel Daboczy

Happy to see the response

Daniel Daboczy - Editor in chief — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:08:53 +0000

We are slowly taking care of the good response we are getting. We are opening up for bloggers and contributors. Please e-mail us for passwords and usernames.

We want to point out that IdeasForChange is open to suggestions for other categories and please continue sending in material. We will go through it and post as soon as we can.

/Daniel Daboczy, Editor in chief

Support us by DONATING

Daniel Daboczy - Editor in chief — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:43:13 +0000

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Veckans intressanta tankar (in swedish only)

Daniel Daboczy - Editor in chief — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:45:42 +0000

Vår tids utmaningar.

Världen har genomgått en exempellös förvandling de senaste hundra åren. Men befolkningsexplosionen, den oerhört snabba utvecklingen av vetenskap och teknik, liksom den förändrade livsstilen i industriländerna har också skapat stora problem och obalanser.

László Szombatfalvy, som blev ett välkänt namn på den svenska aktiemarknaden på 1970-talet, pekar på bristen på riskvärdering när det gäller de globala problem som nu stundar. De risker som mänskligheten accepterar när det gäller de hot som vi står inför är många gånger större än de vi skulle acceptera inom andra områden som exempelvis inom biltrafiken eller trafikflyget.

I Vår tids största utmaningar identifierar, analyserar och riskvärderar författaren fyra megahot som mänskligheten står inför – miljöförstöringen, klimatförändringen, det politiska våldet och fattigdomen. Han skissar också på möjligheter att bemästra hoten eller åtminstone minimera riskerna.

Läs boken här: http://utmaningar.org/boken/wp-content/uploads/var-tids-storsta-utmaningar.pdf