Mashup Nonprofits, Do Good, Win Money
Date : 2008 03 04 Category : Tech & Development ProgrammableWeb
Create social change with your unique mashup idea. That’s the pitch to mashup developers from the folks at NetSquared for their NetSquared Mashup Challenge. NetSquared is a project from Tech Soup to facilitate the adoption of social web tools by nonprofits and NGOs. This is an ambitious effort and over $100,000 in prize money is at stake. There are three parts to the NetSquared Challenge:
The deadline for submissions is March 14th and the top 20 projects will be announced on March 24th. Those top 20 finalists will be invited to the NetSquared Conference (N2Y3) in San Jose, CA May 27-28. All 20 projects at the conference will receive a share of $100,000 in grant money with the share determined by voting at the conference.
The winner of last year’s NetSquared contest was MapLight.org. We’ve covered their efforts with citizen watchdogs earlier and have profiled their MapLight API. MapLight is a grantee of the the Sunlight Foundation who last year hosted their own worthwhile competition, the Mashup Congress Contest. The winning mashup in that case was Unfluence (our profile), which used the Follow the Money API to shed light on campaign finance via an interactive network map of state level political contribution data.
This is one of a variety of contests happening at the moment and you can see more on our Mashup Contests Guide.