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Everyone has a dream with the power to change the world. What’s yours? Now is the time to take your innovative ideas and transform them into actionable plans. Get started today by entering the 2010 Dell Social Innovation Competition.


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Give the Change
Submitted By  FOY,  Feb 4, 2010  |    Thu Feb 04 18:49:06 GMT 2010
Team Name : FOY
University : University Of Texas at Austin
Country : United States


  A way to integrate online banking to help local, regional, national and international charities  FOY20.0


Comments :  0
Social Issues : Other  

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Attention and Money: The Power to Read, The Power the Thrive
Submitted By  NathanH,  Feb 4, 2010  |    Thu Feb 04 18:09:50 GMT 2010
Team Name :
University : Georgetown University
Country : United States


What does the issue of illiteracy in America need? It needs Attention and Money, and that is what my company and project are named. Quite simply put, I want to eradicate illiteracy in America. If one cannot speak, read, or write in English, they are severely limited in their abilities to satisfy their basic needs as well as contribute to the rest of society. My aim is to build a clothing company that will fund English -as- a- Second Language Literacy programs across America. A great majority of programs for literacy are either state-funded or run by volunteers. These programs are great, but no one involved in these programs would doubt that they are desperate for funding. So, why not create a sustainable business around that? If I can build a successful clothing company that will be able to fund my literacy programs, then the programs will be able to offer high-quality, free education to those that have been denied it the most. In high school, I received government grants and built a literacy program from the ground up that served over 100 adults and children in learning English. I have already demonstrated the ability to build a successful literacy program as well as a company, but with growth comes the need for a greater amount of human and monetary capital, and I will surely need the support of this entrepreneurial program to expand my ideas and create a sustainable program across America NathanH20.0


Comments :  1
Social Issues : Child/Youth Development  Education  Poverty Alleviation/Economic Development  

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Seed to Feed
Submitted By  endhunger12,  Feb 3, 2010  |    Thu Feb 04 00:22:11 GMT 2010
Team Name : Team Ate
University : Texas A&M University
Country : United States


Our objective is to collect unused, leftover, or unwanted vegetable and fruit seeds, small gardening tools, and buckets/containers to create Seed to Feed kits. These kits will be distributed to communities in impoverished and hunger-stricken areas. Each Seed to Feed kit will include an assortment of seeds, a set of basic gardening tools, and an instruction card, all inside of a recycled bucket. endhunger1260.0


Comments :  0
Social Issues : Food/Potable Water  Poverty Alleviation/Economic Development  

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DiverseNote: Faster, Easier Career Successes for the Diversity Community
Submitted By  diversenote,  Feb 3, 2010  |    Wed Feb 03 23:16:46 GMT 2010
Team Name : DiverseNote
University : University of Michigan
Country : United States


DiverseNote was created to close the employment gap between the nation’s top companies and diversity candidates on a career track.


DiverseNote is a social network that provides professional development and job match services.  DiverseNote is unique in its commitment to the minority community (based on ethnicity, gender, veteran status, and diversity origin) and its innovative  service offerings. The minority community is over represented in reference to unemployment.  We provide benefits that are low cost for personalized
one stop career coaching technology that leads to faster and easier career successes.

 

DiverseNote is designed to make great employee-employer matches — matches that can turn into productive and rewarding long-term, career relationships.

 

There’s an incredible pool of talented people out there, and great companies looking for those people. We’re bringing them together.

 

You might call it employment matchmaking. But no matter what you call it, you can take advantage of the opportunity at DiverseNote.com

 

 

diversenote40.0


Comments :  0
Social Issues : Education  Poverty Alleviation/Economic Development  

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Dummy Mobile System
Submitted By  pawankb,  Feb 3, 2010  |    Wed Feb 03 17:33:03 GMT 2010
Team Name : Pawan Kumar Barnwal
University : Malviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur
Country : India


 Today in field of communication, everything is digitized, data can be sent in seconds. And Mobile Communication has changed the world. Every class of society, from rages to riches everyone has small handsets to express feelings and be in contact of loving ones.  In some mobile system, bluetooth system are inbuilt by which small data like songs, wallpapers or any msg can be sent in few range of meters. My innovative ideas say if this bluetooth device or any wimax is installed in a small handheld device ("Dummy Mobile System")which seem to be like ipod or mobile but not has feature of mobile only work as bluetooth or wimax device, then, life will become quiet easy . All electronics appliances in home can be controlled by this system. Moreover, if we increase its capability accepting Voice call Frequency, then, it can accept call also, thus requirement of many handsets. will be reduced. Even school students can carry that device, thus, they will be more secure and their parents will be tension free. Farmers will send message to his son by just sitting in his home instead of walking long distances. In small office , workers can be given message by his owner through this device thus, the problem of cost and service dependence on network operators are removed. Also the effect of strong Electromagnetic radiation on health is reduced considerably.Modern communication pawankb20.0


Comments :  0
Social Issues : Digital Inclusion  Energy/Environment/Climate Change  Peace & Security  

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Education is Encouragement
Submitted By  abhshksingh,  Feb 3, 2010  |    Wed Feb 03 16:54:34 GMT 2010
Team Name : Abhi
University :
Country :


An online education board imparting education to poors free of cost. So that instead of having few resources they can study and should provide them international standard certificates and encourage them.
  abhshksingh20.0


Comments :  0
Social Issues : Education  

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Humanity Publishing
Submitted By  Jshorland,  Feb 2, 2010  |    Wed Feb 03 01:59:46 GMT 2010
Team Name : Book Publishing
University : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Country : United States


The publishing company will be created as a social enterprise designed to increase access to affordable books in developing countries, beginning in East Africa and gradually scaling globally. The organization will focus on combating illiteracy and empowering people through sharing their stories. Local authors and storytellers will be published and promoted by the publishing company. The profits from selling the books in larger markets will be used to subsidize the cost of the books in developing nations, making them affordable for those living on limited income. Thus far, publishing companies have not penetrated a market of approximately 2.4 billion people. The organization will take on a trade-in policy for these emerging markets in which customers can trade in three books for one new one. The used books can be resold at an even lower cost. Once they have depreciated in value (3-5 cycles of trade-in depending on the condition of the book), they will be moved to libraries owned by the organization. People will be able to pay a minimal yearly fee to use the library services including book exchange and literacy classes. The fee will go towards salaries of library employees.

 

The publishing company will preserve culture, empower people, and bridge cultural borders through publishing, marketing, and selling local individuals’ stories. It will publish a vast array of topics along with books designed to introduce and teach literacy. Jshorland680.0


Comments :  9
Social Issues : Education  Human Rights  Poverty Alleviation/Economic Development  

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Corporations 4 Change
Submitted By  corporations4change,  Feb 2, 2010  |    Wed Feb 03 01:42:08 GMT 2010
Team Name : Corporations 4 Change
University : Queen's University
Country : Canada


These days, most volunteer trips overseas have three problems: they only provide temporary help, they involve volunteers doing activities that locals could do themselves (e.g. building houses), and they are more beneficial for the volunteers than the people they are trying to help. What people in developing countries really need are education, intellectual capital and empowerment so that they can begin to help themselves and others in a long-lasting way. At the same time, companies in developed countries are not as socially responsible as they could be. Travel is an excellent way for companies to gain a broadened perspective that they can bring back home. In addition, millennials are entering the workforce and demanding opportunities to be socially responsible and give back. Corporations 4 Change is a CSR travel agency that matches companies with budding entrepreneurs in developing countries and arranges trips for executives to travel to meet them and educate them about business and entrepreneurship. These trips are team-building experiences that corporations will fund as a way to demonstrate their corporate social responsibility and attract new talent. The target audience includes corporations that value corporate social responsibility and are willing to invest in it. For the most part, this will consist of medium-large corporations in North America, in industries such as consumer packaged goods, banking, consulting, and more. There is a limitless amount of corporations that would want to take trips with Corporations 4 Change, and those with millennial employees will be especially interested.

corporations4change40.0


Comments :  0
Social Issues : Volunteerism  Education  Microfinance  

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Hope for Stroke Victims
Submitted By  lvtomberlin,  Feb 2, 2010  |    Tue Feb 02 16:40:09 GMT 2010
Team Name : Stroke Repair
University : University of Phoenix
Country : United States


Stroke is the third killer of American's in this country and rehabilitation is limited and short lived.  Many of these people can be brought back to normal with time and patience but they are forgotten and discarded when they reach a certain level.  I plan to have a facility that will give them the opportunity for full recovery.  This will be done through volunteers.  It will be a day care tacility that implements massage, rehabilitation, physical therapy, occupational therapy, peer interaction, and day care including 2 meals a day.  Doctors, nurses, therapists will evaluate each individual and make a plan for each.  We will implement those plans to make these people functioning members of society again. lvtomberlin40.0


Comments :  0
Social Issues : Global Health/AIDS  Peace & Security  Poverty Alleviation/Economic Development  

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Eliminating Homelessness While Saving the Earth
Submitted By  jarrettd,  Feb 1, 2010  |    Tue Feb 02 02:17:37 GMT 2010
Team Name : ConstantAudible
University : University of North Carolina @ Chapel Hill
Country : United States


The government should build homeless shelters in proximity to landfills or dumps and allow those are homeless to sort through landfills and dumps for recyclables that have carelessly been thrown away. Many homeless resort to recycling as a way to make money anyway, and this program provides the best place to search for recyclables while clearing dumps of materials, which can be reused. 

By creating teams out of those who are participating (Team Glass/Team Plastic/ Etc.), the homeless will gain social skills along with a sense of place and self-worth in a communal setting. This will be crucial when individuals, who have saved up enough money through recycling, attempt to reenter society.

The size of the homeless shelter will be in proportion to the population of homeless, which is generally proportional to the size of the each city. This works out perfectly assuming that bigger cities have larger dumps and a larger homeless population to work in the landfills as recycling agents.
jarrettd50.0


Comments :  3
Social Issues : Energy/Environment/Climate Change  Other  Poverty Alleviation/Economic Development  

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EDUCATION IN UGANDA
Submitted By  Kakajulio,  Feb 1, 2010  |    Mon Feb 01 15:55:12 GMT 2010
Team Name : kakajulio
University : none
Country : Uganda


In Uganda a country found in Africa it's educational standerd is low simply because the teacher who are involved in the system are not paid enough salary to cover up ther basic needs so they end up giving little attetion to children.Secondly the number of children they deal with in class are in abig number due to few classroom and ends up making the standerd low and not promising.

Otherwise for my side i suggest that let the government subsides this insitition in that they can provide something reasonable.  Kakajulio30.0


Comments :  1
Social Issues : Education  Food/Potable Water  Human Rights  

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USING WIKI AS A COLLABORATIVE MEDIUM IN SCHOOLS OF NEPAL FOR STUDENTS IN THEIR LEARNING BEHAVIOR
Submitted By  tshorolpa,  Feb 1, 2010  |    Mon Feb 01 10:19:06 GMT 2010
Team Name : KarmaThalo
University : Asian Institute of Technology
Country : Nepal


 There is a need in rural Nepal to increase the educational status of school-leaving certificate (SLC) students (or higher level). Every year nearly 50% of these students fail in their main board exam offered by the Office of Controller of Examinations, Nepal (OCE). The emergence of Wiki technology has potential in using it in education where teachers can fully manage students' records; examine how they are advancing and what they are currently doing. In addition, students can easily exchange information among themselves.

Simplicity, openness and unstructuredness of Wiki technology facilitate its use in school settings. Simplicity means that nothing has to be installed on the client's computer. Openness can be understood that there are no system-set restrictions in the use of Wiki. Moreover, there is no need for separate permissions. Unstructuredness means- in contrast with other computer-supported collaborative systems - that Wiki does not frame the workflow or put clear restrictions on how it is used in schools. Teachers do not have to adapt to a given tool but can structure Wiki as needed. 

tshorolpa40.0


Comments :  0
Social Issues : Digital Inclusion  Education  

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Last.md – Crowdsourced Medical Consultation
Submitted By  chenfang,  Jan 30, 2010  |    Sat Jan 30 20:42:40 GMT 2010
Team Name : Last.md
University : Harvard University
Country : United States


By leveraging the expertise of board-certified physicians and well-informed individuals, Last.md is an innovative free service that provides 1-to-n medical consultation to anyone with an internet connection. Unlike contemporary telemedicine and online care channels, Last.md embraces anonymity and transparency while fully utilizing the power of collective intelligence. It is the first open, free, online medical service driven by a community of experts.

How it works:

Anyone, including unregistered guests, can obtain medical advice by creating and publishing Last.md cases. After cases go live, individuals seeking consultation interact with our team of doctors and other members of the Last.md community directly on the website. For any given case, participants can upload a wide-array of media (including photographs, MRIs, X-Rays, test results, etc.) to facilitate the discussion. Once a consensus has been reached, the patient in question will be provided with the following information:
  • An unofficial diagnosis along with potential treatments.
  • When and where to seek medical attention, if needed.
How it’s different:

Last.md is different from its competitors in three main ways.

Public yet anonymous. While all cases are publicly accessible, cases do not contain personally identifiable information. Last.md user profiles are never publicly associated with published cases.

Free. Anyone can create a Last.md case for free.

1-to-n. Individuals seeking medical guidance will receive sound advice from more than one board-certified doctor. Members of the Last.md community can also contribute to any discussion, but their opinions are clearly noted as such and are weighted less.

www.last.md
Crowdsourced Medical Consultation

Last.md Logo
chenfang390.0


Comments :  2
Social Issues : Volunteerism  Global Health/AIDS  Other  

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Electronic Writing Pen
Submitted By  Pak3ma,  Jan 30, 2010  |    Sat Jan 30 09:04:17 GMT 2010
Team Name : SAMUD
University : Army Public College of Management and Sciences
Country : Pakistan


it is the electronic writng pen .
We can use this Pen totally instead of Keyboard for typing the documents, long reports and assignments.
It is the replacement of the Keyboard.
It is only use for typing.
Text can be typed and also erased with this device.

Pak3ma40.0


Comments :  0
Social Issues : Other  

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Beyond the Surface International
Submitted By  beyondthesurface,  Jan 29, 2010  |    Sat Jan 30 00:46:40 GMT 2010
Team Name : Beyond the Surface International
University : Georgetown University
Country : United States


Beyond the Surface is a nonprofit corporation in the United States, currently applying for 501(c)3 tax-exempt charity status. Our mission is to eradicate youth homelessness in coastal communities worldwide and empower street children through the sport of surfing. Beyond the Surface sponsors three international nongovernmental organizations: The Kovalam Surf Club in India WAVES for Development in Peru The Umthombo Surf Club in South Africa

With every dollar raised, Beyond the Surface aids street children in coastal communities worldwide. For the price of one surfboard, Beyond the Surface can help one street child off the streets and enroll them into one of our surfing education programs at WAVES for Development. WAVES for Development creates life-enriching experiences in coastal communities through Educational Surf programs that develop youth into healthy & empowered adults and Surf Voluntourism programs that engage travelers and transform their world views. 

Our community-based programs promote: Cultural Exchange and Understanding Environmental Conservation Life Skills / Healthy Living Social Entrepreneurship Sustainable Tourism/Educational Surf Programs At-risk youth learn how to swim and surf. WAVES uses surfing as a motivational starting point to teach youth about healthy living, life skills, environmental awareness, and social entrepreneurship. By being introduced to new skills, people, and life possibilities, program participants feel empowered, and are armed with the knowledge to lead healthy and productive lives. Working in South Africa, Beyond the Surface helps to rescue street children who are addicted to sniffing glue The Umthombo Surf Club serves a therapeutic role in the lives of street children by using the sport of surfing to reach out to homeless children in Durban and transform their lives. Surfing acts as a catalyst to get children off the streets and back into their communities. The club specifically works with street children who have acute solvent addictions. The Umthombo Surf Club seeks to provide structure in their lives, improve their health, and gradually wean the children off solvents.

The Kovalam Surf Club was established by Belgium Surfer Jelle Riogle in 2005 and is now working with Beyond the Surface International. We believe boredom is what leads homeless children to form criminal gangs. In Western society, children join a scout group or club sport at an early age and learn key social skills. In the same effort to find a sense of camaraderie, homeless children in Kovalam often form violent criminal units. Thus, Kovalam Surf Club seeks to provide surf classes as a meaningful and free alternative to gang life. Kovalam provides these children with new opportunities in cross-cultural interaction, self-esteem building programs, and education. The Kovalam Surf Club hopes with international support, these young men and women will grow to lead their communities toward development and social change.

For a small donation, you can help rescue a child from the streets and give them a chance to escape from a lifetime of homelessness. Your donation will assist Beyond the Surface in placing children in one of our three educational self-empowerment surfing programs.
beyondthesurface40.0


Comments :  0
Social Issues : Child/Youth Development  Human Rights  Poverty Alleviation/Economic Development  

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Touch a being and create a system of giving
Submitted By  mross08,  Jan 29, 2010  |    Fri Jan 29 21:10:37 GMT 2010
Team Name : Evolved Giving Tree
University : Austin College
Country : United States


 By collaborating all our modern technologies, we can create a new generation that is motivated to serve.  Just image what motivated Facebook to be created. People wanted to "stay in touch" in a simple and efficient manner.  Now, when we connect, we want to be involved and tend to help each other in ways that would not have occurred if we did not connect in the first place.  If we can apply this idea of connection to other worlds, we would have a better sense of attachment that would allow us to feel obligated to give.  If we can combine such social technologies such as facebook, skype, etc., to a world hidden in an impoverished orphanage in Africa or India, we would have a sense of connection.  Without exposure, we are disconnected and their pain is further out of our minds.   mross0830.0


Comments :  0
Social Issues : Volunteerism  Child/Youth Development  Education  

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Drinking water and sanitation for 50 million people
Submitted By  anamensgh,  Jan 28, 2010  |    Thu Jan 28 23:06:23 GMT 2010
Team Name : GVCL
University : University of Ghana
Country : Ghana


It is a well-known fact that poor agricultural practices and other environmentally unfriendly activities have over the years caused considerable degradation of lands in rural communities across the middle and northern parts of Ghana. The project to be implemented by GVCL will focus on the improvement of environmental conditions and agricultural production in the middle and northern regions of Ghana, to be achieved through enhancing and promoting sound forestry and agro-forestry practices. This will result in higher production of cashew and cocoa (the target crop of GVCL) and other popular crops in the project areas such as corn, yam, groundnuts and beans. This project will also create high standard of environmental awareness in order to build capacity in the communities to enable them plan and implement programmes to resolve environmental programmes in the northern parts of Ghana. It is important to note that the project will provide technical assistance and credit facility to participating farmers in the form of agricultural inputs.

The project is expected to enhance sustainable livelihood for farmers (particularly female farmers) and improve incomes of inhabitants. Greater financial security will be achieved and this will improve the standard of living of the communities. anamensgh90.0


Comments :  0
Social Issues : Energy/Environment/Climate Change  Food/Potable Water  Poverty Alleviation/Economic Development  

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Network of equality
Submitted By  kraateri,  Jan 27, 2010  |    Wed Jan 27 08:17:45 GMT 2010
Team Name : Käpylä love
University : Aalto University/Helsinki university of technolog
Country : Finland


Social and information networks are most important tool for empowering poor people. This social venture would create social networks among the people who have to fight  for survival in everyday life without electricity, water and food security. The venture would gather important information from villages and cities considering about the needs, problems and other social information.  After the information is gathered from the area, venture would create network with people who have similar needs and problems and link them other social companies like micro finance provider or they could link them with other NGOs that operate in the area. If the survey can show that in the area is more than one village that needs for instance clean water. Information could be used to find solutions together with the villages and water providers. Sky is the limit how you can help with the gathered information.

Local people could gather information with help of information technology  about: children, drugs/crime, education, election/governance, energy usage, environment/climate change, health, human rights, peace & security, economic development and about needs of water, food electricity, micro finance and medication. Also venture could provide information to volunteer workers who could direct their help more efficiently. 

This social venture would help individuals to be part of larger group to fight against corruption or just ease the everyday struggle. This Venture would help other social ventures to find healthy markets. This venture would share the information to the world to help people to help. 


kraateri80.0


Comments :  1
Social Issues : Digital Inclusion  Elections/Governance  Poverty Alleviation/Economic Development  

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Look Smart
Submitted By  GreenSeahorse,  Jan 26, 2010  |    Wed Jan 27 07:30:52 GMT 2010
Team Name : Laura George
University : Wake Forest University
Country : United States


 Look Smart aims to outfit children from impoverished areas, such as the Dominican Republic, in which even public school is restricted to those who can afford the uniform and school supplies. Originally conceived after seeing Dominican children gripping the fence around the schoolhouse, trying to get a glimpse of the teacher's lesson, Look Smart aims to bring impoverished children the education they want more than anything in the world. The program takes donated school uniforms from American children (usually outgrown) and brings them to kids in desperate need of an education. Look Smart creates packages including a backpack, a uniform (including socks and often shoes), a notebook, pencils/pens, crayons, and other school supplies. This program addresses poverty issues by attacking them from the ground up. Allowing children to get an education means they will have more opportunities as adults and thus make more money to provide for their families as adults. Look Smart cannot currently operate due to insufficient funds, but with this money could resume its work and potentially expand into sponsoring new teachers in these same impoverished areas. Please help me put this wonderful project back into action and get needy kids back into the classroom. GreenSeahorse150.0


Comments :  1
Social Issues : Child/Youth Development  Education  Poverty Alleviation/Economic Development  

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VIDA ACADEMY
Submitted By  lugavi,  Jan 26, 2010  |    Tue Jan 26 18:03:16 GMT 2010
Team Name : VIDA
University : Centro de Estudios Aeronauticos
Country : Argentina


VIDA ACADEMY is a dance academy, oriented to help children in poverty and special needs and people and people with desabilities, to make their dreams, come true and finding themselfs by the power and joy of dance. It is focus to give scholarship or fellowship to children in the elementary shcool level and high school level as well. It is going to be the first dance academy en Mendoza, Argentina to help this children because there are a lot of them that want to dance and do not have that chance to do it, because there is not a place specially for them. I also want to promote the academy by creating proffesional shows and with that help with the shcoolarship process. The show will be mostly ballroom dance combined with other styles like modern, jazz, ballet, hip hop acting , singing and  others to make sure that the sure is unique and totally atracts people. But i need some money to get started and follow this big dream to make it a reality. The idea for now is to make it in Mendoza but someday make it national and why not someday make it worlwide. Dance is VIDA! (life). lugavi90.0


Comments :  0
Social Issues : Child/Youth Development  Education  Poverty Alleviation/Economic Development  

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