Ecosia (New)
The search engine that plants trees! Ecosia is a search engine that donates 80% of its income to a tree planting program in Brazil. By searching with Ecosia you can help the environment for free!
Tangible Earth (New)
Promoting Planetary Consciousness....."A globe connected around the planet, turned together by brothers and sisters educating each other" is the vision that inspires the "Tangible Earth". We want to surpass the idea of just being a near real-time interactive tool for studying the Earth's environment, and function as a public platform for developing planetary sensibilities, in an era that where such understandings are nothing if not critical. See details here.
Collection: The New Generation Online Learning Platforms (New)
An increased emphasis on interactivity, open learning, and collaboration have all revolutionized education initiatives both online and off. The best platforms for designing, organizing, and maintaining these courses must change along with technology and the latest trends. Fortunately, most of the major online learning platforms — as well as some startups — embrace these movements toward these new educational spaces.
Re-Nourish
Re-nourish is an online tool advocating awarenessand action for sustainable systems thinking in the communication design community.
JUMO
In 2011, Jumo combined forces with GOOD to create a powerful online content and social engagement platform. This is an enormous opportunity for their talented teams to build a single community of like-minded people and mission-driven organizations.
HASTAC
What would our research, technology design, and thinking look like if we took seriously the momentous opportunities and challenges for learning posed by our digital era? What happens when we stop privileging traditional ways of organizing knowledge (by fields, disciplines, and majors or minors) and turn attention instead to alternative modes of creating, innovating, and critiquing that better address the interconnected, interactive global nature of knowledge today, both in the classroom and beyond?
Dialogue Cafe
Dialogue Café is the world's first public video conferencing network for civil society. Dialogue Café is a global non-profit initiative that enables face-to-face conversations between diverse groups of people from around the world so that they can share experiences, learn from each other and work together to make the world a better place. This is the world's first public video conferencing network specifically for civil society - for social, educational and cultural organizations.
Drupal
Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications. It’s built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world.
Open Space Technology
Open Space Technology allows groups, large or small, to self-organise to effectively deal with complex issues in a very short time. Participants create and manage their own agenda of parallel working sessions around a central theme of strategic importance. What Open Space presents to us is, at the very least, a new way to hold better meetings. It can however grow to become a new way of organising that infuses entire organisations or smaller communities.
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One World: Global Justice Online
We pioneer internet and mobile phone applications that the world's poorest people can use to improve their life chances, and that help people everywhere understand global problems - and do something about them.
Social Innovation Dialogue or The Social Technology of Presencing
Theory U: Leading from the Future as it Emerges.Using his experience working with some of the world’s most accomplished leaders and innovators, Otto Scharmer shows in Theory U how groups and organizations can develop seven leadership capacities in order to create a future that would not otherwise be possible. Also see here.
The World Cafe
Using seven design principles and a simple method, the World Café is a powerful social technology for engaging people in conversations that matter, offering an effective antidote to the fast-paced fragmentation and lack of connection in today's world.
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"For more information about the World Cafe and to access their numerous resources including a large international community, visit their website at http://www.theworldcafe.com/ "
Note:
"For more information about the World Cafe and to access their numerous resources including a large international community, visit their website at http://www.theworldcafe.com/ "
Ushahidi Products
Products for democratizing information, increasing transparency and lowering barriers to sharing stories.
The Social Network for Sustainability
Wiser is a global village for sharing and kinship-building for people who believe in a more just and sustainable world. Specifically, Wiser's mission is to help the global movement of people and organizations working toward social justice, indigenous rights, and environmental stewardship to connect, collaborate, share knowledge, and build alliances.
Open Space Technology
Open Space Technology is one way to enable all kinds of people, in any kind of organization, to create inspired meetings and events. Over the last 20+ years, it has also become clear that opening space, as an intentional leadership practice, can create inspired organizations, where ordinary people work together to create extraordinary results with regularity. In Open Space meetings, events and organizations, participants create and manage their own agenda of parallel working sessions around a central theme of strategic importance, such as: What is the strategy, group, organization or community that all stakeholders can support and work together to create? With groups of 5 to 2000+ people -- working in one-day workshops, three-day conferences, or the regular weekly staff meeting -- the common result is a powerful, effective connecting and strengthening of what's already happening in the organization: planning and action, learning and doing, passion and responsibility, participation and performance.
Tactical Technology Collective
Established in 2003, Tactical Tech is an international NGO working to enable the effective use of information for progressive social change. Our work is informed by the principles of freedom of expression and freedom of information and the need for transparency and accountability.
We are technologists, information designers, data and security experts, and human rights and environmental justice activists who share a passion for social change. Our mission is to advance the skills, tools and techniques of rights advocates, empowering them to use information and communications to help marginalised communities understand and effect progressive social, environmental and political change. We believe that when people have full awareness of the potential and perils of information and are able to create and share information effectively, they are able to bring about positive social change on the issues that matter to them. Our work is divided into three key programme areas: Act, Reveal and Protect.
We are technologists, information designers, data and security experts, and human rights and environmental justice activists who share a passion for social change. Our mission is to advance the skills, tools and techniques of rights advocates, empowering them to use information and communications to help marginalised communities understand and effect progressive social, environmental and political change. We believe that when people have full awareness of the potential and perils of information and are able to create and share information effectively, they are able to bring about positive social change on the issues that matter to them. Our work is divided into three key programme areas: Act, Reveal and Protect.
