Today, March 17 (Happy St. Patty’s Day!), voting opens for the NetSquared Mashup Challenge. The top 20 voted on projects will be featured at the NetSquared Conference on May 27 & 28 at Cisco Systems in Santa Clara, California. With your help CorpWatch and Crocodyl will be there!
We are asking that you take the time, if possible, to create a log-in account on NetSquared.org and submit a vote for our project, "CorpWatch – Government Data on Corporations." Our goal is to create social change through democratizing often hard to find and disparate information on corporations and the impacts of their operations, via our www.crocodyl.org site. Here is the address to create an account:
http://www.netsquared.org/user/register
Feel free to email Ian Elwood directly at ian@corpwatch.org anytime if you have questions. Here is the official voting guide:
http://www.netsquared.org/projects/vote
After you create an account , confirm your email address, and are approved you can login to netsquared.org and visit our project page to cast your vote. Just click "Add project to ballot" on the following page, while logged in:
http://tinyurl.com/2z5f4v
Registered users can vote for no less than 5 and no more than 10 projects. You can only vote for each project once. Click on the links below (or copy and paste them into your browser) to see the full contest entries. There are a lot of good ones, but here are a few that we think are excellent. Feel free to vote for whichever you like (but, if so inspired, please vote for CorpWatch!):
1) CorpWatch - Government Data on Corporations: http://tinyurl.com/2z5f4v
2) MAPLight http://www.netsquared.org/2008/conference/projects/mapping-money-and-politics-maplight-org
3) OpenCongress.org :: Track Congress with Social Data http://www.netsquared.org/2008/conference/projects/opencongress-org-track-congress-social-data
4) Metavid http://www.netsquared.org/2008/conference/projects/metavid-community-video-archive-project
5)Ushahidi: Mapping Reports of Post-Election Violence in Kenya http://www.netsquared.org/2008/conference/projects/ushahidi
6) EPA Superfund Mashup: Exposing Environmental Hazards In Your Area http://www.netsquared.org/2008/conference/projects/epa-superfund-mashup
7) City of New Orleans: A Mashup for Citizen Monitoring of the Recovery http://www.netsquared.org/2008/conference/projects/wholesale-demolition-new-orleans-neighborhoods
8) Hive: http://www.netsquared.org/2008/conference/projects/hive
9) Connect Ingredients to Products and or Corporations: http://www.netsquared.org/2008/conference/projects/connect-ingredients-products-and-or-corporations
10) Government by the People http://www.netsquared.org/2008/conference/projects/government-people
Thanks so much for supporting CorpWatch in this contest! The online, open source tool we will create as a result of winning will be a great asset in holding corporations accountable (and will facilitate an incredibly valuable in-kind programming donation to us, -- we don’t have the budget to do this ourselves).
