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  FundUcation

  

  FundUcation is a groundbreaking service that helps provide relief to some of the 37 million Americans who have student loans. The company connects recent graduates who have above average student debt with work opportunities that make direct payments towards their loans. Its business model operates much like a staffing company for highly educated and highly talented youth who happen to have high student debt. However, ...more »

  

  FundUcation is a groundbreaking service that helps provide relief to some of the 37 million Americans who have student loans. The company connects recent graduates who have above average student debt with work opportunities that make direct payments towards their loans. Its business model operates much like a staffing company for highly educated and highly talented youth who happen to have high student debt. However, FundUcation is much more than a staffing company. We are building the largest online network of highly educated working professionals in the country.

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  GROnet - a social-educative platform for Deaf communities

  Digital media is changing the world and GROnet seeks to serve as the first launching pad for the Deaf and hard-of-hearing people worldwide. The goal is to become the backbone of communication for deaf and hard-of-hearing people to enable exchanges of information-sharing on support, resources, career opportunities, educative materials, and etc. Through this platform will encourage the dissemination of awareness and knowledge ...more »

  Digital media is changing the world and GROnet seeks to serve as the first launching pad for the Deaf and hard-of-hearing people worldwide. The goal is to become the backbone of communication for deaf and hard-of-hearing people to enable exchanges of information-sharing on support, resources, career opportunities, educative materials, and etc. Through this platform will encourage the dissemination of awareness and knowledge in the international deaf community. This will bring a sense of empowerment in order to navigate their own communities by emulating peer role models.

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  Speek.com, Instant Conference Calling

  Speek.com, made up of a team of experienced entrepreneurs, intends to become the “dropbox” for conference calling. Existing solutions today are too complicated and expensive and Speek intends to disrupt this market with a simple, free solution based on modern web services. Speek users will be able to utilize a “Speek” line which may be shared via a personal URL (e.g. speek.com/john) which will allow users to join a ...more »

  Speek.com, made up of a team of experienced entrepreneurs, intends to become the “dropbox” for conference calling. Existing solutions today are too complicated and expensive and Speek intends to disrupt this market with a simple, free solution based on modern web services. Speek users will be able to utilize a “Speek” line which may be shared via a personal URL (e.g. speek.com/john) which will allow users to join a call with a click. Similar to "dropbox", Speek intends to convert it's free user base to "Pro" user who pay a monthly subscription price for additional usage and features.

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  RecoVend - The Higher Education Collaboration Network

  Colleges are under increasing pressure to control costs, while making more cost effective purchasing decisions. However, right now they can't because they are trapped in an offline, inefficient and non-collaborative buying process. RecoVend’s platform empowers administrators and colleges to work together to make the most informed, most efficient decisions that save time & money. We help colleges set, track and achieve ...more »

  Colleges are under increasing pressure to control costs, while making more cost effective purchasing decisions. However, right now they can't because they are trapped in an offline, inefficient and non-collaborative buying process. RecoVend’s platform empowers administrators and colleges to work together to make the most informed, most efficient decisions that save time & money. We help colleges set, track and achieve goals for how they can impact the world through spending in the local economy, working with minority/women owned businesses, and making eco-friendly purchases.

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  Get Smart Dating Program

  Get Smart Dating, a communication & dating program for teens, is getting national attention. Get Smart Dating is a program for high school teens when they need it most. Fun and interactive, Get Smart Dating gives today's teens the relationship and dating skills that empower them to make better choices for their lives & all those around them, for years to come. Videos on GetSmartDating.com give viewers a comprehensive ...more »

  Get Smart Dating, a communication & dating program for teens, is getting national attention.

  Get Smart Dating is a program for high school teens when they need it most. Fun and interactive, Get Smart Dating gives today's teens the relationship and dating skills that empower them to make better choices for their lives & all those around them, for years to come.

  Videos on GetSmartDating.com give viewers a comprehensive overview of the Get Smart Dating program including interviews from students. Testimonials from over 15 years reinforce the importance of learning dating skills as their age.

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  Newsify - the gamification of mobile news and reporting

  Newsify is a mobile app and website that turn mobile reporting and mobile/desktop news consumption into a game. Basically there are three functions of this system: I report, I need information, I map - you report. Newsify is for reporters, editors and info/event providers. The gamification is based on badges and leaderboards, user-votes for submitted news. The app has geolocation functionality which allows to map reporting. ...more »

  Newsify is a mobile app and website that turn mobile reporting and mobile/desktop news consumption into a game. Basically there are three functions of this system: I report, I need information, I map - you report. Newsify is for reporters, editors and info/event providers. The gamification is based on badges and leaderboards, user-votes for submitted news. The app has geolocation functionality which allows to map reporting.

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  Mobile Educational Multimedia Studio (The MEMa Studio)

  The MEMa Studio is a nonprofit organization committed to exposing underserved youth to an arts education in a recording studio on wheels, housing state-of-the-art music and film technology. The Program will connect students with industry professionals to conduct music, video production, and career skills workshops. Participating in a 1-3 day program, students will have valuable hands on experience in all areas of audio ...more »

  The MEMa Studio is a nonprofit organization committed to exposing underserved youth to an arts education in a recording studio on wheels, housing state-of-the-art music and film technology.

  The Program will connect students with industry professionals to conduct music, video production, and career skills workshops.

  Participating in a 1-3 day program, students will have valuable hands on experience in all areas of audio and film production, as well as instruction in ergonomics, studio etiquette and professionalism.

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  SIGKAT: Putting Credentials To Work

  SIGKAT is the web clearinghouse service for the millions of organizations and people that need to create, issue, manage, display and exchange credentials to support reputation and transactions.

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  Cloud Computing to Help Rural Japan

  Fukushima. We launch a first prototype low-energy cloud computing datacenter in rural Tohoku, reopening an abandoned school and engaging the local community as workers and volunteers. Then disaster strikes. The March earthquake and tsunami claim 20,000 victims. Our local nuclear plant melts down. One year later 350,000 refugees still are dislocated across three prefectures. The local economies need our model program ...more »

  Fukushima. We launch a first prototype low-energy cloud computing datacenter in rural Tohoku, reopening an abandoned school and engaging the local community as workers and volunteers. Then disaster strikes. The March earthquake and tsunami claim 20,000 victims. Our local nuclear plant melts down. One year later 350,000 refugees still are dislocated across three prefectures. The local economies need our model program more than ever. Tokyo faces the same disaster potential within one decade. Here's how we've morphed to meet this need.

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  One Day in Hip-Hop Where It Will All Make Sense

  Craft a large Site/Database that would continually provide real time updates of the Hip Hop movement, to motivate and inspire youth across Latin America. This website will provide Latin America with a database where Hip Hop organizations, groups, and people can display events, program information, and exchange Hip Hop mechanisms used for educational enhancement. This venture could be used as a platform to serve as an ...more »

  Craft a large Site/Database that would continually provide real time updates of the Hip Hop movement, to motivate and inspire youth across Latin America. This website will provide Latin America with a database where Hip Hop organizations, groups, and people can display events, program information, and exchange Hip Hop mechanisms used for educational enhancement. This venture could be used as a platform to serve as an open opportunity to provide virtual education to the millions of talented Hip-Hop Artist-Activist-Collaborators-Educators- across Latin America.

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  Deals where Customer fixes the price

  Seller is tempted to sell his product at the price a consumer is willing to pay. It is a website for seller to look for his buyers In present marketing/Sales scenario a consumer/buyer is always frequently checking the internet deals websites or reacts with a mailing list deal. There is inherent interest to buy a product if this is available at price he is zealously comfortable to buy. He lists his product with some reference ...more »

  Seller is tempted to sell his product at the price a consumer is willing to pay. It is a website for seller to look for his buyers

  In present marketing/Sales scenario a consumer/buyer is always frequently checking the internet deals websites or reacts with a mailing list deal. There is inherent interest to buy a product if this is available at price he is zealously comfortable to buy. He lists his product with some reference and declares his price he is willing to pay.

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  Sway: Making decisions together doesn't need to be so hard.

  Sway helps groups discuss, debate, and decide on collective action. It does so by providing an easy to use tool for mapping out all the components of a conversation, as well as a voting system. Sway will also allow users to delegate their votes to others within specific domains of expertise. Sway will be built on top of a methodology we’ve developed over the past year for extracting underlying aims, arguments, considerations, ...more »

  Sway helps groups discuss, debate, and decide on collective action. It does so by providing an easy to use tool for mapping out all the components of a conversation, as well as a voting system. Sway will also allow users to delegate their votes to others within specific domains of expertise.

  Sway will be built on top of a methodology we’ve developed over the past year for extracting underlying aims, arguments, considerations, and information within the context of a given proposal or question. It is based on the best practices of negotiation and facilitation.

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  SNAP Educational Toolbox

  This Special Needs and Practices Educational Toolbox will be a web application and Smartphone/tablet compatible application used as a comprehensive and easily-accessible resource of strategies, standards, and tangible teaching practices conveniently organized for specific users and easily searchable. This product will help to better serve, modify for, accommodate and teach students with special needs. Teachers will be ...more »

  This Special Needs and Practices Educational Toolbox will be a web application and Smartphone/tablet compatible application used as a comprehensive and easily-accessible resource of strategies, standards, and tangible teaching practices conveniently organized for specific users and easily searchable. This product will help to better serve, modify for, accommodate and teach students with special needs. Teachers will be able to access the toolbox on the web, or download it to compatible Smartphones, iPhones, and tablets such as the iPad.

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  On3x

  Our objective with On3x is to create a mobile technology platform that supports social interaction, collaboration, personal content management and content distribution objectives within a single platform-independent ecosystem. We are making the technology free for people and communities to use, interact, manage content and transact as they wish. On3x uses the concept of “channels” to organize and manage content and ...more »

  Our objective with On3x is to create a mobile technology platform that supports social interaction, collaboration, personal content management and content distribution objectives within a single platform-independent ecosystem.

  We are making the technology free for people and communities to use, interact, manage content and transact as they wish.

  On3x uses the concept of “channels” to organize and manage content and creates communities and peer to peer marketplaces where people can interact and transact on their own terms, and set their own security levels and privacy controls.

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  My City Hall: Make cities more responsive and participatory

  Municipal politics receives little attention compared to federal and state politics. If a newspaper doesn't write about something happening in council, citizens never hear about it. Yet, municipal government has a much more direct effect on quality of life, as it is responsible for most of the services people use every day. My City Hall fills that gap, by allowing citizens to track and interact with their elected city ...more »

  Municipal politics receives little attention compared to federal and state politics. If a newspaper doesn't write about something happening in council, citizens never hear about it. Yet, municipal government has a much more direct effect on quality of life, as it is responsible for most of the services people use every day.

  My City Hall fills that gap, by allowing citizens to track and interact with their elected city officials and by giving them the tools they need to engage with government on local issues. We want to help cities be more responsive, consultative and participatory.

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  Fully-Connected.com — Connecting Dots; Connecting People

  Fully-Connected.com combines interactive journalism and social networking to connect U.S. and foreign-born blacks in America—a fast-growing demographic that has received little media attention. By shattering stereotypes and bridging cultural gaps, we will help them connect the dots by sharing solutions to common problems. With a focus on mobile, location technology and apps, Fully-Connected would deliver a playlist of ...more »

  Fully-Connected.com combines interactive journalism and social networking to connect U.S. and foreign-born blacks in America—a fast-growing demographic that has received little media attention. By shattering stereotypes and bridging cultural gaps, we will help them connect the dots by sharing solutions to common problems. With a focus on mobile, location technology and apps, Fully-Connected would deliver a playlist of real-time news via cell phones, tablets and other handheld devices. We will also train journalists and citizens who want to tell stories about their global roots.

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  Building a Community of Resilient Small Enterprises

  My idea calls for an innovative social enterprise to build resilient small businesses through Internet-based training and an online community to share best practices/lessons learned. This is particularly important for small businesses experiencing major disasters as they have limited margin for error if they are to successfully recover. They benefit from the experience of those who have worked through long-term recovery ...more »

  My idea calls for an innovative social enterprise to build resilient small businesses through Internet-based training and an online community to share best practices/lessons learned. This is particularly important for small businesses experiencing major disasters as they have limited margin for error if they are to successfully recover. They benefit from the experience of those who have worked through long-term recovery issues. The revenues will come from corporate sponsorship to deliver the training, referral fees from affiliate marketing with partners and online advertising.

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  ECOmedia

  ECOmedia is a social networking website designed to connect individuals, organizations, and businesses that are concerned about the environment. ECOmedia not only provides a platform for these groups to interact, but also creates a structured portal for individuals to become more environmentally conscious. ECOmedia enables people to discover environmental groups in their area, learn about pressing environmental issues ...more »

  ECOmedia is a social networking website designed to connect individuals, organizations, and businesses that are concerned about the environment. ECOmedia not only provides a platform for these groups to interact, but also creates a structured portal for individuals to become more environmentally conscious. ECOmedia enables people to discover environmental groups in their area, learn about pressing environmental issues in their communities, and share their insights and findings with others. The current lack of communication creates an inefficiency which impedes the green movement.

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  They Could Be Me (TheyCouldBe.Me)

  We’ll connect stories of those fallen through the cracks with people who can motivate and act. We’ll build empathy using social media just like your friends, bands, and brands - through bite-size updates & photos. We’ll teach citizens to tell stories through image and insight, like LIFE Magazine. And by partnering with organizations active in social justice, and training their members to be Story Ambassadors, we’ll ...more »

  We’ll connect stories of those fallen through the cracks with people who can motivate and act. We’ll build empathy using social media just like your friends, bands, and brands - through bite-size updates & photos. We’ll teach citizens to tell stories through image and insight, like LIFE Magazine. And by partnering with organizations active in social justice, and training their members to be Story Ambassadors, we’ll quickly get likes & engagement and influence public policy. Why should I care about them? They could be my brother. They could be my mother. Or, one day they could be me.

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  QiQo: Quality In, Quality Out

  

  QiQo (pronounced kee-ko) is a platform for crowdsourced curation of information and conversation around news stories. Participants literally map out their conversation and visualize common ground in color. QiQo does not replace comment sections; it creates a separate space for more in-depth discussions around news stories rather than single articles. News organizations are currently struggling to derive value from ...more »

  

  QiQo (pronounced kee-ko) is a platform for crowdsourced curation of information and conversation around news stories. Participants literally map out their conversation and visualize common ground in color. QiQo does not replace comment sections; it creates a separate space for more in-depth discussions around news stories rather than single articles.

  News organizations are currently struggling to derive value from their comment sections. Readers can become collaborators in the co-production of news if their collective intelligence is appropriately harnessed.

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  Dream Mobile Corporation

  Dream Mobile develops and designs affordable smartphones for youth in Africa. The smartphones made by Dream Mobile are made specifically for the needs and requirements of people in Africa. The large use of prepaid plans forces users to buy smartphones at unaffordable prices for most people. Dream Mobile sells the phones through a direct sales model that empowers people to sell phones to their community and friends and ...more »

  Dream Mobile develops and designs affordable smartphones for youth in Africa. The smartphones made by Dream Mobile are made specifically for the needs and requirements of people in Africa. The large use of prepaid plans forces users to buy smartphones at unaffordable prices for most people.

  Dream Mobile sells the phones through a direct sales model that empowers people to sell phones to their community and friends and earn an income and training in the process. This strategy cuts out over 20% of the cost of the sale and reduces up front development costs associated with retail within telecom.

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  Every Day Is a...

  “Every Day Is a Holiday” is an intergenerational web site and application that helps people, especially immigrants and veterans, share stories of overcoming tremendous odds. Think Proust.com meets Ancestry.com. Users can record interviews of themselves or others in response to questions from the site. This information can be recorded as text with a photograph or as a video through self-facing cameras or built-in computer ...more »

  “Every Day Is a Holiday” is an intergenerational web site and application that helps people, especially immigrants and veterans, share stories of overcoming tremendous odds. Think Proust.com meets Ancestry.com. Users can record interviews of themselves or others in response to questions from the site. This information can be recorded as text with a photograph or as a video through self-facing cameras or built-in computer web cams. User information will be uploaded to a server and curated on an interactive timeline. Users will be able to participate in their homes as well as at events.

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  My News Pilot

  My News Pilot is a website that brings together all the news you want to read, automatically. It is a site that can tailor the day’s news to bring you exactly what affects you most. My News Pilot is a news site that blends the authority of a newspaper with the accessibility of the web.

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  The New American Tavern

  

  A movement to build a chain of gastropubs that foster social capital in American communities and direct it for public benefit. Purpose-built, our taverns will ensure neighborhoods across the country have welcoming places where citizens can unwind, learn and connect. To accomplish this we will design our restaurant/bar/cafés to foster dialogue; host community programming; and leverage trained staff to instill a culture ...more »

  

  A movement to build a chain of gastropubs that foster social capital in American communities and direct it for public benefit.

  Purpose-built, our taverns will ensure neighborhoods across the country have welcoming places where citizens can unwind, learn and connect. To accomplish this we will design our restaurant/bar/cafés to foster dialogue; host community programming; and leverage trained staff to instill a culture of informed exchange and active citizenship.

  For maximum impact, we will apply analogue and digital approaches to connecting guests to information, tools and each other.

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  TurfBoss

  

  TurfBoss is a real-time hyper-local Q & A mobile platform.  It's about connecting you in real-time to the local people in the exact spot you are standing.  TurfBoss works by allowing strangers in real-time to ask any qualified locals (i.e. TurfBoss) who work or resides in a particular turf for a small fee within a certain amount of time. 


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