Onstuimig

Change the Web Challenge now open for submissions

Posted by Marc | 24-02-2009 20:54 | Category: Awards

Change the Web ChallengeYesterday the Social Actions’ Change Web Challenge started. The challenge is about building innovative tools to help people to find and share opportunities to take action on the websites, blogs, and social networks that we all visit everyday.

The Web Challenge builds on the success of online competitions such as NetSquared’s Mashup Challenge, Advanta’s Ideablob Competition, Ashoka’s Open Sourcing Solutions, The Knight News Challenge, The Case Foundation’s Giving Challenges and The American Express Card Members Competition. 

Participants will build web applications that draw on Social Actions’ open database of 40,000+ actions people can take across a range of issues. Social Actions aggregates opportunities to make a difference from over 30 online platforms, including VolunteerMatch, Kiva.org, DonorsChoose.org, Care2 and Change.org


After the submissions have been received, community members and an expert panel of judges will vote for the top three applications. The developers behind the winning submissions will share $10,000 in prize money. There will be two rounds of vetting: the first by Social Actions community members, and the second by an expert panel of judges including professionals and thought-leaders working at the intersection of technology and social change.

Developers will have eight weeks to submit their applications and receive feedback. The first round of vetting will run for two weeks. The expert panel will respond to the community’s vote and publicly submit its recommendations during a two week review process. The winners will be announced at the end of the twelve weeks. 

Schedule
Social Actions’ Change the Web Challenge will run for twelve weeks. Winners will be announced at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Francisco on April 26, 27, and 28th.

Change the Web Challenge website
Follow the challenge on Twitter

For a better sense let’s take a look at a few of the web apps already powered by Social Actions:

About Social Actions
Social Actions is a nonprofit initiative committed to making it easier for people to find and share opportunities to make a difference. A search engine on SocialActions.com helps users find ways to take action for the causes they care about from over 40 action sources including Kiva, DonorsChoose.org, Change.org, Nabuur.org, DemocracyinAction, GlobalGiving, Idealist.org, SixDegrees, VolunteerMatch, and Care2. Social Actions creates incentives such as the Change the Web Challenge to encourage the distribution of their open API to websites, blogs, and mobile devices.

Osocio is proud to announce being one of the media sponsors. Stay tuned for more news about the challenge.






  • Share on Tumblr
Print this article     Send this article to a friend    




My comment



Comment:










Some rights reserved 2005-2012 Osocio/Houtlust.
Disclaimer. Terms of use. Privacy statement.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.







image of a graduation cap

Recent in Academy


Interview: Kathryn Bolkovac - The Whistleblower - One Woman’s Fight for Justice

Human trafficking – it is the new slave trade, an action many of us thought be extinct after the US Civil War. But it is worse than ever, not least because many of the victims hand themselves over to get out of economic and political peril. They want to…
Read more

Making A Do-Ference at The Design Ethos Conference 2012

I recently had the privilege of being invited to speak and participate in the 2012 Design Ethos Conference/Do-ference at Savannah College of Art and Design. The creator of the conference, Scott Boylston, is a longtime friend in the relatively small socially conscious design community and I was delighted that…
Read more

Support us

Do you like our blog? Support us with a donation.
We're non-commercial. We all make Osocio pro bono in our spare time and we can use some support.


Search the non-profit web

Search through Osocio selected websites about social advertising, marketing, fundraising, ngo's and other on topic resources.

From the Osocio archive: For thousands of people this is the size of their home

For thousands of people this is the size of their home

See this post from the Osocio archive

About Osocio

Osocio is dedicated to social advertising and non-profit campaigns. It’s the place where marketing and activism collide. Formerly known as the Houtlust Blog, Osocio is the central online hub for advertisers, ad agencies, grassroots, activists, social entrepreneurs, and good Samaritans from around the globe.
Read more

(the about page is also available in Bahasa Indonesia, Chinese 汉语/漢語, Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano, Nihongo 日本語, Ivrit עברית, Filipino, Polski, Português, Russian Русский язык, Slovenčina, Suomi, Svenska and Türkçe)

Osocio is powered by


Hosting, Webbuilding:
Onstuimig Interactive Communication







blog advertising is good for you