We are excited that Mobil Tech 4 Social Change is coming up soon. To learn more about it, please read the excerpt below from Dal Zak’s blog post on Mobile Active or read his entire post on their site.
The Challenge: A down turn economy where non-profits are struggling to fund their causes. As I discovered at a recent FOCO meeting, many of these charities have been receiving the same level of government funding for past 15 years. With increased demand for their services but with a limited fixed budget, they are forced to choose between cutting services or cutting staff.
The Opportunity: Social media and mobile technologies can be used to fundraise, organize and advocate to provide better health, environment, human rights, citizen journalism and other social services.
The Goal: Bring together the non-profit and tech communities to share knowledge, ask interesting questions and spark ideas. The non-profit community has valuable knowledge from years of field experience, and the tech community has understanding of applying these new technologies. In the spirit of The Hub, my hopes are to bring smart people together, facilitate their conversation and good stuff will happen.
The Event: M4ChangeHFX is open dialog barcamp where attendees are active participants. Although ad-hoc sessions will form that day, we already have a number of great planned sessions:
- Jacob Colker of The Extraordinaries – The Future Of Mobile Crowdsourcing And Volunteerism
John Sheridan of SocialMedia404 – Integrating Mobile into Your Non-Profit Organization
Dan Robichaud of C@P – Using Geo-Data To Improve Our Communities
Joel Kelly of Colour.ca – Using Social Media To Engage Activism For Your Organization
Ryan Deschamps – Who Really Needs Mobile? User Needs, Mobile Markets, and Industry Response
Giles Crouch of Norex – How Twitter Can Be Used To Mobilize A Group Of Supporters
Jeff White of BrightWhite – Mobile Design, Less Means More
With social good in mind, the proceeds from tickets will be donated to a local charity decided by the event attendees. So at the end of the day, it’s a great opportunity to discuss ways to improve our city and help a local charity in the process, a win-win situation.
The one-day event will be hosted at The Hub Halifax on Saturday, May 23rd.
You can register online at http://mobiletech4socialchangehfx.eventbrite.com or confirm attendance by email m4changehfx@gmail.com.
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