Thank you everyone who voted for Kabissa Connections on Netsquared to get us into the final 15 and thank you judges who selected us to be among the 5 winning organizations to receive a $5,000 cash prize. I also would like to congratulate the other 4 winners, in particular Agricultural Marketing Information Services in Cameroon and Integrated Electonic Peace Building Project in Kenya which are both very innovative and powerful projects deserving of recognition and support.

In a nutshell, Kabissa Connections will address trust concerns by providing a platform revealing the connections that organizations have with networks, international organizations, supporters and service providers. We will do this for organizations working in Africa while collaborating with others on open source tools, standards and approaches that can be replicated in other regions.

I am very excited to receive this recognition for an idea that has been brewing for years and which it appears we will now have the opportunity to implement. We will have more news soon on next steps and opportunities to get involved.

In the meantime, please help make it happen by making a donation to Kabissa. Thanks!

The French American Charitable Trust (FACT) is committed to addressing the fundamental inequalities and injustices in our society by helping develop and sustain networks of community-based groups in the U.S. and France that educate, organize, and empower people to actively participate in developing public policies that directly affect their lives.

Netsquared, an initiative of Techsoup Global, works at the intersection of technology and social impact. The Netsquared platform has a Community Blog open to any registered user to contribute his/her ideas, projects, lessons learned or other information about working in technology and social change. NetSquared Local events support volunteer organizers around the world who convene local community events as consistent opportunities for gathering, sharing, learning and collaborating at a local level. NetSquared Challenges and Partner Challenges call for ideas from around the world for new technologies, applications and mashups that make social impact; and Projects submitted to the Project Gallery can be edited, updated, deleted and shared by the user, creating a rich directory of innovation project ideas.

Read on for the full announcement crossposted from Netsquared and for links to the 5 winning and 15 featured projects.

Featured Projects And Winners

Crossposted from: http://netsquared.org/challenges/fact/featured-projects-and-winners