A few days ago I wrote about the idea I was working on:
I have also been working on an idea I had while in army- a user-edited infobase of all the slums, villages and refugee camps in the world. that aggregates information about them, their needs, and who is or was involved in helping them.
Now, [...]
Just returned from listening to Ken Banks, the founder of FrontlineSMS. His tool allows NGOs to create mobile networks to liaise with people out in the “front lines” through text messaging, with only a laptop and a mobile phone. You can read more at their site here.
What struck me was how Ken structured his project. [...]
Some months ago I wrote about Chala, a former Shan State Army fighter who now works as a translator and has started an orphanage in Kamphaeng Phet. We met when a Singaporean group went down to Chiangmai to help out in some of the villages, but hadn’t kept in touch since I entered the military.
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I’m the newest user of Twitter, and it’s awesome. Twitter is a 140 character “microblogging” site which allows people to receive text messages of other people blog posts. Receiving text messages (SMSes) is free and there are a lot of interesting applications you can use on Twitter.
What I use twitter most for is to receive [...]
I am Daniel Isaiah Ong, an undergrad at Stanford studying Engineering and Political Science. I also work at locra.org.
I write mostly about social entrepreneurship, technology, design, and Singapore, the land where I come from.
