Working with Kevin Starr and the PopTech Innovation Fellows on creating an 8 Word Mission Statement.
A concise description of the process is described in "Other Ways the Mulago Foundation Obsesses over Social Impact Measurement" from the GOOD Blog.
The post was created after Kevin's 2010 PopTech presentation on "Designing Impact".
See Kevin's PopTech talk here.
Upwards of 20 million people are suffering from the massive flooding in Pakistan, according to the United Nations — more than the number affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake, and the 2010 Haiti earthquake combined. Following record-breaking monsoon rains, at least 1,600 people have been killed, an estimated 72,400 homes have been destroyed, and crops from some 1.6 million acres of land have been ruined.
The international community’s tepid response to Pakistan’s worst natural disaster in history has not quelled efforts by Pakistani citizens — including several TED Fellows — to help people affected by the flooding. Faisal Chohan has built pakreport.org as a platform for reporting and mapping incidents, directing relief to areas that need it most. Other Fellows are also using their specific expertise to provide support to suffering people.
With over 20 million people affected by the floods, Faisal’s pakreport.org is expected to be the biggest usage yet of the crowdsourcing tool Ushahidi. The platform collects eyewitness accounts of flood-related incidents via SMS, email and the web. It then verifies them for accuracy and plots the data points on a map, providing up-to-date information to aid workers — an invaluable service when conventional media outlets and communication lines are down.
ABOVE: pakreport.org homepage
To contribute to accurate mapping of the crisis, people can text their eyewitness accounts of the flood to 3441 with the location of the incident. The message should begin “FL,” followed by a space and then the observation.
About 20 modular classroom units under construction in Georgia will be shipped to Haiti with more on the way as a result of a partnership between Clayton Homes Inc. and a former U.S. president who is leading rebuilding efforts in the earthquake-devastated country.
The Blount County-based manufacturer of modular homes and buildings has signed a $1 million contract with the Clinton Foundation to provide the classrooms. The company contacted former President Bill Clinton and his foundation offering to assist. Kevin Clayton, Clayton Homes CEO, said the company is discounting the costs of the classrooms and modular housing it also plans to provide for the mission.
Fire up Photoshop. GOOD and the Gates Foundation have launched a new contest.
The task: Design a poster marking progress towards the Millennium Development Goals, an ambitious list of targets for creating a more equitable world by 2015.
