Hope Plus: Online Global Activism Portal To Launch In December
by ERICA LIEPMANN, Causecast Associate Editor
Set to launch in December at the Copenhagen Climate Summit, the team behind PoliticsOnline are brewing up a new online web portal to connect activists around the world to create change. The site’s goals are targeted at facilitating individual projects, like building schools, and getting web attention for NGOs online. The site will be called Hope Plus and is the brainchild of PoliticsOnline founder Phil Noble, who was inspired by his work for the BBC Action Network. The Action Network was a short-lived nationwide British site targeted at getting everyday people involved in local activism.
Hope Plus aims to be an international hub and will have versions in several languages (not sure which languages yet). Companies like Microsoft and IBM are involved in the creation of the site, and Bill Gates and President Barack Obama have been invited to back the site. Given the ongoing global philanthropy of the Gates Foundation and President Obama’s commitment to community volunteerism with the United We Serve Campaign, they are certainly two important voices for change, who just might get on board with Hope Plus.
The site sounds bit like Causecast, yes, that’s why we’re challenging them to a battle: who can change the world first! Kidding, kidding. All jokes aside, the more the merrier! Keep your eyes out in December for the unveiling of Hope Plus.
Photo by NIOSH – Nat Inst for Occupational Safety & Health, flickr.
- Posted by Causecast
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