Worldeka Challenge
Worldeka is a collaborative platform for social change. Meaning one world in Sanskrit Worldeka is a targeted social network for charities, NGOs, activists and policy makers. The aim is to help these organizations connect, share resources, communicate with their members and create cross border partnerships. The site also offers project management tools and collaborative features enabling charities to work together on specific projects, as well as combine intelligence and resources to aid humanitarian and disaster relief.
Individuals using Worldeka can join and support their favourite charities, mentor smaller charities, create personal projects and events and invite like-minded individuals and charities to take part. Post their own personal media as well as use Worldeka’s central knowledge bank, create polls and petitions and connect with charities and individuals who share their same goals and passions.
Worldeka went live on the 8th June and we have already had a great response from both charities and individuals but we have had somewhat of a soft launch with elements of the site needing slight improvements, such as enhancements to the collaborative functionalities available to charities and the creation of divisional offices so you can easily drill down from parent charities eg. Amnesty International to Amnesty UK, Amnesty France etc. These final tweaks are nearly completed and we will be rolling out the next phase of our launch inviting en-masse charities and individuals from all over the world to be a part of our online revolution.
The main challenge is not getting the charities on board as there are already plenty of channels available for us to reach them, rather the issue is to create a powerful and dynamic crowd of individual ‘activists’ and make them aware of the sites existence! Up to now its largely relied on word of mouth and we have had users join from over 100 countries – but we really need an application we can plug into existing networks to help amplify our message and create awareness.
Another project we have been looking to create is a mobile based like a second layer of Worldeka purely disseminating education, farming, healthcare and environmental information to the developing world using WAP and cut down web technologies which will pass easily through existing P2P networks across Africa for instance. (no social network and little media)
Another possibility could be a plugin for the actual site, like a googlemap mashup displaying and connecting people based on their current locations and thematic interests.
