N2Y3con

After a 45 minute chat with last year's N2Y2 winners on their successes and challenges over the last 12 months, CompuMentor/Tech Soup co-CEO Marnie Webb announced the three winners.  Read on ...

The 21 projects that made it to the NetSquared 2008 conference were created by passionate people that wish to use technology to improve the world, whether in their particular corner or far beyond.  Some are regions that have met with disaster, including New Orleans, post-election Kenya, and the Darfur region.  Others are the hometowns of the presenters, including Chicago, Los Angeles County, and (again) New Orleans.  Still others seek to enact change everywhere, whether focused on the actions of the U.S.

We've just begun Day 2 of NetSquared's annual conference, hosted by Cisco Systems at their Santa Clara, CA conference center. The 350 or so attendees were drawn here by a call for proposals for social good in the form of mashups; the 21 project proposals with the most votes from NetSquared members have made it to the conference and are presenting their cases for funding. Later today everyone here will vote for their favorites, and the top votegetters will share $100,000 to fund their projects.