Mitar Milutinovic
CoFounder wlan slovenija initiative
Paid: 2012
My name is Mitar Milutinovic and I am one of the founders of wlan slovenija initiative. In our initiative we are aiming at covering whole Slovenia with open and free Internet access for everybody. We have determined two paths towards this: encouraging people with existing Internet access of shari ...
Dan Rhodes
DurhamCAN
Paid: 2012
Wikipedia meets Facebook meets Graigslist for civic organizations and academic institutions and social think tanks. Connect organisations working with poor people with researchers and educators. Motivation: Dan wants to solve a co-ordination problem, there are poor people who need knowledge e ...
Tau Tavengwa
Co-editor/creative director and co-publisher with the ACC of CityScapes
Paid: 2012
I would like to nominate Tau Tavengwa for a Flash Grant. Tau is a Zimbabwean living in South Africa and is currently attached to the African Centre for Cities (ACC), an applied urban research centre based at the University of Cape Town. His primary focus at the centre in 2012 is the role of c ...
Ari Bader Natal
Chief learning architect at grockit.com
Paid: 2012
I am nominating Ari Bader Natal for a flash grant. He is a bit of an unusual suspect, because he is already a big open education innovator in his role as chief learning architect at grockit.com. In addition to his day job Ari has been creating a few really awesome prototypes for new open ...
Caitlin Holman
Gaming to enrich education
Paid: 2012
I would like to nominate Caitlin Holman for a Flash grant. Caitlin was recommended to me by Chuck Severance at the University of Michigan. She finished a Masters at Michigan in December and will be starting a PhD in education in the fall. This summer (when the FLASH grant would be most activ ...
Andreas Keller
'iShack' Energy usage in an improved shack
Paid: 2012
My nomination is Andreas Keller, a student at the University of Stellenbosch's Sustainability Institute. He has been working on energy in a field referred to as 'incrementalism' in informal settlements: the idea that the most effective way to improve poor people's lives is to steadily upgrad ...
Pedro Markun
Transparencia Hackers
Paid: 2012
My nomination for a Flash grant is for Brazilian data wrangler and transparency hacker Pedro Markun. Pedro and colleagues in Brazil has been doing amazing work around open data and transparency in Brazil for the last several years. A couple of years ago along with colleagues he founded a group name ...
Carlos Rey Moreno
Developing a sustainable model for the growth of a Village Telco in Mdumbi
Paid: 2012
Nominated by: SS Email:[email protected] Carlos Rey Moreno Carlos is a recently-arrived Spanish researcher at the University of the Western Cape. Carlos is working with tribal leaders in the Eastern Cape to develop a sustainable model for the growth of a Village Telco in Mdumbi. UWC is no ...
Margaret Gold
Founder - Mobile Collective, Inventor - ThinkCamp
Paid: 2012
I'd like to nominate Margaret Gold, Founder of the Mobile Collective and inventor of ThinkCamp, a collaborative approach to generating innovative mobile solutions in mHealth and nurturing them to market. Margaret is also co-Founder of Over The Air Events, UK's biggest mobile developer hackfest, held ...
Forrest Oliphant
Meemoo
Paid: 2012
We're seeing a huge upsurge in people wanting to 'teach the world to code'. Sadly, there is a big gap in area of tools that do this well -- that make it fun to learn and create things w/ code, especially on the web. Forrest has an itch to scratch in this area. He's started scratching with his Mee ...
Joe Justice
Agile product development related to physical hardware
Paid: 2012
I would like to nominate Joe Justice for the Flash Grant. He has gained the distinction of 10th place in the Automotive X Prize competition of 2011 for his 114 MPG car. Once I found out about it and contacted Joe - it turns out that it is open source - even though his website does not emphasi ...
Nick Liow and Jason Church
Crafty
Paid: Nov 2012
My prediction (and hope) is 2013 will be the year of hackable games: games where remixing is built in by design. The growth of HTML5 games over the coming year will be a critical part of this. Web native games are easy to remix and easy to bring assets into from all across the web. Nick a ...
Ramzi Jaber
Visualizing Justice
Paid: Nov 2012
1 Visualizing Justice empowers communities to create visual stories for social justice and harnesses digital media as a means to educate. These visuals are also tools for civil society to self-mobilize and confront power. 1 Visualizing Justice's upcoming tools are on the intersection of ...
Emil Ivov
Jitsi
Paid: Nov 2012
Virtual teams, which include innovators and learning communities, need an open-source alternative to skype and google hangout. Emil started jitsi as a graduate student and has built an impressive list of contributors. Jitsi is an open-source audio/video/chat system that supports many open st ...
Thomas Sprinkmeier
One Geek Per Classroom
Paid: 2012
Here is what Thomas has said he would do in his own words. I would also encourage him to think about how to make his concept replicable. I'd revive OGPC in style: http://ogpc.com.au/wiki/One_Geek_Per_Classroom I've volunteered, starting in my kids classes, teaching geek-dom to kids. ...
Yang Ishigaki
Building cheap radiation detectors
Paid: 2012
Yang Ishigaki is the driving force behind a bold Japanese initiative to build cheap radiation detectors and enable Japanese citizens to find out how much radiation there is around them, as well as share this data to display informative maps of background radiation all over the country. This is ...
Dr. William Mapham
Rural doctor
Paid: 2012
Dr William Mapham is a change agent in the field of health care. He is a rural doctor by training and is currently working as an ophthalmologist in the Eastern Cape of South Africa offering cataract surgery to people living in rural areas. In addition to his clinical medical skills he has wo ...
Karen Fasimpaur
A DIY approach applied to K-12 learning
Paid: 2012
Karen works at the intersection of technology and teacher professional development. She was the driving force behind P2PU School of Ed and is interested in developing a new idea, which will make a great flash grant project. This new idea is not connected to P2PU. Maker thing with kids - ...
Jérémie Zimmerman
Anti-ACTA activist
Paid: 2012
According to Wikipedia: "Jérémie Zimmermann is the spokesperson and co-founder of the Paris-based La Quadrature du Net, a citizen advocacy group defending fundamental freedoms online. He was awarded[1] the 2012 EFF Pioneer Award together with other persons and groups." Jérémie was awarde ...
Deepta Sateesh
The Green Justice Lab: Democratizing environmental law using innovative design
Paid: 2012
1. The Need & Context: Deepta is a design visionary who been working on disruptive ways of democratizing environmental law using innovative design. The law, and particularly environmental law, is derived from issues and cases that are layered with complexity, and traditionally communic ...
Deb van Dyke
Produces open-licensed video used for public health info and medical training
Paid: 2012
Deborah (Deb) van Dyke is founder and Director of the Global Health Media Project (http://globalhealthmedia.org) which produces open-licensed video used for public health info and medical training. Motivation: The videos are very good, particularly 'The Story of Cholera' (http://globalhea ...
Adi Eyal
Open Data
Paid: 2012
He's doing a load around Open Data in South Africa and been involved with OKFN Local group - only linked to burgercom because that is primary link for Adi on the net. Things he has been involved in: http://codingfordemocracy.org/http://africaopendata.org/ Idea would be $5k would give him sp ...
Pieter Gunst
LawGives.org
Paid: 2012
I would like to nominate Pieter Gunst ([email protected]) who is one of the co-founders of the LawGives.org project (https://beta.lawgives.com/) we are currently in touch with about potential collaboration. He has expressed an interest in the Shuttleworth Foundation in general and is current ...
Shawn Ahmed
Social good entrepreneur
Paid: 2012
I selected Shawn for the flash grant because he epitomizes the social good entrepreneur. He embarked on a journey with no destination and years later continues making great progress by engaging in relationships and raising awareness. Web: http://uncultured.com/about/ ...
Emil Ivov
Jitsi is an open-source audio/video/chat system
Paid: 2012
Virtual teams, which include innovators and learning communities, need an open-source alternative to skype and google hangout. Emil started jitsi as a graduate student and has built an impressive list of contributors. Jitsi is an open-source audio/video/chat system that supports many open st ...
Lily Lappenna
My Bnk
Paid: 2012
Lily has spent the last few years developing some highly impactful approaches to educating young people about finance through her NGO, MyBnk. I've met Lily in the UK on a number of occasions and our organisations' work has naturally overlapped. 5 reasons I want to recommend her: -Impact: ...
Catarina Mota
Everywhere Tech
Paid: Nov 2012
Open Hardware is an emerging field, and it will be a standard feature of the open source economy. The most fundamental level of open hardware is open materials - the very substances that things are made of - and therefore are the last frontier for human freedom. Open Materials is a platform ...
