Hi I joined this email list a few weeks ago having come across the Digital Divide website and so far finding the posts quite relevant and interesting. Rather than just lurking, if I may I would like to make a paint a brief picture of my company.
We are http://www.tickertxt.org/ and are a social enterprise in the startup phase. Our business is that of improving trading for farmers and traders in rural communities in developing countries. We do this by applying some very interesting web and mobile technologies in a both novel and grassroots way to farmers and traders. I think a key difference in our business is that "grassroots" approach, that is we go from bottom up rather than top down. Values of our business that underpin that term include open-source and community-owned. We recently won an award at the Hasso-Platner Ventures Social Enterprise forum (http://www.hp-ventures.com/) in Postdam, Germany and later were finalists at Seecamp 08 (http://www.seedcamp.com/) in London. What came home to us at this last event was a better understanding that for our business to better succeed we needed partners in the same "social enterprise" sphere. I am finding some resonance to that here in Digital Divide. Part of that engagement is immediately finding partners of all types who are interested in mobile phone and trading aspects of developing countries. Downstream there are hopefully spin-offs for a wider audience, including education and other infrastructure improvements. So, if you see yourself or know of someone who might be interested in talking to our company then feel free to contact me off-group. Otherwise you at least know where I come from (which is Oxford, UK!). Anyway thanks for reading. Regards Andy Swarbrick _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
