{"id":3322,"date":"2010-04-14T08:38:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T06:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tokao.com\/?p=3322"},"modified":"2010-04-14T08:38:30","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T06:38:30","slug":"peace-corps-devs-win-web-award-for-remix-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/14\/peace-corps-devs-win-web-award-for-remix-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace Corps Devs Win Web Award for Remix Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/arc.png\" alt=\"arc.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"45\" \/>Who knew the Peace Corps were Web developers? Certain African farmers did anyway. Now, with its\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/arc.peacecorpsconnect.org\/\">AfricaRuralConnect<\/a> project the recipient of an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.interactivemediaawards.com\/winners\/certificate.asp?param=72253&amp;cat=1\">Interactive Media Council Outstanding Achievement Award<\/a>, a lot more people know it too.<\/p>\n<p>ARC is a product of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/peacecorpsconnect.org\/\">National Peace Corps Association<\/a> and provides a platform for Africans in the business of agriculture, and those interested in African agricultural issues to present, hear and remix each others&#8217; ideas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"more\">\n<p>The site is built on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wegora.com\/home\">Wegora<\/a>, &#8220;a collaborative writing platform with an integrated semantic analytics engine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The site solicits ideas, community members\u00a0<em>remix <\/em>them, improving them, commenting or questioning them, endorsing them. These remixes are portable and follow both the original idea and the remixer&#8217;s profile through the site. The conversations that ensue resemble nothing so much as a bunch of entrepreneurs networking and workshopping their ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Those who suggest the ideas that win a given round, based on the number of endorsements they get, receive prizes. The grand prize is $12,000. This year&#8217;s ARC contest goes through the month of November.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Prizes will be awarded to ideas considered the most original, creative, practical, scalable, and likely to succeed and offer the greatest improvements in the lives of small-scale farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa,&#8221; said Molly Mattessich, manager of online initiatives for the NPCA, a group and herself a former Peace Corps Volunteer in Mali.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We hope this recognition will draw even more people to the site to submit their ideas and engage in a discussion on how to help rural Africa.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Current ideas include &#8220;Fusing Sports (Football) with Rabbit and Bee Commercial Farming for Youth Development and Wealth Creation in Murang&#8217;a South,&#8221; &#8220;Using Biogas to Change Rural Lives&#8221; and &#8220;Fuel Energy from Agricultural Waste.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/arcfolks.jpg\" alt=\"arcfolks.jpg\" width=\"323\" height=\"181\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/peace_corps_devs_win_web_award_for_remix_site.php?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+readwriteweb+%28ReadWriteWeb%29\" target=\"_blank\">readwriteweb<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who knew the Peace Corps were Web developers? Certain African farmers did anyway. Now, with its\u00a0AfricaRuralConnect project the recipient of an\u00a0Interactive Media Council Outstanding Achievement Award, a lot more people know it too. ARC is a product of the\u00a0National Peace Corps Association and provides a platform for Africans in the business of agriculture, and those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[91,173,75],"class_list":["post-3322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-development","tag-ngo","tag-readwriteweb"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}