In parallel to Inspiring Stories, we’re launching a project called Good Bytes. This project will build collaborative technology based platforms enabling innovative social impact outcomes. The presentation below details how this project would work.
As a starting point, I’m presenting in an Open Source Technology Conference (www.osscamp.in) over the weekend and will try and enlist as many volunteers as possible.
We’ve identified two projects that we’d like to start at Goodbytes
1. A platform that enables crowdfunding of investigative journalism: Lets say the corruption with the Delhi Municipal Corporation. This platform would allow such a journalistic proposal to be crowd-funded. Over the course of a few months, that investigation would snowball into popular media as well – which would thus organically support / flow into the second project below.
2. A platform that enables crowdfunding of legal action against high powered MPs / MLAs who often go un-prosecuted because of either a) Lack of information (which project 1 will tackle) or lack of financial resources to carry out serious legal proceedings against them. This is a high-leverage activity.
The starting point of both of these projects would be brainstorm sessions comprising of legal activists, technology and design experts, people from the government etc. Through these brainstorms, the feature set for these platforms would get finalized and we’d enter the Build stage.
