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Presently, there is no discounted weekend package to the destination (Calabar) being promoted and it gives room for visitors to always think of the high rates of services whenever they want to visit the destination and they compare visiting nearby countries at the same rate an have international experience. This package negotiates with all service providers (hotels, car hire, restaurants, clubs, tour sites and attractions, event organizers, media houses, etc) to offer up to 40% discount on thier product and services to visitors.
Key innovations:
• Creating and all-inclusive fun-filled package with all travel needs with up to 40% discount.
• Influencing individual travel decision to this destination at an affordable price.
• Linking tourist and visitors with the local entrepreneur on mutual benefits.
• Strengthen collaboration between local entrepreneurs.
• Promote destination on a corporate platform at niche market.
• Market local enterprises on a strong and reliable platform to state agencies, private companies, associations and institutions.
• Quality product and service through value chain development.
• Encourages re-visit.
It’s a new contribution to the field as Cross River State agency (tourism bureau) and major enterprises like hotels have tried to increase traffic to the state but they usually portray thier benefits to customers and also, so many SMEs do not have access to partner with the major players. This package offers benefits to customers and partner mostly with local SMEs as visitors mainly wants to interact with the locals.

Our initiative is innovative because unlike other service-based nonprofits, DIYP is not just an education program; it actively seeks to improve the economic outcomes for at-risk youth, and to ultimately transform their lives. DIYP's goal is to empower at-risk youth to lift themselves out of poverty through not only providing media-related professional and workforce training but also the confidence and leadership ability necessary for success in any field. There are very few organizations in California that are taking a similar approach to this issue. While there are a handful that provide us with good models for success, none are Los Angeles-based. Los Angeles is the ideal training ground for this type of scalable and replicable social enterprise. With an abundance of advertising agencies, film and television studios, production companies, and marketing and public relations firms, there exists an organic pipeline to professional experiences for youth apprentices. We have already established internship partnerships with local production studios, advertising agencies, educational institutions, community organizations, local television stations, and private marketing and PR firms. Additionally, we have a strong social justice focus and are selective of the types of jobs we accept. We place strong emphasis on teaching the youth we work with about social issues as they work on real projects for actual clients.

1) A Platform for text search over Indic news content

Searching and sorting algorithms for Indic languages are in development and are not bug free. Indic support is not yet available in most of the search solutions (including FOSS solutions like Lucene or Solr) because of the complex word formation characteristics.
2) Document Similarity

To enable features such as “Similar News Stories” on an analytics platform that works on Indic content, a robust similarity measure that realistically and accurately estimates similarity between stories would be necessary.

3) Accessible Documents in Automatically generated speech

Indic Accessibility Tools are scarce and are not mature. Populations that use Indic languages are largely natives of developing countries where public and shared machines are largely used to access news.

4) Rendering solutions for Indic content.

Complex script rendering is still a barrier for the content distribution. Operating systems with good rendering support are yet to reach people.

We will provide following set of technologies to solve this.
a) Service/application library to render the content in PDF,

b) Indic Webfonts service for news providers, to improve the news delivery without worrying whether user’s computer is capable of rendering Indic.

5) Indic Datacloud

Indic Document Cloud workspace, allows anyone to upload documents, share them with team, and conduct structured searches and analysis based on extracted entities — the people, places, and organizations mentioned in the text.

The tea plantation workers (118,000) and their communities (approximately 500,000) are the most marginalized minorities in Bangladesh. Socially, economically and culturally excluded from the rest of the Bangladeshi society and descendants of indentured laborers, the tea workers have no title to land they have lived on for four generations and they remain captive to “labor lines” on the tea estates. Their situation is aggravated by extremely low wages compared to the wages of the Indian and Sri Lankan tea workers. With ongoing investigation and reporting by SEHD on the conditions of the tea workers, one reality becomes obvious, the tea workers must have titles to the land they live on and the land they till to compensate for their food deficit. The land area for tea cultivation is 115,629.76 hectares (285,727.36 acres)—all government land granted to the companies/owners of 163 tea estates. The annual rent for use of the government land is infinitesimal, viz., Tk.110 (1.5 USD) per acre. Only 45% of the land is actually under tea cultivation. If the tea workers get titles to at least the homesteads and the paddy land they currently use, their lives will significantly improve. A large portion of land granted for tea but used for rubber and monoculture plantations for commercial gains of the owners can also be awarded to the workers. A combination of research, media reporting, advocacy, and court action (i.e. writ in the High Court) can bring change. This is indicated in work already done.

UrbanWatch is a completely new concept in Cambodia that uses the latest information technology to benefit not only the wider urban population but most critically, the urban poor.

The latter currently face an ever growing issue of development-induced resettlement and in some cases forced eviction. Their recourse to justice is almost zero. By mapping information and developments, UrbanWatch provides a small window in which the problems facing these marginalised communities can be made public not only within the wider national population but also internationally. It will also create a valuable and easily accessible resource within a general debate on urban development about which there currently very little discussion or dialogue.

The site's feature of allowing anyone to report developments and incidents further promotes civic engagement and participation, a phenomenon slowly on the rise particularly among students in Cambodia.

A 'dummy-run' of the site can already be accessed at urbanwatch.crowdmap.com, though it should be emphasised STT does not expect to make the site public until at least January 2011 (once more information has been uploaded etc.)

Cancer is not a healthcare priority in South Africa and there is not enough focus on the potential impact of the disease. Cancer patients are disempowered and do not have access to the information or treatment they need to help them during their cancer journey. This project heightens awareness around cancer and the issues that face cancer patients in South Africa thereby creating dialogues between people affected by cancer and stakeholders which will ultimately result furthering patient advocacy in our country. This is essential if we are to mobilize the public and create a movement to address this looming health crisis. Patient advocacy is still in its infancy in South Africa and as proven globally, patient advocates give a face and voice to patients who is crucial in effecting improvements in policy and treatment. We do not have a developed culture of sharing stories around experiences with cancer in South Africa. Opening up and speaking out allows cancer patients the chance to relate to others in the same situation and not feel so alone. Patients and loved ones have the opportunity to learn from these accounts and receive guidance which removes associated fear and stigma. Additionally the project has a knock on effect as it helps develop much needed patient advocates. The project ends with a National Call to Action which will bring about policy change affecting all cancer patients in South Africa.

First of all, the choice of this area - where we want to implement this project – indicates that our idea is unique. This project covers former Sovetskiy area (This area is called Sovetskiy because Azerbaijan had been part of the Soviet Union until 1991), the poorest area in Baku. Approximately more than 40 thousand people live there, and most of these people don’t own documents regulating their property rights. No project to secure people’s property rights has ever been carried out in this area on behalf of the government or NGOs in the country.
In addition, the methods considered to realize the project makes the idea exceptional: work will be carried out on three strategic directions during the project – advocacy, publicizing and legal assistance.

These days, pop culture media targeting girls is filled with sexualized “gossip girls” obsessed with shopping and dieting. Girls are told that uploading images of their American Apparel-clad bottoms to be scored and judged is girl power and that choosing “stupid” over “smart” by flashing their breasts, as Diesel suggests, is fun and funny. Empowering girls with media literacy to counteract these messages isn’t enough. Girls need opportunities to think and work together, public spaces to critique and talk back, and tools to demand a more diverse and healthier set of messages. PBG connects girls with one another and gives them online tools and a platform to talk back to sexist versions of girls and women in media.

Powered by Girl leverages girls’ engagement with social media and the Internet to connect with girls where they’re spending so much time already, engaging them in new media literacies and activism. It’s unique because it works on many levels. We invite girls into the PBG community that girl activists have created and we offer a range of ways for them to connect, to be involved, and to make social change. Most girls will simply see and share a spoofed ad, read a blog post, or vote on an activity they like. They will have opportunities to participate in a social movement and learn in the process that social critique and girls’ activism is both fun and vitally important.

The Experience Talks radio show is the premiere show in the country covering issues about aging and changing the way people think about getting older in America. This project will provide us with on-the-ground story capturing capability by seniors themselves, allowing us to cover a broader geographic area and expand our mission and voice. It will unify communities around the issues of aging in a fresh way, providing more diverse voices on the air and giving the mike to the older peoples themselves for a change. What does the world look like, feel like, sound like to older people in America. Through this project we can connect communities around stories that will inspire and motivate people to do it differently. We will arm and train correspondents in new technologies and their stories will empower older adults to do the same.

The JTMPWN Collaboratory uses leading edge conversational practices to bring together the whole system of people who care about the role of journalism in civil society. We are particularly unique in attracting people from a wide variety of sectors - mainstream, independent, and ethnic journalists, community and media activists, students, researchers, technologists, business people, and others are part of the collaborative's constituency. We are growing a variety of means to support the people involved: face-to-face engagement, microfinance, stewarding ten initiatives that grew out of a Journalism That Matters conference held in January 2010 to name a few.

Idea is simple. It’s a school of football, first online world school. People from all around the world could learn some football moves, they could participate on football web uploading theirs videos, photos. They could vote for their favorites. This idea would be suitable for buzz. Football news; moves would spread between people, on football grounds, in the streets… People could talk about it and participate in ‘’web’’.

The Belgian Homeless Cup does the national selection to determine who goes to the Homeless World Cup. In talking to other countries, we have found that our link with the national football association is unique, and our system of social judging is also unique. All teams are screened by an independent jury on a set of social criteria, and the marks awarded there are added to the football results to establish a ranking.
In this jury, the organisations describe the way they organize themselves in cooperation with other organisations and the way to implement the principles with a good balance between the social an the sportive element.
In addition, two players from each team testify and explain the dynamic of their teams. We choose to work this way, so we can hear the different sides of the teams: the way they organize themselves to be able to accomplish their goals and the way this is perceived by the players.

The final tournament starts from this ranking, after that, football rules!