Ugonet.org is a free video/photo sharing site and social network for off the grid folks, social entrepreneurs, digital pioneers, traveler activists, anthropologists (pseudo or not), media makers - photographers, film makers, artists, and musicians world wide. Ugonet will be an online hub - a tool, knowledge base, showcase, and meeting place for everyone interested in finding new ways to connect across digital and economic divides - an inside look at positive global development, a place to imagine change where your vision counts.
UGOTRADE
Ugotrade will be a global internet reality show - an off beat cross between, "The Apprentice," and The Discovery Channel's, "Going Tribal." Ugotrade will bring on grid folks - innovative technologists, social entrepreneurs, bloggers, broadband video pioneers, and other www2 stars - together with off grid pioneers as they reinvent global trading from the back of a yak, a canoe on the Amazon, and a houseboat in New Orleans.
Ugotrade's aim is to evolve Dr Yunus' Nobel Prize winning model of micro lending into investment in local wireless communications.
Tibetan Woman, Yak and iphone
(original photo by Tze Yang Kong)
Ugotrade will bring visibility to off grid communities. Social entrepreneurs from all over the world, and the gurus of the so called digital democracy - broad band video pioneers, bloggers, rockstarinternet marketers, celebrities of online social media - will come together with off-grid entrepreneurs in pioneering projects.