Looks like you already found the MobileActive site, which is a great resource.
You might be interested in World Usability Day. This year's theme is designing for sustainability. http://www.worldusabilityday.org/ The Stanford University School of Business has a Social Innovation Conversations site that often posts free podcasts relating to nonprofit uses of technology (social networking, online giving marketplaces, etc.). Here's a podcast of a panel that included Brandon Shauer from Adaptive Path talking about "human centered design" and business strategy: http://sic.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3892.html Ashoka also runs competitions related to social entrepreneurship - not necessarily design related http://www.changemakers.com/en-us/competitions. A couple more links: NY Times article on applying design thinking for social problems http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/25/fashion/25iht-design25.html?_r=3 Competition run by the city of New York: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/29/city-invites-software-developers-to-crunch-big-data-sets/ Hope this isn't too broad, though it sounds like you're still in the exploratory phase. Good luck, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=43800 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
