Global 'caring' portal to launch
The portal could be used to help build schools, President Barack Obama and Bill Gates are being invited to back a website that promotes social politics. Although still being created, the site is billed as "a place where people can meet, congregate and participate..to change the world online".
"The idea is to create a world online Peace Corps or a global eBay for caring"Phil Noble, PoliticsOnline
The web portal, entitled Hope Plus, aims to offer online tools to enable social projects such as building schools and fighting pollution. The concept was in part inspired by Mr Noble's previous work with the BBC. He was a key advisor to the now defunct BBC Action Network, a nationwide portal for community activism. The portal will be multi-lingual and consist of a range of activism tools. Companies such as Microsoft, Monster, Cisco and IBM and participating in creating the site.
