CELLALERT.NET NETSQUARED PROPOSAL

We have found major problems for farmers in impoverished nations (and westerners alike) that the Internet presents:
1) Farmers without Internet have comparatively no information
2) Westerners (farmers or not) who have the Internet have information overload

What if we were to solve 2 problems at one time? What if we delivered information to Farmers without Internet access via the quickly expanding 2 billion cellular phones worldwide? And what if we delivered it all through keyword-filtering of RSS feeds of *only* the content that is critical to them?

I am the co-founder and CEO of http://www.FreeAlert.org and of CellAlert.net. FreeAlert.org and CellAlert.net are RSS search applications that instantly notify subscribers 24 hours per day by cell phone and/or email of the items that the subscribers are seeking online, worldwide. Take a test drive at http://www.FreeAlert.org.

FreeAlert is the flagship application we started. Since that time, we've expanded to include CellAlert.net and expanding soon to http://www.Africalert.org, http://www.Asialert.org and http://www.Americasalert.org

http://www.FreeAlert.org delivers the *free* items that our subscribers are seeking on Craigslist whenever the items appear in any Craigslist RSS feed they select worldwide. But we want to use this technology to support farmers and so many other powerless people in developing countries who are being squashed by the big guys who have more information (and more power). Currently we are focused on empowering farmers in El Salvador, but we see tremendous potential for good purposes being served and facilitated by text alerts in developing nations worldwide! We hope our below mashup ideas can win your vote!

We want to partner with the Grameen Foundation to send text alerts with critical market information to farmers with cell phones in Africa and Bangladesh. We think the Grameen Foundation's Village Phone and CellAlert.net could offer essential commodity information and create a two-way text-alert agro-economic marketplace.

We are also want to disseminate Grameen Bank and Kiva.org micro-loan through our loan-alert clearinghouse to cell phone users across Bangladesh and Africa.

Then we plan to couple our farming loan marketplace alerts with The Fair Tracing Project (please see this article); creating a Fair Trade Alert mashup to provide accountability to international business ventures in those areas.

For instance, oil-based crops in Africa are quickly becoming an answer to the international demand for biodiesel oil in Africa. Our products create a connection directly between the vegetable oil sellers in formerly unaccessible regions and socially responsible companies outside the farmer's home country.

For example, the Safeway Corporation recently switched their entire trucking fleet to biodiesel. We want to help connect the developing world farmer to the Safeway type corporations ready to buy from developing markets for a fair price.

But we don't want to stop there, either. We have plans to expand CellAlert.net as follows:
Emergency Alerts, Medical Supply Alerts, Free Item Alerts, Loan Alerts, Local Innovation Alerts, Entrepreneur Network Alerts, Regional News Alerts, Volunteer Alerts, etc.

Please help us make this project a reality, by voting for us to win part of the NetSquared Mashup Challenge under the title "Text a Farmer, Support a Farmer, Alert a Farmer with CellAlert.net" here.

Please copy the below HTML code into your myspace page or your blog or your social bookmarks or your social networking tools or just into an email to anyone who will vote for us!

<font color="red" size="+1">Please vote for <a href="http://netsquared.org/2008/conference/projects/agri-mashup-data-utilization-inclusive-and-sustainable-agriculture-base-pyramid" target="_blank">Agri Mashup</a> and <a href="http://www.netsquared.org/2008/conference/projects/cellalert-net" target="_blank">CellAlert.net</a> (we're partnering organizations) to win the NetSquared Mashup Challenge with our proposed Agro-Technical projects. Please click and vote <a href="http://netsquared.org/2008/conference/projects/agri-mashup-data-utilization-inclusive-and-sustainable-agriculture-base-pyramid" target="_blank">here</a> AND <a href="http://www.netsquared.org/2008/conference/projects/cellalert-net" target="_blank">here</a>.</font> Voting ends Friday March 21st at 5pm Pacific Standard Time, so please vote now! Click <a href="http://www.netsquared.org/blog/britt-bravo/vote-your-favorite-netsquared-mashup-challenge-projects-march-21st">here</a> for voting directions.