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How to be a Good Nabuur

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

This story comes from those good folks over at Ode. Remember the days of VSO, working abroad as a volunteer, helping out in any way you could? Well now you can do it from the comfort of your own home.

Nabuur.com has launched an online resources to connect villages with helpers…online. Projects get posted up and help asked for. Then volunteers with particular skills can connect with these projects and provide the service. It sounds like another great way to connect people and let ideas and skills flow around the system.

It also allows for a wider pool of people to offer up knowledge and skills they have but may, for whatever reason, not be in a position to share in person.

Tags: connecting, e-commerce, giving, internet, volunteering, web | 2 Comments »

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    I’m a Londoner who moved to Christchurch, New Zealand in 2002. After studying economics and finance at Manchester University and a couple of years of backpacking I ended up working in the financial markets in London. I traded the global financial markets on behalf of investment banks for 11 years. In 1998 I decided to explore the underlying financial system in more detail and its impact on society. The results were startling! In 2000 I decided to leave banking and explore new opportunities. I helped start up Trucost, an environmental research company, exploring ways of placing a value on ecosystem services. In 2002 I moved with my family to Christchurch, New Zealand. Since then I have returned to University studying political science and helped start up another company, VortexDNA, which explores the science of human intention and its predictive abilities. I am an active Angel investor, mainly in clean tech and web 2.0, and also volunteer for local community organisations in the areas of finance and mentoring. I am always keen to make new connections and hear about new ideas. Contact me directly on raf AT sustento.org.nz

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