Carminho, voice of fado, has teamed up with the National Association to Combat Poverty (ANCAP) and auctioned the gold album “Fado” in the fair trade eSolidar platform. The September 20, a British citizen paid 350 euros to stay with the reward of Portuguese artist. Fan of the singer or the cause? It is not known, but the charitable organization thanked the donation.
The ANCAP supports about 80 families a month with a basket of food, distributes clothes, shoes and other articles of consumption and is one of 50 associations that is entered in launched by Marco Barbosa, Rui Ramos and Miguel Vieira in May 2014 platform.
A month before the auction Carminho another, the platinum Tony Carreira . And the donation was nearly ten times more generous. With the award of the bid, the ANCAP received three thousand euros in donations . There are no certainties, but the information presented in the profile of the bidding, it seems that the CD flew a Portuguese emigrant in France.
For Angola, flew football with the Sport Lisboa e Benfica played against Olhanense in the final game of last season, in which he devoted national champion. The bidding adept earned 2,800 euros The World of the NGO Carolina, which supports children with chronic illness or who are disadvantaged socioeconomic status. In 129 days of activity, eSolidar had raised close to 8,300 euros for 31 organizations.
Lima was the author of two goals with the SLB team of Olhanense won the April 20, 2014 Photo: FRANCISCO LEONG / AFP / Getty Images
The eSolidar is the project of social entrepreneurship that opened the first day of Citizenship 2.0 event and what is done with DNA technology and Portuguese. Promoters are new to the concept and the e-commerce platform is not the product debut, but with this tool you want to create technological solutions to social impact.
“ We want to be a Swiss army knife for nongovernmental organizations [NGOs], “explains Rui Ramos, 31, responsible for the finance department to the Observer. In eSolidar, any citizen can contribute to direct donations to the causes you believe in, participate in auctions for NGOs registered with celebrities promote the platforms and use the platform for buying and selling second-hand products, choosing a percentage that accrues to one cause.
“If we promote sustainability, we must also be sustainable,” said Rui Ramos, during the presentation of the project. And explained how:. Whenever an institution sells an object, the eSolidar charges a fee of 2.5% of the purchase and sale of second-hand products and receive 5% other 5% of the auctions also revert to the platform
The goal of the founders, who joined Filipa Barros, also is to create a supportive ecosystem and disseminate the tool outside of Portugal. By the end of the year, plan to double the number of institutions included in the platform.
Rui Ramos, Marco Barbosa and Miguel Vieira met in the incubator startups Minho Minho Enterprise Institute (IEMinho). It was there that integrated the design of electronic commerce Bewarket, which later gave rise to eSolidar, and Filipa Ramos explained Rui Barros, 30, the Observer. After advancing to the first idea, realized that there was a gap in the fair trade market and decided to redirect the project. The focus is now exclusively on NGOs.
and Filipa Ramos Rui Barros are responsible for two of the four eSolidar.
also “got sick”
Share experiences. The project Vilaça Rita, 25, presented the first day of Citizenship 2.0 aims to unite people who suffer from the same pathology. Rare diseases, chronic, degenerative or mental:.’s Room to talk about everything on the platform that the Master in Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics almost master, launched in February 2014, I was sick to
The idea emerged during the master who took the University of Minho and where he met José Fernandes, the BloomIdea, a consulting firm that helps businesses launch Online . It was in that conversation that sensed there was no platform in Portugal that allows patients to share experiences with certain pathology, therapeutic and confidences. Why not create it
José Fernandes has allocated three company employees to the project: a computer, an designer and a manager, who contributed hours of work for the realization of got sick . Seven months later, more than a thousand people are enrolled in the digital community to talk about the pathologies of suffering. Those that have had the largest membership are Fibromyalgia, Depression and Anxiety disorders. Why? Perhaps because they are more “misunderstood” and “less visible” explains Rita Vilaça.
Rita Vilaça to present the project at Citizenship 2.0 was sick. Picture: Martifoto
The platform, which works almost like a social network, allows patients to create a profile with medical and therapeutic records, establish moods, create a network of friends, send private messages and talk in groups. And is not exclusive to patients. Friends and family who feel the need to have support and share the experience they are living can also register.
The aim is that promoters of these data c ontribuam later for scientific research of some pathologies. For now, the team is still optimizing the platform and plans are to develop a version for mobile or app .
Politics is on Twitter
Public Opinion and Sentiment Tracking, Analysis, and Research , ie, POPSTAR. The project belongs to Pedro Magalhaes, 44, researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences (ICS), University of Lisbon, develops methods of collection, measurement and aggregation of political and economic opinions conveyed on Twitter, the blogosphere and the news, with funding Foundation for Science and Technology.
“collect the buzz , the frequency with which one speaks of leaders and political parties on Twitter and try to measure the feeling [of people to the leaders], “explains Pedro Magalhães the Observer.
In addition to collecting and analyzing the semantically tweets , the POPSTAR also intends to compare the data collected with other indicators of public opinion, such as opinion polls. The first prototype of the project, the team of researchers from ICS, Institute of Systems and Computer Engineering – Research and Development at the University of Lisbon (INESC-ID), Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto (FEUP) and the Center for Economic Policy Research at the University of Minho, analyzed the sentiment of the citizens to the political leaders through tweets , but the goal is to broaden the spectrum of activity.
“Let’s try to develop technologies that can measure the contribution of specific texts, such as news, and understand how the information is linked by the media and Twitter relates. Who influences whom? “Said the investigator.
Pedro Magalhães to present POPSTAR Citizenship in 2.0. Picture: Martifoto
The target of the analysis will expand, but the theme also. Next step: the economy. With the technology developed at FEUP and INESC-ID, the researchers will try to measure, through tweets Portuguese who feel the economic crisis, unemployment and firms. And for the future, the investigator gets one more chance “would also like to know if there are differences in the way the media cover politics and party leaders” account.
In the POPSTAR page there is daily updated information about the sentiment of the Portuguese (based on tweets ) against the political leaders. The September 25, Thursday, António José Seguro gathered 47.3% of the negative references provided by users of Twitter. Pedro Passos Coelho met 32.9%. On Friday, the day was biweekly concerning the case Tecnoforma debate. If there are changes of feeling, POPSTAR records.
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