Check out the second installment of my Forbes.com blog, "The Envaya of the World: What the Internet Needs to Truly Go Global"-- a fascinating story about a digital breakthrough that could change the way the world understands and responds to global crises. Here's a snapshot:

"Less than a year ago, in mid-2010, Stern co-founded envaya.org, an online network designed, at the most basic level, to connect third-world populations to the web. Even people who live hundreds of miles from a cable, a phone line, or a paved road, and who subsist on a few dollars a week, can use Envaya’s ultra-light platform to establish websites. The site is geared toward community organizations working to address issues ranging from deforestation and climate change to sexual abuse and special-needs education. It links these groups to each other, to potential funders, and to the rest of the world.

Envaya’s larger mission is not just to help connect the 2 billion-plus people worldwide who currently have no access to the internet, but to assist these populations, one community at a time, in building the foundations of civil society throughout the developing world."

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