Smallbean supporters

Submitted by admin on Sat, 2011-01-22 13:27

Field Partners

NTC

Smallbean collaborated with Newton-Tanzania Collaborative (NTC) to install our first Citizen Archivist Project site in Kwala, Tanzania. Smallbean is also partnering with NTC and Design Museum Boston as part of our ESCARGO pilot installation to be completed later in 2011. Smallbean and NTC have also partnered to create Project Repat, a revenue generating side project that supports both organizations. 

 

WSU Mukurtu Archive

Smallbean is working with Washington State University to implement their Mukurtu Digital Archive. Development is proceeding quickly and we hope to begin testing the new archive at Smallbean Citizen Archivist Project sites this spring.

 

MIT D-lab

Smallbean partnered with MIT's D-Lab to implement a Smallbean MobileCAP installation at a Masai village in Laiboni, Tanzania in January, 2011. The MIT students served as alpha testers in our first implementation of a Smallbean Citizen Archivist Project site without Smallbean staff on the ground.

 

Design Museum Boston

Design Museum Boston has selected Smallbean for its first "Designing a Difference" program, an innovative initiative to educate the public on the transformative power of design by helping nonprofits find innovative solutions to economic, social, and environmental problems. We're partnering with Design Museum Boston and Newton-Tanzania Collaborative to build an ESCARGO installation in Tanzania. Find out lots more details here.

 

Educate!

  

Smallbean is partnering with Educate! to bring the Citizen Archivist Project to Uganda as part of the Educate! Scholars program. Educate! will pilot its first MobileCAP unit in March 2011.

 

Maria's Libraries

Smallbean partnered with Maria's Libraries to implement the Smallbean Citizen Archivist Project at four library sites in Kenya in the summer of 2010. 

 

AfricaSOMA

Smallbean is working with AfricaSOMA to operate and expand the Smallbean MobileCAP site in Elangata Wuas, Kenya.

Corporate Supporters

Samsonite

Samsonite is the corporate sponsor of the ESCARGO pilot project in Kwala, Tanzania. Thanks to Samsonite's financial and logistical support, Smallbean anticipates launching the our ESCARGO revenue-generating computer lab in Q3 2011.

 

MSI

MSI supplies Smallbean with refurbished energy efficient laptop computers, including its X-Slim and Wind models. The MSI laptops deployed by Smallbean in technology labs throughout the developing world provide a means for MSI to generate productive reuse from its products while also expanding its innovative computer technology to new international markets.

 

Arc'teryx

Arc'teryx provides Smallbean with gently reused backpacks for our MobileCAP units. So far, Smallbean has employed our amazing Arc'teryx packs in Tanzania and Kenya and we'll be bringing our Arc'teryx packs along to Uganda beginning in March.

 

Quest Software

Quest provided Smallbean with generous corporate funding for our MobileCAP initiative in Kenya. Quest also donates pens, notebooks, and USB flash drives for use in Smallbean computer labs throughout the developing world.

 

Voltaic Systems

Voltaic Systems provides Smallbean with the durable thin film solar panels utilized by our MobileCAP units around the world.

 

Google Grants

Google Grants is helping Smallbean spread our Citizen Archivist Project to the farthest reaches of the Internet via its in-kind AdWords donation program.

Academic partners

MIT

MIT provides Smallbean with office space as part of a tech incubator on campus. In addition to MIT's D-Lab, Smallbean also works with MIT undergraduate and graduate students on various technology initiatives. 

 

Harvard Graduate School of Education

Smallbean works with graduate students from the Harvard School of Education as part of the Field Experience Program. The students are working on improving our Citizen Archivist Project curriculum with a planned emphasis this semester on community showcasing activities and the translation of our curriculum into Creole and Swahili.

 

Boston University School of Management

Smallbean is working with MBA students from the BU School of Management to create a social enterprise business plan for use by Project Repat, our revenue generation venture with the Newton-Tanzania Collaborative.

 

Harvard Law School

Smallbean is working with students from the Transactional Law Clinic at Harvard Law School to develop a broad intellectual property solution for the wonderful, yet culturally sensitive, data currently being collected by the Citizen Archivist Project.

 

Boston University Public Relations Lab

Smallbean is working with the BU Public Relations Lab from the College of Communication to increase recognition for the Citizen Archivist Project. Look for us on the cover of Newsweek soon!