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Lifekludger Project 001 - Goal reached, underway.

What a great response to the first Lifekludger Project fundraising. I’m glad tosay thegoal was reached and Fundable has paid the pledged amount (less it’s 10% fee, of course)

I’ve started a spreadsheet where the funds for project will be tracked and it’s viewable from theLifekludger blog (or right here).

The item has been ordered and I’ve been notified shipmentis underway.

My mate, Mike Seyfang, who’s been tossing these mad-scientist ideas and dreams around with me for the last few years, has written a great blog post summarising what is behind this project and indeed the Lifekludger vision. You can catch the whole post over on his blog. I’ve snipped a few choice paragraphs below:

For several years now I have been working with Dave (LifeKludger) Wallace to envision a way to use the social web to improve people’s lives through effective technology hacks. We can see and almost taste a world in which networks of ‘livers’ emit ideas or issues they are facing and with the help of networks of ’suppliers’ and ‘givers’ end up with pieces of technology modified by ‘makers’ that improve their life in some way. All totally scale-able, all powered by the social-web.

So our little ‘lkp001? experiment is our first dabble into the world of social-web powered micro-finance and it is showing a lot of promise. We have shown that it is indeed possible to have a single project funded using the social web without creating too much fuss, admin overhead or any potential bottleneck to scale.

Thanks to all who support the vision and all who gave to make this pilot funding test a reality (you know who you are).