Web Meets World Auction to Benefit Charities
Published October 30th, 2008
echWeb and O’Reilly Media, Inc., co-producers of the annual Web 2.0 Summit, announce the benefiting organizations and lots of the “Web Meets World” auction, which will take place on the evening of Wednesday, November 5 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. The proceeds from the event will benefit three charity organizations — the Lance Armstrong Foundation, WITNESS and Green For All.
Sponsored by Microsoft, the “Web Meets World” auction is inspired by the theme of looking beyond immediate needs and into a space that transforms limits into opportunities. The selected auction beneficiaries do just that. The Lance Armstrong Foundation, LIVESTRONG.org, unites people in the fight against cancer, providing useful information and tools people with cancer need to live life on their own terms. WITNESS uses video and online technologies to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations, empowering people to transform personal stories of abuse into powerful tools for justice and policy change. The third organization, Green For All, promotes green-collar jobs and opportunities for disadvantaged communities working to build an inclusive, green economy strong enough to resolve the ecological crisis and lift people out of poverty.
Web 2.0 Summit takes place November 5-7, 2008 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. The event is produced by O’Reilly Media, Inc. and TechWeb and moderated by John Battelle, Program Chair, and Tim O’Reilly, CEO and founder of O’Reilly Media. Attendance is limited to maintain an intimate setting and foster dialog among participants. General attendee and media registration is by invitation only. Sponsors of the Web 2.0 Summit include:
– Accenture — Adobe — Careerbuilder.com — Enterprise Ireland — IBM — IDA Ireland — iQuestions — Juniper Networks — Microsoft — Mohr Davidow Ventures (MDV) — MySpace — NEA — Omidyar — Panorama Capital — Right Media — Searchme.com — Socialtext — Source Forge — Thomson Reuters — Yahoo!
For more information visit: http://www.web2summit.com.
