International Support from John Schertow

International Support

John Schertow, Intercontinental Cry:

For quite some time I've been painfully aware of the lack of community-oriented or otherwise democratic tools online. There are many great sites like indymedia.org, oneworld.net, gloalvoicesonline.org, and moveon.org; all of which have been extremely successful in their respective purposes - but they are also extremely limited in topic coverage, organization, and accessibility.

I'm equally aware that the potential of the interent is still largely untapped. As far as democracy online goes, the best I've seen is the relatively new social bookmarking sites (technortati, digg), but they are more for mainstream and technology-related subject matter. There's really nothing for us.

I think this project answers both of these issues, and in the end will offer an example to other groups of how to utilize, democratize, and organize the internet. Personally I look forward to watching this project develop and seeing how I can help out/contribute.

John Schertow
http://intercontinentalcry.mahost.org