"I will mentor a minimum of two people in the developing world in the area of my skills base and expertise (media, communications, broadcasting , democratic media building, participatory media, community video). I will do this for free for a minimum of six months (in my free time). The mentoring will be in person or via email/skype and the mentoring connections will be established by a website and database that I am willing to take responsibility for creating but only if 250 other people will mentor a minimum of two people in their skills."
— Lucy Hooberman
Deadline to sign up by: 15th January 2006
349 people signed up (99 over target)
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This kind of idea has been around for a while, and it surfaced again for me at TED last year at a big brainstorm. It would be great finally to launch it. 250 people will give us enough critical mass to offer, at launch, a really compelling collection of mentoring topics to people in the developing world. From there the idea could spread to become something really big.