clickhomeless.com — We're the leading sprint idea on ideablob, which grants $10,000 a month to ideas. The "Click Homeless" network of homeless and non-homeless will offer gift cards to wi-fi enabled food spots, volunteer web design and SEO training, and work to get laptops in the hands of homeless, to educate the public on issues of homelessness from a needed angle.
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nathantbakerOct 16, 2008Submitter
Homeless aren't always looking for money, and it's not always the best help at the time. A huge burden is often lack of dynamic community for instance. The Internet offers a great chance at networking and community. This effort is aimed at providing education from a homeless perspective as well as empowering homeless.
nathantbakerOct 16, 2008Submitter
We would be focusing on supporting homeless and chronically homeless (people that go in and out of homelessness). They could be blogging already, in which case, we support their writing, but we also with try to make it easier for other homeless in Nashville to blog if they want to get started.
wh0reOct 16, 2008
Junkies with valuable laptops... Good Plan. Woudn't an internet cafe be a better idea?
mollizabethOct 16, 2008
While there are certainly homeless people with drug and alcohol addictions (the same way there are non-homeless with addictions), the vast majority are not struggling with substance abuse issues. Either way, though, they deserve to have a voice. Certainly there will need to be an infrastructure of security in place (mostly for the safety of the homeless person) but I don't think that by putting laptops in the hands of the homeless, we're just throwing them away as you imply. However, an Internet Cafe would be a good idea as a supplement to this plan. Well done.
sillyrabbitsOct 16, 2008
Here's an internet/homeless idea. Build a quarter-flinging machine hooked up to a webcamera and interface. People would be able to buy quarters over the internet and then aim and fire them at the homeless - all from the comfort of their chair. The homeless would get money, the web folks would get some entertainment - everybody wins! You could wheel this machine around to various locations in a city where the homeless hang out. I know I'd spend $5 before it got old.