NetHope 3.0

Bill Brindley (CEO of NetHope) gave an overview of where NetHope would like to go (called NetHope 3.0). Good to have large, challenging goals, and if he even accomplishes only some of them, it'll be a huge boon the the member organizations. Shared procurement is one of the more obvious ones, but shared innovation is also compelling. The challenge, I think, is to find things that most people will actually want to take advantage of. Shared email, for instance. Intersting idea, and definitely works as a shared model, but would NGOs of this size actually take advantage of this? I doubt it - I think it's too critical to the organization to outsource. Perhaps others feel differently - we'll see. A very exciting future, in any case, and I'm looking forward to seeing where it goes (and potentially helping to affect the direction in some small way).