Indigo africa gathering

William and Fran PerrinAfrica Gathering

3 July 2010 UCL London

Indigo Trust made major investment in MySocietyMySociety now funded by Omidyar

Indigo Mission statement:

“Guided by the belief that information inequality leads to market failure and social failure INDIGO provides the means for game-changing improvements in access, connectivity and/or literacy skills to promote information equality amongst disadvantaged”

In the long term projects like these lead to better developmentIndigo wants to encourage

• Small grants to improve transparency and literacy in country

• Aimed at people with bright ideas• Fully open peer reviewable process• Later in 2010• http://www.sfct.org.uk/indigo.html or Google

for ‘Indigo Trust’• http://indigotrust.wordpress.com/