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Taking it global
Jennifer Corriero
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The idea for TakingITGlobal was realized and developed in November of 1999; I was rollerblading with a friend and we were speaking about...
We talked through different ideas, we thought that although technology has created the potential for a global community there didn’t exist a place, or at least...
We wanted to address that divide; we lay all of our ideas out on paper, and we shared them with people we knew. My friend and I had both been part of a book launch and we were connected to a few influential people, so for nine months we basically networked and talked to the different people we could access in order to get feedback and figure out how we could implement our idea.
Originally, we wanted to have a physical resource center where people could come in and have access to different tools and resources, but we weren’t able to get funding for that, so we decided we could start off with a virtual resource center. We realized that we could create an online community. We were able to get some research funding from a Fortune 500 company. With that we were able to buy some computers, laptops, and attend a few events.
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