Chris Hofmann and I have been attending the NetSquared conference for the past two days, listening to a lot of interesting social enterprises that have voted by the NetSquared community to have the greatest potential to leverage the social web to create social change.

Please take a look at the conference. We’re here because the Mozilla Foundation attended last year and was asked this year to support in some way. Frank at the Foundation was able to give a small contribution to help fund the conference. And, the organizers asked if two participants from Mozilla might be able to help evaluate the projects. I participated in this track and Chris Hofmann contributed as an expert evaluator in yesterday’s track on a tech-innovation feedback session.

In many ways, Mozilla might be considered a leading social enterprise. Our mission is to preserve choice and innovation on the Internet. Being at this conference and learning about the technology needs of people in the developing world makes me see just how big an impact our software can have. For instance, Chris Double’s blog post about proving the concept of off-line capabilities in Firefox could have a huge impact for those people in the developing world who may not be able to pay for or rely on a consistent internet connectivity. Great work Chris and everyone else!

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