Working in partnership with Facebook, Good Magazine and Millenium Promise, we illustrated and built a dynamic and interactive online virtual replica of Mbola, a village in Tanzania. This project was the result of these organisations coming together to try to use the power of social media to address the UN’s eight Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) at ground-level (known as the Millenium Villages Project). Mbola Millenium Village and the Facebook app that we created is where the ideas are put into action. The app allows Facebook users to donate their time and money to help Mbola achieve the development changes that it requires – specifically around health, education, agriculture and infrastructure – and watch as the village transforms in real time on screen.
