One of the founders of Facebook, Chris Hughes, launched in late November Jumo, a social network intended to become a philanthropic platform. Jumo, which means "together in concert" in Yoruba, a West African language, begin to function as network on 30 November and have already signed up 66,000 users. In the company blog, Hughes defines it as a tool to "change the world", which uses the Internet's potential for people to find, follow and support those who seek solutions for their neighborhoods and the planet.

Its promoter has spent his last year preparing for this new company inspired by the power of his own "son", Facebook, and his experience as director of social networks of the presidential campaign of Barack Obama. These two achievements have allowed her to be convinced that social causes have a future on the Internet so far little explored, explained in an interview published today in the Washington Post. "The idea is based on what I learned with the Obama campaign and how the networking tools and technology can help solve social problems," he explains.

For this 26 years, do not care about education, medical insurance or finance, "the basic problem (of those cases) is that there are millions of groups working on these issues, but there is no system that connects them. " Jumo will also use Facebook Connector, a tool that social network that allows users to connect their accounts to other websites that have incorporated this service. On the other hand, the web will try to be a panel discussion on humanitarian organizations, so that users can select and follow the most valued.