Abdrahamane Traoré and Md. Shanhoor Amin are a couple of students at The University of Michigan that are working on a personal solar panel product out of inspiration from the lack of resources that their villages back at home were dealing with. Traoré had a hard time reaching his family at home and his mother had to walk to a neighboring village to keep her cell phone charged. Traoré had to study with a dim kerosene lamp when he was a child. So the two decided to start a company called June Energy and designed the personal solar panel light product called the Emerald.

Tonic.com has acquired iPhone application DoGood from Ann Arbor, Michigan mobile firm Mobil33t.  DoGood [iTunes link] is a Lifestyle iPhone and iPod Touch application that suggests users to do a specific good deed that the the application says for the day.  Mobil33t used social media resources on Facebook and Twitter to give the application publicity and gain awareness about their cause.  The crowdsourcing around the Twitter hashtag #DoGood helped virally market the application too.  After you complete the good deed suggested by DoGood, simply press done.  Mobil33t worked with the University of Michigan student organization DoRAK (Do Random Acts of Kindness) on the application.