In collaboration with appeal issued for fight against drought (AP)

ROME - food and relief organizations are appealing to the international community to provide political and financial support to combat drought devastating grip of five countries in the Horn of Africa.

The food of the United Nations based in Rome and organization of Agriculture and World Food Programme and the aid organization Oxfam has issued an appeal Friday helps in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Uganda.

They said that for people who require emergency assistance increased by 6.3 million earlier this year to 10 million today. The majority of those affected are in the Kenya.

The statement urged the international community to extend the necessary "political, legal and financial means" necessary to resolve the crisis.

New initiative in collaboration with Intuit (INC.com)

Intuit launched today, the collective Intuit, a website that gives businesses, individuals and academics the opportunity to collaborate with the company and financial on the ideas software products.

Partnerships can take several forms. Participants could develop a product that may be bundled with Intuit products, for example, or their ideas could be integrated into an offering of Intuit. Some partners may even be required to be part of Intuit.

Participants can make their own suggestions or respond to specific "challenges" published by Intuit a chance to win up to $10,000. A current challenge is to develop a most effective way to collect and organize accounting professional documents and other data of their clients. After you have created an account, participants can submit ideas to help Brainstorm tool the site.

For more information, visit http://www.intuitcollaboratory.com/.