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MISTICA: MDG ICT Volunteers

From: Daniel Pimienta ([email protected])
Date: Sun Nov 16 2003 - 00:31:32 AST

>To: [email protected]
>From: "J Cravens" <[email protected]>
>Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 16:48:11 -0000
>Subject: [infosoc4all] ICT Volunteer contributions to Millennium
>Development Goals (MDGs)
>
>UNITeS compiles stories of ICT Volunteer contributions
>to Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
>
>The United Nations Information Technology Service (UNITeS), a global
>volunteer initiative led by the UN Volunteers (UNV) programme,
>promotes volunteering as a fundamental element of successful ICT4D
>efforts, and also promotes ICT as a tool for volunteers to help
>people and communities in developing countries. In conjunction with
>the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), UNITeS is
>gathering examples of such ICT volunteering, and posting these
>stories at www.unites.org
>
>These ICT Volunteer stories are presented as they correspond to
>particular Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and MDG targets.
>Stories are from a variety of organizations and programs, *not* only
>those affiliated with the United Nations.
>
>Other organizations are welcomed to submit stories as part of this
>project. The goal is to have several examples of ICT volunteering for
>each MDG and its targets. Stories should concern volunteers who are:
>-- building the capacity of people in the developing world to use and
>apply ICTs (computers, the Internet, handhelds/PDAs, cell phones,
>radio, etc.)
>-- using ICTs to help people in the developing world regarding
>health, education, the environment, to prevent HIV/AIDS or to help
>those affected by such, agriculture, human rights, gender, and other
>areas of human development.
>
>This includes stories about online volunteers helping people and
>communities in the developing world through nongovernmental
>organizations (NGOs) and nonprofit organizations (NPOs), such as
>those participating through NetAid Online Volunteering
>(www.netaid.org/ov), which is managed by UNV. In fact, many of the
>initial stories for this project now posted to the UNITeS site were
>gathered by online volunteers recruited through NetAid.
>
>You can access these stories directly at:
>http://www.unites.org/cfapps/WSIS/wsis.cfm
>They are also linked from the UNITeS home page.
>
>For more information about UNITeS and the WSIS:
>http://www.unites.org/wsis
>
>For more information about UN Volunteers:
>http://www.unvolunteers.org
>
>-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>Jayne Cravens [[email protected]]
>Online Volunteering Specialist
>United Nations Volunteers
>www.unvolunteers.org
>Bonn, Germany
>
>UNITeS: www.unites.org
>NetAid Online Volunteering: www.netaid.org/OV
>Global portal to volunteering: www.iyv2001.org
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