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The Forum Alternative Channel: Social Networks and Responsible Media made the conference to an international success, creating a good initial point for the second conference in New York next November.

Bocatics, those small capsules of simple and practical knowledge available via the Internet serve as our introduction at the next celebration of Internet Day. We invite all of our Iwith.org friends to vote for this tool before May 17th!

The collection of poems by Ronald Franklin Castillo Florian, from Peru, has been the most downloaded book in the 2008 contest. As of 12 o'clock on 22 April there were more than two thousand clicks to download one of the 23 works posted on our web site. Once again, we would like to thank the authors for their generosity and trust and the readers for their faith in the project.

After 8 days of the publication of the books on our website and now that we are less than 2 weeks away from the final of our Competition of the Day of the Book, we are giving you the first count of the download figures.

Además y en el marco del Master y Postgrado en resolución de conflictos públicos, la Univerdidad de Girona UdG ofrece este veranos 4 alternativas de formación puntuales sobe el tema, una de las cuales será impartida por Ramón Bartomeus jefe de Recursos de iwith.org.

A més i amb el marc del Màster i Postgrau amb la resolució de conflictes públics, la Universitat de Girona UdG, ofereix aquest estiu 4 alternatives de formació puntuades sobre el tema, una de les quals serà impartida per Ramón Bartomeus, cap de recursos de Iwith.org.

A Spanish NGO, and Iwith.org partner, has decided to offer, via photographs and other medium available on the Internet and the Ab·core platform, to raise awareness about oil and timber interest on the Amazon region in Ecuador.

Whichever book receives most downloads between now and the 22nd of April will be accredited with Iwith.org's international book-day prize. The objective of which is to contribute to a useful online culture.

This is the idea that conocemundo.org, the webradio from Turisme Responsable proclaims, a COMSOC project that counts with Iwith.org’s technological support and has just launch a website.

There are no longer any places available on the course starting on March 28, the web as a communications tool for donors, volunteers, beneficiaries and other interest groups but bear in mind that there are 3 other courses available.

If you have written a novel, a compilation of receipes, an essay, a compilation of stories, and you dream of seeing your work published then this is your chance. Have you thought of displaying your work virtually? At  Iwith.org we want to help you.

On the 30th of April, the FORUM ALTERNATIVE CHANNEL, social networks and responsible media, will be held in Barcelona, organized by Iwith.org and Alternative Channel. Our hope is that this forum will be a meeting place for experts in social networks, TIC and web 2.0; professionals of social and responsible communications; and third sector actors like International Groups, NGO’s and entities.

Don't forget that every Tuesday from 18 to 20 hours, on Iwith.org Barcelona headquarters, the meeting point is working. A place which objective is to link Organizations of the Third Sector from all around the world and people wanting to connect with them.

Once again Iwith.org invites you to its on-line courses designed to bring the Internet and the new technologies into organisations so as to make work in easier in all kinds of different set-ups. Find out about the topics and facilities for NPO's!

His name is Luis Burrel and, although of Spanish nationality, he lives in Germany. He is the creator of “Colourful Tents”, the most sent postcard through Iwith.org during the festive period.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate has filed two discrimination lawsuits against Guatemalan Constitutional Court (CC) Justices that threw out international warrants for the arrest of former military officials accused of genocide. Meanwhile, Santiago Pedraz has called the media worldwide (newspapers, radio, television, and digital media) to invite victims of Human Right abuses and people interested in this case to cooperate in the investigation, since the Court has decided not to.

Not long ago we informed you of the winner of our Postcards Contest 2007 but we still had to show you, as it was one of the contest’s guidelines, the most popular postcard. It was, ‘Colorful tents’ , by Luis Buruel, from Germany, who by the postcard wrote: ‘send some colour and happiness to your friends with this postcard’.

After hard deliberations, the jury of the IV Iwith.org Christmas Card Contest decided that the 2007 Winner is Christmas with humour, by Luis Eduardo León, from Colombia.

The restaurant, shop, and gastronomy workshop Mescladíshave been awarded with the 2007 award for their innovative initiative on the fight against unemployment, granted by Fundació Acció Solidaria contra l´Atur and Fundació Un Sol Mon.

Iwith.org´s headquarters in Barcelona received more than 70 people interested in the operation of the Meeting Point of Idealists.org located in the dependences of our NGO.

The cards have the solidarity message from Iwith.org, a non lucrative organization that works with New Technologies for the development of the most disadvantaged.Many organizations and also NGOs have sent in beautiful designs that will help to make known their selfless and altruistic work.

If the answer is yes, then you have a commitment with Iwith.org next December 18th.
We want to let you know, in an entertaining way and with some snacks, what the NGO idealistas.org does in Internet, but face to face, in our office in Barcelona. We want you to know our Meeting Point.


While UN calls for leadership in combating AIDS, in Catalonia an organization assumes the challenge and therefore, it is awarded an Ab·core program for 2007 Web Projects and it is nominated to Volunteering Awards 2007.

The training focused on the management of the core platform ab•core iwith.org and management of virtual spaces of learning, to apply these technologies in the future education in rural Central America.

The 5th of December is International Volunteer Day. We’d like to tell you about the history of the day, some of the events taking place to celebrate the day and, most importantly, we’d like to give a mention to the Iwith.org volunteers.

The second edition of Responsible ICT´s dossier has been published, edited by MediaResponsable. The dossier analyzes the situation of Social Corporate Responsibility in companies of the TIC sector and includes a survey of the ONL´s that work with ICT´s, in which Iwith.org was included.

Do you want to send your NGO's Christmas cards digitally? Join in Iwith.org's contest of greeting card designs!

From the Iwith.org portal, your designs will be used to create virtual Christmas cards that will be sent all over the world. The initiative is guaranteed by the massive success of our previous competitions.

November is visits’ month in Iwith.org, all coming from Lationomaerica.

The first Conference on Cooperative Social Responsibility Humanizar 2007 was held in Zaragoza on the 17th and 18th of October, promoted by the Industry and Commerce Department of the government of Aragón. Iwith.org organized the round table “Internet for NGO’s”.

Facebook is a web with social utility. It was created by the Harvard University and anybody can participate in one or more than one network to be in contact with friends, class mates, collegues and, of course, the NGO you participate with, association or interest group.

During the last few months we have received a list of candidates from Catalonian organizations for the 2007 Web Projects Grants carried out conjointly with the International Ashekor Foundation. We should inform you all of the closing as of today of this competition because the number of proposals presented over the last few weeks exceeds that of available scholarships, and therefore, we can not accept new projects.

HUMANIZAR 2007, the first Conference on Coorporative Social Responsibility promoted by the Industry and Commerce Department of the government in Aragón will take place Next 17th and 18th of October. Iwith.org will participate with the round table ‘Internet for NGOs’, come with us!!

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Once more, the Ab•core Platform will host a European campus, this time under the leadership of the Fundació Ciutat de Viladecans. We are referring to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs for short), which act as main drivers of the European community today, both in Eastern and Western countries, but which must redefine themselves to face the challenges of international competition.

Solidaritat, tecnologies, vacances i viatges

T'imaginem solidari, usuari de la fotografia digital i altres tecnologies, de vacances i potser fent algun viatge. T'interessa?

Només necessites una càmera digital i tenir la possibilitat de voltar pel món. Els promotors de la iniciativa Iwith.org demanen que et deixis impressionar tant per la bellesa que pot tenir un cable de fibra òptica submarí, en el més desenvolupat dels països, com per una antena parabòlica en una favela de Brasil i que en facis una fotografia. I a més, volen saber qui ets, la teva història, la que hi ha darrere de la foto, per què la vas fer i, especialment, com creus que aquesta pot condicionar determinats grups humans.

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The Office of the Secretary for Foreign Affairs of the Catalonian Autonomous Government   has drawn up the first register of Catalonian organizations that are members of international organizations and Iwith.org is one of these highlighted organisations.


We want to remind you that on the 17th and 18th of September we will be celebrating the 7th annual Fundraising Congress in Madrid's ICAI-ICADE facilities. Iwith.org will be in charge of the workshop: "Internet and transparency, tools for fundraising”. The general theme of this year’s Congress will be TRANSPARENCY.

In this article we give you the example of the Catalan Association of the Blind and Partially Sighted (ACCDV), one of the first beneficiaries of  the Ashkenor-Iwith.org “ Grant Fund for Web Projects 2007”. From now on, thanks to the Ab-Core Platform, you can have an up to date website fit for your needs and objectives.

On 17 and 18 September Madrid’s ICAI-ICADE will host the Seventh Edition of the Fundraising Conference. Iwith.org will be running the workshop: “Internet and openness, tools for fundraising”.