Xarxanet.org provides international information of Catalans NGOs on activities and best practices of associations, through their Castilian, English and French versions. Iwith.org manages subportales Xarxanet.org of Civil Society, a site created by and for civil society, the most visited sections of Xarxanet in June. The number of visits they received shows the interest that exists in the world of associations, to know best practices and opportunities for international presence in the world.
They are two organizations that work with new technology and in the virtual domain. Both believe in the "developing" power of TICs and as such, they have collaborated to give life to interesting projects and future opportunities.
Since 2001,
Avalon has been organizing initiatives for associations. Now it is offering new courses aimed at learning the opportunities that the new channels of communication represent for the Third Sector. Iwith.org will participate as a Trainer for one of them.
For some time now
Google has been offering to help Bloggers or web-page owners get the most out of their sites and out of the people who visit them, by placing virtual advertisements. Each click makes something for the owner of the blog. This division of Google is called
Adwords and in view of the high demand but also low awareness, Google is organising on-line seminars on how to use this tool effectively.
Despites the many advantages of new Firefox 3.0, some difficulties may occur when you try to open some web pages. We show how to resolve this problem quickly. Let's read...
As part of the show being held alongside the Festival Internacional de Benicàssm,
Samuel Rodríguez, a photographer who actively collaborated on images for the Forum Alternative Channel, has been chosen as one of the 6 winners. Congratulations from all of us here.
The examples of
Algo Bueno and
Mescladís show how important it is for an organisation to have a good quality web page that is constantly updated…We invite you to learn about their experience.
For the second consecutive year, iwith.org is sponsoring the iwith.org Summer Photography Competition, in order to reveal the various levels of access to technology that exist around the world. We suggest that you take your camera on vacation and look around. Surprise us with a photo that will make the web visitors to our site aware of the issue.
Within the framework of the Master and postgraduate studies of resolution of public conflicts, the University of Girona (
UdG) offers four alternatives of specific training in the topic, one of which will be given by Ramón Bartomeus, Resource Manager for
Iwith.org.
With an emphasis on the preperation of informatical material and the education, the second meeting of New Technologies and the Third Sector had been organized by SISOSCAT in Barcelona. In the following article we'll present you the most important data and informations of the discussions.
Vilafranca TV was one of the means that provided an ample coverage of the
Forum Alternative Channel. We invite you to see the transmitted report in the
Solidaria TV show where the Forum's activities are widely detailed (speaker's corners, workshops & conferences), additionally an interview with Ramón Bartomeus is included, resource chief of
Iwith.org.
A tenor, a violinist, two pianists and the members of the NGO Ghana - Gain a smile that support rural African orphanages invites you, on June 12th, to an intimate concerto so that the music becomes a good excuse to gain smiles.
This 29th of May 2008 on the garage of Palau Robert, the second edition of the Third Sector and New Technologies conferences will take part. They are organized by SISOSCAT and this year are aimed to third sector entities having among their beneficiaries the dropout collectives or on risk to be socially excluded, mainly on Catalonia but also on any place on Earth. Sisoscat works everyday to diminish the digital breach, both by training and donating equipment.
The NGO Intermón Oxfam has launched a web aimed at supportive young people implicated in this institution, just like other initiatives such as la Mediatek, by Grec. www.dalelavueltaalmundo.org looks for volunteers for summer music festivals, suggests an ideas-to-change-the-world contest and offers the possibility of winning a trip to visit a cooperation project -among many other different proposals.
At Plaza del Rey, a series of events were held by
1001 Actions for Dialogue organization. There, associations gathered to celebrate cultural heritage of the Euro-Mediterranean Region.
Thanks to the support of FTIC,
Iwith.org, an NGO specializing in bringing new technology to Not-for-Profit Organizations, is offering three new Online courses. You will definitely be interested in this!
This 17 of May, although Sunday, were decided the winners of the contests organized for the celebration of the Internet Day . Iwith.org contested in the category “Access” with the
bocatics.
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!
We have used the Internet to learn more about Ronald Castillo Florián, the winner of our Books 2008 Competition. The author already has experience using the Internet to promote his work; in fact he has a
blog which he updates daily.
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.
For the first time, human rights were analysed from the voices of their actors, a fact made possible by the meeting organised by ADANE and CEA in Barcelona.
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.
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.
Our NGO has been invited by the Global Alliance for the Information and Communication Technologies and Development (GAID), an initiative approved by the General Secretary of the UN in 2006. The alliance responds to the need and demand created by different actors of an inclusive global forum and a platform for the dialogue on the use of the ICT (Information and Communication Technologies). Through this dialogue it is expected to meet the internationally agreed objectives for development and its subsequent reduction in poverty.
- Alternative Channel, the international Web-TV on sustainable development and humanitarian causes, and Iwith.org organize the first Alternative Channel Forum.This international event will take place in Barcelona, April 30, 2008. Its goal is to be a meeting point for:
- social network, information technologies and Web 2.0 experts
- social communication professionals
- Media/Press contact for accreditation: Iwith.org or Alternative Channel
In this way, this NGO has declared 12th March 2008 as the first International Online Free Expression Day.
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.
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!
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!!
Through this note, we invite you to know Mediatk, a project of www.grecmail.cat, beneficiary of Iwith.org , and in it activities are picked up to approach the resolution of the daily conflicts and generate a dialogue and civic participation.