The Esplai foundation, ARCI association and D-O-T consulting firm, beneficiary of Iwith.org, with the support of DG JRC-IPTS, are organising the Workshop “e-Inclusion: role of large Third Sector organizations”, the 30th november, as a part of an important meeting regarding ICT and The European Union.
From October 27th to 29th,
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya is hosting the second Specialists’
Congress-Meeting to analyze, study, reflect, debate, share and most of all, to discuss and emphasize proposals about the different situations in which conflicts appear. Iwith.org was invited to attend.
The
Strategy for the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean (
ELAC for its acronym in Spanish) has published the first of six thematic bulletins dedicated to each chapter of the eLAC2010; these bulletins can be found in the Information Society Programme portal, on the ECLAC’s website.
Why does Iwith.org work with new technologies (ICT)? or How can technologies be a tool for development and progress? we were interviewed in VITA Europe, and there we tried to explain those questions. Also, at the end of this article we give you a video example, not an iwith.org's one, but a testimony that could perfectly fit on our objectives!.
Iwith.org, via Reursa, one of its beneficiaries, has managed to get computers that will be able to bring the ICT to the North of Africa via a solidarity caravan, which will visit Morocco, Mauritania, Senegal and Gambia.
This programme is the only one exclusively devoted to the management and resolution of public conflicts by all kind of institutions and entities, companies, mass media, etc with different scopes of actions such as partipipation and safety among others.
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.
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!
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.
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.
The conclusion of the Information Economy Report 2007-2008, presented by the UN, is that developing countries are very much behind developed countries regarding the adoption of the ICTs and how they are used by enterprises.
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.
The three events will take place between February 4 and 12, 2008 marking the celebration of la Ministerial Conference l l about the Society of Information in Latin America and the Caribbean, eLAC2007
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”.
The Vodaphone Foundation has published the opinion poll "ICT and Dependency” which deserves to reach all those organisations like ours that work to improve the environment of people at various levels of dependency.
ICT4D is a term that is being used increasingly at present that refers to the use of the information and communication technologies (ICT´s) for the development. If the word peace is added we refer to the use of this technology in the treatment of crisis and disputes resolution. Find out about this interesting initiative.
Next Commencement September 1st: Organization and Meeting Management course. Iwith.org courses are subsidized by the Generalitat of Catalunya and they are available for only 10% of the real price for non-profit organizations. Also, there are 10 scholarships for the first to subscribe.
The Advocacy Project (AP) was founded in June 1998 at the request of the NGO’s coalition for an International Criminal Court (CCI). Learn more about this interesting project that not only fights for people’s rights but also promotes the use of TIC’s in their work.
The NGO Benin-Emergence, the World Summit Association WSA, and the government of the Republic of Benin are organizing an exclusive meeting of African leaders to discuss how the e-Contents (contents of Internet) can help promote development in Western Africa.
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.