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30/11/2009 - MicroNGOs’ Forum
We were in the FORUM DE MicroONGs (MicroNGOs’ Forum)
The forum was held in the Juan Carlos I Hotel in Barcelona, the 27th, 28th and 29th of November. 50 people assisted full of heart, projects and realities.
Wikihappiness, a non-profit organization dedicated to promote solidary attitudes, was in charge of coordinating and organizing the event, and they did so with the discretion and prudence characteristic in them. The First MicroNGOs’ Forum was a success, and we, in iWith.org, are very happy to be a part of the birth of this initiative.
The forum was held in the Juan Carlos I Hotel in Barcelona, the 27th, 28th and 29th of November. 50 people assisted full of heart, projects and realities.
Wikihappiness, a non-profit organization dedicated to promote solidary attitudes, was in charge of coordinating and organizing the event, and they did so with the discretion and prudence characteristic in them. The First MicroNGOs’ Forum was a success, and we, in iWith.org, are very happy to be a part of the birth of this initiative.
27/10/2009 - Iwith.org invited by the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute
The 23rd of October, Iwith.org was invited for a conference ondevelopment and Information technologies, mobiles phones and Internet in Latin America and Africa: what benefits for the most disadvantaged? It was organized by the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) and the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) in Castelldefels.
19/10/2009 - Mobile Phone Recycling Campaign to Protect the Environment
The mobile phones that we all use and enjoy, without thinking much about the production process, are full of the mineral coltrane. The number of genocides in the Congo that are related to the recovery of coltrane grow every day. It is a shame worldwide where other ecological tragedies of great magnitude should also be added. Nevertheless, more than thirty businesses, the majority of them Western, continue importing minerals from the Congo, regardless of such tragic politics. Easy equation.
29/09/2009 - Find out about Blog Action Day: this 15-10 we will talk about Climate Change
On the 15th of October, for one day, all the bloggers of the world will write about climate change.
22/09/2009 - Now you can see the photographs from iwith.org's summer photo contest 2009
Right on schedule, on the 20th of September, the time was up to submit photos to iwith.org's 2009 contest. From different parts of the world and with very different viewpoints, dozens of people sent us their own personal portraits of the digital divide, and these are the pictures selected by the jury. Our thanks go to all who supported the initiative in this way.
01/09/2009 - Only 3 days left for Iwith.org’s participation at the GAID Forum in Mexico
31/08/2009 - Conferences at the Jane Goodall Institute, "Two Spaniards and 141 Chimpanzees, the challenges facing conservation in the Congo"
Our beneficiary, The Jane Goodall Institute, invites you to the conferences that Rebeca Atencia and Fernando Turmo are giving about their primate rescue and rehabilitation work in the Republic of the Congo. In addition, there will be a presentation of the Movilízate por la Selva (Action for the Jungle) campaign.
27/08/2009 - WSA honors the World’s Best in e-Content and Innovation: Mexico hosts the Gala events from September 2-5, 2009
The World Summit Award (WSA) and the World Summit Youth Award Winners Celebrations take place in Monterrey from September 2-5, 2009 in collaboration with the UN GAID’s Global Forum.
21/08/2009 - Potters for Peace, an easy and cheap way to make water safe to drink
Water is essential for life. But it has to be in very good condition, otherwise it can transmit diseases. Indeed, in the Aims for the Millennium, approved in 2000, one of the targets to reach by 2015 was to 'reduce by half the number of people lacking access to safe drinking water'. Fortunately, an American NGO called 'Potters for Peace' has found an easy way to reach it: the 'Ceramic Water Filter', a device that makes water safe to drink, a system which filters contaminated water, for very little cost, and which can be made with very simple technology.
23/07/2009 - Iwith.org and the ACPG favour the Dissemination of Third Sector Contents in Communications Media
Iwith.org, the foundation specialised in Internet communication for non-profit/non-governmental organizations and the Associació Catalana de la Premsa Gratuïta (ACPG) signed an agreement to join efforts to have news from Third Sector organisations appear in communications media.
14/07/2009 - Travel experiences of an Iwith.org volunteer
Sometimes we talk only for talking's sake. Some other times we do it to exchange opinions or because we are interested in getting to know the other's vision of the world. Thus, it may happen that we don't like other people's opinions. And sometimes we even try to change their ideas.
Personally, I would like to change the idea of many people that travelling is expensive, or even a luxury. On the contrary, I think that travelling is such a daily routine, as eating, drinking or sleeping. This article, precisely, is a small try to show you that travelling is easy and it's a pleasure as well. And well, in case you know that already, good for you.
Personally, I would like to change the idea of many people that travelling is expensive, or even a luxury. On the contrary, I think that travelling is such a daily routine, as eating, drinking or sleeping. This article, precisely, is a small try to show you that travelling is easy and it's a pleasure as well. And well, in case you know that already, good for you.
10/06/2009 - Iwith.org's Third Edition Summer Photo Campaign: Expose the Digital Divide This Summer
*Use your camera to show up the so-called“digital divide” and participate in Iwith.org's summer 2009 contest. A great way to get a massive audience for your photos and give a meaning to your vacation
28/05/2009 - Aid came to Morocco!
Last October we told you how thanks to REURSA, one of our beneficiaries, we managed to bring a dozen computers to Morocco via a solidarity caravan called Caravana Solidaria (organized by Barcelona Acción Solidaria).
28/05/2009 - GOOD NEWS: Yasuní Gets Approval from the Ecuadorian Government
Last September Iwith.org welcomed one of our beneficiaries, Movimiento Idún, and the mayor of the Orellana region of the Ecuadorian Amazon, Anita Rivas. We showed support for their campaign to keep oil underground in Yasuní, which will protect the biodiversity of one of the richest regions on earth. Today the Ecuadorian press reported good news for the campaign: President Rafael Correa has accepted the proposal.
04/05/2009 - Free software created for use with disabled people.
The people behind this are Fundació Moli de Puigvert who needed a programme to handle the specific issues of the people with whom they were working. It is now availabe free on the internet and there is also a manual published on Bubok.
24/04/2009 - Web 2.0 Summit San Francisco 2009
Web 2.0 Summit is an annual event that connects business leaders, big thinkers, and innovative technologists who are shaping the future of the Web. It is a gathering place for international leaders of the new Web, who gather to discuss and debate the most important issues, strategies, and disruptions driving the Internet economy.
24/04/2009 - Interview to the authoress of the Iwith.org Contest winner book.
Katheryne is 18 years old, and till now, her writing was linked to making comics and ilustrations. Know more about the authoress of Lebiscuno, From Cartagena, Colombia.
23/04/2009 - Lebiscuno, the winner of our Literary Contest
Lebiscuno, the book of Colombian Katheryn Garcia Johana Pacheco from Bolivar in Cartagena, was the most downloaded in this edition of Iwith.org Contest. Jury also awarded an honorable mention to Yuna by Inma Llavería. We thank the participants and congratulate readers who believed in the importance of our initiative that the internet is also a vehicle of culture.
14/04/2009 - Celebrate World Book Day in a solidarity manner
Remember that Iwith.org supports the campaign and the Yasuni Green Gold book, which shows as the photographs of the rich Ecuador's flora and fauna threatened by oil fields.
27/03/2009 - Youth Office in Catalonia covers Iwith.org
What´s the relation between the ICT and volunteering? How can NGOs be active online? What does Iwith.org have to offer to other organisations?
We talk about these issues to Ramon Bartomeus, Resources Manager at Iwith.org and an experienced Third Sector consultant.
Full article after the jump
We talk about these issues to Ramon Bartomeus, Resources Manager at Iwith.org and an experienced Third Sector consultant.
Full article after the jump
23/01/2009 - Iwith.org visits the Rigoberta Menchu Foundation in Guatemala
22/01/2009 - Sistema Conceptual present at Search Congress
Our beneficiary Sistema Conceptual presents its work at Search-Congress, held at Palau de Congressos in Montjuic, where Google, Yahoo y Microsoft, among others, are also giving outstanding presentations.
19/01/2009 - Iwith.org attends an important event about ICT and Development
On the next 10th, 11th and 12th February 2009 it will take place in Gijón, Asturias (Spain) the II International Meeting on ICT for Development Cooperation: Cooperation 2.0. Iwith.org is among the speakers. Due to the big interest of the associations and the huge coverage of the event, the deadline for registration has been extended until 3 rd February.
07/01/2009 - Change.org seeks the top 10 ideas for change in America: you can vote.
Remember that Change.org is a social action network of the new web 2.0 which aims to use the World Wide Web as the central platform to inform and empower movements for a positive social change all over the world. This site which is oriented towards social problems and collective action allows us to contact with people who seek social welfare beyond racial, idiomatic or idiological barriers.
01/12/2008 - ONL: Send your best wishes and message in an easy way this Christmas
Send your Christmas cards before the 15th December to Iwith.org. There, the photograph you send to us will be transformed into a beautiful electronic card that will allow your message of solidarity to reach far away and quickly.
20/11/2008 - Iwith.org will attend the III World Congress against the Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescentsn and Adolescents
This important event will take place at the end of the month in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Iwith.org will participate to show how diffusion through CITs can help strengthen the causes that fight against this type of exploitation.
18/11/2008 - The Iwith.org 5th Christmas E-card Design Contest is Open
Attention organizations and artists! The Internet is offering you a new opportunity for creativity, involvement, and Christmas cheer: creating and sending Christmas e-cards to support charitable causes. Easily send your Christmas and New Year's greetings while adding some meaning to them. Participate in Iwith.org's Christmas E-card Campaign.
14/11/2008 - Tic and third sector: Interesting conference in Vienn
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.
20/10/2008 - Why ICT's can be a development tool?
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!.
15/10/2008 - Successful conferences on development organised by ANUE with many beneficiaries of iwith.org present
Concerned with the lower and lower and less effective international contribution to development the Spanish United Nations Association, ANUE, organized in Barcelona the course ‘Tools for Development: Improving Aid for Africa’ with the purpose of launching a new model of International Contribution to Development that makes the most of the aid given. Among the speakers were Iwith.org and many of its beneficiaries.
13/10/2008 - Courses on new communication tools for organisations
Following its successes in July this year, Avalon is now offering new courses on the methods of communication that have emerged with new technologoy and the opportunities they represent for the third sector. iwith.org is participating as a trainer in a practial workshop.
03/10/2008 - A solidarity technology caravan
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.
29/09/2008 - ANUE one of the Iwith.org beneficiaries, is offering a course on redefining the current approach to development assistance.
The idea emerged as a result of the recent assessment of development assistance undertaken by the United Nations in Spain, ANUE. The course is oriented around case examples from Africa and includes some practical workshops to facilitate its understanding. ANUE is one of our organization beneficiaries and Ramon Bartemeus, Resource manager of Iwith.org will be facilitating one of the course workshops.
23/09/2008 - New Postraduate Course on Communitarian Intervention and Resoultion of Public Conflicts by the Universidad de Girona
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.
15/09/2008 - Warning bloggers: this October 15 you have a commitment!
This 15th October 2008 is the Blog Action Day!. This year the topic for all podcasters, videoscasters y blogers can speak at length is Poverty. Organizers hope that for one day all of them, could leave their regular work to raise from different perspectives, a debate on this issue.
15/07/2008 - Iwith Signs a Collaborative Agreement with ICV
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.
09/06/2008 - Conflicts and their relation with new technologies in Iwith.org’s course in Universitat de Girona.
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.
23/05/2008 - New site for supportive young people
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.
21/05/2008 - New Training Offer from Iwith.org: Connect Your Organization to New Technology
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!
19/05/2008 - List of Winners Internet Day 2008
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.
08/05/2008 - IAVE Youth Office in Catalonia
The long-awaited IAVE World Youth Conference in Panama (International Association for Volunteer Effort) was the best occasion for the worldwide official presentation of the IAVE Youth Office in Catalonia, a project managed by Fundación Catalunya Voluntaria.
24/04/2008 - Interview with the winner of our International Book Day Contest
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.
22/04/2008 - "El Príncipe Esquivo" winner of the Iwith.org International Book Day contest 2008
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.
11/04/2008 - Meeting Centered on Human Rights in Africa held in Barcelona
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.
11/04/2008 - First Statistics on Saint George’s books download figures
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.
08/04/2008 - The Internet to the Rescue of Yasuni, in Ecuador
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.
25/03/2008 - Iwith.org participates in the debate about web 2.0 at the UN
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.
08/02/2008 - According to the United Nations, there is still a lot to do in order to eliminate the digital gap
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.
08/02/2008 - Iwith.org launches its International Book Day Contest
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.
29/01/2008 - BCN 30/4: A date you can not miss
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.
25/01/2008 - The First International Communication and Information Technology Conference for Cooperation towards Development
From the 30th to the 31st of January 2008, the Palacio de Congresos in Gijón, Asturias (Spain), will host “Cooperation towards Development 2.0: The First International Communication and Information Technology Conference for Cooperation towards Development”. An event uniting government, social and business sectors seeking to exchange knowledge and experiences with the aim of spanning digital gaps and promoting the use of ICTs in order to improve the methods and practices of cooperation towards development.
19/12/2007 - Successful Idealist Event
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.
05/12/2007 - Are you an Idealist? Are you looking for Idealists?
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.
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.
03/10/2007 - The 2007 Web Projects Grants is Closed
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.
26/09/2007 - Companies and the Third Sector shake hands in Zaragoza
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!!
25/09/2007 - Training courses for ONGs staff in developing countries
The RESPECT Refugees NGO launches an online training program for volunteers and ONGs in developing countries. Read further about this interesting initiative.
30/07/2007 - Before going on vacation, subscribe to the E-learning Contests created by Iwith.org
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.
20/06/2007 - Summer Photography Competition Open: ICT and your holidays
The anticipated hot weather, low cost airlines and holiday plans have given us the idea of setting you a mission this summer. All you need is to be observant and to have the desire to put real life into images through photography.
