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17/11/2011 - Impressions of the Second European Volunteer Congress
This week we are immersed in the Second European Volunteer Congress and it is a good occasion to share impressions and as the Director, Violant Cervera said, “This Congress has to be different and serve a purpose.”
25/11/2010 - International Congress of Voluntary Service 1-5 December, Barcelona
Oriol Josa Fresno from Coordinació General de COCAT is talking about the Congress
06/04/2010 - Iwith.org interviewing our beneficiaries on their use of the Internet
For our conference at the United Nations, we made a video interviewing our beneficiaries on their relationship with the Internet and their approach to communicate effectively on the web with simple tools.
01/03/2010 - A success for the first Environmental Communication Congress!
The 26 and February 27 were two days highlighting the possibility of establishing a convention respecting the environment, minimal budget and whose message is transmitted through small gestures of participants.
10/02/2010 - Despite the crise, the Spanish NGOs are doing well
The private aid and obtaining funds for NGOs are stable and even increased in 2009 despite the crisis. We also note that people are more and more involved in volunteerings. Indeed, the reputation of NGO is sound to: a recent study by the League of NGO for development cooperation has revealed that 86% of Spaniards were convinced of the efficiency and capacity of these associations to improve their beneficiaries' lives.
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.
26/08/2009 - Internet x Parents
Powerpoint edited by Jordi Duran i Batidor, iwith.org's CTO for a Suiss' conference.
24/08/2009 - Ideas of Latin American and African Young People are Awarded
The call, made by Fundación CTIC through the www.1arroba1euro.org initiative, takes the shape of a “Contest of Innovative Ideas for Human Development through Information Technologies and Comunication”. The projects selected will be carried out with the assistance of this Foundation.
20/08/2009 - Biznelp, or the professional barter on line
In iwith.org we want to introduce you to this site that enables the interchange of professional services. It is called Biznelp, and we have signed an agreement with them that allows us to have professional services of people around the world thanks to an interesting barter.
09/06/2009 - The main European artistic event for the youth in Girona and Vilanova is getting close
This summer, around 120 young Europeans from 15 different countries will participate in Creativity.cat, Act for Interculturality, which is the main artistic meeting for the youth at a continental level. Neagènia Intercultural, partner of iwith.org, is going to coordinate this meeting, which gathers participants aged from 18 to 30 years, with the aim of encouraging creativity, interculturality and public-spirited participation.
21/04/2009 - Iwith.org Literary Contest: Technology breaks barriers
That’s the conclusión we have drawn from our 2009 Literary Contest. Among the authors, there is a girl from Tarragona, Spain, who suffers from muscular dystrophy and who has worked hard to present her story, entirely written through Xarxa Òmnia.
30/03/2009 - Iwith.org on IAVE Youth Office Website
The IAVE (International Association for Volunteer Effort) Youth Office in Barcelona has published on the front page of its website a report on the work of Iwith.org. We invite you to read it.
04/03/2009 - Iwith.org takes part in an NGO administration course at ESADE Madrid
The participation forms part of the Leadership and Management of Non-Governmental Organisations offered by the Catalan Business School in Madrid.
04/03/2009 - Now you can help with your forgotten memories
The NGO Memoria Sin Fronteras has set out to collect flash-memories in different models: SD, CF, MC, MS…that are left in our night table. The aim is to classify them, to format them, to full them with contents and to send them to places where the container and its contents can be used instead of throw them away or let them aging in a drawer.
12/02/2009 - Iwith.org ended its particiaption in the TIC and Cooperation of Gijón event with News
The II International Encounter of the TIC for Development Cooperation, Cooperation 2.0, ended this afternoon in Gijon with the shared challenge of pushing a "Development 2.0" where all of the agents (Administration, business and third sector) will actively participate in a coordinated manner, starting with the people destined for help. This was one of the main conclusions that ended the event organized by the CTIC Foundation which united more than a hundred technology agents as well as ones from the Cooperation in Asturias during a span of three days.
11/02/2009 - Audio Books: an interesting new initiative from Bubok and the Asociación de Ciegos y Disminuídos Visuales
Our beneficiary ACCDV, and the online book publisher Bubok, through which we are publishing our Certamen Literario prizewinner, have joined forces on an interesting project that runs parallel to the World Book Day competition. You can also benefit from this initiative.
09/02/2009 - Iwith.org Opens its 2009 Literature Contest for “International Day of the Book”
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.
07/01/2009 - Alternative Channel invites you to commit yourself to looking after the planet
In 2009, the blog "commitment" within the Alternative Channel would like to encourage you to formally express your "environmental" intentions toward the planet and provide them with a real meaning. We will all create a community that commits and expresses itself, and that exchanges information on the objectives that will help our planet during 2009.
07/01/2009 - Interview with the Winner of the E-card Contest
Monika Díaz, a Venezuelan resident of Spain, is the creator of “Niños Cantores” (Singing Children), an e-card that she created to support her friends at the NGO “Voluntarios por el Mundo” (Volunteers for the World).
29/12/2008 - Iwith.org signs a major collaboration agreement with the Netherlands Development Organisation
The Netherlands Development Organisation (SNV) has more than 1500 professionals located around the world who put their experience and idealism at the service of local organizations that have the potential to generate large contributions to the development of their countries. As a result of this agreement, Iwith.org has put its Ab·core platform at the service of SNV Ecuador.
23/12/2008 - Singing Children, winner of the Iwith.org Christmas Postcards contest
Christmas for La Moskitia, sent by Foundation Sid Moskitia, resulted winner in the category of most sent postcard by the internet users.
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.
30/10/2008 - “The Digital Divide in Education", is the focus of the 5th International Seminar of the UNESCO-UOC Chair
The 5th International Seminar of the UNESCO E-Learning Chair at the UOC Fighting the Digital Divide through Education, will take place between November 12th and 14th in Barcelona with the presence of international speakers.
22/10/2008 - II Conflictology Congress in Barcelona: Iwith.org attending
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.
