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Volunteers in ICT4D
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This community space is for those who want to share information and discuss about the role volunteers can play in bridging the digital divide -- building capacity and transfering knowledge for application of ICTs in different development areas, for example -- and how ICTs help them do their voluntary work more effectively in all situations.
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Promote the use ICT in SNE – Syria
By: Nabil Eid | May 5, 2007
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| Promote the use ICT in SNE – Syria
The use (ICT) in special needs education (SNE) is very high on the political agendas of countries.
They we need to be taken to move into the information society and the central role played by education in making the information society a reality is clearly highlighted.
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Technology and the fight against child porn
By: John Foley, Information Week | February 15, 2005
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| For years, carefully trained volunteers with Wired Kids Inc., a nonprofit organization devoted to online consumer safety, scoured the Web in search of child pornography. They frequently found the illicit images and videos, and passed tips to law-enforcement personnel about the Web sites and chat rooms where they're exchanged. All too often, however, nothing happened. |
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Amateur Radio: A potential tool in emergency operations
By: Mahesh Acharya, CKS, India | February 3, 2005
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| This article explores everything about amateur radio; How to become an amateur radio operator? What they generally do? How content can be transmitted by amateur radio operators and how can they contribute in an emergency operation? |
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Internet volunteer's day one month after tsunami
By: Unknown, The Guardian, UK | January 28, 2005
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| Anjar Ari Nogroho, 29, is working with a volunteer team to install Internet connections in Indonesia's Banda Aceh. Read about Anjar's day as a volunteer helping to provide communications and to report on conditions and news from the area. This story is part of 40 stories that The Guardian put together after talking to survivors, relatives and volunteers across 12 countries how they spent January 26, one month after the tsunamis hit Asia. |
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Virtual volunteers listen first, then reach out
By: Douglas Heingartner, New York Times | January 27, 2005
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| More and more networks of online volunteers are now helping local communities and organizations in developing countries in many different ways: maintaining e-commerce sites, setting up Internet connections, arranging for international payments, drafting business plans, and even choosing logos. Professionals ranging from civil engineers, college students, organic farmers to retired homemakers, offer a wide range of expertise - from technical and grant-writing expertise to letters of recommendation and Web designs - using the Internet. |
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Community website runs on volunteers' drive
By: Kanti Kumar, World Health Organization | January 26, 2005
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| Caithness Community Website is built and maintained by volunteers supporting local voluntary clubs, organisations and initiatives in the Caithness county of Scotland. |
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Volunteers take community radio to Fiji women
By: fem’LINKpacific, UNESCO | January 24, 2005
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| In Fiji, femLINKpacific, a women’s media NGO, is launching its mobile women’s community radio project this month. The femLINKpacific volunteer team takes to the road with their 'radio in a suitcase'. |
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Volunteers help refurbish computers for school kids
By: Jim Peck, Idaho Statesman | January 23, 2005
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| Computer for Kids, a US non-profit is providing refurbished computers to school children who need them but cannot afford them. The operation began small from a garage room in 2001 with “a bunch of volunteers”, but has grown fast. In 2004, the organization received nearly 3,000 computers in donation, about half of which were refurbished for the kids to use. Student volunteers from Boise State's Technology Center have their work cut out for them trying to keep up with demand. |
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How community radio took on tsunami fury
By: Bhaskar Roy, The Times of India | January 19, 2005
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| NEW DELHI: At a time when television networks were still disrupted in the aftermath of the tsunami, the All India Radio played a vital role as communication lifeline for the traumatised people of the Andamans.
The AIR read out 13,000 messages of missing people on the far-off islands helping their relations to get in touch. The role radio played seems to have made the government take a fresh... |
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Indian space centre to launch micro-satellite to expand HAM radio network
By: Press Trust of India, The Hindustan Times, India | January 14, 2005
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| CUDDALORE: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is set to launch an exclusive micro-satellite in two to three months for promotion of HAM radio service, which provided vital communication when telephone link was destroyed by deadly tidal waves in Tamil Nadu and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
"The ISRO, which promotes amateur radio service, is to launch an exclusive micro satellite... |
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Ham radio to the rescue in tsunami-hit Andaman
By: Hindol Sengupta, Indo-Asian News Service | January 3, 2005
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| When tsunami waves broke all communication lines across India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands, ham radio came to the rescue. Pharati Prasad, India's foremost amateur ham radio operator, was attempting a new transmission record here when the Dec 26 earthquake followed by the giant waves hit the archipelago. |
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Web logs aid disaster recovery
By: Clark Boyd, BBC News | December 30, 2004
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| Some of the most vivid descriptions of the devastation in southern Asia are on the internet - in the form of web logs or blogs.
Bloggers have been offering snapshots of information from around the region and are also providing some useful information for those who want to help.
Indian writer Rohit Gupta edits a group blog called Dogs without Borders.
When he created it, the site was... |
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Bloggers bridge the information gap for worried families
By: Patrick Barkham, The Guardian, UK | December 29, 2004
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| As worry-struck families attempt to find out the fate of loved ones, Internet weblogs are proving to be valuable sources of fast, reliable information. A small band of Internet enthusiasts in the region set up SEA-EAT, the South East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami weblog, which has fast become the key online clearing house for people to share information and contact details. |
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ICT, Development & Volunteerism From A Turkish Perspective
Kanti Kumar | February 21, 2005
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| The Arts For Global Development Network (Art4Development.Net), an online voluntary initiative, carried out the 'How Voluntary is Turkey?' project from December 2003 to April 2004. This 32-page paper is part of the organisation's report on Turkey's International Volunteers Day celebrations.... |
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Online volunteering news from OneWorld.net
Kanti Kumar | February 01, 2005
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| Communication is the key to all human interaction, and computers and the Internet have enabled a new breed of development activists to emerge; these are the online volunteers. Through the portals of the virtual world, their expertise is bridging gaps between communities and cultures in ways that... |
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Knowledge Base for Volunteers in ICT4D
Kanti Kumar | January 24, 2005
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| This resource has been prepared specifically to help volunteers working in ICT4D in developing countries, particularly those working in capacity-building projects, including community tech initiatives. The resource is also for online volunteers supporting such onsite volunteers. The material,... |
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Virtual Volunteering Resources
Kanti Kumar | January 20, 2005
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| Virtual volunteering allows anyone to contribute time and expertise to not-for-profit organizations, schools, government offices and other agencies that utilize volunteer services, from his or her home or office. The information in this section of ServiceLeader.org will benefit volunteers as well... |
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Using the Internet to find Online and Offline Volunteering Opportunities
Kanti Kumar | January 20, 2005
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| The Internet provides many ways for you to find both offline and online volunteering opportunities. This is an index of links to major regional and nationwide sites in the U.S. and Canada that provide updated lists of volunteer opportunities at various different organizations. Many of these are... |
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