John, Taran, et al --
While I understand your concerns, there is real value in face-to-face
gatherings and conversations; which are often hard to capture remotely.
There will be blogging and IRC chats throughout the conference, however.
I also wanted to let you know that we here at Aspiration are hosting a
web conference call on the same issue (ICT for humanitarian reliefs and
tools in the field), together with NTEN, the Innovation Funders'
Network, and Humaninet. I am looking for projects that might be
interested in participating in that call to give a brief overview of
what was done, what tools were deployed, and what is needed. There will
be separate announcements for that (target date for the call is Sept 27).
Please get in touch with me offline. I would especially appreciate
projects involving private/corp partnerships, and those involving large
relief organizations to the extent that they involve communications and
technology, as I am pretty familiar with the plethora of grassroots
ICT/tech projects that have been organized.
I will compile the list (including what I learn from other sources such
as DEv Gateway/truthlaidbare/Web 2.0/etc etc) and post here and on the
DDN site.
Thanks so much.
Best,
Katrin
Aspiration: Better Tools for a Better World
www.aspirationtech.org
Rampersad wrote:
John Hibbs wrote:
At 12:34 PM -0400 9/15/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
While we're all talking about ICT disaster preparedness, I'd like to
point
out there is a NTEN-sponsored conference on ICT disaster preparedness
coming up in October : Global ICT & Humanitarian Relief
http://www.nten.org/conferences-ict
Why is an ICT conference not held virtually? Why do I have to travel
to Washington to participate? or listen? or view? What century do we
live in?
So that's where I left my drum! :-)
Maybe it's just not easy enough for people to organize a conference
virtually yet... or maybe they don't know how easy it is.
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