WANTED: We are co-hosting, together with NTEN (the Nonprofit Technology
Enterprise Network) a public conference call on ICT and humanitarian
relief after Katrina. Following that, there will be another call for
donors and funders, co-hosted with the Community Technology Foundation
of California.
We have a number of folks who are participating (some invited and
confirmed from this community) but are spreading our net wide and far
for good ideas, contacts, and projects of innovative use of ICT for
communications, coordination, and direct relief efforts in the affected
regions, please email me at your earliest convenience. I will compile
responses as well as post them online.
Best,
Katrin Verclas
Aspiration: Better Tools for a Better World
Katrin Verclas wrote:
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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