Dear Katrin, It is really nice to hear about your service organzition. However, I want learn more, could please send me your organzition information via email? I am running a NGO in India, do you think I can be help or being helped? Lookforward to hear from you. Yours- Sadeque Gujarat, India
Katrin Verclas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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. >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org > http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the > body of the message. > > > > _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. Mr. Sadeque Hussain Conflict Relief And Peace Organization 268, Jawahar Nagar Colony Naroda Patia Post Krishna Nagar AHMEDABAD Gujarat , INDIA http://www.thbp.dk/relief/ Enables Others To Help Themselves. --------------------------------- Yahoo! for Good Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
