Dear David Abel Forty of our 269 partner organizations in 49 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe are committed and have gathered 90% of their cash and in-kind resources to plan, train, install, and connect used donated computers in 1,300 schools with over half a million students. They are looking for that last 10%. The need is $1 per student to get them connected. $12,500 connects 12,500 students. We would appreciate piloting a relationship between your Rotary Club in helping gather computers, funds, sister-schools, press, and volunteers to help with online support with planning, technology, telecenter management, local content devleopment, environmental disposal, and evaluation. This is easily scalable involving many other clubs in the USA and Canada - as the demand is great.
Best wishes, Timothy Anderson President www.WorldComputerExchange.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Abel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 9:46 AM Subject: [DDN] Rotary to help close the divide > I'm excited to pass on that my local Rotary Club has taken interest in > helping bridge the digital divide. I'm currently forming a committee to > decide what project we will pursue and was hoping the DDN list would be kind > enough to offer suggestions. > > > > I open to ideas for projects that require fundraising, implementation, > awareness or all three. I'm specifically looking for projects that are > easily scalable, meaning other Rotary clubs can adopt the program and still > stay true to the original focus. > > > > The long term goal is to use our local club as a "case study" in order to > propose that Rotary International take on a similar project as part of its > world wide efforts. > > > > As you are probably aware Rotary International has a large membership (over > 1.2 million) around the world. But you might not know that Rotary > International recently acknowledged the digital divide should be part of its > focus and opened a discussion on how Rotary might help close it. > > > > At this point my club has express interest in building technology center's, > or the funding of affordable laptops/mobile phones for education in third > world countries. > > > > Thank you in advance. > > > > David Abel > > Editor & General Manager > > PoliticsOnline Inc. > > 207 East Bay Street, Suite 211 > > Charleston, SC 29401 USA > > 1 843 853 8190 office > > 1 843 722 4283 fax > > www.PoliticsOnline.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > [email protected] > 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 [email protected] 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.
