Hi,
I've been lurking around here for a few weeks already, so I thought I'd
finally come out and show myself! I am a decidedly un-techy person
living in Portland, OR, but recently I've been working on a project to
get an online community site built, so that's sort of pulled me into
the digital world. I was quite happy to have come across the Digital
Divide - already I'm getting ideas for future directions with this
project.
My project is to build a community for Burmese activists and refugees,
primarily those living in Asia, but basically for activists living all
over the world. I'm hoping it will be successful enough to lead into
other activities, or getting involved in bringing more and better
technology to refugees and activists in SE Asia - either through small
grants to fund bills for internet and hardware, or getting involved in
FOSS type work. Our developer is an Arakanese-Burmese living in India,
who has his own small organization that does comp. training for monks
and refugees. So that's already a step in the right direction, as
we're paying to get him reconnected so he can continue and expand his
work.
We've just kicked off a fundraising campaign, to raise the money to get
our developer connected so he can continue with actually developing the
site. I've got more information about that here, if anyone's
interested in participating, (pretty please):
http://ethnicvoices.civiblog.org/burmasolidaritynetwork
I'm looking forward to getting it running and see where it takes us,
and getting involved in more issue-based discussions here.
Nice to meet you!
Cheers,
Tara Horn
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