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Volunteers linking knowledge with needs
Youth and ICTs_Mali Conjede
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Cybervolunteering:Involving young people in
Innovative Educational ICT Initiatives
4 September 2009Monterrey, Mexico
The aim of the workshop is to facilitate exchange around concrete ICT initiatives presented by young people from around the world. These will be the basis for discussion and exchange to identify ingredients needed for best practices and project creation around ICT4D.
Aim of this Workshop
Statement Guidelines for the
involvement of young people in South-South and international initiatives
Reporting and feedback from the field in view of reporting mechanisms by young people for ICT4D
Expected outcomes & achievements
Viola Krebs, Founder and Executive Director
of ICVolunteers
In this workshop
Ramon Bartomeus, Resources Manager,
IWith.org Bayni Soumaila Traoré,
President, ICVolontaires-Mali
Renata Moraes, Director, Converdgencia / ICVoluntarios-Brasil
Oumar Diamouténé, President,
Youth and ICTs_Mali
Youth, husbandry, agriculture and ICTs in the Sahel Region: Viola Krebs, Executive Director of ICVolunteers Bayni Soumaila Traoré, President, ICVolontaires-Mali
Youth, ICTs and Environmental Education in Brazil: Renata Moraes, Director, Converdgencia / ICVoluntarios-
Brasil Improving the World using Information
Technologies to Help Organizations: Ramon Bartomeus, Resources Manager, IWith.org
Youth and Wikiteaching: Oumar Diamouténé, President, Youth and ICTs_Mali
What to communicate to the plenary?
In this workshop
Presentation 1
E-TIC Project
Viola KrebsFounder and Executive Director
of ICVolunteers
Bayni Soumaila TraoréPresident, ICVolontaires-Mali
ICVolunteers
International Federation Started 10 years ago
Working in the field of communications: Cybervolunteering Languages Support and organization of conferences
and seminars
Linking knowledge with needs
A network of 10,000 volunteers from over 179 countries, speaking 155 languages
CyberVolunteers Programme
Cybervolunteering: use of information and communication technology for volunteer effort both locally and virtually (online volunteering)
The CyberVolunteers Programme connects grassroots projects with highly skilled volunteers in ICT (information and communication technologies)
The Programme values in particular South-South exchanges, but also includes South-North and North-South cooperation.
E-TIC.NET: what is it about?
A program focusing on information related to agriculture and husbandry
Links knowledge with needs through a good and applied use of information and communication technologies
E-TIC.NET: objectives
Develop ICT training for better farm management
Raise awareness to better grazing management and health issues
Promote adoption of practices aimed at developing sustainable farming through better accountability of farmers including an awareness of farming environmentally and biodiversity
E-TIC.NET: objectives
Promote the use and marketing of products and by-products of livestock
Conduct an inventory and establish a system to trace animals and pastures Interface "Green Network"
Strengthening food safety
E-TIC.NET and Societal Lighthouse
The Societal Lighthouse is: a multi-partnership incubator of ideas a working group and mechanism of proposals to improve the lives of people
and societies around the world
The Societal Lighthouse aims t collect information taking into account the suggestions and concerns from citizens, around online services provided by government and other entities. It implements projects linked to ICT4D and ICT for active citizenship.
Partners: Observatoire Technologique of Republic and State of Geneva, Ingénieurs du Monde, ICVolunteers, University of Geneva,…
E-TIC.NET and Societal Lighthouse
It aims: to promote hands-on best practices related to social,
health, technological, scientific, economic and cultural issues and concerns...
to provide an opportunity to link human beings with technological tools and raise their awareness of being active and responsible citizens.