May 17 will mark World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD). To celebrate, NetSquared is using this year’s theme, “Better Life in Rural Communities with ICTs,” to guide the Net2 Think Tank question for May!
NetSquared (Net2) is gathering examples of and ideas for communications technologies – phones, smart phones, computers, Internet, etc. – improving lives in rural communities. Entries will get pulled together for the next Net2 Think Tank Round-Up.
How is your initiative bridging the information divide and what are your tips for others? What are your tactics and best practices for helping rural communities using computer, Internet and mobile technology? And which projects are already doing this well? Share your projects and ideas with the NetSquared Community! Deadline: Saturday, May 21, 2001.
How to contribute:
- Post your response online: write on your own blog or website, post on the NetSquared Community Blog, or share your feedback on Facebook or Linkedin.
- Tag your post, comment, or tweet with net2thinktank.
- Email Claire Sale the link to your post.
- Have you written about this topic in the past? Great! Simply add the net2thinktank tag to your post and email the link to Claire at Net2!
The roundup of contributions will be posted on the NetSquared blog on Monday, May 23rd.
Net2 Think Tank is an initiative of TechSoup Global. It is a monthly blogging/social networking event open to anyone and is a great way to participate in an exchange of ideas. Net2 posts a question or topic to the NetSquared community and participants submit responses either on their own blogs, the NetSquared Community Blog, or using social media. Tag your post with “net2thinktank” and email a link to Net2 to be included. At the end of the month, the entries get pulled together in the Net2 Think Tank Round-Up.
Some things I’ve written related to the subject of phones, smart phones, computers, Internet, etc. – improving lives in rural communities:
- What keeps women out of ICT4D projects? (blog)
- Women’s Access to Public Internet Centers in Transitional and Developing Countries (web page)
- How Cell Phones Benefit Vulnerable People (blog)
- Handheld computer technologies in community service/volunteering/advocacy (web page)
- United Nations Information Technology Service – UNITeS (archived web site)
- Free & open source software brings huge benefits to developing world (blog)
- UN Volunteer ICT4D Assignments – the link will take you to the archived page at archive.org. These profiles are presented by country.
Tags: ICT4D, net2thinktank, NetSquared, access