AirJaldi develops and builds affordable broadband wireless networks for the benefit of rural communities in developing countries. We develop and integrate the most advanced and appropriate technology solutions for rural networks by using modified hardware and Open Source software; participate and provide professional support for the design, deployment and management of such networks; and share our knowledge and experience through our training and capacity-building center.

The focus of the ArenA project was to research and develop an interactive learning resource specially designed for the people of Greater Pollok. This resource enables users to develop new transferable skills that will benefit them and their local community – through a process of creative research methods and community consultation, StoryBox, a resource for creating and viewing stories, was designed.

Using a business model that privileges technological instruments and management excellence, ChileCompra has the following basic and strategic principles: free access to information, universality and non-discrimination.

CINeSPACE Project (6th Framework Programme - European Commission)enables users to interact with location-based multimedia contents, related to urban, film and Cultural Heritage while touring a city. Audiovisual content is delivered via a Head Mounted Display with a high definition screen. This comprises a camera allowing users to record what they are seeing and to upload onto the system through a WLAN hotspot or 3G connection. CINeSPACE aims providing collaborative experiences for users, enabling them to share personal experiences while on the move.

Computers For Families (CFF) has the strategic mission of ensuring that young students are provided with opportunities to learn technology in public schools and at home in order to remove the negative consequences of the digital divide. Santa Barbara Partners in Education (Partners), a non-profit organization, supports this mission by providing all students from low-income families with donated refurbished computers, discounted Internet access, training and instruction. The Santa Barbara County Education Office (SBCEO) integrates the CFF program’s operational components—Distribution, Family Training Night, SBCEO Portal, etc.—with its Media and Instruction department's strategic goals.

Conceived as an interactive tool to encourage the discussion of human security issues and networking among civil society organizations, researchers, policy makers, journalists and the general public, locally and internationally, Comunidad Segura combines news, virtual communities, and the Virtual Library on Public Security and Human Rights with over one thousand publications (http://www.comunidadesegura.org/index.php?q=pt/trip_search/advanced). Our news coverage includes human safety with an emphasis on youth and armed violence, security sector reform, gun control, culture of peace and most recently, peace building in Haiti. We publish stories in four languages, encouraging submissions by contributors and the creation of virtual communities.

The website provides a one-stop solution for the CME needs of doctors, both in Hong Kong and overseas. CME is a life-time commitment for doctors, but the major hurdle is the conflict of time between medical seminars and patient care.

CME resources on the Internet, both local and overseas, can be located with ease using a search engine. An archive of over 200 local medical lectures (voice-over slides) of different specialties is available for doctors to study at their own time, pace, and area of interest.  For overseas CME resources, we have built a library of CME web links (annotated) on the Internet. All websites in the library are categorized according to the specialty (e.g. urology, dermatology) as well as the nature of the website (e.g. journals, textbooks, practice guidelines).

There are also online quizzes in Dermatology, Radiology, ECG and self-study articles for self assessment. Accreditations will also be made for correct answers.

The Compendium of Cultural Policies and Trends in Europe is a unique on-line information and monitoring system which provides easy access to data, facts, trends and summaries of current debates on national cultural policy developments and trends in Europe.

This transnational project was initiated by the Steering Committee for Culture of the Council of Europe and has been running as a joint venture with the European Institute for Comparative Cultural Research (ERICarts) since 1998. The system is updated on an annual basis by a unique community of practice made up of independent cultural policy researchers, NGOs and national government representatives.

The content of the Compendium cultural policy country profiles address the priority issues of the Council of Europe including those set by the Warsaw Summit of Heads of State (2005): cultural diversity, intercultural dialogue and social cohesion. The country profiles report on current challenges to policy concerning: the role of different partners in a changing system of governance for culture; programmes that support creativity; measurements of participation in cultural life; and economic, legal and educational dimensions of cultural policies. New data and indicators are constantly introduced to regularly monitor policy developments and trends in Europe.

The Compendium has become a working tool consulted on a daily basis by authorities, institutions and individuals involved in cultural policy making and research not only in Europe but world-wide.

The Compendium online version continues to be used as a capacity building tool at a number of universities around Europe and features on several university reading or resources lists for students of cultural policy, management and cultural economics around the world. In this context, the Compendium has become an important training tool for current and future cultural policy makers and administrators.

This is a social enterprise based in central kenya, that provides data back up services to institutions, produces computer designed wall hangings, offers a range of training programs to clients who range from organisations, the community and social groups.

DATCO PROGRAMS & SERVICES

1. DATA BACK UP SERVICES

Over the last 20 years, there has been a steady progression of community based institutions such as schools, hospitals and private ventures. Many of the said institutions do not have ICT infrastructure neither do they have computer trained personel. They therefore risk losing their vital data incase of eventualities such as fire or burglary. DATCO started data backing up services in the year 2005, where we have been able to serve seven schools & a local church owned water project. After necessary arrangements are made with the institution, DATCO collects, analyses, records and stores the data in both manually(filing) and electronically using database programs such as Ms access. The service is relatively new and we hope to get more clients as in the future. This service is provided at fee which has an annual subscription depending on the nature and magnitude of data.

(B) GRAPHICS & ARTWORK

DATCO produces computer-designed wall hangings. This is achieved by designing, then printing the writings using the computer programs such as adobe pagemaker. The writings (in form of hard copy print outs) are later mounted on marbles & tables. These are later sold as wall hangings after necessary finishing touches have been applied. Our wall hangings came in various sizes and prices. They are later sold in retail outlets such as bookshops and supermarket. We also offer typeset and printing services.

© PROFESSIONAL TRAINING PROGRAM

Over the last two years, DATCO has organised over 15 training programs where more than 600 people in the rural areas of central Kenya, have had a chance to meet, talk and learn from various experts and professionals such as agricultural officers. The three major areas of training are:

i. Agriculture

ii. Economic development

iii. HIV & AIDS

DATCO has a contact directory of professional in the fields mentioned above. When a client needs training in any of the services, DATCO hires and engages the professionals on contract or casual basis. The training is carried out in the field or in our multipurpose centre. In other words, DATCO sits as the interface between the proffesionals (trainers) and trainees. This program has enabled the local populace gain knowledge and therefore develop both socially and economically. Under our training program, DATCO has set up an Elimu (education) center. At this center our instructor carries out training on basic computer skills on full time basis. This center also doubles up as our main office of operation. The center has a program coordinator who is in charge of DATCO’s daily affairs.

PROGRAMME TEAM

DATCO has a program team that includes:

v A project coordinator: The project coordinator runs & manages the daily affairs of the project.

v Community leader/representative: he/she represents the community in policy making and also promotes the program within the community. He is normally a church leader or a civic leader.

v Others: they include our staff, and outside advisors. They help in defining objectives.

e-Care Elderly Home Management System is a web-based system runs under Application Service Provider (ASP) model serving elderly centers in Hong Kong. e-Care initially designed to facilitate the routine operations, data centralization, management, statistic and analysis of the nine Caritas elderly centers in early 2005. CITAC found that the functionalities of e-Care fulfill over 85% system requirements of the management system in local elderly centers and found that there was no such web-based system available in Hong Kong. Therefore, with further development on user’s flexibility (user’s parameters), security measure (SSL, VPN), privilege control and data access authorization control, the second version of e-Care was launched to the public for subscription on 1st June 2006. By 31 November 2007, there are totally 35 elderly centers in Hong Kong and one integrated elderly center in Shen Zhen (China) subscribed to e-Care services. e-Care is opened for comments and opinions. CITAC keeps collecting the needs and requirements from the end users, elderly consultants and government departments. Continue development is one of the aims of e-Care development team. Apart from the above achievements, e-Care has been awarded a merit from both the Hong Kong ICT and Asia Pacific ICT Awards in 2006.

• b2bpricenow.com is an integrated e-commerce m-commerce program  that has an agriculture e-marketplace that provides up to the minute price updates and other market information , as well as, money movements through the integrated solution.

Multiple state-of-the-art technologies are seamlessly integrated in the sophisticated Electronic Passport System (e-Passport System) which was developed to support and control the issue of new electronic passport (ePassport) as well as other electronic travel documents of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) and, with the application of advanced technologies, the system results in huge benefits to passport applicants, the Hong Kong Immigration Department (ImmD) and also the society as a whole.

Environment Online-ENO is a global virtual school and network for sustainable development where currently 400 schools in 104 countries study same environmental concerns together, make observations about their local environment and share the results of learning locally during the campaign weeks and globally on the website. In addition to environmental issues, this programme network and encourage schools from developing countries to participate.

eSAGU (IT-based personalized Agro Advisory System) provides, pro-active, Continuous (Seed to Harvesting) and Personalized Agro Advisories, by a Group of Agri Experts to small and marginal farmers, at the farm gate, exploiting the latest ICT Technologies (based on crop situation data received in the form of Photographs and organized Text through Farmer Co-ordinators, with farmers’ feedback) which helps farmers to deploy scientific farming practices and achieve significant savings through input efficiency and higher outputs, without disturbing them from their regular farm activities.

Freedom HIV/AIDS is the largest social initiative using mobile phone games and mobile health management solutions & tools to fight HIV/AIDS, reaching to over 42 million users in Asia and Africa.

In conjunction with National Day celebrations (9 Aug), MICA worked with a secondary school, Victoria School, to invite primary school students across Singapore to produce websites and videos on the things they love about Singapore, based on the theme “I©SG”. A separate competition was also run for members of public using the same theme.

ICT/High-Tech Educational Consortium will become the innovative form of the collaboration between educational institutions and ICT/High Tech companies in Armenia for the determination of qualifying requirements to the contemporary ICT specialists, for the consultations during the formulation of educational curricula, corresponding to the contemporary ICT/High Tech industry needs, for the organization of professional students’ practices etc. It will also become ICT/High Tech industry R&D center, where high quality professionals will be involved. The best students who will present prospective business plans will get financial support to start their own companies.

Together...We Build Bridges to a Better Future 

ICTs training for capacity building, empowerment and combating poverty among the people with disabilities in their communities.

ICTs offer individuals the ability to compensate for special needs to access knowledge by adapting digital media to the nature of their disabilities, and to enhance their social and economic integration in communities.

on the political agendas of countries.
They we need to be taken to move into the information society and the central role played by education in making the information society a reality is clearly highlighted.

Until now information on the use of ICT in the field of special needs education (SNE) has been limited to national and region level and very little information has been available at the world level.

To assist in the rebuilding of East Timor by using information communication technology to deliver skills development, education and employment through the creation of a sustainable not-for-profit social enterprise.

KHouse Project develops Educational, computer-based activities to fight digital and social divide among children, youth, and adults (teachers and seniors).

www.kidsrgreen.org (also known as kidsRgreen, kRg)is a monthly online magazine for children developed and run by Centre for Environment Education. kRg (www.kidsrgreen.org) uses the power of World Wide Web to facilitate and support learning about the environment, and for the environment. It takes children beyond classroom and textbooks. It encourages hands-on approach of engagement.

Fire and Ice develops the “leaders of tomorrow” – our children and students – by connecting schools in North America and Europe with schools in developing nations (particularly those in rural and remote areas) and engaging them in live, online collaborative projects that address critical social challenges (such as climate change and poverty reduction) using the most advanced, yet economical and accessible ICT solutions to ensure that no student is left behind due to geography or financial resources.

Mahiti Manthana, a project of IT for Change, is a multi-pronged ICT strategy using radio, video and telecentres towards a contextual and convergent, technology-mediated, social change process. The project is embedded within Mahila Samakhya Karnataka (MSK), a development intervention of the Government of India that seeks to empower disadvantaged rural women.

“Maths to play” is a webzine, carried out thanks to the collaboration of students from three european schools within eTwinning (European Union eLearning programme). The project aims at spreading scientific culture among students and citizens, since this is firmly believed to be a fundamental element of social and economic empowerment. It implements a non-traditional approach to Maths, through which students can learn “by playing”, but also by reflecting on the deepest meaning of this subject.

The project won the 2007 Global Junior Challenge Award.

Mobile4Good was established in 2003 and offers innovative, seamless and flawless solutions that generate high traffic and revenue from SMS, mobile gaming and business tools on the mobile platform. Our content platform distributes content relevant to individual customers based upon different parameters, such as handset, location, time and business profile. In addition we provide clients with trends and insights while identifying new opportunities through data analysis.

Mol-Matera Online Newspaper is a multi-lingual e-monthly magazine. Pupils from schools all over the world can contribute and collaborate with by sending their own articles and reviews. In doing so, we encourage self-expression and occasions of opinion debating for teenagers in order that they can experience differences and similarities sharing together cross-cultural interests, ideas and concerns.

The project, started in 2000, has been awarded numerous prizes and has been given increasingly broad appreciation both on a national and international level.

Mtandao Afrika (MAf) is a Pan African Program, a new style of learning that aims at the promotion of Internet-based education in Africa. It is a collaborative program targeting learners in the age of 12-19.MAf promotes the adoption of methodologies and approaches that enhance the educational process using ICT to empower youth to become critical learners and thinkers. MAf encourages collaboration among African learners in the development of African knowledge networks through creating their educational entries. A contest is held periodically where the students and coaches’ work together in teams in order to develop an educational website, at the end of the period, judging takes place and the candidate winners are invited to a youth camp where the final judging takes place along with some intensive training programs and other cultural visits.

The Central Provident Fund (CPF) serves as the key social security scheme for Singapore workers. my cpf is CPF Board’s holistic service framework that leverages on ICT to educate and empower 3.15 million citizens to plan for a secure retirement. Developed with citizens’ inputs, it embraces the concept of “Service by Life Events” - packaging the Board’s services according to citizens’ life stages instead of individual organisational schemes. my cpf also weaves different leading technologies into a suite of integrated services to provide personalised services to citizens anytime, anywhere, using their preferred platform. With my cpf, cost per transaction is now as low as S$0.13 (US$0.09).

The National Service (NS) Portal (www.ns.sg) is the first unified portal for all National Service personnel from MINDEF/SAF (Ministry of Defence/Singapore Armed Forces) and MHA/SPF/SCDF (Ministry of Home Affairs/Singapore Police Force/Singapore Civil Defence Force) to conveniently access all important e-Services and information online and for NSmen to connect with their campmates via community building features.

Network of Care (NOC) is a community-based suit of webs sites with comprehensive, online information and advocacy for individuals, families, caregivers, and agencies involved in helping children, youth, seniors, disabilities, and mental health, aging, domestic violence, veterans and public health by providing a one-stop web portal for information, support and communication.

Sharing ideas about good food from a local, regional and international perspective, makes this a very imaginative and attractive initiative for children, parents and teachers. It allows participating groups to open their minds and explore the cultural aspects of all European countries involved.

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The project is an online career community that brings all the unemployed graduates in Nigeria together, to discuss issues ranging from small business startup, entrepreneurship, securing loans and capital for businesses,provide solutions to aptitude test samples, helping each other on assessment/interview, Notifying each other on new job openings, thereby reducing fraud & internet crime related cases among the unemployed.

The Italian Police has created the World’s first “On line Police Station” launched on 15 th of February 2006. It is a web site ( www.commissariatodips.it ), always at disposal of the citizen where he can:

1.      Find general information.

2.      Download forms.

3.      Make an On line complaint about a computer crime or theft and loss.

4.      Receive valuable advices.

5.      Interact with experts.

6.     Report to us conduct and events of illegal nature on the Net. 

As the Police station is the point of reference in case of difficulties, so  the On line Police Station was born to be a point of reference on the Web.

The Online Police Station comprises the following virtual rooms: Web & Computer Security, Immigration, Licences and Permits, Recruitment, Passports, Minors, and Complaints.

In each room, visitors can find detailed information on each topic, as well as downloadable forms to obtain licences, authorizations and documents.  

The most innovative service, however, is the Web & Computer Security area.  

Besides the above mentioned services, in this area citizens can lodge their complaints online or report information about computer crime to us.

Every online complaint lodged by a citizen is electronically sent to the Communications Police station chosen by the citizen himself/herself.

A dedicated network connects Communications Police stations to the Online Police Station. 

This service has lightened the workload of conventional police stations, and more officers could be assigned to other tasks.

The citizen goes to a conventional police station to finalize the complaint lodged online and gives  the online compliant reference number to the officer in charge. Once printed, the complaint is signed and the procedure completed. 

OpenmindProjects was conceived, in 2001, from an idea to bring ICT to where it was most needed, i.e. in the rural areas outside of the main urban towns where much of NGO and volunteer organisations’ concentrate their efforts. Therefore, it was started in Nong Khai in the North East, one of the poorest regions in Thailand. It began with 3 pilot projects and has now grown to encompass around 60 educational and eco projects in 4 countries. The aim in all these projects and countries is to use the minimal resources to achieve the maximum effect and promote sustainable development. This means empowering local people with the right ICT skills to carry on the work once volunteers have moved on.

Paul's Computers Institute (PCI) is a grade “A” Vocational training centre which offers professional training in IT; Data Processing, Accounting, Programming, Hardware/Software Maintenance, Repairs, Networking, and Internet Services, Bamenda, Cameroon founded by Paul C. Mickelson, Retired Firefighter from Beloit, Wisconsin, U.S. who came to Cameroon as a Peace Corps volunteer in 1992. PCI works with a network of friends who collect used computers and books from the US and ships them to Cameroon yearly. The books are distributed free to schools, libraries and the computers are used for training at the institute.

Project MONITOR is the backend software of the Service Tax Commissionerate Delhi website www.servicetaxdelhi.gov.in to provide online replies to the queries of the service tax matters, publication of the latest news for the different stakeholders of the service tax in India,  discuss complex legal issues online, update the taxpayers of the latest development of service tax and captures the important data of the Service Tax Assessees and Service Tax return   to facilitate  database search, analysis & scrutiny of Service Tax Return and to check the revenue leakage by effective, audit and anti-evasion. 

This web-based ICT tool with local language interface enables the rural wage seeker at the bottom most layer of pyramid to access entitlements of NREGS by handling registration, work estimates, musters and wage payments to enable equal, correct and timely payments directly into the accounts of the wage seekers, thereby enhancing the livelihood security of 18.5 million underserved poor in 65,000 villages spreading over 275,000 sq Kms and preventing the malaise of discrimination, unequal wages among men and women, delayed and less-than-entitled payment while ensuring sustainable development of degraded lands even in remote areas leading to enhanced rural prosperity

Flosflow* Gateway enables any individual or business with bank account, credit card or mobile subscriptions to securely, easily and quickly send and receive payments online

* We refer to "flos" to the word "flous" which means money in Arabic Egyptian slang.

The SmartUs product range is a technology enriched environment of play, physical activity and learning designed for children and families. It adapts itself through activity and ideas provided by the users, and at its best it is an exertaining environment built by the whole user community. See the video made in the SmartUs playground in the Netherlands.

Social Actions helps individuals, nonprofits, and foundations make excellent use of social media so that peer-to-peer solutions to local and global problems can flourish.

Innovative use of effective low cost ICT methods combined with cutting edge new technologies with the aim of improving social inclusion, education, employment and take up of local services in a former coal mining region of the City of Sunderland.

The Project aims to scale up the fair trade practicing organizations through a systematic process of enhancing organizational capacities in using advanced information technologies, improving Enterprise management (planning & financing, human resource, technology and procurement) systems, and liking them with global fair trade periphery.  

The Project is to provide a model of information management system, which includes Supply-chain management system, Inventory management system, prototyping and manufacturing programs, outsourcing opportunities, facilitating e-commerce, e-marketing and Customer relationship management system.

The EpiSurveyor project brings high quality electronic data collection and analysis within reach of developing country public health workers by creating free, easy-to-use open-source software for data collection and analysis on mobile devices*, thus extending the benefits of modern information technology to health programs and locations that could never afford it before, and reducing reliance on expensive foreign consultants.

*Mobile devices include cell phones and pocket computers/PDAs (personal digital assistants).

The recently launched  New Zealand Science Learning Hub www.sciencelearn.org.nz aims to spark fresh thinking and engagement in science education for New Zealand schools.

The Hub has been developed by the internationally respected University of Waikato - for clients the New Zealand Ministry of Research, Science and Technology (MORST). 

Working with a national network of leading science educators and subject experts, and in close collaboration with award-winning elearning company CWA New Media, the Hub offers a media rich environment through which contemporary themes can be explored by teachers and learners.

Through Contexts such as Icy Ecosystems, Earthquakes, The See Through Body and The Sporting Edge, the work, people and organisations of New Zealand's world-class science sector can be discovered.  Freshly commissioned teaching and learning resources, articles, videos, people profiles, interactives, animations and illustrations support each Context with more Contexts in development.

The World Weather Information Service website, available in six different language versions namely English, Arabic, Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish and French, is developed and operated by the Hong Kong Observatory since 2001 for the World Meteorological Organization of the United Nations to provide a centralized source of authoritative weather observations and forecasts of over 1,200 cities in 117 countries/territories including those from the Least Developed Countries for free access of the international community for planning activities from leisure travel to disaster relief operations.

Contribute to the innovation and the improvement of the developing world’s education through a totally ONLINE High School program with free INTERNET access delivered completely through an online ICT technological GNU platform for a quality academic proposal trough scholarships specially directed to people of short academic opportunities, vulnerable, of limited resources and in pedagogical risk. Besides mastering 6 years of academic contents, they also develop reading and writing skills, self confidence, fluent use of information resources, computer literacy, and also become expertise in the use of online delivered courses, expecting to arrive at 5000 students by 2010 with UNESCO support.

VITI4kids is a multimedia edutainment website for Arab kids in the age group 4 to 9 years, that aims at building up their computer and IT knowledge.

Viva Favela is Viva Rio’s largest IT Program , focused on the social and digital inclusion of children, teenagers and youth in poor neighborhoods, who are particularly exposed to risks in a conflictive environment.

A trial area has been selected in order to maximize the model’s transferability into other regional areas, even if they are of different sizes. The project has launched an open-air lab and is part of the WI-PIE initiative (www.wi-pie.org) aiming at supplying Piemonte with a broadband network before 2008.

WildlifeDirect provides a host of web based tools for field conservationists to directly interact with a global community of conservation conscious people, who can support initiatives where funds or actions are needed; conservationists contribute online diaries, or blogs, from the frontlines to bring raw news of day-to-day activities and raise awareness and interest, while promoting microdonations enabling swift action when required during crises in remote places, and by doing so we empower individuals and organizations to help save the worlds wild species by enabling them to network, run campaigns, participate, and contribute to specific projects and items and judge how their money works.

Young Diplomats...
The Young Diplomats project will try to establish the link between different kinds of celebrations in Asia and Europe. It will help to know and understand better the spirit of cultural manners and bring students from Asia and Europe closer to each other through the process of self presentation and studying different traditions. It will help the students to understand better their own traditions and historical/cultural roots as well. Schools put photo-reportages of national holidays to a website, and the selected ‘international ambassadors' of each school, collaborating with the embassies, will make multimedia presentations of the different celebrations for one publishing, as well as conduct actual celebrations at the school.

Summary of what was done in 2007 year:
http://www.youngdiplomats.zsei.info/photo/thumbnails.php?album=88