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ObservatoryonTechnologyDevelopment(OTD)inICT“TechnologyWatch"Project status: Unfunded

Region/country: International Projects

Cost (USD): 30000

Project summary: The OTD is intended to be a Web portal to serve UNESCO and its partner institutions (ICT decision‐makers, managers, educators, researchers, etc.) through timely presentation of new trends and contexts in emerging ICT. Under its current staff constraints, UNESCO has been seeking outsourcing solutions from Cybion, an Italian ICT institution which has been cooperating partners in several UNESCO projects. Founded in 19966, Cybion, a pioneer in the field of online competitive intelligence in Italy, has assisted clients in effectively using the Internet as a tool for information retrieval and monitoring. It has a Studies Department to meet Cybion’s needs by associating professional expertise with the leading business intelligence tools and a Technical Department, accompanying every step of the installation of current awareness system (audit, recommendations, training, and configuration). Perfect knowledge of all the spheres that make up the Internet (informal Web, invisible Web, databases…) and expertise in the tools for identifying, collecting and organizing information enable Cybion to provide personalized services that meet international needs.

Contractor: CYBION (ICT application institution)

Implementation status:

Budget breakdown (USD):

Personnel: 4000

Contracts: 26000

Training: 0

Equipment: 0

Miscellaneous: 0 0

AdvancedLearningProgrammesforHeritageAdvisorsinDigitalImageTechnologies(ALPHADIT)Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 35000

Project summary: The international meeting “Nara Symposium for Digital Silk Roads” held on 10‐12 December 2003 in Nara, Japan, has called up UNESCO to support development skills of subregional heritage advisors designated by UNESCO and in charge of coordination of cultural heritage preservation and cooperation on a series of assignments given to local institutions such as creation of heritage inventories, collect/archive/transmit digital images through networking and setting up digital image databases to better

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contributing to building Digital Silk Roads. The project aims to significantly improve heritage advisors' knowledge and skills in advanced digital image technologies.

Contractor: Baku Scientific and Training Centre (BSTC)

Implementation status: Not started


Personnel: 4000

Contracts: 30000

Training: 0

Equipment: 0

Miscellaneous: 1000 0

AsianStandardPlatformforOnlineSharingofAdvancedKnowledge(ASPOSAK)Project status: Unfunded

Region/country: Asia and Pacific

Cost (USD): 35000

Project summary: The project is designed to build a strategic and operational ¡§Asian Standard Platform for Online Sharing of Advanced Knowledge¡¨ (ASPOSAK) in Beijing as a model with aims of developing ways and modalities of normative and standard platforms of knowledge sharing to overcome obstacles in widely sharing contents of advanced knowledge bases among developing countries in the region. The main goals of the project is to design a model normative standard online platform, produce in collaboration with regional experts guidelines for designing normative standard information bases such as websites and databases in order to facilitate populating similar platforms in partner countries. The project is expected to eventually contribute to enhance regional cooperation and reinforce sustainable synergy among IT institutions and experts in participating countries with a view to promoting the improved applications of new IT into advanced knowledge sharing in the information age. The project shall be based on existing manpower and IT infrastructure of ISTIC in Beijing, which has been reinforced by the Government and gained expertise and experiences in implementing a range of IT projects in collaboration with international partners such as UNESCO and UNDP since the 1980s and is ready to make in‐kind contribution (Oracle package and manpower) equivalent to $100,000 to ASPOSAK.

Contractor: Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China



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Personnel: 4000

Contracts: 31000

Training: 0

Equipment: 0

Miscellaneous: 0 0

Sci‐TechInformationTrainingforEliminatingDigitalDivideinWesternChinaandtheBoundaryAreasofVietnamProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: China

Cost (USD): 50000

Project summary: As information and communication technologies are developing rapidly, there has always been a gap between those people and communities who can make effective use of information technology and those who cannot. Now, more than ever, unequal adoption of technology excludes many from reaping the fruits of the economy. Western regions of China and the boundary areas of Vietnam are characterized by harsh natural conditions, poor transportation and inadequate educational opportunities, which have severely hindered economic development. A nationwide survey of 5000 adults carried out in 2001 shows that the wealthier eastern regions of the country had the highest literacy rate, 2.3%, while the undeveloped western region scored lowest, at 0.6%. Moreover, according to official web data collector CNNIC, the average information resource production and development ability of regions in western China lags far behind those of eastern and other areas in China. Currently, China is carrying out an ambitious plan to spark economic development in the west. Correspondingly, the demand for improving the scientific literacy of local residents and increasing the supply of information in China's western areas are soaring. Under the condition, there is an urgent need to spread knowledge across underdeveloped regions, help people in those areas to master necessary skills and gain information accesses to the outside world. As a Sci‐Tech information agency with wide influence in China and the Chinese focus point of the Information for All Programme of UNESCO, Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC) realizes the importance of narrowing the gap between information‐rich and information‐poor, and would like to make its own contribution to the task; therefore, ISTIC proposes to hold a training programme on Sci‐Tech information collecting and organizing for some underdeveloped regions such as Guang Xi province, Gan Su province, and some boundary areas of Vietnam.

Contractor: Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC)


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Personnel: 10000

Contracts: 0

Training: 20000

Equipment: 15000


Empoweringyouthinpostconflictzonesthroughanincreasedaccessto,anduseof,ICTProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Jordan

Cost (USD): 75000

Project summary: The proposed project aims at enabling young people from post conflict areas, to have access to, and knowledge of using information and communication technology (ICT), to reach out beyond the confines of their physical isolation and separation, to actively engage with their counterparts regionally and worldwide in a collaborative quest for consolidating peace, respect for human rights and development, as well as for promoting intercultural dialogue. The objective is to: improve post conflict situations through the means of innovative information schemes allowing youth to interact and exchange views on peace human rights and development issues; participate in collaborative projects in this field which would also promote intercultural dialogue; improve the ability of young people to make competent social choices and take decisions that affect positively their behaviour and development.

Contractor: CI/INF



Personnel: 0

Contracts: 0

Training: 35000

Equipment: 20000


DistributionofSamoanLocalContentVideoProgramsviatheInternetProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Samoa

Cost (USD): 10416

Project summary: This proposal is for the funding of the capital, training and 1st year’s operating costs for the transfer of Samoan television programs to the

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Internet. The proposal is aimed to bolster the Samoan language and culture, both in Samoa and to Samoans abroad. It is also aimed to increase Samoan’s IT literacy.

Contractor: Computer Services Limited



Personnel: 1000

Contracts: 3600

Training: 0

Equipment: 5483


InformationToolsforICTUseinCommunitiesProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 35000

Project summary: A collaborative initiative is proposed to develop and test open source, open platform software solutions to facilitate local level information packaging, management and access by groups with only basic ICT capacity. The focus is on poor and marginalised groups especially women and youth. The outputs are software solutions for overcoming barriers that local communities and groups face regarding different interrelated aspects of information content: packaging, management and delivery. The work draws on UNESCO’s research initiative on the impact of ICTs for poverty reduction, including field tests of Simputer and eNRICH versions 1 to 2.1. eNRICH is an information management solution developed for UNESCO by the National Informatics Centre of India, featuring a customisable interface that works in local languages. (Information on enRICH is also available at www.ictpr.nic.in.)

Contractor: UNESCO Asia‐Pacific Regional Bureau for Communication and Information



Personnel: 0

Contracts: 23000

Training: 10000

Equipment: 0


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DigitalPacific:ConnectingCommunitiesProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 40500

Project summary: Summary The Connecting Communities project seeks to reinforce and develop ICT capacity building in selected Pacific Island countries. This will assist the deployment of ICT infrastructure and in doing so promote ICT literacy, thereby achieving the key object which is to focus on connecting families living in Pacific Island countries with those living in New Zealand and in other countries. Vision The vision of this project is one where all peoples of the Pacific enjoy the same level of access to ICTs as peoples in other regions of the world. The great barrier of distance is then stripped away allowing countries to promote their own cultures in their own languages on equal terms. Background The lack of ICT infrastructure and infostructure (skills, local content, etc.) has been identified as a significant barrier in the development and promotion of education, science, culture and communications in the Pacific sub region. The remoteness of the many Pacific Island nations over a huge area of the earth’s surface presents even greater challenges in addressing fundamental human concerns. This Connecting Communities project builds on the Digital Pacific internship programme funded by UNESCO (HQ) in March 2004. The internship involves two representatives from the Cook Islands and two representatives from Samoa, one representative from each country will be from the UNESCO National Commission. The internship will be in March 2004. The internship is an investigatory mission for the participants to gain an awareness of a New Zealand project that aims to tackle the digital divide. The interns will be equipped with practical skills and tools enabling them to pursue the development of the Connecting Families project once they return home. Solution The Connecting Communities project will deploy appropriate infrastructure, provide training and ongoing technical support in the local community in order to provide access for all to the digital world. This access will provide an affordable form of communication for families from low socio economic communities to connect with their family members overseas. Connecting families is the principle of the project but experience to date of a similar initiative (Computers In Homes) in New Zealand has led to families taking further education courses, gaining employment and establishing small businesses using the Internet.

Contractor: 2020 Communications Trust



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Personnel: 2000

Contracts: 13000

Training: 6500

Equipment: 16000


IdentificationofICTTrainingGapsinTongaProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Tonga

Cost (USD): 7

Project summary: Whilst the literacy level in Tonga is near 100%, computer literacy is restricted mainy to word processing, some spreadsheet,email and the internet. Offices in Tonga are abundant in underused late model top of the range computers that collect more dust than good use. At the same time, computer study is not taught until Form 4 in secondary schools. Not only that, it's only an elective subject. Although the department of education sympathises with Forms 1 to 3 and the primary schools for missing out, part of the problem of promoting ICT is lack of ICT teachers. In order to identify the problem areas, Tonga’s National ICT Society (nICTs) wishes to conduct an in‐depth study on the ICT Gaps between industries ICT requirements and contents of ICT training in high schools. The study is to be carried out to find why these ICT gaps are present, where they are present and recommending methods for closing them. The time required to carry out the study is 4 to 8 weeks. In order to complete this study, an investment of USD$7,500 will be required to compensate for the time and efforts of the Project Team.

Contractor: National ICT Society



Personnel: 0

Contracts: 0

Training: 0

Equipment: 0

Miscellaneous: 0 0

ICTPortaLAB:MobileICTTrainingLabforIslandSchoolsProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 52000

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Project summary: Tonga has a Population of 100,000 people spread over 40 inhabited islands. While the literacy rate is in the 99 percentile, access to computers in Tongan schools is limited to mainly high schools and tertiary institutions. High schools in the outer islands have limited computer facilities and no Internet access and 95% of the primary schools have no computer labs for students or teachers. While email has become popular through the availability of cybercafes in Nuku’alofa (capital) and the outlying island centers of Vava’u and Ha’apai it is still restricted to those with some computer skills. In 2003 the National ICT Society was formed by ICT professionals and enthusiasts from various organizations with the objective of encouraging affordable access to the Internet and furthering ICT development at a national level. This project will provide the ICT Society with a means to assist schools and communities by providing access to computer facilities and the Internet through various training and basic exposure and awareness programmes. The target group includes teachers and students in smaller schools and various key development players (women, youth, churches) in local communities. The mobile ICT Training Lab will consist of a set of laptops and a projector that can be networked on location. One laptop will be used as a server and will be loaded with Internet pages and other important software and training materials. The complete mobile ICT Training lab will be packed in a specially made case and transported by motor vehicle, boat or plane to primary and high schools as well as to village communities. Training will range from basic computer introductory to special software and Internet user training. The projector can also be used to show films or CDs in villages and schools to support and enhance the training / technology experience. Trainers will be volunteers from the ICT society and, as sponsorship allows, will be recruited as needed over the long run. The PortaLAB is a useful pilot for other Pacific Islands and developing countries that are challenged by serious capacity limitations. A small investment in equipment and trainers will provide a hands‐on computer experience to schools and communities with little to no computer access.

Contractor: Tonga National ICT Society



Personnel: 5000

Contracts: 0

Training: 12000

Equipment: 28400


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RestorationoftheNationalBibliographyofIraqProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Iraq

Cost (USD): 35000

Project summary: The Intergovernmental Council for IFAP, at its meeting on 23 April 2003 (IFAP, 2nd Session) resolved unanimously that UNESCO would be invited to cooperate with the competent non‐governmental organizations such as the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), the International Council on Archives (ICA) and the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) in order to "safeguard, preserve, reconstruct and develop libraries and archives" in Iraq and to "further develop an information and knowledge based society". One of the key instruments for safeguarding and preserving a country's cultural heritage is to establish and maintain a deposit of all publications in that country, including the production of inventories and records of these publications, known as the National Bibliography. Usually the duties involved with this process are performed by the National Library. The National Bibliography of Iraq was produced on the basis of the publications acquired under the legal deposit law (1970). As the National Library in Baghdad stopped functioning in April 2003, both the collection of publications and the production of the national bibliography came to a halt. Short term and medium term objectives have to be considered, however in the present context the focus is on the short term objectives at first. In the short run it is necessary to make sure that documents from the period 1992‐2003 are listed and found. This will result in compiling the National Bibliography for that period. At the medium term the legal deposit law needs updating to include new media, along with the restoration and renovation of Iraqi administration and legislation.

Contractor: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)



Personnel: 5000

Contracts: 10000

Training: 15000

Equipment: 5000

Miscellaneous: 0 0

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EnhancingtheUseofICTinPacificSchoolsProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 35000

Project summary: UNESCO has 14 small island Member States and one associate member in the Pacific Islands region, which is characterized by small land and vast ocean areas. Their development has often been hampered by the dispersed populations, small sizes and vast ocean distances. These circumstances impose big costs on service provision, including education. Improvements in the use of ICTs provide new oppurtunities for PICs to overcome these circumstances by reducing barriers of distance, improving service delivery across countries, reducing costs, and improving knowledge, skills and general development of their people. With the advent of ICT and the development of a more knowledge‐based society, both the role of the teachers and students is changing worldwide. However, very few schools, notably in rural areas of the Pacific islands region have access to computers or internet. The aim of this project proposal is to facilitate the introduction of ICTs into small islands schools, (i) by influencing education policy through the education administration leaders; (ii) by focusing on schools principals to lift their sights to building ICTs into different curriculum areas; and (iii) by providing training to selected teachers to improve their ICT skills so that they are better teachers of ICT. The first component will be regional. Components 2 and 3 will be implemented in 3‐5 schools,which have already computers.

Contractor: UNESCO Office for the Pacific States



Personnel: 0

Contracts: 13000

Training: 20000

Equipment: 0


E‐villageProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Jordan

Cost (USD): 32500

Project summary: Although Jordan’s labor pool is well educated, and ICT education is a top national priority, there nevertheless remains a huge digital divide among its rural and urban communities. This divide is even greater between males and females. Measures of reducing this ‘gap’ on a rural and urban as well as

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gender level, should be taken into consideration for the empowerment and development of Jordan’s economy. Many innovative pilot initiatives have emerged due to the great support ‐from the highest level‐, which has been given to ICT. These initiatives however, need to be brought together in order to prevent duplication and to ensure greatest benefit. A window of opportunity is now available for major IT initiatives in Jordan to benefit and cooperate with each other in one cluster known as an ’e‐Village’. The e‐Village will be an IT hub as well as a pilot project for Jordan, where IT initiatives learn to work together, new, innovative and gender‐sensitive IT strategies are formed, and lessons are learnt to better plan and implement similar initiatives.

Contractor: UNESCO Amman Office



Personnel: 1000

Contracts: 5000

Training: 2500

Equipment: 21500


FortalecimientodelascapacidadestécnicasyprofesionalesparalagobernabilidadelectrónicadelMunicipiodelCusco(Peru)Project status: Unfunded

Region/country: Peru

Cost (USD): 142000

Project summary: En América Latina la tendencia global hacia el fortalecimiento de la democracia ha producido un movimiento que involucra a gobiernos, la sociedad civil y los medios de comunicación para promover más transparencia en la gobernabilidad y un mayor acceso a la información por parte de los ciudadanos, con la idea también de promover la participación ciudadana. Perú es una de las naciones más activas de la región en este sentido. El año pasado el gobierno peruano adoptó una nueva ley sobre el derecho de acceso a la información que incluye provisiones que buscan que más información esté disponible electrónicamente y para el desarrollo de sitios Web gubernamentales que faciliten el acceso de los ciudadanos a la información. La municipalidad de Cusco, como parte de su deseo de modernizar su manejo de información a través del uso de nuevas tecnologías de comunicación e información, también está interesada en participar en el proceso de hacer que el gobierno sea más transparente y accesible. Sin embargo, la municipalidad ni tiene destreza técnica en estas áreas ni los recursos financieros necesarios.

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El objetivo de este proyecto es el fortalecimiento de un proceso de “e‐gobernabilidad” y se enmarca en una serie de iniciativas presentadas por diversas organizaciones de la sociedad civil peruana a favor de la formulación de propuestas y actividades que persigan una mayor transparencia informativa por parte de los diversos estamentos del Estado. Se trata de generar una mayor conciencia entre los funcionarios públicos y la sociedad en general sobre la importancia de poder acceder a información resguardada por el Estado y sus instituciones y que por su naturaleza debería ser de conocimiento general y contribuir a enriquecer el debate público. Es así que el Municipio del Cusco busca, con la posible ejecución de este proyecto, facilitar el acceso de los ciudadanos a la información requerida facilitando las herramientas para ello y cooperando con la reducción de la burocracia en la institución. Este proyecto puede cooperar con el establecimiento del “e‐gobernabilidad” sobre las bases de un fuerte soporte técnico e institucional, un apropiado plan de capacitación, decisiones y acciones claras a favor de una mayor participación de los ciudadanos; pero, por sobre todo, busca ser viable y dar resultados tangibles camino a la innovación. La Municipalidad del Cusco, que es el Órgano de Gobierno Local, viene desarrollando labores para – según consta en su sitio web: www.municusco.gob.pe – lograr una administración eficiente, eficaz, transparente y participativa a fin de conseguir un mejor nivel de vida de su población, preservando sus valores históricos, culturales y de identidad. El Municipio busca contribuir al fortalecimiento de la libertad de expresión, de la democracia y del buen gobierno, abriendo mayores posibilidades de fiscalización de sus acciones y del uso de los fondos públicos gracias al uso apropiado de las herramientas del gobierno electrónico.

Contractor: Regional Office for Communication and Information for Latin America and the Caribbean (A. RAdolf/ACI) and Municipalidad del Cusco, Peru



Personnel: 0

Contracts: 0

Training: 60000

Equipment: 42350


CommunitiesGeneratedContentandInformationrepositoryanddistributionsystemProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Ecuador

Cost (USD): 52000

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Project summary: Internet is the largest information repository. Most of times this information is either in a non accesible language or irrelevant for those who access the Internet. To build a Community Self Generated Content and Information System in local language (spanish in our case) and relevant to specific communities sectors is the goal of this project. Identified sectors includes: Local Teachers and Students (local history, community news, etc) and Local small and medium enterprises and professionals (local production and markets). Jointly we need to develop a content and information distribution system for spread the information along community and receivers. The Information Generation will be based on a CMS (Content Management System) that allow the simple yet funny generation of information through local reporters, local researches from the student and academic community and the distribution will be done on line through an agreement with Cyber Cafes and off line through local newspapers and small pieces of collectables. Themes will include: Who we are, where we come from, where are we going. Our history, our products, main innovators, our potential markets, business opportunities, local sports, etc. All this information will be integrated in a LOCAL HISTORIC AND LIVE INFORMATION REPOSITORY of INFORMATION.

Contractor: Carlos Vera ‐ CORPECE



Personnel: 18000

Contracts: 25000

Training: 6000

Equipment: 1500


Projetd'OrdinateurspourlesEcoles(POE)Project status: Unfunded

Region/country: Haiti

Cost (USD): 0

Project summary: Le Programme des Ordinateurs pour les Ecoles (POE) est un programme national, dirigé par le Centre d’Appui aux Initiatives de Technologies de l’Information (CAITI), qui fonctionne en collaboration avec des Organismes Internationaux, le secteur privé, le secteur public et celui du bénévolat. Il vise à recueillir, à réparer et à remettre en état des ordinateurs excédentaires provenant des organismes internationaux, des administrations publiques, du secteur privé et des particuliers, avant de les distribuer gratuitement aux écoles et aux bibliothèques d’un bout à l’autre d’Haïti. Enfin pour favoriser l'accès et le partage d'information entre les écoles haïtiennes, une plateforme éducative sera créée. Afin d'aider les écoles à faire une utilisation adéquate des ordinateurs nous

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avons prévu de créer un Portail Éducatif qui aura pour objectif de : • Sensibiliser les différents acteurs du projet aux outils et services TIC (outils de communication, services informationnels, services de publication et de diffusion,..) • Permettre le développement et l'usage de nouvelles pratiques pédagogiques (travail coopératif inter établissement, mutualisation de productions pédagogiques, capitalisation des bonnes pratiques, …) • Moderniser la gestion administrative des écoles (développement de télé procédures administratives entre les écoles et les différents services prestataires du pays) • Permettre la création de contenus pédagogiques par les enseignants et également l'accès à ces différents contenus (contenus mis à disposition par les différentes structures de l'Éducation Nationale et par d’autres réseaux d’initiatives privées)

Contractor: Guyverson Vernous



Personnel: 5000

Contracts: 12000

Training: 4000

Equipment: 3000


AssistanceonImprovedWaterResourcesManagementinKurariverbasinandDevelopmentofWaterResourcesWebPageofAzerbaijanRepublicProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Azerbaijan

Cost (USD): 24900

Project summary: This project proposal is directed at improved water management in Kura river basin by preparation of recommendations on transboundary cooperation and creation of web page on “Water Resources of Azerbaijan Republic”. The developed recommendations and web page will consist information on existing situation in the water sector, recommendations on the legal and institutional frameworks of development of Integrated Water Resources Management Plans at national level and methods of improvement of co‐operation at the whole Kura –Araz River Basin. The page may be used to increase awareness of population and water users and finally by the decision makers to establish an institutional, legal and technical framework in order to overcome national level and transboundary water problems in the Caucasus region. ways for stakeholder participation in water management. The project will be implemented through collection of necessary

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information within the country and abroad, organization of seminars for discussion of recommendations on Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) and transboundary cooperation, the regular and operative information will be presented to interested organizations and person through creation of hot channel of information and developed web page will be placed at the server of IREX organization and presented to users.

Contractor: Verdiyev Rafig, Deputy Director, NGO ECORES



Personnel: 6400

Contracts: 13900

Training: 1000

Equipment: 2500


EstablishOpenGISTrainingCenterinMongoliaProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Mongolia

Cost (USD): 35000

Project summary: The project aims: 1. To establish Open GIS Training Center/School (a small training center) first in Ulaabaatar, Mongolia which will distribute free open source GIS (such as GRASS Geographic Information System) software user knowledge in Mongolia. 2. To start train and prepare labor force for industry & education institutes (for government organization, environment, economy, geology, mining, NGOs, ..., etc.) in Mongolia. 3. To establish Open GIS Training Center/School branches in other cities of Mongolia to distribute knowledge of such software as GRSASS GIS, UNIX OS.

Contractor: Dr. I.Ulemj



Personnel: 5000

Contracts: 5000

Training: 15000

Equipment: 10000

Miscellaneous: 0 0

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MediaLiteracyforWomenandGirlsProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Romania

Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: This project aims to enable media literacy for women and girls in order to critically identify media threats as regards to gender stereotypes and misrepresentations and enable direct feedback from within women and girls communities be expressed and leading to positive changes in content creation for media authors.

Contractor: REVERSE‐Affirmative Movement for Women



Personnel: 15600

Contracts: 5600

Training: 0

Equipment: 3000


Web‐BasedDigitalRepository(eLibrary)andClassroomProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 200000

Project summary: To use our LMS (learning management system) as a digital repository and to setup classrooms on the Internet. A demo of this LMS is found at http://www.knowedge.net/demo/login.asp. This LMS is being offered free to non‐profit organisations like UNESCO. As a digital repository it can be used for several purposes : 1. To store educational lessons and write‐ups by engaged teachers. 2. To store succinct reviews of good books on various subjects. 3. To store videos of TV documentaries and films in compressed format practical for downloading via the Internet. 4. To store important knowledge‐nuggets (wisdom) from great teachings written or by‐word‐of‐mouth from various culture. 5. To store the key points in various fields of studies as taken from textbooks and other publications. It can be made searchable based on various subjects which are stored separately in different databases yet accessible from the same LMS environment. Users will be accessing vetted content of a specialised and highly relevant nature to their studies thus expediting their learning. As a classroom(s) it can be used to deliver essay assignments and quizzes to test and automatically grade the knowledge and skills of students. It can also

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be used as a forum for dicussion among students coming from various corners of the world.

Contractor: Chia Hern Keng



Personnel: 60000

Contracts: 60000

Training: 20000

Equipment: 10000


ENO‐EnvironmentOnlineProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 70000

Project summary: ENO‐Environment Online is a global web school for environmental awareness. Four environmental themes (dimensions of sustainable development) are studied within a school year (social, natural, cultural environment and a sustainable way of living) on a weekly basis. ENO is a strong and active network of schools. It has been running since 2000 and it is administrated by the city of Joensuu, Finland. The main idea is to lay emphasis on local environment and see it in a global aspect: act locally ‐ think globally. Information is gathered at local level and shared globally in the website. Learning is student‐centred with online and offline activities. At the end of each theme there is a campaign week when students share their results and raise them up in their local communities. They become eventually ambassadors for environment in their respective local communities and regions and worldwide.

Contractor: Mika Vanhanen, coordinator



Personnel: 50000

Contracts: 5000

Training: 5000

Equipment: 5000


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USINGINFORMATIONANDCOMMUNICATIONSTECHNOLOGYTOBUILDTHECAPACITYOFRURALWOMENINKENYAProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Kenya

Cost (USD): 46690

Project summary: Volunteers For Africa (VFA), a non‐governmental organization (NGO) based in Nairobi, Kenya seeks to run a project aimed at developing and building the information and communications capacity of rural women in Kenya. This is through setting up a women’s groups network in Kenya, where women can readily and effectively learn and communicate with one another, and with the outside world, using the modern forms of ICT. The VFA Secretariat in Nairobi will coordinate the Wanawake Network. The network will be hosted in participating Community Based Organizations, with offices in some selected towns in the country. The network will seek to work with other existing women organizations, and provide ICT capacity to those not in a position to afford modern ICT equipments. The network will grow into a formidable women voice in Kenya. It will be very detrimental in the second liberation of women, and building their capacity. It will be an integral voice for women affairs in today’s Kenya. VFA, through the project will build the capacity of the proposed Wanawake Network by allowing its members to communicate with each other, and with the outside world, by computer, through email, as well as access vital development oriented information from the Internet. It would also help the network to develop its own website and newsletter (printed and email version), and institutionalise the network to become a stable, educative, long lasting forum for women to meet and discuss problems facing engendering caucus in Kenya. The project will take place in four stages, beginning by June 2005 and ending no later than June 2006. Preparatory work has been under way for some time. This is a timely and innovative project that will demonstrate, once again, how information technology can boost the capacity of women’s civil society in societies that are seeking to rebuild and contribute to national economic development. The Wanawake Network is a perfect candidate for such a project, due to its ability to reach millions of women countrywide. With guidance and support from Volunteers For Africa, Wanawake Network could emerge as a major player in developing some of the more backward regions of Kenya. E‐mail and the World Wide Web will help. The proposal has originated from Volunteers For Africa (VFA) and has been developed with very little input from the outside. An estimated 75% of the funding will be expended in Kenya; the rest is paying for some of the donated computer equipment. VFA will coordinate the implementation of this project, with advice and support from the MYWO Secretariat, Computer Aid International (UK), World Computer Exchange (USA) and the donor.

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Contractor: Kunga Ngece



Personnel: 8690

Contracts: 5000

Training: 16000

Equipment: 13000


LEFSOT‐Utilization,adoptionanddisseminationoffree/opensourcesoftwarewiththehelpofquality‐drivenandstandardizedlocalizationandinternationalizationeffortsProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Turkey

Cost (USD): 24500

Project summary: Turkey, as a whole, has a stake in improving the usage of F/OSS (free/open source software) in all branches of IT and public life, in general. Although there's a committed open source community in IT‐strong cities (like Ankara and Istanbul), there is still a lot more to be done. F/OSS communities and SMEs can achieve better results through co‐ordination of localization and internationalization activities. We believe that the a localized operating system framework containing all the open source components including a will be beneficial for those who are computer‐literate. At the moment, the driving forces behind Linux, which is a freely available operating system are K desktop environment, GNOME desktop environment and OpenOffice.org (a free, Microsoft(R) Windows(R) compatible office suite). A perceptional problem of adoption with these software is that, they are not localized 100% to Turkish, and as a result, public administrations, SMEs, individuals are reluctant to use, adopt and distribute the corresponding software and services. LEFSOT project is an opportunity to leverage the usage of F/OSS throught supporting the coordination and networking of the current localization and internationalization efforts. We hope that LEFSOT project will create sufficient momentum for a general acceptance and coordinated boost of F/OSS usage.

Contractor: Görkem Çetin



Personnel: 21000

Contracts: 0

Training: 1000

Equipment: 2200

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E‐SchoolsProjectinRuralMacedoniaProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Cost (USD): 0

Project summary: Background The rapid and widespread diffusion of computer and information technologies and their products raises the problem of in what and how computer and information sciences can contribute to the field of Education. This problem is specifically connected with Areas of Artificial Intelligence and Man‐Machine Interaction but also involves many other areas of Computer Science as well as other branches of knowledge, principally Education Sciences. For once, the infrastructure is ready. In fact, the classrooms, the teachers and the students have been ready for nearly a year. But the computers have not arrived, not for want of money but simply because the federal government is reluctant to waive off the import duty. Schools run by Alfa International were to get their computers as a donation from Computer Aid International Org and World computer Exchange org.. The idea was to provide a server and computers to each of the many rural schools in Macedonia. "We spent considerable amount of money to get one room in each of these schools up to the standards required to locate computers". There are ready now and just wait for the computers. Except for seeking clarifications, nothing has happened so far. Our point is that we would be able to save the duty and provide more computers to the students. In any case, the government does not give such concessions for technical institutions for purposes of research. But is it not possible to purchase the computers locally and supply to the schools? "We would still be seeking to find a supporter of the project. Incidentally, the teachers of the corporation schools will be trained by Alfa International with cooperation of I*EARN representative for Macedonia. (www.imor.org.mk), whose president made a pointed reference to hike in taxation on computers. Introduction Most of the rural schools in Macedonia can use Internet. New technology and communications give possibilities to introduce new, contemporary methods for empowerment of students and overcoming the frames of classical system of education. This program will help teachers and students use information and technology (IT) in primary schools. One of main objective is enabling students to work cooperatively in various projects which will contribute to welfare of mankind as a part of education process. Unlike other programs, Alfa International is not just a source of information, but open network which offers possibilities to students and teachers to initiate new ideas and projects. In primary schools this activity will help teach teachers use effective and engaging ways to introduce IT to students;

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identify and tailor IT content for use in primary schools; and create online knowledge resources of Macedonian‐tailored products. About twenty primary schools/Youth centers from rural area in Macedonia will be provided with Internet connectivity, modern IT programs and other assistance. The program will build teachers' capacity to use computers in ways that will foster students' facility and comfort in using computers and their creative use of IT. The IT program will also devise sustainability plans for the computer labs. The IT project will train primary school teachers in methodologies for teaching modern computer literacy. It will train selected master teachers from each school in the use of IT to promote active learning. It will help master teachers in a range of subjects and link IT courses with distance learning. The training will orient principals to the value of IT in schools and ensure that the secondary school computer labs have the resources, e.g., Internet connectivity and relevant applications, needed to for effective use and instruction.

Contractor: Alfa International NGO, Bardhil Idrizi



Personnel: 2231

Contracts: 2160

Training: 2880

Equipment: 8250


MaendeleoYaWanawakeOrganisation(MYWO)E‐ResourceCentreProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 0

Project summary: Established in 1952, the Maendeleo Ya Wanawake Organisaion is a non‐profit voluntary women's organisation with a mission to "impove on the quality of life of the women in Kenya". Managed from a Headquarter by an elected governing body and employed staff, the Organisation has branches in every district of the country, more than 25,000 group affiliates and, over 3 million individual members. Over the years, this Organisaion has accumulated a wealth of experience in the management of development projects and, diversified and expanded its vision and mission to encompass community concerns. Its current main activities are: Maternal Child Health and Family Planning; Advocacy Strategy for the Eradication of Female Genital Mutilation in Kenya; Girl Child Education; Civic Education; Engendering the Political Process; Gender Equity; Kenya Family Planning Programme;

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Prevention and Control of Cervical Cancer; Women and Development; HIV/AIDS Project; Malaria Prevention and Control; Leadership and Governance; Economic Empowerment; and Research and Development. Presently, for a lack of resources, information on MYWO activities is not collated in readily available and user‐friendly format. This proposal, therefore, requests for funds to initiate the establishment of a comprehensive decision suportive and user‐friendly e‐resource centre at the Headquarter, with potential to network to the branches.

Contractor: Full Legal Name: Maendeleo Ya Wanawake Organisation. Acronym: MYWO



Personnel: 7875

Contracts: 3500

Training: 625

Equipment: 18725


"WomenArtistsandPoetsadvocateChildren'sRights"Project status: Unfunded

Region/country: Africa

Cost (USD): 67100

Project summary: Children's rights, as with the voice of the women in South Africa, Africa and large parts of the developing world, remain invisible. The intention of this initiative is to lend greater visibility to these issues and to inspire moral ownership of these within humanity at large. Art for Humanity and partners invite 25 women artists and 25 poets primarily from South Africa and the developing world, but also from the international community, to create art and poetry with the intention to inspire moral ownership of the rights of the child. The art and poetry to be employed by AFH in an advocacy campaign will take the form of: 1. An exhibitions program targeting policy makers etc. 2. A billboard campaign targeting the outdoor public, 3. A poster campaign targeting the indoor public, schools, offices, clinics etc. 4. Catalogues targeting libraries, schools, etc. The intention is further that the art and poetry will become part of our cultural heritage and will be of such an inspiring standard that it will be incorporated into those institutions responsible to be the custodians of our cultural heritage. In this manner the work will sustain itself and speak to future generations in the same manner the art from previous generations speak to us today. The advocacy program will be launched on 20 November 2005 at the Durban

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Art Gallery.

Contractor: Jan Jordaan



Personnel: 30500

Contracts: 8000

Training: 11200

Equipment: 800


BridgingBelfast'sDigitalDivideProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 35000

Project summary: A partnership comprising of Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, British Telecom and the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister has been formed to provide access to digital services and training to some of the most marginalised groups in Belfast through the establishment of four Digital Centres. The aim of these new centres will be to encourage individuals in each community to work together, share resources and acquire new skills. This programme will be set up under the banner of "Digital Communities" to promote ICT opportunities for adults in order to access the wealth of information available to them, and to utilise this information to enhance their lives. It is expected that this project will develop to include other areas as it has the support of government agencies and large corporate bodies such as Hewlett Packard, Microsoft and BT.

Contractor: Ken Callaghan



Personnel: 20000

Contracts: 7000

Training: 0

Equipment: 0


TheArtsOlympiadinschoolsofMacedoniaProject status: Unfunded


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Cost (USD): 20140

Project summary: Introduction The global community faces challenges that require creative and sound leadership. Two natural ways in which children ‐ our future leaders ‐ gain and apply leadership skills is through artistic expression and athletic accomplishment. The Third Arts Olympiad (2005‐2008) combines these two themes to encourage young artists to develop their physical abilities, and to inspire young athletes to express themselves through art. Through the participation of nearly three million children from over 100 countries, the Arts Olympiad develops the empathy invoked through art and the team spirit instilled by sport, to promote the Olympic ideals of mutual respect and tolerance. The children will carry these skills and values with them into adulthood, along with lifelong friendships across borders and cultures. Over time, the trust and understanding achieved through personal connections will bridge global communities. This vision will be achieved only through the involvement and support of national partners in over 100 countries. The International Child Art Foundation (ICAF) invites your organization to support our National Partner for Macedonia (Alfa International NGO) to organize the Third Arts Olympiad in their country.National Partners are described below following an overview of the program. The Third Arts Olympiad The Third Arts Olympiad (2005‐2008) links art and sport through school art competitions on the theme, My Favorite Sport. According to Nelson R. Mandela, “Art and sport have the powers to change the world, the power to inspire, the power to unite people in a way that little else can. Art and sport speak to people in a language they understand. Art and sport can create hope where there was once only despair. They are instruments for peace, even more powerful than governments. “ The Arts Olympiad will commence in 2005 with free lesson plans distributed to over 50,000 schools worldwide. Local, national and regional celebrations and exhibitions are planned for 2006. These events lead to the world festival in 2007, to be held on the National Mall in Washington, DC. International exhibitions at major cultural and sports events will be held in 2008. Organization and Outreach ICAF’s office in Washington, DC organizes the Arts Olympiad throughout the United States, while its office in Munich coordinates the program in Europe. The Arts Olympiad is organized globally through ICAF’s network of national partners, which includes ministries of education and culture, first ladies’ offices and foundations, national commissions of UNESCO, national media organizations, and arts and cultural institutions. The Arts Olympiad Educational Partners help promote the program and organize training workshops at ICAF’s events. These partners include UNESCO and prominent U.S. and international organizations. More than one million children worldwide participated in each of ICAF’s two previous Arts Olympiads. It is expected that the Third Arts Olympiad will involve approximately 3 million children in nearly 50,000 primary and middle

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schools in the U.S. and over 100 other countries. More than 140,000 people have attended ICAF’s Washington, DC festivals, which are free and open to the public. More than one hundert children will participated in Arts Olympiads in Macedonia. It is expected that the Third Arts Olympiad will involve approximately half million children in nearly 40 primary and middle schools in Macedonia.

Contractor: Alfa international NGO, Makfirete Mustafa project manager



Personnel: 4400

Contracts: 3680

Training: 3960

Equipment: 4670


MotherCareActivitiestotheHealthyChildProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 19110

Project summary: Significant disparities persist in the health status of Macedonian women from rural and urban areas and from West and Eaist Macedonia. Some study confirmed higher maternal death ratios in West Macedonia is 10,5 % of maternal deaths/100,000 live births) than the national average and Eaist Macedonia‐ 8%and 10.5%, respectively. And maternal mortality rates in some governorates in West Macedonia reached 10.5%. The neonatal mortality rate was also much higher per 1000 live births in West Macedonia compared to nationwide and in Eaist Macedonia. Also identified three main preventable causes for 92 percent of the maternal deaths in Macedonia and presumably many of the perinatal deaths that often result from the same complications. The Experts in Macedonia sought to address two of these: delays in seeking care for obstetric complications, which was a factor in 42 percent of deaths; and substandard delivery care, which was a factor in 47 percent of cases. The third preventable cause was poor quality antenatal care, a factor reported in 47 percent of cases. The project’s long‐term goal was to contribute to the Alfa International efforts to reduce maternal and perinatal mortality in high‐risk districts in West Macedonia. Alfa International developed a four‐fold strategy including:

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§ the development of standards of care; § the strengthening of institution capacity in maternal and perinatal health through training; § increasing community awareness and participation; and § enhancing national policy for maternal and perinatal health The value of developing good clinical protocols and service standards was clearly demonstrated by rapid improvements in provider skill and improved outcomes. § Competency‐based training is widely accepted and appreciated by medical personnel at all levels for its practical job‐specific relevance. § Improving provider‐patient communication skills is an essential component of provider training. § Women will readily accept and share information that they believe will protect the health of their fetuses/babies. § Regular monitoring of the health system’s performance via an established supervision process, feedback to staff, a functioning information system, and active involvement of all stakeholders in problem solving, is essential to maintaining the effectiveness of the interventions

Contractor: Alfa international NGO, Esma Kasami MD. project manager



Personnel: 4300

Contracts: 3280

Training: 6900

Equipment: 2650


“GirlsinInformationTechnology(IT)”Girlsbetweentheagesof12and17.Project status: Unfunded

Region/country: Uzbekistan

Cost (USD): 21644

Project summary: 1. Statement of the Problem: Information technology use in Uzbekistan is increasing, but at a slow page. Still, fewer than 2% of the population are Internet users. As much of the world rapidly adapts to an information economy, Uzbekistan risks being left behind. Furthermore, in a society where the limited opportunities for economic and social progress are already dominated by males, the IT field is largely the domain of men. Such a situation of inequity means that Uzbekistan’s chances for joining the world information economy and having broad access to the varying perspectives and democratic ideals of the Internet are at risk. The experience of the School Connectivity for Uzbekistan program underlines

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the possible long‐term trends in this area. The program’s 60 Educational Internet Centers (IECs) have made significant steps in bringing the benefits of technology to underserved groups in their communities, including women and girls, but a concerted focus is needed in order to address the imbalances that have developed. In practice, at EICs, girls learn to use the basic technology and then often cease to go further. Among students, boys still make up more than 60% of users. As a result, these Internet centers often become places for boys to spend time in the afternoons, and the atmosphere becomes less comfortable for girls. As boys advance in their IT skills and girls fall behind, Internet resources in Uzbekistan are developed by males and from a male point of view, further compounding a situation of social inequality where girls are excluded from the opportunities available through use of IT and become secondary users, and therefore benefit less from their access.

Contractor: The Center for Women‐Leaders



Personnel: 6360

Contracts: 3107

Training: 5175

Equipment: 0


DIGITALDANDELICITYProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: India

Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: DANDELI CITY SITUATED IN THE UTTARA KANNADA DISTRICT OF KARNATAKA STATE. LAST FIVE DECADES IT ENJOYED THE STATUS OF INDUSTRIAL CITY WITH SEVERAL INDUSTRIES. NOW MOST OF THE INDUSTRY ARE SICK OR DEAD. THOUSANDS HAVE LOST THEIR BREAD AND BUTTER AND FORCED SEVERAL WORKMEN TO COMMIT SUICIDE. THIS PROJECT WANT TO GIVE FREE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION TO ALL THE PEOPLE IN THE AGE OF 16 ‐ 50 YEARS. DANDELI HAS 31 WARDS WITH EACH WARD HAVING THE POPULATION OF 1000. DATA GATHERING WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FIRST PHASE FROM ALL 31 WARDS. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EDUCATIONA FOR ALL WILL BE GIVEN ( IN THE AGE GROUP OF 16‐50 YEARS ). SPECIAL PROVISIONS WILL BE MADE TO WOMEN EDUCATION. AS EXTREME POVERTY LEAD THEM TO UNETHICAL PROSTITUTION ACTIVITY. IN TURN IT LEADS TO HIV/AIDS RELATED PROBLEM.

Contractor: HEMANTA R NAIK


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Personnel: 6000

Contracts: 3000

Training: 3000

Equipment: 12000


InformationLiteracyTrainingforsecondaryandhighschoolteachersinSwaziandProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Swaziland

Cost (USD): 36000

Project summary: A study of computer education in schools in Swaziland, initiated by Mr. Nathan Kirsh in 1998, resulted in the publication of a report in July 1998. This outlined a comprehensive plan of action that aimed at introducing basic computer skills to teachers and students in secondary and high schools. Discussions were held with all relevant parties to ensure that the project goals and implementation plans complied with the vision of education in Swaziland. The Computer Education Trust (CET) was established in 1999 and given the task of implementing and managing a computer education project in secondary and high schools. The majority of the teachers CET is working with and encouraging are women and an equal distribution of rural, urban, and peri‐urban schools has been selected for this project. To‐date CET has successfully equipped 93 of 187 secondary and high schools, a 49.7% achievement. A total of 1,900 computers have been distributed to all these schools with each school recieving 20 computers. Skills development is one of the key factors to which educators should attend if institutions of learning, such as schools, are to meet the needs of students and the aspirations of the entire community. The project will cover the introduction of Windows Operating System, Ms‐Word, Ms‐Excel, Ms‐Access, Ms‐PowerPoint and Internet in Education. To make sure we don't lose the skills acquired, only teachers from the equipped schools will recieve the training. This project will address the following issues: 1.The Digital Divide Within Africa and specifically Swaziland, access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has been minimal. This is particularly the case in rural schools and education centres. In order to stem this problem and avoid the further marginalisation of Swaziland’s school children as a result of these emerging ICTs, projects like the CET seek to train their teachers who in turn will return to their respective schools and pass the knowledge on to their students. 2.Shortage of Swazis possessing skills in ICTs

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Training in ICTs is still largely available to schools and teachers and students located in urban areas. This project will have a special emphasis on encouraging rural schools to participate more proactively. 3.Capacity building and Reduction of poverty Poverty alleviation and capacity building remain one of the most complex and critical challenges facing Swaziland as a developing country. Innumerable strategies, mechanisms, and instruments are currently being employed by governmental, non‐governmental and international organisations to fight poverty. Information technology skills development is one key strategy for poverty alleviation. The more information gathering, processing and usage skills people have, the more likely they are to employ innovations that can alleviate their impoverished state.

Contractor: Computer Education Trust (CET)



Personnel: 0

Contracts: 14000

Training: 20000

Equipment: 2000

Miscellaneous: 0 0

ICTLITERACY:PromotingCommunicationTechnologywithintheEducationalandInformationsectorsinsixL.G.AsofthreesenatorialdistrictsofPlateauState.Project status: Unfunded

Region/country: Nigeria

Cost (USD): 24916

Project summary: The knowledge of infomation communication technology amongst bothe school children and teachers is quite low. Policies on information communication technology is lacking and not given proper focus in both the educational and information sectors. To a large extent this absence of provision of information and technology sector has adversely affected various sectors of the nation's functions and the information development and preservation culture is ultimately lacking. The project is built to provide ICT education to both 30 primary school pupils totaling 180 pupils and 180 secondary school students from 30 secondary schools(totalling 360 school children) also from six local government areas of three senatorial districts in Plateau State. The project is also designed to train about 120 teachers fronm the 60 schools involved in the three senatorial districts. The project will as well provide capacity building for those professional in the information areas such as the print and media, NGOs , Government

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offcials both at state and local government levels. This will also extent to advocacy to the government and policy makers to encourage government involvement in ICT education within and outside the educational sectors and information preservation culture. The project will be located in six L.G.As of Three senatorial dostrict in Plateau state. The need for Information communication technology literacy in these areas is a dare need in Plateau state. Even though other areas within the state have been identified to require such literacy both these areas chosen are most affected by this need. All sectors of the public require this form of education especially as the world is going technological. A total of $24,916( twenty four thousand, nine hundred and sixteen dollars) will be required to execute the project. The project beficiaries are not just the primary and secondary school children, teachers and professionals in the information sectors but also the entire public sector. The project will also involve the establishment of a public ICT training centre for the subsequent training of other citizens and promotion of an information culture even after the project is completed. Information is life and the bedrock upon which nations achieve great successes and development in their existence.

Contractor: Juvenile Development Centre



Personnel: 9160

Contracts: 2400

Training: 5756

Equipment: 7600

Miscellaneous: 84 0

FreeSoftwareinEducationforSchoolsinSerbiaandMontenegroProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Serbia and Montenegro

Cost (USD): 45340

Project summary: Serbia and Montenegro is a country that emerged after dissolution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia that that was affected by an intensive inter‐ethnic and inter‐religious violence, war and economic damage. Such an aggravated political and economical situation have had an intensively destructive impact on population including state institutions. Although, situation improved in the last four years there are still deep difficulties in giving equal rights to access information technology in education system. This is especially the case when information technology is in fact educational tool as well. But, on the other side, policy makers, teachers and students are confronted with manifold obstacles. Despite the fact that information technology in education system may be very efficient licensing policies set by

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manufacturers are very expensive and insensitive to cultural differences. In addition, manufacturers do not allow neither teacher nor students to learn about internals of respective software and by that fact education system is deprived from lecture and concrete contribution of students and teachers in joint creation of educational software. Consequently, they are prevented from cooperative contribution to educational system which is serious lack in the process of educating citizens that have to be creative in creating their social environment. Since such a software is expensive and licenses are rigorous and highly restrictive, students and teachers are prevented from homework and other sorts of extra‐curricula activities that may be very important for educational process. Introducing information technology in education system is often confused with purchase of expensive hardware without specific purpose for education and teacher‐student interaction. Technical requirements for running free educational software are not high so even schools and students with modest financial background may use it on personal computers with lower level technical specifications. Since free software is free to copy and easy to install it is suitable for a variety of extra‐curricula activities, homework and usage in various inter‐school gatherings. (i.e. quiz, competition, seminar, summer and winter camps). Very comprehensive and diverse collection enables students to know more about various topics ( i.e. music, physics, math, geography, electronics, engineering, chemistry) which may help them to get more information necessary for their professional orientation and to get a broader sense on interdisciplinary approach that is predominant in the current economical and social developments. Because of all above mentioned reasons our opinion is that Free‐Educ a compilation of free software compiled by the French organisation Ofset is suitable for cultural adopting and distribution in Serbia and Montenegro. Since Free‐Educ is based on Knoppix version of GNU/Linux it is safe from viruses, it is easy to install it and license is flexible for educational use of software.

Contractor: Linux Centre



Personnel: 11200

Contracts: 19350

Training: 11550

Equipment: 2450


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AfricanAgroforestryOnline–ThedevelopmentofanonlinelearningobjectresourcepoolthroughtheAfricanNetworkforAgroforestryEducation(ANAFE)Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: The potential impact of agroforestry research in areas such as soil fertility improvement, nutritional enhancement, marketing of agroforestry products and HIV/AIDs mitigation on rural communities can be achieved through the enhancement of education resources based on recent research findings. The development of an innovative knowledge management system can provide a forum to expand accessibility to learning resources on agroforestry. The use of appropriate instructional design technologies such as reusable learning objects in organizing and disseminating agroforestry education materials can facilitate this process. The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), in partnership with the African Network for Agroforestry Education (ANAFE) proposes to develop an online learning resource pool for materials developed by African tertiary institutions and ICRAF. The resource pool will provide a forum for educators and trainers to share and exchange information and contribute to learning materials on various agroforestry topics using a reusable learning object (RLO) system. This RLO system distributes materials as individual components, where these components can be adapted to particular end user’s needs according to regional and institutional context. This online resource pool will provide a forum for local knowledge to be shared across the African continent while simultaneously providing access to existing knowledge to resource poor areas.

Contractor: Sheila Nakhate Rao



Personnel: 10000

Contracts: 5000

Training: 15000

Equipment: 10000


Mongoliane‐GovernmenttrainingcenterProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 24840

Project summary: This project is designed to prepare Mongolian public servants, and government officials for re‐structuring and re‐engineering intra‐governmental processes, to educate them with complete knowledge of G2G,

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G2B, G4C modules of the e‐Government, e‐Economy, e‐Society, e‐Democracy, ICT and information security. Until now, one of the major obstacles in implementing e‐Society projects in government level has been the lack of knowledge and skill among the public servants. They have no knowledge of e‐Government management, its design and applications, and they are not prepared for working in e‐Government environment and do not understand the benefits the whole society would get. Currently, bureaucracy, bribery, lobbying have become widespread in all government levels. Effective implementation of e‐Government projects has become the major tool to eradicate such negative social behavior. Without proper training of public servants, and changing their mentality, these changes will not achieve any success. "Information Communications Technology Development Concept Mongolia for the Period up to 2010", "Medium term strategy for the development of information communication technology sector in Mongolia", state project "Open government", Government conception â€œE‐Mongoliaâ€ have been approved in Mongolia. All these documents have directly pinpointed needs of establishing E‐government training center and developing human resources. In Mongolia, "e‐Government design, management and application", â€œAdministrative information system managementâ€ , â€œHuman resource management of state bodiesâ € and various related courses on Information Security have been taught only in Computer Science and Management School of Mongolian University of Science and Technology. Therefore, Public Administration and Human Resource management professor chair of CSMS (Computer Science and Management School) of MUST are proposing to establish Mongolian e‐Government training center. The school has the biggest distance learning center in Mongolia. The project will be performed during 2 years. After implementing this project, the center will be financed from domestic sources.

Contractor: Khaltar Togtuun.Doctor PhD. Associate professor. Professor chair of Public Administration and Human resource management of CSMS



Personnel: 1400

Contracts: 1300

Training: 6200

Equipment: 15340


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Teachers’HumanResourcesDevelopmentProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Europe

Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: Teachers training and retraining for creative and efficient use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in education in Information Society is an important task for every country. Despite some diversity in the approaches, differences in the level of infrastructure development, and specificity of each educational system, there are a lot of common features and common problems tackled by different countries, cultures, and communities. The project is aimed at promoting ICT literacy skills for teachers and suggests a framework for development of teachers’ human resources on a cross‐cultural basis. Teachers’ training curricula will have a modular structure enabling for step‐by step enhancing their professionalism and vision of the ICT role. The project outcomes are primarily aimed at in‐service secondary, high schools, and university teachers, and instructional designers with both technical and pedagogical background, however, they may be useful for students planning their educational career and educational administration. The project priorities and objectives are closely related to the priorities of the UNESCO program “Information for All”, namely, enhancing teachers professionalism through development of innovative curriculum in ICT use in education; assisting in developing educational software and materials that reflect national and regional cultures; facilitating development of quality criteria and procedures.

Contractor: International Research and Training Center for Information Technologies and Systems, Professor Vladimir Gritsenko, Director



Personnel: 20000

Contracts: 0

Training: 10000

Equipment: 10000


EmpoweringYoungGirlsWomenthroughICTEnableDevelopment.Project status: Unfunded

Region/country: Bangladesh

Cost (USD): 131220

Project summary: Adolescence, the period between 10 and 19 years, is an important formative

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time, which largely shapes the future course of girls’ lives. What happens during this period of the life cycle has a profound impact on the survival and development of the next generation of children because of adolescents’ roles as older siblings, parents and members of civil society. Adolescent girls of Bangladesh hardly enjoy rights to express their opinions either in the family or society and have very little access to education, information and justice. Girls’ education is widely unaccepted by the slum people of the proposed project areas and most of the slum parents think negative about sending their daughters to schools. The main reasons of the least participation of slum girls in the educational institutions are lack of consciousness about necessity of education among slum parents, humiliation of girls and eve teasing. Every part of the proposed areas has groups of mastans (miscreants), who, with the help of their gangs, lurk in the shadows or in the open fields or highways, waiting to humiliate helpless young girls. The society doesn’t fervor the humiliated girls and instead of supporting the oppressed daughters, parents give them early marriage with a view to rescue them from the social criminals. Stories of young girls killing themselves after being subject to psychological torture and sexual harassment are becoming more and more common. These deaths prove how Bangladesh has become a fertile land for rape, humiliation, and social injustice. The crime of harassing young women until they are pushed to take their own lives continues unabated because the victims and their families are not influential and there is no social justice for the repressed adolescents’ especially girls in Bangladesh.

Contractor: Integrated Socail Development Effort(ISDE) Bangaldesh



Personnel: 35200

Contracts: 2250

Training: 75300

Equipment: 30000


IndigenousKnowledgeCurriculumDevelopmentforUgandaProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Uganda

Cost (USD): 24758

Project summary: Uganda is a multi‐lingual nation forged out of colonial approach where territorial boundaries were drawn more in consideration of political or administrative expediency than out of ethnic or cultural considerations. This has been doubly unfortunate not only in the neglect of the IK among communities, but also it has affected the process of transforming the

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community & socio‐economic development. Much has yet to be done to create the appropriate climate for the infusion and integration of IK innovations into the mainstream of industrial, technological and economic growth and development. A number of efforts have been made in the promotion of community IK in Uganda with varying degree of success. However, there is hardly any strategy to guide integrating the IK skills into the education system nor is there a mechanism for democratising access and raising awareness of its significance to the achievement of community objectives. This project will assess the state of IK in Uganda, establishes requirements for IK curriculum, and designs an appropriate strategy for integration of IK in the school curriculum. The project is conducted in Uganda. Institutions that keep information on IK, including Uganda Museum, National Archives, Cultural Centers, Traditional leaders, Communities based on couties selected from the 4 reagions of Uganda will be source of data. This study will be based at Makerere University at East African School of Library and Information Science.

Contractor: East African School of Library and Information Science, Makerere University



Personnel: 2204

Contracts: 4000

Training: 8400

Equipment: 7000


AidsMessage‐CapacityBuildingonICTandSMSMessagingforHIV/AidsPreventioninBotswanaProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Botswana

Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: Among a population of more than one and a half million people, Botswana has one of the highest HIV/AIDS prevalence rates in the world. Cultural barriers discourage sexuality discussion between children, parents and teachers. Talk Back is a live interactive television program that is aired weekly on Botswana Television. It is the main communication vehicle of the Teacher Capacity Building for HIV/AIDS Prevention in Botswana implemented by the Ministry of Education with the support of the United Nations Development Program – UNDP and from Brazil. There are half million mobile lines in the country, representing a teledensity of 31 lines for every 100 people. SMS refers to “Short Message Service”, a general name for the technology that enables users to send and receive text messages via mobile phones. The project, a South‐toSouth cooperation, will provide capacity building on ICT for technicians and implement an SMS messaging center for

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Talk Back. The Interactivity between viewers and panelists will be greatly enhanced through SMS sent to/from Talk Back during the live broadcast. Viewers can ask questions to panelist. Teachers and students may receive information and reminders, including TV topics and outlines as well as SMS alerts before the broadcast of the TV program.

Contractor: Adonai Rocha



Personnel: 24000

Contracts: 5000

Training: 5000

Equipment: 5000


InformationMigrationUnderInformationForAllProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Zambia

Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: There is urgent need to migrate information from old formats to the ones currently in use on the international scene to save recordings and achieve universality. This is because playbacks for old formats are obsolete while storage conditions are poor mainly due to lack of finances on the part of the Public Broadcaster. Already a substantial amount of important information has been lost due to the Corporation's inability to keep abreast with changes in technology and failure to maintain appropriate storage conditions. Migration requires equipment for both old and new formats as well as take‐up tapes or DVDs (plus monitors). Personnel (Archivist), training and the provison of Computer and software may be borne by the Corporation

Contractor: Imanga Imakando



Personnel: 2000

Contracts: 2000

Training: 1000

Equipment: 20000

Miscellaneous: 0 0

“PoliticalChampionsoftheInformationSocietyinIndia”Project status: Unfunded

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Cost (USD): 50000

Project summary: Background The Ministry of IT of the Government of India has elaborated the telecommunication regulation framework that paved the way for the blooming development of the private sector mostly in urban areas. The ministry of Administrative Reform has initiated some in‐depth transformation of the civil service to increase efficiency and accountability. Going in‐line with the major orientations of the Government of Indian, and focusing on specific issues, this progressive reform aims at developing further communication infrastructures; strengthening human resource capacities and reducing the digital divide existing among states and districts, for the benefit of Indian citizens. In brief, India is being modernizing its administration. However, while improving bureaucracy’s efficiency, another gap might emerge if local political leaders at all levels, form Mukhia to Penchayat, Members of the Legislative Assembly and Members of the Parliament, are not fully involved in this process. Each of them should become aware of development opportunities that IT can bring. Some of them will become Political Champions of the Information Society in India. Major objectives and expected results Organized jointly by the Commonwealth Center for Electronic Governance (CCEG) and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), under the umbrella of the Government of India, and with the support of the Government of Delhi, the training workshop aims to raise awareness of local political leaders on the importance to formulate strategies and implement related action plans at the State, District, Penchayat and Mukhia levels that would make India entering into the Information Society. Conducted through an original approach, following methodological guidance provided by the Commonwealth Center for E‐Governance (CCEG) and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), the proposed awareness seminar will contribute to develop local political leaders capacity to further build public private partnerships. The awareness seminar will be a platform for contributing to or for analysing the results of the IT Chiefs Minister Conference on e‐governance to be held in Delhi 2 – 5 November 2004. It is expected that the results (i) pave the way for the establishment of a capacity building and training programme for political leaders on e‐governance, and (ii) are forwarded to the international level as a contribution to the 2nd World Summit of Local Government on the Information Society (Bilbao, Spain, November 2005) and to the World Summit on the Information Society – WSIS (Tunis, Tunisia, November 2005). Among issues that may be considered are: Þ The role and visibility of Indian States and Cities in the WSIS preparation process Þ Developing Indian experience and expertise in the use of ICT for local development Þ Building public private partnerships to develop Information Society at the local level in India;

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Þ Defining main directions for developing an E‐Governance training programme in India Þ Identifying operational avenues for cooperation beyond the WSIS preparatory process

Contractor: Raj Kumar Prasad



Personnel: 20000

Contracts: 10000

Training: 10000

Equipment: 5000


TwoWayHubforRuralEmpowermentinAngara,Jharkhand,IndiaProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: To target 80 percent of the Indian population who live in the rural sector, make and offer a “Two‐Way Information Hub”, which will, with one hub (Information Pushed through a Kiosk) offer the required information by the local community, and the other hub (Information Pulled) will procure the information, knowledge and wisdom of the local community and region. Whereas one hub will be in the form of local information kiosk, the other hub will be a web‐based virtual entity available for access by the national and global audience. The idea is to outreach the local knowledge assets, skills, products and services to attract external economy to local communities.

Contractor: Osama Manzar



Personnel: 7500

Contracts: 5000

Training: 5000

Equipment: 6000


OpenOfficeinMongolian(OOmnframework)Project status: Unfunded

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Cost (USD): 35000

Project summary: OOmn aims to build the Mongolian environment in the leading international office suite (OpenOffice) for Mongolian‐ speaking users, generally interested persons and researchers. OOmn provides excellent global solution, that will complete the last residually direction (Top‐to‐Down, Left‐to‐Right) in the multidirectional writing system of OpenOffice suite. OpenOffice is one of the largest open source frameworks all over the world and will run on all major platforms and provide access to all functionality and developed expeditiously. This work is very important to save and develop Mongolian culture in modern stage using Information technology. Even with this work will be activated in each form of the cooperation between national users, developers and the international committees.

Contractor: Sanlig Badral



Personnel: 4000

Contracts: 28000

Training: 3000

Equipment: 0

Miscellaneous: 0 0

DesigningtheWebsiteofgovernmentalorganizationsinIran:basicinformationandcommunicationelements.Project status: Unfunded

Region/country: Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: Electronic government is an evolutionary phenomenon which gradually evolves in several stages. Different researchers provide different stages for transition from traditional government to e‐government, but all of them start with dissemination of governmental information. On this basis, developing governmental Websites by providing the essential information as well as needed communications is the first stage of e‐government in countries like Iran. However, if developing the Website of different organizations is independent and without coordination, there may be the dangerous of facing with hundreds of Websites which are heterogeneous. So if governmental Websites follow a relatively same pattern, using them will become routine and users can use them with the less mental confusion. as a result citizens can simply access governmental information. In this regard, one the main success factors of Websites is their contents and it is strongly correlated with Website success. In this project, the design of essential

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information and communications which are necessary to be provided via Iranian governmenta Websites.

Contractor: Iranian Information & Documentation Center (IranDoc)



Personnel: 15000

Contracts: 4000

Training: 1000

Equipment: 3000


DevelopingaVisionofInformatoinSocietyinIran.Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: The remarkable proliferation of information and communication technologies into every facet of human life has turned the very act of defining of information society a global challenge in the 21st century. One of the main approaches to reach a desired situation in every society is developing a national vision for that situation. Vision is a future‐oriented situation which is attainable by following the predefined strategies. Information Society (IS) is not an exception in this regard. So in this project, after reviewing the IS literature, the existing situation of Iran will be examined. Then the main topics of IS vision and for every topic, a draft for IS in Iran will be developed. This draft will be validated by reaching consensus among profesioinals and managers in the related field. Finally, the project will offer a vision of information society for Iran.

Contractor: Iranian Information & Documentation Center (IranDoc)



Personnel: 14000

Contracts: 5000

Training: 2000

Equipment: 2000


RegionalWomen’sInformationandDocumentationNetworkProject status: Unfunded

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Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: The network of women’s information and documentation (INDOC) centres in the new EU member countries, Central and South‐East Europe, to support the development of women's resource centres for information and documentation in other European countries of post‐Communist transition. Uniting the experienced and newly emerging women's INDOC centres since 2001 (15 in total so far), network aims firstly at intensive development of the less advanced national centres as women's resource centres for information, documentation, and educational support. Secondly, its broader target groups are women's organisations, which need both the support to increase their social impact, and the support via networked communications with the similar organisations. These goals will be accomplished by developing production of organised knowledge, facilitating exchange of common experience and collecting of information within the networking countries – not only on the social situation of women, but also on methods of collecting, organising and presenting the information – as well as by including actively all women’s organizations on national/regional levels and enabling them in their operations as well as in cooperation within the network.

Contractor: Zenska infoteka ‐ Women's Information and Documentation Centre



Personnel: 18000

Contracts: 6000

Training: 15000

Equipment: 4000


EmpoweringthevisuallychallengedthroughtheuseofICTProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 24897

Project summary: The program tagged ” Computer training for the Blind” [CTB] is information literacy designed to empower the visually challenged persons in the North Central Zone of Nigeria. Using disability adaptive technologies designed for the disabled and one‐on‐one instruction, blind trainers teach computer awareness, Microsoft® Office suites, and how to access and use the Internet. CTB is a 7‐week training program comprising of two stages. Stage‐I is a 2‐week Computer Appreciation program that prepares the foundation for the visually impaired person and also introduces him/her to the used of a specialized screen reader software “Jaws for Windows”. Stage‐II is a 5‐week specialized Microsoft® Office package which covers:

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• Windows XP OS. • Word 2003 • Excel 2003 • PowerPoint 2003 • Access 2003. • Internet Explorer 6.0 Bola Ige Information Technology Center, Abuja, hosts an Enabling Technologies Room with equipment to support disable people in computer usage, including wheelchair accessible ramps, specialized screen reader software to read words out loud and Braille printers for the blind, and software to increase font size as needed for visually impaired students and visuals clues for deaf patrons. On successful completion of this IT program at the Center, a blind student receives the same certification as any other person, becoming computer literate and having an improved opportunity for gainful employment, thereby assists to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger.

Contractor: Manny Emecheta



Personnel: 6622

Contracts: 3888

Training: 5833

Equipment: 3693


DigitalArchivalDepositoryofEuropeanAncientBooks(DADEAB)Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: More than 50 years ago the evolution of united Europe with common humanistic values of a freedom, democracy, constitutional state, social justice and tolerance, careful relations to different cultural and multilanguage heritage was started. Last year marked 50 years of fruitful cooperation in framework of European Cultural Convention, which promoted an active cooperation of European countries in the field of further development of common European educational, cultural and scientific space.Although libraries in many countries are of great assistance in building knowledge societies, there are a series of obstacles which prevent wide use of resources of libraries as follows: ‐ Limited access to library resources due to special conditions of storage of rare books such as security, air‐conditioning, humidity, temperature mode; ‐ Prohibited touching of ancient rare books due to their fragility and possible

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physical damage; ‐ Very limited copies of rare books for users. There are about 7000 ancient rare books printed in 16–18 century in different European countries (German, France, Italy, Switzerland, Netherlands and other) stored in the library of the Kiev National Taras Shevchenko University (KNTSU) under library funds. Among these books have been printed on Latin, German, French, Italian, Old Slavonic and Hebraic languages. Subjects of these books are different and practically covered all European scientific, cultural and public activities in 16–18 century including religion, history, philosophy, mathematics, belles‐lettres, astronomy, medicine etc. One of the first ancient books in KNTSU library is incunabulum printed in Venice, 1497 on Latin language. Next one ought to point are ancient imprints dated of beginning of 15 century have been printed in Venice, Paris and other European cities. Also KNTSU Scientific library have publications by first European printers of 16‐17 century (Elzevir, Plantena etc.). The project aims to build a digital archival depository for rare books and manuscripts, which represent unique historical and culture objects to the European cultural heritage, that are highly frazzle and vulnerable to physical damage as they have been kept for centuries. The project if realized will allow creating digital copies of ancient books and manuscripts using special scanning technologies and store them in computer‐based special digital electronic depository. Everybody people can have access to different depository’s sections through Internet. So, the information from depository will be open not only for scientists (linguists, historians, archaeologists etc.). The digital electronic depository will be accessible through Internet as public domain databases. Ancient languages specialists will have access to digital copies of books has been written on same languages but in different countries and in different historical periods. It will open up a platform which gives effective possibilities for studying languages, history and European culture. Using this depository in educational process in different organizations (universities, institutions) allows essentially increase the quality level of education. The Scientific library in Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University (KNTSU) named by M. Maksimovich who was first Rector of the university shall be in disposal to make in‐kind contributions to the project to create a model depository.

Contractor: Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University



Personnel: 30000

Contracts: 0

Training: 0

Equipment: 15000

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Miscellaneous: 0 0

PracticalGuide‐ToolKit:ForCameroonCommunityRadioHIV/AIDSpreventionProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Cameroon

Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: 1.1 Cameroon in the spiral of HIV/AIDS A total of 40 million people around the world are living with HIV. Nearly two‐thirds of them live in Sub‐Saharan Africa where Cameroon belongs,and where in the two hardest hit countries HIV prevalence is almost 40%. With only 12 percent of the world’s population, Africa buried 80 percent of the world’s AIDS deaths in 2003 or a little more than 2 million people. Out of 13.4 million children orphaned by AIDS world‐wide, 12.3 million are in Africa. ∙ Nigeria that is a neighbour to Cameroon and Côte d’Ivoire which make up about 60 percent of the 230 million ECOWAS population have high infection rates ‐ over 800,000 people in Côte d’Ivoire and 3 million in Nigeria are known to be living with the HIV virus. It is even feared that life expectancy in these countries including Cameroon could fall to 45 by 2010. ∙ Population mobility and Trans‐border migration is common because of traditional customs, as well as economic integration of countries in the region. ∙ Mother‐to‐child infection continues to spread for want of anti‐retroviral medication, and female genital mutilation, practised in nearly throughout the region, is mostly done out of hospital, with all the attendant health risks. ∙ Campaign messages do not get relayed into the rural areas as fast as is necessary because open discussion on AIDS is not common within the family circle because of traditional beliefs. ∙ All these have combined to fuel the infection spiral so much so that if no concrete measures are urgently taken, the entire development of the 15 countries of the region will be jeopardised by poor health and lack of trained manpower. Although reliable studies on the economic, social or cultural impacts of AIDS for the region are rare, a recent report by the Food and Agricultural Organisation echoes a link Dr. Peter Piot, drew last year between the food crisis in Southern Africa and the spread of AIDS. ∙ Fears that what happened in southern African countries, where many schools lost most of their teaching staff to AIDS could repeat in West and Central Africa, cannot be discarded because teachers tend to prey on school dropouts who easily find openings in informal prostitution, perpetuating the circle of infections. ∙ The current crisis in which millions of cotton farmers in Cameroon find themselves might instead widen that circle because increasingly many children are having to stay out of school. ∙ Recurrent economic crisis and poverty have been particularly nefarious to any actions taken by Cameroon to stem the spread of AIDS because of rape, forced sex, the development of sex labour among the youths for both commercial and safety reasons. ∙ The number of street children in Douala, Yaounde and Bafoussam will rise accordingly, putting more social pressure

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on the already lean financial rope the government has to walk every year. ∙ This will affect the normal functioning of not only families, but the societies and nation according to current predictions. Analyse the existing situation: High illiteracy rates make community radio and the use of the local national languages a key player in the fight against AIDS in Cameroon According to the July/September 2002 edition of UNESCO’s news letter, EDUCATION TODAY, illiteracy rates in sub‐Sahara Africa account for 37 per cent of the 877 million illiterate people in the world for whom functional literacy is still a dream. Almost everyone of them including Cameroon has fallen victim of ignorance in a world where illiteracy is fast becoming a crime. Thousands of people across in Cameroon in particular and in Africa in general still discard safe‐sex campaign messages intended to stem the HIV/AIDS pandemic simply because they are unaware of the very existence of the disease, two full decades after it showed its deadly head! Others use moral arguments and traditional customs to challenge the idea of family planning, saying “all children come from God, and we have no reason to work against his will “ ∙ “Education Statistics 2001 ‐ Regional Report on sub‐Saharan Africa” indicated that if no concrete measures are taken the descent into the abyss would continue. Taken from 49 countries including Cameroon during the 1998‐1999 academic year the figures cover from pre‐primary school and move up through secondary to universities. ∙ An estimated 3‐million primary‐age child was out‐of‐school in Cameroon in 2000 and secondary education “is still not widespread.” That means 3 million adult illiterates in 15 years! ∙ There are lots of disparities in illiteracy statistics between Cameroon’s provinces. In the East Province and Adamaoua Province , for example, only 26 percent of primary‐age children were in school, compared to 93 percent in the Centre and Littoral Provinces. In North West, South West, West, North,Far North and and South Provinces of Cameroon, the unfolding technological revolution is laying bare weaknesses of the illiterate segment of the population. In others the need to read or write is not so obvious to ordinary citizens. HIV/AIDS CRISIS DRIVES DOWN LIFE EXPECTANCY, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT RANKINGS IN SUB SAHARAN AFRICA The AIDS crisis has cut life expectancy in many African countries including Cameroon to less than 40 years, making it the biggest factor in the dramatic decline of overall human development indicators in the continent, according to last year’s Human Development Index, released world‐wide in Bangkok on 15 July 2004. The grim statistics on declining human development trends in much of sub‐Saharan Africa were disclosed at a panel discussion in Bangkok at the XV International Conference on AIDS. Sub‐Saharan Africa is home to just over ten percent of the world’s population – and to almost two‐thirds of all people living with HIV. In 2003, an estimated three million people became newly infected, and 2.2 million died. UNDP’s 2004 Human Development Index shows that 13 sub‐Saharan Africa countries have suffered dramatic reversals in human development since 1990, a decline largely attributable to the AIDS pandemic. In some of these countries, the rising prevalence of HIV/AIDS since 1990 has driven life expectancy down below 40 years. Why the FM Community Radios? As illiteracy persists, so does the phenomenon of

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community radio become particularly relevant in this process of communication against AIDS. Local animators can use local languages and speak in a way that suits the locals. A community radio ∙ serves a geographically recognisable community or community of common interest, ∙ promotes the right to communicate, ∙ assists the free flow of information and opinions, ∙ encourages creative expression, ∙ encourages participatory programming, ∙ contributes to democratisation and a multicultural society and provides, ∙ local voices, and alternative news. There are important differences between community radio and a mainstream /commercial radio, which makes the former better, suited for the campaign against AIDS context: ∙ They are not commercially motivated, and it is not state owned. ∙ They are not participatory and action oriented, its main mission is community empowerment. ∙ They are free of outside interference from t he state, as well as political and commercial sectors. ∙ They are funded by both the public and private sectors, as worked out by the communities involved. ∙ Because community radios enable disadvantaged communities to speak about issues that concern them at the local level, links are created between development, democracy and community media. ∙ Local communities can easily identify their problems and how they perceive them being solved. ∙ They are more confident in articulating their issues. ∙ In a nutshell, they now realise that they are a kind of “communication channel” that is available to majority or grassroots people. There are, however, some constraints, which deserved to be addressed in order to make them effective and efficient: ∙ The concept of community media is not yet well understood by policy makers and communities of some African countries. This is because in some countries, the words “communities” and “tribes” have come to insinuate negative political overtones. In reality, there are different perceptions of “community”, and it is important to have a common understanding of the term community, which usually refers to a geographical entity. ∙ A different notion of community relates to a group of people with common interests. ∙ In some cultures and countries, the notion of community good has been misinterpreted to mean that which has no value; making the management and sustainability of the community radio project difficult. ∙ Volunteerism in community media and how long this should continue is an issue facing the Cameroon Link Network. ∙ The core teams including the co‐ordinator are people who work for other organisations and therefore their availability to perform tasks at the agreed time is not always assured. ∙ The challenge is to have permanent staff to implement the Network’s decisions at the national level. ∙ “Another challenge is to change the attitude of the society, so that community media can be given the place it deserves as opposed to treating the sector as only entertainers. The essence of community radio is that it operates in an environment where the community defines the medium and the medium defines the community, regardless of the form of ownership and management. The community radio phenomenon – its popularity – is a force to reckon with in Cameroon today. For it is ideally suited to give individuals and communities access to information, entertainment and education that is relevant and meaningful to their lives, and in a language close to their hearts. Upgrading the performance of community radio in the fight against AIDS in

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Cameroon remains a challenge. The philosophy of Community Radio is based on development‐oriented, horizontal communication structures, which are owned and run by communities, as opposed to top‐down communication structures. Community media reinforces the values of solidarity and participation, which are important elements in the development process. Because there is a clear potential for community media to promote participation in public affairs and discourse, there is also a potential to behavioural change while at the same time reinforcing habits which hinder the spread of HIV/AIDS This is why the spread of community radio networks is an opportunity which can be harnessed to : ∙ Get anti‐AIDS messages right down to the local population who have been left out of the mainstream media – newspapers, government‐owned and commercial radio stations. ∙ Create group discussions on the pandemic within families and communities. ∙ Dispel traditional beliefs which hinder. ∙ Encourage women empowerment, the absence of which makes the women vulnerable to forced marriages, incest, rape. ∙ Discourage traditional practices which fuel the spread of AIDS – female genital mutilations – early marriages – adolescent pregnancy etc. This must be done in a manner that takes care of the culture of the locals. To do this, people (in this case, reporters and as well as the management of community radios) must be knowledgeable about their history, the information needs of their community, and the constraints that limit the achievement of their aspirations in the fight against AIDS. Community media structures and the radio in particular would fulfil the above needs by : ∙ strengthening and empowering those who run the community radios to become aware of new possibilities and options to address the AIDS pandemic ∙ strengthening the endeavors of the local community through the process of media interaction. ∙ strengthening the ability of the adolescent girl child to appreciate the need for safe sex ∙ strengthening the capacity of the local community leaders to pan anti‐AIDS campaign drives ∙ encouraging open debate on subjects which are otherwise considered as taboo. Cameroon link is also embarking on greater advocacy for networking with other stakeholders to push for a comprehensive overhaul of the current legal regime governing the media in Cameroon. .

Contractor: James Achanyi‐Fontem



Personnel: 6000

Contracts: 6000

Training: 6000

Equipment: 5000


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INTERGRATINGINFROMATIONTECHNOLGIESINTOAGRICULTURALPROCESSESProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 20000

Project summary: The African continent as we it, has significant limitations in its ability to provide its people with access to ICT facilities or services. These limitations are more pronounced in our rural communities especially as it relates to women. Women in this part of the world have a peculiar digital divide affecting them. The issues of literacy, limited political influence, household responsibilities, etc further compound this. The eShekels report on the trends in Internet Usage in Nigeria (July 2002) gave a 0.001% usage for women in the rural places. This ought not to be! Another recent development is that of the importance of ICT to rural people. At an e‐commerce assessment seminar by AITEC Africa in 2002, it was proposed that there are two kinds of people in this debate. The first is the e‐uphoric enthusiasts who see ICT as the all‐in‐all, the answer to all the financial anomalies facing the African continent. On the other hand are the groups that are perpetually skeptical of any positive impact of ICT in the fortunes of the people. The answer naturally lies in between these opinions. This project comes as a calculated attempt to answer these questions.

Contractor: Sowunmi Olabode Jr



Personnel: 3000

Contracts: 5000

Training: 5000

Equipment: 6000


BulgariaandtheInformationLiteracyin21stCenturyProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Bulgaria

Cost (USD): 23920

Project summary: The project will be set up as a pilot one in the area of information literacy for the region of Varna, Bulgaria (East Europe). It aims to promote international concepts and achievements regarding the information literacy

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and to build local capacity through 1) carrying out “Training of Trainers” module; 2) organization of networking and learning events such as a conference, titled “Varna Forum on Information Literacy”, three business breakfasts, interviewing of focus groups and development of test for core competences; 3) elaboration of a project web‐site with a directory of on‐line resources , tools and manuals for information literacy; 4) issuing four electronic bulletins, the publication “Information Literacy Standards”, web‐based tutorial “Step‐by‐Step in the Information Literacy”, CDs and project promotional leaflet. The project is designed to continue 12 months. It will target a variety of groups in the region and nationwide, more specifically decision‐makers and educational professionals at national and local level as well as representatives of the media, businesses, government agencies, not‐for‐profit organizations and institutions. The number of direct project beneficiaries will be 3300 along with additional 1000 individuals who are expected to approach the project web‐site in search of information. The project achievements and lessons learned will be discussed at a conference, scheduled to be held at the last month of project cycle. Along with other presentations and topics discussed, they will contribute for outlining possible measures and action plan for encouraging further initiatives on information literacy in the region. All project results will be included in a final report that will be disseminated to the country’s network of regional development agencies, to VEDA members, partner, and clients.

Contractor: Varna Economic Development Agency



Personnel: 10800

Contracts: 4100

Training: 3710

Equipment: 3500


PromotedialogueanddisseminateinformationfortheempowermentofdisabledpeopleinSouthernAfricaProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 30000

Project summary: Summary of the Proposal: Information is power – and information is essential for advocacy and lobbying. Disabled People's Organisations (DPOs) and disabled people need information for advocating and lobbying for recognition of their human

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rights. To strengthen the capacity of DPOs and empower people with disabilities in the Southern African region, SAFOD promotes dialogue and dissemination of information among the disability movement at all levels. The project aims to use all means of information and communication, printed material as well as IT (E‐mail, Internet, Web‐site) to strengthen the flow of information among the DPOs in the region, to give disabled people a voice and a discussion platform for themselves to claim the inclusion of disability issues into development policies, strategies and programmes. The project will benefit the national DPOs of Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The project will reach the member organisations of the a.m. national Federations. The project will emphasise: • Giving information to disabled people about development • Giving disabled people a voice to express themselves • Giving disabled people a platform to discuss the inclusion of disability issues in development • Empower disabled people to use all means of information, especially ICT

Contractor: SAFOD



Personnel: 5000

Contracts: 5000

Training: 10000

Equipment: 7000


CréationdusiteWebdel'ICMAA,publicationsurpapier,surCD‐RominteractifetsurInternetdeTaloha14Project status: Unfunded

Region/country: Madagascar

Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: Ce projet constitue une nouveauté dans la mesure où il est une application tangible des Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication (TIC). Il demande un financement pour la création du site Web de l’Institut de Civilisations/ Musée d’Art et d’Archéologie et pour la publication en ligne du numéro 14 de la revue TALOHA. TALOHA est la revue apériodique de l'Institut de Civilisations/Musée d'Art et d'Archéologie (IC/MAA). Son premier numéro a paru en juin 1965. La revue

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prépare maintenant son quatorzième numéro. Elle se consacre à la civilisation de Madagascar, matérielle et immatérielle. De ce fait, des thèmes très variés, allant de l'archéologie à l'ethnologie, en passant par l'histoire, l'anthropologie et l'art, y sont traités. La revue a un caractère pluridisciplinaire. Outre les chercheurs de l'IC/MAA (archéologues, géographes, historiens, anthropologues, botanistes, linguistes, musicologues, juristes, etc.) des scientifiques de renommée nationale et internationale y publient leurs recherches. Malgré son tirage assez restreint (500 à 1000 ex.) elle est bien connue dans les milieux scientifiques, aussi bien dans les universités malagasy que dans plusieurs pays du monde. TALOHA est une source obligée pour les étudiants, les enseignants ou tout autre chercheur.

Contractor: RAKOTONDRASOA LALA MODESTE, enseignant‐chercheur en Enthropologie à l'IC MAA.



Personnel: 8000

Contracts: 25000

Training: 8000

Equipment: 3000


DigitalizedRoyalAcademyofCambodiaLibraryProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Cambodia

Cost (USD): 9840

Project summary: The Royal Academy of Cambodia was created by a Royal Decree of 27 December 1999 and placed under the Office of the Council of Ministers. The Royal Academy of Cambodia is composed of five institutes: Culture and Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Biology Medicine and Agriculture, Science and Technology and the Institute of National Language. According to the article 3 of RAC's sub‐degree, July 2000, Royal Academy of Cambodia has the tasks to train the students in master degree and PhD. The first promotion has 10 majors with 60 students and 10 subjects. Then, the second promotion has 12 disciplines with 70 students. The third promotion consist of 14 majors with 70 students and 14 subjects The RAC has launched 4 trainings: the first promotion of Pre‐PhD class, 4th promotion of Master degree, Master of mathematics, and archeology. Totally, the four trainings enrolled 216 students. On December 11, 2004, the RAC signed an agreement of cooperation with Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies. In this necessary requirement, the RAC keeps going on its task to train high national intellectuals to be the real specialists in each field. Hence, trainings to come after are the follow: 1. First promotion of PhD class of 40 students.

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2. Second promotion of Pre‐PhD class with 80 students 3. Fifth promotion of Master degree with 50 students The RAC tries and founds itself to be Center of Excellence in study and research in the country by targeting good governance as the core of training offered to national high intellectuals to get a great success. According to the above objectives and activities with mass students and researchers the digitalized library is needed for RAC to achieve the task successfully.

Contractor: Mrs. Prom Tevy, Head of Publication and Library Department



Personnel: 3750

Contracts: 0

Training: 1600

Equipment: 4450

Miscellaneous: 40 0

Seminar‐WorkshoponHandling,StorageandPreservationofDocumentaryHeritageinVariousFormatsProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 27480

Project summary: Much of the Asia‐Pacific Region’s rich informational heritage which are found mostly in libraries, archives, museums and keeping places are at risk due to national calamities (floods, fire), man‐made disasters (looting, war), gradual deterioration due to human ignorance or neglect in providing basic care, housing and protection or rapid technical obsolescence. Today, the current and most urgent concern is the risk/threat posed by the rapid technical obsolescence to the long‐term preservation of and access to documentary materials that have been created digitally or migrated from existing analogue resources to digital forms. What is not much given attention is that aside from the traditional documentary sources, we also have information in different formats which need proper preservation as well. This seminar‐workshop is proposed in response to this need. This is intended for the region’s archivists who are in charge of their respective preservation departments. 1 archivist from each country from the Asia and the Pacific region is expected. The seminar‐workshop shall employ lecture‐discussions, policy writing, workshops, hands‐on exercises and institutional visits.

Contractor: South East Asia Pacific Audio Visual Archives Association (SEAPAVAA)


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Personnel: 15000

Contracts: 4500

Training: 1680

Equipment: 4500


Améliorationdel'accèsaufondsdesmémoires,thèsesetautresétudesconservésàlaBibliothèqueUniversitairedeConakry.Project status: Unfunded

Region/country: Guinea

Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: L'observation du vécu quotidien dans les institutions publiques et les organisations privées de la Guinée laissent apparaître des lacunes dans le fonctionnement du cycle de l'information et de la communication. Les personnes impliquées dans les opérations de développement ou qui souhaitent monter un projet d'intérêt économique, les chercheurs, les décideurs à quelque niveau qu'ils soient souffrent du manque d'informations scientifiques, techniques, économiques, juridiques etc. Cet état de fait coûte évidemment cher au pays, obligé parfois de faire appel à des expertises fort coûteuses pour refaire des études que l'on ne retrouve pas ou dont on ignore l'existence; ou encore chercher ailleurs, à grands frais, des informations, pas nécessairement pertinentes, alors que dorment des sources qui pourraient répondre aux besoins mais qui ne peuvent pas être utilisées, faute d'avoir été correctement traitées et publiées. C'est notamment le cas à l'université de Conakry où, depuis 1966, des rapports de mémoires et de thèses traitant des problèmes liés aux préoccupations nationales, sont déposés chaque année à la bibliothèque universitaire. Ces documents dont le nombre est approximativement évalué à plus de 20.000 unités restent inexploités faute de personnel qualifié pour son traitement et son organisation. Par ailleurs, la prise de conscience de l'importance de l'information pour le développement fait proliférer depuis un certain temps des services d'information et de documentation partout en guinée. Mais la situation d'ensemble de ces structures documentaires reste en tous points de vue préoccupantes : insuffisance ou manque de ressources financières, faiblesse des ressources humaines insuffisantes en nombre et en qualité pour la collecte de l'information, son organisation, son traitement et la mise en place de mécanismes pour sa diffusion. Faute de cadre général de formulation et de coordination de la politique nationale en matière d'information et de documentation, la création et le développement des unités documentaire se font dans l'isolement le plus complet. L'informatisation des centres, si elle se fait, n'obéit pas à une discipline

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collective dans le choix du matériel et des logiciels, ce qui n'est pas de nature à faciliter l'échange d'information et de documents

Contractor: Diallo Aïssatou



Personnel: 10000

Contracts: 2000

Training: 5000

Equipment: 5000


HistoricalDocumentsPreservationProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 23059

Project summary: The Municipal Historical Museum of Bratsigovo has in its possession issues of the newspaper “Napreduck.” These newspapers dating back to 1874 are unique and scarce in quantity. They contain information of past events in the municipality and of its development. The documentation and popularization of our past is of great importance for the research of historians. Restoring, preserving, and storage of all these issues are essential to this research. Restoring the newspapers presents an opportunity for creating an illustrative informational catalogue. This establishes better access to information stored in the newspapers and aid in research and analysis. The newspapers have never been restored and are not available for public viewing due to their bad condition and the fast amortization of the materials of which they are made. Restoration and proper storage of these unique newspapers involve utilizing a specialized treatment and supporting methods for long lasting storage of the originals while copies are exhibited. This process will take up to one year to complete. The Municipality of Bratsigovo doesn’t have the necessary funds to meet the needs of this project. This is catastrophic for the untreated copies, which are important bearers of information for culture and history in the region.

Contractor: Matthew Wahlgren



Personnel: 1447

Contracts: 330

Training: 0

Equipment: 21282

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Miscellaneous: 0 0

InformationmanagementanddisseminationthroughSEUFwebsiteandintranet.Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 24050

Project summary: Socio Economic Unit Foundation (SEUF), a leading non governmental organisation in Kerala, India, having almost two decade’s of unique experiences in Water and Sanitation Sector is in a transforming stage as a Resource Centre. Documenting all efforts initiated by the organisation including studies, lessons learned, methodologies used in each project, processes evolved, knowledge scattered among its members, indigenous wisdom experienced on the course of realisation of different projects etc need to be documented and disseminated for to be the part of emerging knowledge society. In India especially in Kerala there are ample government institutions, organisations and individuals who have a keen sector interest and who do are in their effort for achieving total water and sanitation coverage, need good information and knowledge support. For the free access of ideas and knowledge available within the SEUF boundary and within Kerala in the water and sanitation sector for others, SEUF would like to develop and host a website with IRC’s (www.irc.nl) input. There will be a quarterly electronic magazine in the initial stage for the wider national and global audience and printed one for those who don’t have access to ICTs. An editorial board will be constituted for the effective management of quality information within SEUF. Representatives from each regional office will be trained on the proper management of website content. The intranet part will be used for communication in between all offices of SEUF. Pilot website http://seuf.watsan.net

Contractor: Socio Economic Unit Foundation



Personnel: 11700

Contracts: 1300

Training: 3250

Equipment: 6500

Miscellaneous: 0 0

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DigitalcommunicationWATSANsectorSouthAfricaProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: South Africa

Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: The Mvula Trust is best known for its work in implementation and program management support. Recently the focus is more in the strategic support to municipalities in the areas of development of policies, planning, funding mechanisms, delivery models and training. All these categories mentioned, are being documented and stored in different formats, drives and systems which people are not accessing. Sharing of this WATSAN information is done by individual organisations within their area of expertise. Mvula has developed a number of documents and publications of which some have been developed as case studies, stories from the field and conference papers. Others have been developed as policy papers, guidelines, etc. Two regular publications ‐ Maru‐a‐Pula and an annual Mvula Diary are also produced and they are always in demand. More other information is resourced in our 8 regional offices and there is not system to effectively communicate this information internally and also externally. Therefore, one system, which can allow Mvula staff to tap into and access information, is needed. The system will also cater for other players in the sector to know and to contribute information.

Contractor: The Mvula Trust



Personnel: 16000

Contracts: 1300

Training: 2700

Equipment: 5000

Miscellaneous: 0 0

UsingelectronicmediumforthemanagementanddisseminationofinformationintheGhanaianWaterandSanitationSector.Project status: Unfunded

Region/country: Ghana

Cost (USD): 23940

Project summary: The Water and sanitation sector in Ghana has achieved much by way of coverage improvement but the process has not incorporated much learning or knowledge management. In addition to increased investments under the ongoing water and sanitation sector reform, information and knowledge are needed to ensure that the sector is tackling its challenges in the most effective way that the investments made in the sector really meet the needs of users and achieve their full potential.

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Recognising this need for strengthened information and knowledge management, Training, Research and Networking for Development (TREND) Group a local NGO, is leading the effort of a resource centre network (RCN) in Ghana to transform the sector into a learning and knowledge driven sector. In raising the profile of information/knowledge TREND seeks carry out applied research, advocacy, training and documentation disseminating results through various media including its website. TREND is committed to supporting the Government of Ghana's drive to improve the standard of living of its people, particularly the majority who live in rural areas and low‐income urban areas through the promotion of an information and knowledge management culture.

Contractor: Training, Research and Networking for Development (TREND) Group



Personnel: 10000

Contracts: 1300

Training: 3300

Equipment: 10340

Miscellaneous: 0 0

DisseminationofinformationonwastewatertreatmentandreuseandurbanagriculturepracticesProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Mali

Cost (USD): 24000

Project summary: The Inter‐Islamic Network on Water Resources Development and Magangement (INWRDAM) is an inter‐governmental, autonomous organization operating under the umbrella of the Standing Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation (COMSTECH) of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC). INWRDAM was established in 1987 and since then has expanded to include 15 OIC member states (Bangladesh, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mali, Niger, Oman, Pakistan, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey and Yemen). The objectives of INWRDAM in brief are: to collaborate and cooperate in the areas of water resources development and management, to exchange information and share experiences, to set up and maintain a data bank in the subjects related to water issues taking into account common interests of the subscribing countries, to initiate joint projects of research and development, training of manpower and to render consultancy and advisory services. The aim of this project is strengthen flow of information and experience of INWRDAM. INWRDAM regularly conducts applied research on wastewater treatment and in particular greywater treatment and reuse for urban agriculture

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beneficiaries. The research results obtained by INWRDAM are demanded by wide spectrum of researchers, especially in developed countries. Regional and international conferences and scientific meetings are for a for dissemination of information, but the advent of the Internet has provided vast opportunity to communicate with other organizations and end users of research results in developing countries. INWRDAM had identified research issues that need further investigations at local and international levels. The present home page of INWRDAM hosted at IRC at www.inwrdam.org provide very useful and many requests for information on wastewater subjects are submitted to INWRDAM. The requested funding will enable INWRDAM to sustain this service on regular annual basis.

Contractor: Eng. Shihab Najib Al‐Beiruti



Personnel: 14200

Contracts: 1300

Training: 3000

Equipment: 1500


CIR‐AQUA:CentroIntegradodeRecursosdeÁguaProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Angola

Cost (USD): 21000

Project summary: CIR‐AQUA is a website created inside Portal’s family by IRC (International Water and Sanitation Centre). This site has the main objective of disseminating relevant information and knowledge on water, its uses, its management and perspectives of access in an unequal opportunities world, which is easily accessible in the internet resources. The site aims to build a virtual place for information exchange and knowledge on water issues, under a perspective of sustainable development, of water as a human right and water management as a territorial activity. The activities previewed are, in a first phase, mainly the exchange and dissemination of information, but it is an objective of this project that different organizations and projects may help each‐other in finding the relevant information sources for their needs (own functions, projects, etc) through CIR‐AQUA. A dimension of research is also present in the kind of information presented on ‘Themes’ chosen: Water and Local Development; Planning Process; Institutional Issues; Sustainability Engineering. This site is oriented mainly to the Lusophone countries (Portugal, Angola, Moçambique, Guiné‐Bissau, S.Tomé, Cabo Verde, Timor and Brasil), giving special attention to information related with projects in those countries. But

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it has bilingual general information on most menus. Gradually, links with local or national organizations will be created inside the website, in order to build in the future a Lusophone network on this field. Partners in Portugal are two Research Centres of the Technical University of Lisbon (CESUR ‐ http://cesur.civil.ist.utl.pt) and CEHIDRO ‐ http://www.civil.ist.utl.pt/cehidro), the Portuguese Association for Water Resources (APRH – www.aprh.pt), a Development NGO (CIDAC – www.cidac.pt) and a Science Shop (METIS ‐ http://www.lojadosaber.net).

Contractor: Eng. Maria Susana Neto



Personnel: 16000

Contracts: 1300

Training: 3250

Equipment: 450

Miscellaneous: 0 0

OpenSourceSoftwareProject:DisseminationandTrainingforRemoteandLow‐AccessComputingCommunitiesProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: There has been a global movement towards open source systems with an emphasis on utilizing Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) as an adaptable tool in ICT for Development. These cost‐effective and flexible programs give users in developing countries the freedom to obtain and adapt software to local needs that serve as a catalyst for stronger and sustainable local ICT industries. The primary distribution method for FOSS is through Internet downloads; however many computers in developing countries, including those used by local NGO’s and CBO’s, either have unreliable or no internet access or have limited bandwidth and downloading capabilities. Additionally, Internet use is often billed on a time or bandwidth‐use basis which can become quite costly.The First Voice International Multimedia Service (MMS) allows users to access important development information by simply connecting their PC to an affordable WorldSpace satellite receiver, which allows the user to download 64kbps of content directly onto a hard drive without depending on any terrestrial infrastructure or ISP. The MMS has over a thousand current users including NGO’s, CBO’s, governmental organizations and community radio stations. These users – many of them off the Internet map – are able to connect to our one‐way web based broadcast and download information for their work (see our mirror site:

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http://www.fvimms.org/bcast_manage/content/af_mirror/fvicontent/). The objective of the FVI Open Source Software Project (OSSP) is to broadcast FOSS to our existing clients to expand the reach of FOSS to remote and low‐access computing communities. Through the FVI OSSP we hope to disseminate FOSS through the MMS, increase the number of users of the service, and begin a Training of Trainers program to key organizations in order to ensure the effective use and maintenance of the programs.

Contractor: First Voice International



Personnel: 12000

Contracts: 0

Training: 8000

Equipment: 25000

Miscellaneous: 0 0

AutomaticHarvestingandFederatingofFAO'sAGRISandASFADatabasesProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 44999

Project summary: In the year 1985, UNESCO launched the CDS/ISIS software package for personal computers. It has since become one of the most widely used tools for information organization and retrieval, especially in the developing countries. Over the years, thousands of databases have been created using CDS/ISIS. Some of these databases are accessible on the web, but a good majority of them are still on standalone systems or on a local area network. There is no federated digital library that provides a unified search interface to all these databases, which we believe is necessary for faster dissemination. Building a federation of these databases and making it available over the Internet will also address inequities in access to this information to the developing countries. For example, a federated digital library of FAO databases like AGRIS and AFSA would make latest information on agriculture, forestry and fisheries practices to remote places in Sri Lanka, and India. One of the major efforts to make such federation possible is the Open Archives Initiative (OAI). The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) is an international effort focused on furthering the interoperability of bibliographic databases through the use of "metadata harvesting". The OAI framework supports data providers (archives) and service providers. Service providers develop value‐added services based on the information collected from cooperating archives. These value added services could take the form of a federated search engine like Arc [4]. In this project, we propose to bring CDS/ISIS databases into the realm of OAI

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framework and build a federated search engine, which will allow users to search all the participating databases from a single interface. We will demonstrate a prototype federation service based on automatic harvesting of metadata from participating data providers for Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) AGRIS and ASFA databases. AGRIS is the international information system for the agricultural sciences and technology. Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) is an International Cooperative Information System which comprises an abstracting and indexing service covering the world's literature on the science, technology, management, and conservation of marine, brackish water, and freshwater resources and environments, including their socio‐economic and legal aspects. Besides solving the technical issues of making CD/ISIS databases OAI‐compliant for a variety of domains such as agriculture and science, we face the issues of managing the distribution of code, creating installation support, and maintenance. The long range goal is to federate all UNESCO digital libraries with the medium range goal is to federate all digital libraries that use the CDS/ISIS software. As we proceed with the building of the system we will also study the requirements of the medium and long range goal so as to have at the end of the project a working federation and a report on the feasibility and cost of a complete federation.

Contractor: Dr. Kurt Maly



Personnel: 19999

Contracts: 7000

Training: 10000

Equipment: 0


LiteracyResourceCentreProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Pakistan

Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: PACADE, the National NGO for literacy and Continuing Education in Pakistan, aims to set up a Literacy Resource Centre. Such a centre would: 1. Develop literacy information systems for data collection from agencies and institutions including the NGOs. 2. Set up a documentation unit and maintain a databae of information abot literacy programmes, policies and practices. 3. Undertake research on various literacy methodologies and practices. 4. Develop material on literacy including audio& visuals. 5. Carry out capacity building programmes for literacy professionals.

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Contractor: PACADE (President Mr. Inayatullah)



Personnel: 6000

Contracts: 0

Training: 6000

Equipment: 6000


InformationLiteracyforWomenProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Togo

Cost (USD): 22989.09

Project summary: In Togo Women do not have information or the appropriate information to help them lead a good life to work for their promotion and the development of their communities. This project is aiming at fighting the discrimination against women in information getting, on the one hand. On the other hand, this project will contribute to give women the appropriate information in the fields of: Reproductive Health, Child Care, Human Rights, Economic Activities ‐ To set information tools such as booklets, bags, tee‐shirts, with special messages ‐ To have specific radio training messages for women ‐ To provide the trainees with small radio set to allow them to get information ‐ To launch a Women Organization Network for IFAP. The activities of the project are:

Contractor: FLORAISON



Personnel: 4363.6300000000001

Contracts: 4454.54

Training: 6000

Equipment: 3436.3600000000001

Miscellaneous: 4734.54 0

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DevelopingprogramsandaccessforBolivianIndigenousCommunitiestotheInternetProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Latin America and Caribbean

Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: This project will create web programs and content in Quechua, Aymara and Guarani languages to encourage and strengthen access of Bolivia´s multiethnic communitiy to the Internet. The materials will include cultural traditions, natural medicine, traditional agricultural systems and indigenous perspectives that will be presented through the Bolivia Country Portal that the Foundation to Promote ICT in Bolivia (FUNDETIC) is implementing with the Development Gateway Foundation and Country Portal Network. Members of the numerous indigenous communities in Bolivia will participate in the creation of culturally appropriate content and contribute to the preservation and promotion of equality in the use of ICT. The role of women in traditional socities will be given particular priority.

Contractor: Foundation for the Promotion of ICT in Bolivia (FUNDETIC)



Personnel: 6100

Contracts: 6300

Training: 5600

Equipment: 4500


DigitalpreservationofmusicalheritageinCaspianSearegionProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Kazakhstan

Cost (USD): 34000

Project summary: Ethnic music of peoples of Central Asia is the important cultural heritage. However available audio and video of records are made on old analog level. Quality of records is constantly worsened and also many products are already lost. Moreover, so diversified data are not recorded in good order. These data are no longer available at government levels and only private groups and individuals are main owners of such records in Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia and Uzbekistan. As the general condition and a low level of penetration of digital technologies in this region extremely low, the chance for preservation and maintenance of availability to them is given with modern information technologies.

Contractor: Information and research centre SIBIS

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Personnel: 12000

Contracts: 5000

Training: 3000

Equipment: 13000


AfricaPublishing.comProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: This is an online business aimed at empowering Africa with information relevant to its development needs. Utilising the strengths and opportunities offered by ICT with regard to making information available and affordable to all corners of the world, AfricaPublishing.com will create Africa information societies who will jumpstart the continent's development into the information age that is the 21st century.

Contractor: David Ng'ang'a



Personnel: 34840

Contracts: 0

Training: 0

Equipment: 3375


Large‐scalemultilanguageInformationmanagementplatformProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 42000

Project summary: In this project an enterprise software system will be developed with twofold aims: first, helping owners of information to easily and securely, publish their information in an exciting, manageable, consistent and distributed way, and on the other side helping, users of information the ability to easily find their necessary information and related subjects in a consistent way. Also this system will provide the functionality of discussing topics in a collaborative way. Above features will help users to deepen more in the semantic context of

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any piece of information through exposing them relevant topics and their counterparts ideas which has been proposed in forum Also, due to special architecture of this system all of the information which has been published by authors of various branch and relevant organizations, will be consolidated in a centralized database, and so, can easily be used for future applications. Additional features of this system are as the following: 1‐ Robust Security model by integrating security features of best of breed security technology solution providers 2‐ Multilingual Content management System 3‐ Full‐text search capability

Contractor: Ali Kazemi Moghaddam



Personnel: 5000

Contracts: 27000

Training: 10000

Equipment: 0

Miscellaneous: 0 0

Accesstomovingimagesbymanylanguagegroups:localisingtheMICresourceProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: The Moving Image Collections: a Window to the World's Moving Images (MIC, available at http://mic.imtc.gatech.edu/) is community‐driven and all help is welcome. However, the MIC interface is available only in English. The Audiovisual and Multimedia Section (AVMS) of IFLA is studying how the MIC site might be localised for users in communities that speak languages other than English. We propose to (1) provide the MIC project with a report on the needs of other language communities; (2) make versions of the site in three of the world’s important languages: French, Spanish, and Arabic by providing MIC with html files ready to install; and (3) build a kit that can be installed on the MIC site to show members of other language groups how to research local collections and build versions of the site for their language group. Funding from IFLA IFAP would allow us to hire student assistants to accomplish this work. Four meetings of the team members are projected, the first and last to take place at IFLA Oslo and IFLA Seoul, and the two in between in Montréal, Montevideo or Alexandria. Travel funding is needed only for the meetings betweeen the IFLA conferences.

Contractor: James M Turner

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Personnel: 27000

Contracts: 0

Training: 0

Equipment: 0


AsianEncountersProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: Asian Encounters has a vision of socio‐economic equality for Asia¡¦s indigenous minorities who have suffered neglect, exploitation and exclusion from mainstream development. Our mission is to reduce the poverty of Asia¡¦s rural indigenous minority communities by empowering them with ICTs in the form of Community Multimedia Centres (CMCs) that they will use to promote sustainable pro‐poor Community Based Tourism (CBT) on the Internet. We call this Electronic Commerce for CBT, or e‐CBT. We implement e‐CBT in suitable indigenous communities in Asia, and partner with national tourism authorities and aid agencies. We provide appropriate software tools and train local people to use them to populate their own tourism and virtual museum web site, and help them develop their tourism products. By advocating our approach to poverty alleviation and socio‐economic inclusion, we will influence these organisations towards wide scale implementations of e‐CBT. e‐CBT bolsters CMC sustainability by generating revenues, thereby fostering their use for additional development activities. We are already working in Viet Nam with 2 aid agencies and in Sabah, Malaysia with the tourism authority.

Contractor: Roger Harris



Personnel: 10000

Contracts: 10000

Training: 5000

Equipment: 15000


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Créationd'unlaboratoireInternetProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Haiti

Cost (USD): 23000

Project summary: Plus de 8 ans d'existence et d'expérience dans la communauté de Liancourt(section communale des Verette), la bibliothèque flanmlespwa a survecu aux multiples problèmes qu'a connu Haiti. Nos principales réalisations dans le domaine d'éducation nous donnent assez d'expérience pour comprendre la necessité d'ouvrir la bibliothèque vers le monde extérieur en créant le laboratoire internet. Nous avons un personnel expérimenté, un système d'electrification 24/24, un générateur electrique en backup, des ouvrages, un local propre à nous construit dans les année 2001 ‐ 2004 grace au seul support de financement de Fokal. Nous avons réalisé dans le passé des seminaires de formation dans la localité favorisant ainsi la disponibilité d'un minimum de personnel capable de commencer l'utilisation de ce laboratoire. Nous avons ainsi besoin de : 10 Ordinateurs, Une connexion Internet et une mie en reseau des ces ordinateur. Mis en place d'une salle speciale a cet effet

Contractor: Bibliothèque Flanm Lespwa



Personnel: 3000

Contracts: 2000

Training: 8000

Equipment: 9000


7thInternationalConference‘LawandInternet’Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 32700

Project summary: The annual conference divides on six Thematic Meetings: Intellectual Property in Cyberspace, e‐Government & e‐Commerce, Cyberethics & Cybercrime, Universal Access to the Public Domain Information, Online Media, and Online Education. The participants are also discussing the number of different topics concerning ‘virtual aspects’ of common relations during the open roundtables. The Conference is the one international conference in ex‐USSR countries focused on that topics. The Conference included public introduction of new documents of UNESCO

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such as Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Governmental Public Domain Information, Charter on the Preservation of the Digital Heritage, Recommendation concerning the Promotion and Use of Multilingualism and Universal Access to Cyberspace as well, as the number of draft national level acts. The Conference attended by spokespersons of Ministries and other federal and regional offices, Parliament of Russia, experts of leading educational, research, cultural and communication institutions and media outlets from ex‐USSR countries as well, as from France, Germany, Japan, Netherlands and USA. The 5th Conference was opened by Welcome Message from UNESCO Director General Mr. Koichiro Matsuura.

Contractor: Interregional public organization to support the Information for All UNESCO Program



Personnel: 3000

Contracts: 12500

Training: 0

Equipment: 7200


DisclosetheTreasureofSiya:ADigitalResourceofAntoniev‐SiyskiyMonasteryProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Russian Federation

Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: The project is aimed at building a multilingual digital resource on the history and contemporary life of Antoniev‐Siysky Monastery. The Monastery was founded in XVI century in the North of Russia. It is famous for its original stone architecture (survived from XVII century, but partly destroyed), old library, workshop of cultic images, and beautiful natural scenery. During the XX century, a lot of valuable books (including those of XIV century) and icons were removed to libraries, museums and archives all over Russia. Our project will found the collaboration of different organizations to collect all items together – in digital form – and provide a wide access to them. A virtual reality model of the Monastery will be put into the basis of the resource. All digital data – books, pictures, audio files, 3d‐copies of the church items – will be associated with it. A precise virtual visualization of architecture and scenery will make possible a wide range of “virtual excursions” over the Monastery, and therefore add game‐like opportunities to the resource. This will let considerably increase the number of potential users of the resource to include not only scholars, but also children, tourists

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etc. The resource will be published on the Internet and CDs.




Personnel: 0

Contracts: 10000

Training: 0

Equipment: 15000

Miscellaneous: 0 0

Specialists’traininginaperson’sinformationcultureformationProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 24000

Project summary: At the 3rd session of the IFAP Council the developed in Kemerovo approach to a person’s information culture formation got recognition and was taken as one of priority directions of the UNESCO Program and Budget for 2006‐07: “to promote “information culture” among Member States, where citizens have access to information that is both relevant to them and in the language of the choice, and where citizens have the opportunity and skills to create their own information and local content” (IFAP–2004/Council. 111/2). The project realization foresees the development of technology and tools of a person’s information culture formation: ‐ means of a person’s information culture diagnostics; ‐ educational‐instructional complex providing a teacher’s training in principles of information culture on the base of a pedagogical college; ‐ educational‐instructional complex providing training on the base of university of a librarian‐bibliographer, teacher acquiring the technology of a person’s information culture formation. Introduction of product’s results will allow providing the possibility of attracting citizens of the far away region to the information and knowledge on the base of getting advantages of free and effective access to information.

Contractor: Kemerovo State University of Culture and Arts



Personnel: 4000

Contracts: 4000

Training: 11000

Equipment: 3000

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InternationalConferenceonUniversalAccesstotheGovernmentalPublicDomainInformationProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 29000

Project summary: UNESCO IFAP National Committee of Russia has hold three Roundtables on Universal Access to the Governmental Public Domain Information in 2004 during 2nd International Conference ‘UNESCO Information for All Programme: Universal Access to the Information’, International Forum ‘Ecological Culture and Information for Sustainable Development’, and 6th International conference ‘Law and Internet’. The outcome of the discussions has show the necessity of holding thematic conference on strengthening awareness about the importance, promoting and improve the universal access to the governmental public domain information. The experts from international, intergovernmental and national government, private and public institutions shall discuss their experience and best practices on implementing the system of universal access to the governmental and other socially significant information. The outcome of Conference may be used for elaboration of Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Governmental Public Domain Information and Para 26 of Declaration of Principles of the WSIS. The report on the Conference’s outcome and following public discussion shall be presented on the 4th Session of the IFAP Council.




Personnel: 7500

Contracts: 9000

Training: 5000

Equipment: 2500


OrganisationandcarryingoutoftheInternationalConferencesEVA2005MoscowonISTincultureandECHOLOT2005Moscowonaudio,film,photoheritageandnewtechnologiesProject status: Unfunded

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Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: Organisation and carrying out of a set of international events “Information for all: Culture and Information Society Technologies” in Moscow, Russia, 28 November – 2 December, 2005: • The 8th international conference EVA2005 Moscow . • Conference inside: “Information Resources and Technologies for Non‐Movable heritage Preservation”. • The 5th international conference ECHOLOT2005 Moscow on audio, film, photo heritage and new technologies • The exhibition “Multimedia in Culture, Art and Education” • Workshops, round table discussions, master‐classes. • The 9th annual festival of interactive creative multimedia content “Content”. It is planned to gather about 600 delegates and 150 papers from Russia, NIS, East and West Europe and Asia. The main organiser is the Centre on the problems of Informatisation in the sphere of Culture of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation (Centre PIC). Working languages are Russian and English. Simultaneous interpretation during the key sessions is organised. The papers of the key foreign speakers will be translated into Russian. Cultural and professional visits to Moscow museums and libraries will be organised.

Contractor: Centre PIC



Personnel: 12000

Contracts: 24000

Training: 0

Equipment: 0


FOSSFAFUNDINGPROPOSALTOUNITEDNATIONSEDUCATIONALSCIENTIFICANDCULTURALORGANISATION(UNESCO)TOSUPPORTIDLELO2CONFERENCEBYSUPPORTINGTHEDEVELOPMENTOFAPOSITIONPAPERProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 42500

Project summary: The Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA) in conjunction with UNECA and UNCTAD are organising a Pan African conference on Free and Open Source Software dubbed IDLELO2. This conference will be held at the Nairobi Safari Park Hotel in Kenya from the

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23rd to 25th February 2006 and is intended to attract Senior Government Officials and Private Sector Representatives all over Africa to discuss and deliberate on the use of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in achieving the Millennium Development Goals through the use of community software. Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) challenges our preconceptions about how software is used, produced and distributed. The software industry today generates yearly revenues in excess of US$300 billion. FOSS is software that has made its source code free and public and allows ‐ perhaps even motivates ‐ users to change the source code and redistribute the derivative software. While liberating the source code is a goal in itself, FOSS encourages, or even obliges, programmers to give other programmers and users those same freedoms and opportunities. FOSS has made wide spread impact in its use within Education in Africa.The Linux Thin Client Server (LTSP) Technologies have enabled the creation of sustainable learning systems for use in Africa.Although content has remained expensive, FOSSFA is teaming up with its partners like SchoolNet for Africa to develop open learning content which can be made available to schools across Africa.FOSS is open and provides eleborate opportunities for Access to Information and the production of Local Content.

Contractor: The FOSSFA Secretariat



Personnel: 8000

Contracts: 20000

Training: 7500

Equipment: 4500


Diversity‐amultilingualliterarycollectionoftheTranslation&LinguisticRightsCommitteeoftheInternationalPENTheDiversityprojectincludesthesub‐projectonEndangeredLanguagesandthesub‐projectonLinguisticCommunitiesinMacedoniaProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: Diversity is a digital collection of poetry, fiction, play, and non‐fiction literary texts. It was constituted in 2003, in accordance with the Standing Orders of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee of the International PEN and the Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights. Its primary function is to provide free access to world literature translated in as many languages as possible and to promote literatures written in endangered languages or languages of lesser currency. The works are published in at least three

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languages (the original, one of the official PEN languages – English, French and Spanish – as well as Macedonian). Biographies of the authors (contemporary and living) are also published on the website. A network of translators has been created for this purpose. The Diversity project has an international Editorial Board and collaborators from all over the world. It promotes inter‐literary and inter‐cultural dialogue, tradition, linguistic and cultural diversity, and it is an concrete affirmation of UNESCO’s fundamental efforts for protection of the world’s linguistic, literary and cultural diversity. The project includes two sub‐projects: one on Endangered Languages (focused on minority languages, oppressed languages and languages on the verge of extinction) and another one on the Linguistic Communities in Macedonia (promoting the linguistic and cultural diversity in a small country, of only 2 million people). The project also includes collaboration with and support of events that promote and support cultural diversity and linguistic rights.

Contractor: Kata Kulavkova



Personnel: 4720

Contracts: 26600

Training: 4580

Equipment: 2500


InformationLiteracyforK12inAzerbaijanProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 0

Project summary: Societies, in the information age, need confident, self – regulated learners who are equipped with lifelong learning skills. Information literacy (IL) – the ability to find, use and communicate information – is the keystone of lifelong learning. Information literate people are effective consumers of information. They are critical thinkers and self directed learners, and they use and communicate information effectively and in a responsible manner. Every member of the information society should be equipped with information literacy skills to be able to succeed in school, at work and in daily life. In order to gain IL skills, individuals should join an instruction program on information literacy. Developing and maintaining information literacy programs that will support lifelong learning, is becoming a mission for every library. School libraries play a central role in teaching information literacy skills to students and in integrating information literacy into the school curricula. This project is planned to integrate IL into the curriculum of five schools,

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namely School number 83 (1658 students, 157 teachers and 1 librarian), School number 244 (2265 students, 191 teachers and 1 librarian), School number 246 (1855 students, 221 teachers and 1 librarian), School number 115 (2006 students, 161 teachers and 1 librarian), School number 179 (1928 students, 116 teachers and 1 librarian) in Baku. Basing on cooperation among school librarians and teachers, the project will be the very first attempt for development and delivery of information literacy program for K12 in Azerbaijan. The importance of information literacy, the role of school libraries in devoloping and disseminating IL programs and the necessity for a continious education for school librarians has long been recognized by both international and national organizations such as UNESCO, IFLA, AASL, AECT. The aim of this Project is to equip students with IL skills they could apply in their studies. Within the scope of the Project a sample IL instruction program, together with the curriculum and materials will be developed both for students at different grades/levels and teachers. Because, unless teachers themselves possess IL skills, they can not help their students to be information literates. Furthermore, the information literate teachers can select and use resources which are most appropriate to multiple intelligences and learning styles. In this frame ,training school librarians will also be considered. Assesment tools such as pre and post tests and efficacy scales will be developed and applied to evaluate the success of the program. At the end of the Project, it is expected to give the children of the area as equal opportunities for access and use of information, as the children of developed countries. In other words, it is expected to be of help to close the gap between information haves and have‐ nots. Finally , it is expected to set an example for the school libraries in the specified country and other countries in the same region.

Contractor: Hacettepe University – Department of Information Management and Department of Computer Education and Instructional Technology



Personnel: 18300

Contracts: 0

Training: 7800

Equipment: 9200


BulgarianLibrariesataShot(BLAS)Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

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Project summary: The project idea is revolutionary for Bulgaria. We suggest to design, launch and implement a national multicast search tool that would facilitate librarians and patrons in locating materials. The following national problems provoked project team: 1.) Lack of union library catalogue due to lack of unified standards and formats for bibliographic recording; 2.) Insufficient application of modern technologies in libraries and inability to meet patron requirements at full and acquire quality of library and information services. Now we have few integrated library systems with multi‐interface representation, for building WEB OPAC, several formats for bibliographic records, and different technical standards; 3.) Most of the existing multicast search tools do not search through Bulgarian bibliographic records. Our project pursues multipurpose performance. The design of interactive search engine to scan various library catalogues would substitute the need of resource sharing and national library loan system. The tool will function as a national union catalogue by adopting modern technologies toward improved bibliographic retrieval. It would provide free of charge and easy‐to‐use quick access to bibliographic records. The project proposal starts with representative group of libraries that would declare their willingness to serve as a sample for library cooperation using information and communication technologies (ICT).

Contractor: Bulgarian Information Consortium (BIC) is a national nongovernmental mentoring body for cooperation between Bulgarian libraries.



Personnel: 4850

Contracts: 0

Training: 2650

Equipment: 3500


CAPACITYFORESTABLISHINGOFNETWORKOFITC‐TRAININGCENTERSINREMOTEREGIONSOFBULGARIAProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 24500

Project summary: The project aims to promote the computer literacy and the access to information among communities in remote regions of Bulgaria. The women there are the most disadvantaged. Most of them are unemployed and very poor because they don't have any computer skills necessary for finding jobs. From the other hand, the lack of computers and internet access in these

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regions puts the local communities in unequal position against those living in big cities. We want to create a network of IT‐centres in four extremely poor remote regions and train local women thus empowering them and combatting poverty. The goal will be achieved by creating a capacity by training of trainers and networking the centres via internet. The former local Houses of technics, still owned by the project partner FNTS, will be used for establishing the IT‐centres. The experienced IT‐specialists ‐ members of both partners, will be the main trainers. The initiative will be largely promoted via media and internet.

Contractor: Club "Sustainable Development of Civil Society



Personnel: 3800

Contracts: 2200

Training: 9000

Equipment: 7000


InformationliteracyinEuropeanprimaryandsecondaryschools;co‐operationbetweenschoollibraries,schoollibrarians,schoollibraryassociations,teachersandgovernmentministries.Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: The European Network for School Libraries and Information Literacy (ENSIL) seeks funding to co‐ordinate the translation of two documents (published by UNESCO and the IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) into a total of ± 25 national European languages. A European‐wide survey in April 2004 established that translation of these documents would have important consequences for information literacy in European schools. 1. IFLA/UNESCO School Library Manifesto, published in XXX. which emphasises equal opportunities for all learners (currently translated into XXX European languages). 2. IFLA/UNESCO School Library Guidelines, published in XXX. This document contains clear criteria for information literacy instruction. It stresses the important role played by the school library and the school librarian in information literacy ( currently translated into XXX European languages). Most publications about information literacy instruction appear in English. School librarians are not always proficient in this language. The two documents mentioned are unavailable in many national European languages. Translated documents could be sent digitally to people in their own

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language: government ministries, school leaders, school librarians, teachers, parents etc.. These translations would enable school librarians to use the guidelines for information literacy instruction and to clarify their position within the school.

Contractor: ENSIL (European Network for School Libraries and Information Literacy



Personnel: 10000

Contracts: 32000

Training: 0

Equipment: 2500


StrengtheningSomaliMediaprofessionalsProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Somalia

Cost (USD): 30000

Project summary: The Somali Journalists Network (SOJON) is a nationally based, non‐political, and non‐profit, journalistic union dedicated to protect and improve the professional standards of Somali journalists. SOJON represents 325 working journalists of the approximately 400 media professionals in Somalia. SOJON, which is the only Somali entity that participated the World Summit of the Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva, is presenting this project of “Strengthening Somali Media Professionals” as the media has been a critically imperative vehicle for making the public informed in Somalia. This project is intended to deal with useful issues concerning the building of the capacity of local media professionals. 150 journalists will be invited to come together in order to discuss issues relating to basics of journalism, ethics, freedom of information, legal framework, diversity and pluralism. The project will implement 7 workshops. The union, a member of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), has established cooperation with reputable organizations supporting press freedom worldwide, namely NOVIB Oxfam Netherlands (NOVIB) in Hague, National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in Washington DC, International Media Support (IMS) in Copenhagen, Arab Press Freedom Watch (APFW) in London, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) in New York and Reporters Sans Frontiers (RSF) in Paris.

Contractor: Somali Journalists Network (SOJON)



Personnel: 5000

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Contracts: 3000

Training: 15000

Equipment: 6000


PressandConflict–LessonsandChallengesColombianJournalistscanSharewithColleaguesfromOtherNationsAffectedbyViolenceProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Colombia

Cost (USD): 35026

Project summary: NOTE: THIS PROJECT HAS THE ENDORSEMENT OF THE COLOMBIAN COMMISSION OF COOPERATION OF UNESCO, THEY WILL SEND, PHYSICALLY (BY MAIL – “DHL”), THE CORRESPONDING LETTER. Project summary: During the course of its seven years in operation, Medios para la Paz (MPP) [Media for Peace] has consolidated a large group of Colombian journalists around shared ideals unrelated to trade association and political components. The experience gained has specifically allowed us to observe relations between journalism and conflict situations. Our proposal seeks to project our professional experience and make it available to other societies also experiencing crisis situations. To this end our working proposal seeks to internationalize our lessons and experiences by means of an English‐language section in our website, created to share experiences with colleagues from all latitudes and promote horizontal dialogue. This is supplemented by the selection and preparation of a series of materials focused on journalism training, with the goal of making them available to communications professionals in various nations. These materials include topics related to good journalistic practices, professional routines that can place informants at risk, and the promotion of values related to the defense and preservation of information as guarantees of a free and plural society. These topics will be structured in workshop format and disseminated through the MPP website at www.mediosparalapaz.org as well as through channels used by the financing entity. In addition, this project will take into account the guidelines and ideas promoted during the Stockholm International Seminar on Assistance to the Media in Areas Subject to Violent Conflict organized by UNESCO in 2003, as well as the activities and publications promoted by the organization in 2004 on this topic ('Support to Media in Violent Conflict and in Countries in Transition,' UN Media and Post Conflict Peace‐Keeping, among others).

Contractor: Medios para la Paz [Media for Peace]



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Personnel: 20870

Contracts: 8504

Training: 0

Equipment: 5652

Miscellaneous: 0 0

CARREFOURD’APPRENTISSAGENUMÉRIQUEETDEPROMOTIONDELAFEMMERURALECANPROFER‐AfriqueL’Espaced’ApprentissagenumériqueetdePromotiondelaFemmeruraleProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Guinea

Cost (USD): 0

Project summary: Autrefois, être pauvre c’était « ne pas avoir », aujourd’hui, c’est « ne pas apprendre », « ne pas savoir », et demain, ce sera « ne pas appartenir ». Dans les pays en développement, la plupart des innovations techniques touchent différemment les hommes et les femmes, et les TIC ne font pas exception. Outre la « fracture numérique » entre les régions urbaines et rurales, il existe une autre fracture numérique touchant plus particulièrement les femmes qui constituent la majorité des pauvres des zones rurales dans ces pays. Les femmes rurales ont encore moins la possibilité d'accéder aux nouvelles technologies, car elles ont un niveau d'éducation en général inférieur et un pouvoir économique et politique plus faible. Alors qu’elles représentent la majorité de la population du milieu rural, les femmes ont plus de difficulté que les hommes à migrer vers les villes, ce qui les prive de l’avantage urbain en matière de connectivité. Ce projet, concentré sur les femmes rurales de Guinée, vise à faciliter leur accès aux TIC, favoriser leur apprentissage, développer leurs capacités d’échanges, d’autonomie et de leadership, afin qu’elles puissent faire entendre leurs voix dans les grandes causes notamment sociales, politiques, économiques et environnementales.

Contractor: Consensus international



Personnel: 2500

Contracts: 2100

Training: 10300

Equipment: 20300


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AccesstoinformationonRoma/GypsiesforAllProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 43240

Project summary: During the last 10‐15 years the interest toward the "Roma theme" increased. New and new publications appeared (and constantly continue to appear) from various character, regarding Roma/Gypsies, and not only scientific works, but also different publications of international institutions, the NGO sector, publications of Roma folklore, Roma press, and so on, as well as Roma/Gypsy music, documentary movies, etc. The attempts only to describe this production in different bibliographies have already shown that there are many difficulties, even for specifying the existing issues, not even speaking about the possibility to use them in one place. There is no specialized library, where all of these publications can be found (or at least information about them). There are specialized units in different universities, where the history and culture of the Roma/Gypsies is researched. In the countries of the Eastern Europe Roma student organizations are created, which, however do not have access to informational database, oriented towards their community. The presented project provides the creation of multi‐ and trans‐sectional information intelligence platform, which will connect in network the specialized library and archive on Roma/Gypsies with university centers and student Roma societies, and distributing of information through ICT, Web page and mailing group. In this way conditions will be created for free exchange of ideas and knowledge and also international framework on multilingualism and multiculturalism in cyberspace, and for strengthening awareness about the importance of preservation of information.

Contractor: Elena Marushiakova, chair of the Minority Studies Society Studii Romani



Personnel: 15600

Contracts: 2840

Training: 7800

Equipment: 12200


MonCERT(MongolianComputerEmergencyResponseTeam)Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 24980

Project summary: In the beginning of the XXI century, information technology has been penetrating into Mongolian society in rapid pace. As a result, number of ISP‐

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s, software developing companies, and the number of the Internet users in Mongolia have increased from year to year. The infrastructure of ICT has been developed in recent years. All Aimag (province) centre are connected by fiberglass cable with the capital city. This opened a big opportunities for many people in countryside to use the Internet. Such informatisation process has brought a large progress, economic growth, knowledge and information into many corners of the country. As the Internet becomes common in many places and telecommunication technology and use increases, traditional crimes were transformed into new forms. Besides that there have been many crimes occurred, specially crimes to attack computer systems and networks, which is named as Cyber crime. In last few years, cybercrimes, such as spreading various kinds of “virus” programs, adwares and spywares, attacking on servers, DoS (Denial of Service), doing computer piracy began to threaten to interests of the users of the Internet. But in Mongolia, there is no organization, who reacts to such illegal activitites, and there is no registration. There is no relationship with foreign CERTs. Mongolian Internet users have no understanding where to address such problems, how to prevent from various cyber attacks. From year to year the size of damage from such incidents has been growing. Therefore, there is an urgent need to create an team which will protect interests of Mongolian Internet users, ISP‐s, who also offers professional help, and keeps record of cybercrimes. That team will be cooperating with police, law‐enforcement bodies, foreign CERT‐s (Computer Emergency Response Team) and FIRST (Forum of Incident Response Team). Therefore, Information System Management and Public Administration management professor chair of CSMS (Computer Science and Management School) of MUST are proposing to establish Mongolian Computer Emergency Response Team. The project will be performed during 2 years. After implementing this project, the team will be financed from domestic sources.

Contractor: Khaltar Togtuun.Doctor PhD. Associate professor. Professor chair of Public Administration and Human resource management of CSMS



Personnel: 10400

Contracts: 1550

Training: 5680

Equipment: 6200


Conference/WorkshopontheDigitalDawn:AVArchivinginTransitionProject status: Unfunded

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Cost (USD): 27360

Project summary: This year’s SEAPAVAA conference will explore the move from analogue to digital archiving in the South East Asia – Pacific region and the emerging changes in technology, skills, economics and the audiovisual marketplace which will impact on all archives. Individual institutions will share experiences and case studies; expert speakers will explore issues and demonstrate the potential of the new technology for preservation, collection management and access. Discussion forums will consider the challenges to traditional values, assumptions and structures in this brave new world. There will also be a session to assess the damage and explore workable measures on rebuilding damaged archive collection and infrastructure caused by the recent natural disasters. The conference will end with a 3‐day workshop focusing on the digital preservation of AV heritage. The workshop aims to give the delegates a better understanding of digital media, with sessions on digitization, magnetic media preservation, maintenance and preservation of digital AV materials, and managing digital archiving projects. SEAPAVAA believes that this year’s conference theme stands to benefit institutions particularly from countries whose archiving field remains undeveloped/underdeveloped. It is expected that through the symposium, these archivists will establish contacts with colleagues and experts from the region and other countries that would provide them with proper perspective and insights in determining their own requirements for digitizing their AV archives

Contractor: South East Asia Pacific Audio Visual Archives Association (SEAPAVAA)



Personnel: 3360

Contracts: 15600

Training: 3400

Equipment: 3000


EstablishmentE‐GovernmentCompetenceCenterProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 24500

Project summary: Information technologies cardinal change the system of state management and management enterprise. The Realization project introduction of electronic control requires the knowledges of the world experience and

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importance them for improvement of activity of the state institutions on servicing the people. The Improvement of the knowledges about possibility of the systems will allow the leader to optimize their own technological processes and raise the quality of the business. For accumulation and spreading this knowledge will be founded Center

Contractor: Center “EcoBilim”



Personnel: 12500

Contracts: 1000

Training: 5000

Equipment: 5000


CreatingamodelandtheorythatshowHowNational‐levelsocial‐economicalchangeshappensaccordingtoInformationandcommunicationtechnologyProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: Information and communication technology (ICT) is changing the way society functions. Internet is the biggest revolution in human history. The impact of ICT can be felt in all economic and social activities in every conceivable manner. More philosophers and theorizers attempted to identify the series of events that triggered or forced change (that is, outcomes of trends). Some tried to explain change using more general terms and by developing or using theories of change. Each tried to explain the why, when, what, where, and how of change. Consider the following classical theories: Evolutionary theories, Functionalist theories, Conflict Theories, Cyclic theories, Postmodernism, Complexity, Chaos Theory, Future Studies, General Systems Theory, and Symbolic Interaction Theory. In this project we want to create and propose a Comprehensive model and theory that show How National‐level social‐economical changes happen and operate according to Information and communication technology and on the base of facts and experiences of countries in this case. The result of this study can be used by politicians and Economist to know how they can control the changes to do the best. Furthermore how a change is seen to operate, and how you work with and how you prepare for working with change, will be other benefits of this study.

Contractor: Gholam Reza Aminian



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Personnel: 40000

Contracts: 0

Training: 0

Equipment: 5000

Miscellaneous: 0 0

Alternativeinformationalenvironment:informationforallProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 17694

Project summary: The project is based on the Citizenship foundation’s 2‐years experience in provision of free of charge social and legal information and support to people in low social state. The project is based on our understanding that every human being has the right to live a dignity life, to have access to information and the opportunity to use all the privilege that the information gives one to change for good his/her life no matter of the personal social status. The project creates alternative informational environment as the stress is put on the development of a new type of informational literacy by: a.) combining the past experience, information and high technologies for creation of a pilot specialized software product for provision of social, administrative and legal information; b.) organizing a public debate and attracting the social attention on the problems of informational eclipse, informational accessibility and the results of the gap between information rich and the information poor through organizing a seminar and a specialized training courses for the servants in the social area; d.) promotion of creation and strengthening of an alternative social‐law informational network connected the three corners of the triangle Clients – NGOs – State.

Contractor: Citizenship foundation



Personnel: 6744

Contracts: 7180

Training: 1760

Equipment: 0


MathsScienceUpgradeproject‐Principals,TeachersandLearnersProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 33543

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Project summary: The most detailed analysis yet undertaken of senior certificate results over time, (From Laggard to World Class ‐ Reforming math’s and science education in South Africa’s schools, undertaken by The Centre for Development and Enterprise, Johannesburg November 2004) shows that the number of candidates entering math’s and physical science exams is increasing at SG level, but decline at HG level. Pass rates are lagging at both levels, as are absolute numbers passing HG. A higher level of proficiency in English is vital for success by first African language speakers. A large number of potentially successful candidates are not studying the subjects or entering the exam because of preconceptions of failure. On average educators are under qualified (especially as regards content knowledge) and inexperienced. Only 14% of schools have sufficiently qualified and experienced teachers. The project aims to work in disadvantaged african communities and use ICT to support learners, improve teacher content knowledge and principals capacity to use ICT to better manage their schools.

Contractor: Sheena Lutge



Personnel: 3352

Contracts: 1455

Training: 8591

Equipment: 18145


centrededocumentationetd'informationsurmigrationetdéveloppementProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Morocco

Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: Le Maroc constitue une source importante de candidats potentiels à l’émigration vers l’Europe. Il est également de plus en plus un pays de transit, et le plus souvent aussi une impasse migratoire notamment pour l’émigration subsaharienne. D’où l’importance de mettre en place des actions de sensibilisation, d’information, de formation et d’accompagnement et d’approfondir un travail de terrain sur les lieux même où se développe le phénomène de l’émigration. Le projet de CADRE vise à créer un centre de documentation, d’information et de guidance sur la problématique « Migration & Développement » ; En outre, CADRE a pour vocation de mettre à disposition des associations féminines un espace de rencontre et offrir à ces structures des services adapter à leurs besoins : un accès à la documentation et l'information pertinente dans le domaine du développement et du genre; des formations visant à accroître leurs compétences professionnelles, de manière à être plus

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efficaces dans la gestion et la réalisation de leurs activités; un espace de rencontre et échange sur leurs actualités, leurs expériences, promouvoir leurs projets, rester informées sur tous les sujets importants concernant les femmes et le développement, et former, le cas échéant des alliances pour développer des projets communs.

Contractor: Ben Moahmed Nadia



Personnel: 9000

Contracts: 2000

Training: 7000

Equipment: 3000


InformationServicesthroughKnowledgeTransferProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 30000

Project summary: Amader Gram (Our Villages) is an ICT4D initiative of Bangladesh Friendship Education Society (BFES). The project is mostly centered and based on the village society and it is conceived/planned to build up as a demonstrative social innovation. This is an innovative project and as a social innovation first of its kind in the country. Such a project, implementing among the beneficiary groups of “Amader Gram” (our village), has got immense potential in many ways‐ by collecting, collating, analyzing and using many socio‐economic data. Through this project the information derived from the database will improve and share to the rural community as a part of knowledge transfer to improve livelihoods of rural Bangladesh. For this purpose, training, community meeting, AV sharing and follow up research, evaluation will be done.

Contractor: Reza Salim



Personnel: 7000

Contracts: 4000

Training: 9000

Equipment: 6000


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AmaderGram:InformationServicesthroughKnowledgeTransferProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 30000

Project summary: Amader Gram (Our Villages) is an ICT4D initiative of Bangladesh Friendship Education Society (BFES). The project is mostly centered and based on the village society and it is conceived/planned to build up as a demonstrative social innovation. This is an innovative project and as a social innovation first of its kind in the country. Such a project, implementing among the beneficiary groups of “Amader Gram” (our village), has got immense potential in many ways‐ by collecting, collating, analyzing and using many socio‐economic data. Through this project the information derived from the database will improve and share to the rural community as a part of knowledge transfer to improve livelihoods of rural Bangladesh. For this purpose, training, community meeting, AV sharing and follow up research, evaluation will be done.

Contractor: Reza Salim



Personnel: 7000

Contracts: 4000

Training: 9000

Equipment: 6000


EJOL‐ElectronicJournalsOnlineLibraryProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Croatia

Cost (USD): 22500

Project summary: The main goal of this project is to develop a unique Web interface that provides access to numerous scientific electronic journals including Croatian journals, Electronic archives, Croatian press. The database has been created with more than 6,000 journals and the number of journals is growing rapidly. Thirty five libraries participate in the project, and librarians administrate access to journals according their own electronic and print subscription. Bibliographic description of journals is pretty detailed and include databases that journals are indexed in. To our users is very important if the journal is cited by Current Contets database. Accessibility level is graphically indicated. One of the goals is implementation of the database on national level with possibility of cooperative administration which enables promptness of records.

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Contractor: Rudjer Boskovic Institute Library



Personnel: 5500

Contracts: 7000

Training: 3000

Equipment: 6000


DevelopinganICTyouthorganizations'networkProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 19760

Project summary: ¡§Open Youth¡¨ is a non‐profit non‐governmental organization, created and managed entirely by young people. It was established in 2001 and officially registered in 2002 as a national organization of active youth with three main aims ‐ supporting the formal, the informal and the vocational education of the youth; use and dissemination the good practice in youth work; and fighting the negative social phenomenon in the present society. During the years of its existence, ¡§Open Youth¡¨ has organized and participated in a large number of local, national and international activities (see www.open‐youth.org). Through all this, a considerable experience and expertise was gained. In the same time the use of ICTs proved to be the backbone of the organization¡¦s development. Based on the above‐mentioned, ¡§Open Youth¡¨ is willing to offer the gained knowledge and experience to a wider public and so are its project partners. The idea is to create a formal open network of youth organizations, which will facilitate the exchange and use of information through ICT. Thus we will prevent the ¡§invention of the wheel¡¨ every time a crucial issue is addressed (e.g. combat of HIV/AIDS or other diseases, combat of poverty and unemployment, etc.). A lot of experience is gained in the areas that UNESCO is working in, but the problem is that it is not available to a larger public and the use of its results is often not possible. ¡§Open Youth¡¨ and its partners are willing to share what they have. In the framework of this project a seminar ‐ training on the use of ICT will be organized. Each of the partner organizations will be presented by three representatives. Such pilot initiative is aimed to incorporate the ICT in the process of consolidation of experience, which already took place during the partners¡¦ meetings in Marseilles, France (November 2003), Ponta Delgada, Portugal (June 2004) and Lublin, Poland (February 2005), and to pave the way to the official network creation, a proposal for which will be made by the end of 2005 to the appropriate European funding authorities.

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Contractor: Open Youth



Personnel: 1620

Contracts: 0

Training: 12320

Equipment: 5000


IntegratedNationalFamilyLiteracyProjectforUganda(INFLPU)Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 19059

Project summary: Information literacy is a fundamental tool for empowering individuals and societies [families] to develop the abilities of learning how to learn. The development of family literacy skills among parents and children is a step towards reducing poverty in the country. According to Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP) by the Government of Uganda, which aims at reducing mass poverty by the year 2017, individuals, families, and societies should acquire abilities and skills to earn a meaningful socio‐economic standard of living. In attempt to develop literacy for life long learning, Uganda Library Association (ULA) through the East African Book Development Association has successfully built capacity through training of teachers, librarians and information workers in the promotion of reading culture in the country. It has held Children Reading Tents (CRT) in more than 15 districts in Uganda. Integrating family literacy skills among parents and children is aimed at developing learning abilities between home and school, and establishing a friendly and co‐operative relationship with learners and family members. Family literacy is a component, which incorporates home and the school relationship, interaction between a parent and a child, libraries in the community, readership development, family participation and role of Women, cultural development, and moral rehabilitation. This project targets families (parents and children), schools, and the community (local councils, Cultural Leaders, the Church, and Non Governmental Organisations). This project will establish the best approach parents and children can read and learn together, problems that face the family literacy, and provide a framework for family literacy skills into the national socio‐economic programmes. Aim: Developing family literacy skills among parents, children and the community to a sustainable socio‐economic development

Contractor: Uganda Library Association


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Personnel: 2941

Contracts: 5353

Training: 7235

Equipment: 2941


PreparingITmentorprofessionalsProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: Creating competence based exam for telecottage managers Main goals: • Giving the right knowledge to people to create, run and develop sustainable community access points in different countries of Europe and worldwide • Developing exam requirements, based on the e‐learning course developed by EUTA specialists • Collecting good examples of running sustainable telecottages • Creating new community of managers working in the same area, changing good experience among them Based on the training experience of the Hungarian Telecottage Association's (founder of the EUTA) for international groups ‐ starting community access points – EUTA is creating requirements for a competence based institutional exam. Based on the English version of the course, EUTA could organize a pilot training followed by an exam for the trainers, from different countries. For widening the experience EUTA could collect materials from the concerned countries. EUTA could organize the continuous forum for the experience exchange later on.

Contractor: EUTA



Personnel: 10000

Contracts: 15000

Training: 10000

Equipment: 5000


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CultureinAdversityProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 44829

Project summary: Culture in Adversity will develop the capacity of specialist regional and international networks in Asia and UK to use ICT to gather, exchange and disseminate information about the 'Culture and Development' dimensions of the reconstruction effort following the Asian Tsunami. In so doing, the project will strengthen awareness of the importance of preserving information on Culture and Development and its ethical and societal implications for humanitarian relief and international development. It is important to note that cultural dimensions of development are often overlooked in planning and managing development actions, but has important consequences in terms for the effectiveness and ethical soundness of the post‐Tsunami reconstruction process. The project will test out this approach to information gathering and exchange over 12 months in the South Asia Region ‐ Sri Lanka, India (including the Andaman and Nicobar Islands) and The Maldives ‐ with a view to scaling up to include South East Asia, specifically Indonesia and Thailand, thereafter. The project will work to gather information and build/strengthen networking regionally through a specialist South Asian network ‐ The Asian Network for Culture and Development (ANCAD), in Sri Lanka. ANCAD will work in partnership with Creative Exchange, a specialist international network for Culture and Development based in the UK, to distribute and raise awareness of the issues at an international level. Project activities regionally will include: ‐ Capacity building the human and technical resources of ANCAD. ‐ Local and regional networking meetings and briefings sessions. ‐ Gathering data, contacts/specialists, case studies ands policy information through ICT. ‐ Developing information bulletins and policy briefing materials for distribution via web and email regionally and internationally. Activities internationally will include: ‐ Development of a specialist web page on Culture in Adversity on the Creative Exchange website. ‐ Distributing bulletins containing information gathered regionally through Creative Exchange's international web and email information services. ‐ Distributing PDF policy briefings via web and email to Creative Exchange's extensive policy contacts and networks development/relief sector.

Contractor: Creative Exchange



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Personnel: 29835

Contracts: 0

Training: 270

Equipment: 2844


advancedtrainingonlineforcomunitaryICTcentersProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Venezuela

Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: ‐ Development of a complete training course on line for information profesionals : programation (Java, Flash), Data base Management and Management of local nets connected to Internet. ‐ Training of the managers of our ICT comunitary centers through this tool under the control of a member of Colombbus, ‐ Tranportation after the test within ours comunities to the WEB in english, french and spanish. Time Table First step ‐ one year‐ in France development by the French branch of Colombbus of the training course on line Second step ‐ one year‐ in Venezuela training in the ICT comunitary centers of Colombbus in Caracas Third step ‐ 6 months ‐ in France evaluation of the training made in Caracas, upscale of the training course and translation in french and english.

Contractor: Colombbus



Personnel: 13000

Contracts: 2000

Training: 10000

Equipment: 5000


CommunitynewsdeliveredtoaremoteAustraliantownusinginteractivecomputertouch‐screenterminalsProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Australia

Cost (USD): 16000

Project summary: We propose to install an electronic touch‐screen terminal in a public place (retail shop or library) in the remote Australian town of Blackall to deliver

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locally‐controlled news and oral histories. Previous research with community newspaper in this town suggest that this has a capacity to enhance public sphere activity in this and similar remote communities than does existing news delivery from outside the community to personal electronic appliances such as mobile telephones and home computers. Policy outcomes from this research will assist current and future discussions about: 1.Broadband access to regional and remote communities; 2.Media ownership concentration; 3.Governments’ role in community capacity building.

Contractor: John Cokley PhD



Personnel: 2000

Contracts: 1000

Training: 2000

Equipment: 10000


DRCONGO‐SCHOOLCOMPUTERCENTERFOREXCHANGEOFINFORMATION(SCHOOLC‐CEXI)Project status: Unfunded

Region/country: Congo

Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), especially the estern part, is in a state of crisis. Most recently, the Democratic Republic of Congo has been invaded, politically and economically destabilized, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 4 million people over the past 10 years. As a consequence, the most vulnerable are the unprotected children and school age boys and girls whose education and future are compromised. Fondation Elimu, through its mission, participates to the sustainable development program of the UNDP towards Africa, which can be made possible only by fostering opportunities of education for all, especially children and youth victims of war. Academic professionals in the eastern Congo have long felt the need to launch a "school Computers Center for Exchange of Information" using donated computers. This proposal attempts to make this a reality by establishing three Telecenters in one school within each of the 3 communes of the city of Bukavu. The three networked computer centers will provide an opportunity to underserved rural school children and youth to gain competency in computer litteracy and Internet proficiency. This will be a two year project, broken in a yearly budget for simplicity sake's. Fondation Elimu is requesting $25,000 to help carry on the project.

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Contractor: FONDATION ELIMU



Personnel: 4000

Contracts: 3000

Training: 11000

Equipment: 25000


ICTbasedHealthcareserviceatruralareaProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 23300

Project summary: Society for Economic and Basic Advancement (SEBA) will establish one ICT based Health Care Center at the existing tele‐center campus located in Feni district, southern part of the country. It is experienced that poor peoples are suffering from different diseases and specifically the local mothers are facing difficulties while giving birth of their child, they are lacking of nutrition at the time of their pregnancy and local children are malnourished. It is investigated that these two groups have limited access to basic health services under the existing facilities available in the locality. Only providing some basic information and networking with the specialist doctors can reduce their risk of life and ensure better health service. The project will provide 24 hours service (on roaster basis) to keep contact with the specialist through using the ICT tools like Internet, SMS and mobile phone. Digital camera and webcam will be also made available to provide better service. The local patient particularly the pregnant women and children will be provided medical advisory service as they require. This will make the specialist service readily available for 24 hours which will reduce their time consumption and cost for visiting the district centers.

Contractor: Md Imam Sharif



Personnel: 2300

Contracts: 6500

Training: 3000

Equipment: 5500


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TrainingandWorkshopforElementaryTeacherProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Indonesia

Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: The project will be taken place in Bogor, province West Java Indonesia. The elementary teacher around Bogor area will be the participants of the program. A few activities have been planed for teacher in order to upgrade teachers' teaching skill. Such as, classroom management, active learning method, and the using of information of technology. After joining the programme about professional teaching and to use the internet for teaching resources. Teachers also should have a wide perspective and motivation to develop their performance in the classroom.

Contractor: Sopyan Maolana Kosasih, S.Pd.



Personnel: 3500

Contracts: 5000

Training: 10000

Equipment: 4500


OnlineE‐GovernanceResourceCentreProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 32000

Project summary: In the past two decades, Governments worldwide have made significant progress in embracing ICT (information and Communication technologies) for an effective implementation of e‐governance. However, there remain wide disparities between, and among, regions and countries in their e‐governance initiatives. In this scenario, it becomes extremely relevant to have an effective knowledge sharing platform which shall enable the various nations to share their knowledge as well as learn from each others’ experiences, and thus channelise their resources into the right direction for increased probability of success rather than trying to re‐invent the wheel. Through this Project, it is proposed that an Online E‐Governance Resource Centre may be developed by National Informatics Centre, the premier ICT Organisation of Government of India. The Online E‐Governance Resource Centre shall be a one‐stop source of information on E‐Governance and shall provide a single window interface for sharing ideas, resources and opportunities. This resource center shall be made available on the Internet to enable the various Governments to share their knowledge base with other nations towards advancement in the field of E‐Governance. The availability

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of this Online Resource Centre also anticipates better communication between governments by enhancing the access to information in the domain. The Online E‐Governance Resource Centre shall also act as a comprehensive knowledge base for the research institutions and academicia working in the field of E‐Governance.

Contractor: National Informatics Centre



Personnel: 22500

Contracts: 0

Training: 3000

Equipment: 4500


VLIS:LibraryNetworkinBytesProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 40000

Project summary: SDNP virtual library (http://www.sdnbd.org/library) is providing online access to the catalogue of a group of Bangladeshi libraries those use Computerized Development System/Integrated Set of Information Systems well known as CDS/ISIS (an advanced non‐numerical information storage and retrieval software developed and distributed by UNESCO to the non profit organization of developing countries at free of cost) in their library. Although some other organizations tried to establish virtual libraries in Bangladesh and invested a handsome amount of money but no one nearing the successes like SDNP virtual library. The library is developed, hosted and maintained by Sustainable Development Networking Programme (SDNP) team and under the guidance of expert library professionals. The mission of the SDNP Virtual Library is to develop a forum for those people interested in prompting effective library media accumulating database of different libraries all over Bangladesh and to publish them in the web through Internet. In this context, SDNP Virtual Library is accomodating about 170,000 records from 17 partcipating libraries.

Contractor: Sustainable Development Networking Programme (SDNP) Bangladesh



Personnel: 13200

Contracts: 6000

Training: 2650

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Equipment: 0


ICTCapacityBuildingforRuralVillagesProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Samoa

Cost (USD): 15000

Project summary: Samoa's national ICT strategic plan was approved by Cabinet in August 2004. One of the priority projects in this strategy is "rural connectivity". As such, the pilot for "multipurpose information centres (MICs)" has been developed to start on 1 May 2005, include a homework centre. The MICs will be set up in the women's committee houses because they are looked after 24/7. We considered the schools but the key issue is security. Village school do not have securities after school, and there is a risk of equipment being stolen or damaged. Not only that but the schools are often located off the main village. This application aims to help achieve Samoa's strategic goal of "ICT for every Samoan". The focus is to provide training to women including school teachers basic computer. email and Internet knowledge, using the Samoan language. Other than cyber cafes in the business center of Apia, there are no MICs in rural villages making the digital divide wider within Samoa. Members of the National ICT Committee are contributing to this pilot project by providing some but not all of the equipment required for establishing the MICs. The aim of this application is to secure funding for the training component of the project, and two digital video cameras.

Contractor: Mrs Gisa Fuatai Purcell



Personnel: 1500

Contracts: 1000

Training: 8000

Equipment: 4000


OPLANGlobalWebsiteProjectProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 172734

Project summary: We, The OPLAN Foundation are applying for funding to develop a website to

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enable the scope, scale, and potential of Open Public Local Access Networks (OPLANs) to be fully realised. OPLANs transform the economic and social prosperity of local communities by giving the three seminal ICT technological developments of the late 20th century – the silicon chip, fibre optics and spread‐spectrum wireless – full rein. This can only be achieved if they are freely deployed in a manner whereby their primary “value and benefit” rests with end users rather than third‐party telecommunication and network operators. This is already beginning to be understood around the world, but there is only sporadic implementation of OPLANs with no common awareness or sharing of knowledge and experience. The long term goal of this Project is to develop a web‐based community of existing OPLAN initiatives and to foster new ones. The development of a sophisticated web presence is an essential element. A website will do this by strengthening networking and partnerships for the free exchange of ideas, knowledge, experience and expertise between the information rich and the information poor. The website will eventually be translated into as many language versions as funding permits.

Contractor: The OPLAN Foundation ‐ Director: Miss Alexandra Noble



Personnel: 58581

Contracts: 78668

Training: 0

Equipment: 18686


FREEDOMOFSPEECHASAMOSTIMPORTANTINSTITUTEOFDEMOCRACYProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Armenia

Cost (USD): 23800

Project summary: With the aim to raise awareness among the population and increase understanding of the problems of human rights, as well as improve the level of protection for freedom of mass media, our Project proposes conducting an awareness campaign on television, training for journalists and upgrading the website of the independent TV Company “A1+”. Within the framework of this Project the independent TV Company “A1+” shall prepare 5 TV programs covering the problems connected with the freedom of speech in Armenia to be broadcasted over the whole territory of Armenia through the Hamaspyur Independent TV Network. To ensure independent information both within the territory of Armenia and outside, the Project envisages upgrading the website

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http://home.a1plus.am. This will enable the independent TV Company “A1+” to actively work in the information field of Armenia, and protect the constitutional right of the population to free access to information from any source, in spite of the authorities’ desire to deprive it of such possibility. Our organization will conduct the training for journalists "THE METHODS OF CONDUCTING JOURNALUISTIC INVESTIGATIONS AND HIGHLIGHTING ISSUES RELATED TO GOVERNMENT BODIES’ ACTIVITY" Duration of the Project: 5 months.

Contractor: Women's Public Organization



Personnel: 2100

Contracts: 10300

Training: 2770

Equipment: 4100


HateSpeech&Media¡VTacklingprejudicewithoutcensorshipProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 1497342

Project summary: Hate speech¡¦ ‐ expression which incites hatred ‐ racial, national, religious ¡V is a leading cause of conflict. Hard to confront or define. Media/free expression groups resist the use of censorship to silence ¡¥hate speakers¡¦. This project involves journalists/rights activists in a programme of monitoring, research, publication, with training/awareness building activities. Designed to challenge hate speech by changing attitudes in newsrooms, civil society and government. It builds on research carried out by BBC Monitoring, Oxford University, A19 and Index ‐ developing synergistic grassroots programmes that will transform awareness into effective collaborative action. It contributes to the IFAP Bureau's current areas of interest by promoting information literacy, capacity‐building, the importance of information and an understanding of the ethical, legal and societal implications of ICTs. Promoting freedom of expression and diversity, involving different communities and engendering mutual understanding. The project concentrates on 4 regions identified in this research as areas of particular concern ¡V Russia, Balkans, West/Central Africa and the Middle East. This component of a wide‐ranging, four‐year programme, involves establishing a project‐wide network of multi‐lingual, web‐based publishing and information sharing activities, which include training, support and

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sharing of online resources.

Contractor: Index on Censorship



Personnel: 271886

Contracts: 261313

Training: 351187

Equipment: 6000


ICT‐Opportunities:equalaccesstoICT‐occupationsbymeansoftransparent,virtualMarket‐placeProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 32500

Project summary: The project ICT‐Opportunities will create a transparent, virtual Market‐place for ICT‐occupations providing equal‐opportunity access both for those who look for an occupation as for those who offer them. Occupations are understood in a very broad sense: from course‐ or thesis‐projects through intern‐ and fellowships to voluntary work, temporary work as part of a project or ICT‐positions. The project hopefully will end a paradoxical situation of substantially increased offer and demand for ICT‐qualified personnel, yet a persisting high unemployment and at the same time a claimed lack of such personnel. Assessment revealed that there is currently no transparent labor‐market, as neither educational institutions nor employers less the public sector have implemented any mechanisms beyond job‐fairs and advertising, that would join demand and offer. Worse, the prevailing opaque procedures leave room for anything, from family‐ties to political favors, blocking by their inefficiency an effective ICT‐development. The project will be implemented as part of the ICT4D‐portal of the Nicaragua Development Gateway, leveraging other components of the portal, like ICT‐projects, ICT‐directory and ICT‐documents. The proposing entity –Asociación Internet de Nicaragua‐ is a private‐public partnership, which will implement the project in close cooperation with students‐ and professional associations, educational institutions, private and public sector‐entities.

Contractor: Asociación Internet de Nicaragua ‐ eNicaragua



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Personnel: 5000

Contracts: 19500

Training: 4000

Equipment: 0


Matera'sOnlineNewspaperProject status: Unfunded

Region/country:

Italy

Cost (USD): 41000

Project summary:

The project is addressed to students from all over the world from 5 to 19. It is coordinated by the High School "Duni" in Matera (Italy), with the help of a local daily paper " La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno", that offers free space in the web http://www.lagazzettadelmezzogiorno.it/GdM_scuola_giornalino_01.asp?IDCategoria=320 . 12 European countries (Romania, Poland, Hungary, Greece, Turkey, Finland, Belarus, Portugal, Spain, Malta, Russia, Belgium), Armenia, Israel, Canada and 15 Italian schools take part in this project. The pupils realize a real on‐line newspaper. They are encouraged to express their own opinions writing, in Italian, English or other European languages, newspaper articles, interviews, surveys, and to deal with culture, environment, human rights, Europe¡¦s values, minorities, current affairs, politics, music, sport. Many articles have been published and are visible clicking on ¡§Tutte le notizie" in the archive window. The principal purpose is to allow the students of Basilicata, one of the most disadvantaged regions of Southern Italy, to overcome their isolation and to come in touch with European problems, comparing the traditions and appreciating the cultural differences that enrich the common patrimony of history and civilization. The project wants to meet the school growing demands for coming out of a traditional isolation to share ideas and projects with other schools and collaborate with the other professional figures of the local area.

Contractor: Maria Teresa Asprella


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Personnel: 25000

Contracts: 3000

Training: 5000

Equipment: 5000


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MEETINGOFUNESCO“MEMORYOFTHEWORLD”REGIONALCOMMITTEEFORASIA–PACIFIC(MOWCAP)Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 33000

Project summary: This meeting of the representatives of all National “Memory of the World” committees in the Asia‐Pacific region, together with key resource persons, will be the first gathering of its kind in over 5 years. It is essential both for formal reasons (to elect a new bureau) and to progress the development of “Memory of the World” within the region. It will bring together approximately 25 people for 3 days to agree on strategies, parameters for a regional Memory of the World Register, and regional projects. It will include a workshop element designed to stimulate the development of the national committees.

Contractor: Ray Edmondson on behlf of MOWCAP (see 2.5)



Personnel: 25200

Contracts: 0

Training: 3000

Equipment: 0


ANOVERVIEWOFTHEBASICREQUIREMENTSANDSUITABILITYOFICTsFOREDUCATIONINRURALCOMMUNITIESOFTHENIGERDELTAREGIONOFNIGERIA.ACASESTUDYOFAKWAIBOMSTATE,NIGERIAProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 24800

Project summary: There is an assumption that women in the Niger Delta Region are not well represented in educational activities However data seems to be limited on how many women register and complete schooling programmes. The information gathered shows that women are not equitably represented in learning courses in all states, and there is significant variation both between and within regions. This study will access to what extent these assumptions are true and seek to expose how these programmes have impacted on women and in real terms and have addressed the needs of disadvantaged groups including the youths in the region. Qualitative data will be collected primarily through original, semi‐structured, in‐depth interviews of female and male students, teachers and group leaders. These focus groups will be supplemented by interviews with local school administrators for purposes of comparison. In each local government area, a selective sample of five

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schools will be chosen, with four teachers (two males and two females), ten female and five male students selected from each the school. This process will yield a sample of 2945 respondents from 31 local government areas for the study as a whole.

Contractor: African Youth Movement [AYM]



Personnel: 8700

Contracts: 2200

Training: 3500

Equipment: 9800


DIGITALPORTFOLIOProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: More students in Indonesia (especially high school students) not know about digital portfolio. They usually use manual things to introduce their self. So only few people interest with their job, work and ability in education field. With our project, we will introduce student’s ability, talent, and knowledge to community using digital portfolio. This project will apply into junior high school students. They will learn about digital portfolio. Integrated with technology and correspondence skill will make this project more useful in daily life. Students who got this project will teach their peer group. Outcome from this project is increase knowledge and skills about information technology, make a good digital portfolio and build networking using digital portfolio

Contractor: Handoko Setiyono



Personnel: 3500

Contracts: 2500

Training: 7500

Equipment: 10000


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ICTandTaiScriptforPreservingandPopularizingThaiCultureProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Viet Nam

Cost (USD): 91138

Project summary: The crucial need for preserving ancient documents written in ethnic script by Information Communication Technology (ICT) as well as popularizing modern ethnic script by ICT for Thai ethnic is one of keys to the development Thai ethnic in Vietnam, which in turn is expected to bring overall growth for the ethnic. The project is aimed to bridge the gap of ICT development on cultural and educational aspects and to train ICT access for Thai ethnic people.

Contractor: Ngo Trung Viet



Personnel: 20560

Contracts: 24200

Training: 30000

Equipment: 15378


EnhanchingEnglishTrainingtothechildrenlivinginaslumarea.Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: To broden the children's exposure to the English Language through English by fun such as games and activities. This training will be conducted nearby the children's home based (rumah tinggal) provided by either the government or NGO's. There will be a sustainable training which will be scheduled according to their free time. This program is going to be as an additional educational activity in addition to their formal education at school. This program is going to be free of charges at any levels.

Contractor: Agus Haswin



Personnel: 9000

Contracts: 3000

Training: 9000

Equipment: 2000


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ThePreservationofindigenopusKnowledgeandCulturalPracticesinSmallMalaita,SolomonIslands.Project status: Unfunded

Region/country: Solomon Islands

Cost (USD): 10500

Project summary: This project intends to document and re‐enforce the core cultural values that constitute Aulutalau indigenous knowledge and espistemology. In so doing, the project will explore the Aulutalau way of life so that core values that are in line with good governance and human rights principles are preserved and promoted through out the villages. Like other parts of the country, the Aulutalau society has a unique way of life. This way of life however, is rapidly changing as a result of social, economic and political changes. In the process of transformation from a traditional society to a modern one, old practices and customs are breaking down with little confidence that they can be effectively replaced with modern system.There is a real challenge to all village elders and others to work together to re‐establish trust and confidence in their way of life. For the people to rebuild, preserve and promote their knowledge base, it is imperative that proper mechanisms are in place. It is on these premises that the Walamala‐Aulu Technical Committee Honiara (WATCH) in collaboration with the Aulutalau‐Apasaro Council of Chiefs (AACC) has intended to preserve and promote core values of their society, hence formally submit this project for your consideration. For your information, WATCH has successfully carried out a human right workshop in June 2003.

Contractor: Walamala‐Aulu Technical Committee Honiara (WATCH)



Personnel: 3740

Contracts: 500

Training: 3000

Equipment: 2760


RussianlanguageenvironmentsafeguardProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: The project is aimed at opposing current trends in the Russian language to absorb growing number of international loan words in ways that seem to be gradually destroying Russian literal and cultural traditions. The project will be fulfilled by linguists who have been teamworking for seven years on the problem.

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The goal of the project is to work out specifications (recommendations) that clearly show current language trend "dangers" and ways of opposing them in a format that will be equally suitable for application by state, official bodies as well as commercial and non‐commercial structures and organizations, people. The project will be developing in three directions: 1. Scientific (preparing recommendations) 2. Field work (monitoring language incoming data) 3. Every day reference service (communication with people). The project can be later applied to other language and cultural environments, based on what it derived, worked out and finalized. The project is expected to be performed within one year.

Contractor: Andrei Mitin



Personnel: 10000

Contracts: 5000

Training: 7000

Equipment: 2000


ProvidingInformationLiteracytoCivilSocietyOrganisationsandNGOsTowardsGreaterParticipationintheemergingInformationSocietyProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 41500

Project summary: At the WSIS, Isis actively participated in advocating and lobbying for a gender inclusive and people centric development framework in drafting the WSIS Declaration and Plan of Action. One problem that the Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) experienced, in the context of the WSIS multi‐stake holder approach, is the lack of support and interest by CSOs and NGOs at large in formulating these critical policy documents and participation in this new advocacy arena. We attribute this to the lack of awareness and processes available to make the critical and analytical connection between information, communication and technology issues to existing advocacies and concerns of the CSOs and NGOs, such as Human Rights, Trade and Labor, Gender, etc. This project is being proposed to address this knowledge gap. Specifically, this project aims to equip Information and Communication officers/practitioners from civil society and social movements through capacity building and information dissemination, with the Information Literacy framework, specifically providing a critical lens on Media and ICT towards social transformation. The project also aims to complement the development of skills of the practitioners on the use of community and

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independent media (CIM), Free and Open Source Softwares (FOSS), and the convergence of new ICT with other tools. Under the auspices of Isis International Manila, the project will be implemented in a period of one year, with three major outputs, these are: a module on Information Literacy for NGO’s, Civil Society, and social justice groups; a regional training to pilot test the module; and the production of a primer on Information Literacy that will be distributed to a larger network of groups in Asia and the Pacific.

Contractor: Isis International Manila



Personnel: 6500

Contracts: 2000

Training: 32000

Equipment: 0


EducationalSeminaronICTforyouthleadersandyouthworkersormanagersofnon‐governmentalorganizationsProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 8486

Project summary: The project constitutes an Educational Seminar on ICT for youth leaders and youth workers or managers of non‐governmental organizations (NGOs). It will address particularly those working in youth and voluntary service oriented organisations. Having staff, board and active volunteers trained on ICT is a high need in all NGOs. There is a high turnover of people due to the nature of these organisations, programmes and activities as well as funding sources may change on regular basis, increasing the needs to effectively preserve and exchange information. ¡§Open Youth¡¨ wishes to train its most active volunteers as well as the staff and board members of its Bulgarian partner organisations, to increase the use OF ICTs and therefore to ensure a bigger process of capacity building, or professionalism and of sustainability, as to reach their vision and mission. And this implies to have the necessary, appropriated and accurate ICT skills and knowledge as to not only encourage young people to take an active role in combating the negative social phenomenon (HIV/AIDS or other diseases, poverty and unemployment, etc.) but also to enable them to spread, exchange and disseminate their experience. Taking into account the general lack of human resources, the constant pressure staff and boards have while performing their tasks in a ‐most of the time‐ difficult environment, the lack of knowledge about the opportunities

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that ICTs give, made us decide to organise Educational Seminar on ICT.

Contractor: Open Youth



Personnel: 1620

Contracts: 0

Training: 6046

Equipment: 0


DigitaldividebetweenruralandurbanareasProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Kyrgyzstan

Cost (USD): 24930

Project summary: National strategy “Information and communications technologies for development” has determined bridging digital divide between urban and rural areas as one of the priority tasks for the information society creation. One of the key bottlenecks of ICT distribution is concentration of ICT services supply and demand in the capital and in 3 other towns (99%) and subsequently poor ICT availability in regions, where, nevertheless, 80% of the population reside. Market economy negatively affected provision of funds for telecommunications sector in rural and remote areas. The main reasons of the present situation are: ‐ high prices for the communication operators services; ‐ inability of rural population to pay; ‐ lack of rural population’s demand for communications services. Now, many initiatives are being implemented for popularization of communications service among rural population. However, business is not feasible to bring down the prices in rural areas. Having studied backgrounds and preconditions of pricing in telecommunications sector, the government decided that it is essential to review telecommunication services regulation, so that provide favorable conditions for business sector, which renders communications services in rural and remote areas. The problem solving is revision of the regulation policies, including tariff regulation (balancing of urban and rural tariffs).

Contractor: Lira Samykbaeva



Personnel: 2820

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Contracts: 17920

Training: 680

Equipment: 540


PreservationofLocalCulturalTraditionsProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 30000

Project summary: The project aims to strengthen the awareness of the preservation of a kind of information that is still alive only in the society cultural memory. Since it is not structured, not even always in written form and is scattered, it gradually dies out. The preservation and presentation of such kind of information will open it up to the public and will make it a part of the global cultural heritage collection. The proposed project also aims to provide an organizational model for multiplication and transferability at local level independent of information location and content. Within its 12‐month life‐time it will collect, integrate and preserve the information in its various aspects – images, sounds, texts on the local cultural traditions on 6 topics: traditional architecture; handcrafts; local customs, traditional costumes, local dialects and local dishes in the South‐eastern region of Bulgaria (Smolyan area in the Rhodope mountain). The technologies allow preservation, digital integration and presentation of such information in an integral form (holistic approach) and at the same time selection and consideration of specific parts of it (interactive mode). This is a step toward preservation of information as a virtual reality. Interactive computer multimedia technology will be used for producing versions for Internet and CD/DVD based distribution. The product will be developed in a way to minimize the dependence on additional SW/HW modules. The implementation of self‐running application provides for the ease of use and interoperability.

Contractor: Information and Software International Services



Personnel: 18000

Contracts: 5000

Training: 0

Equipment: 3100


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NewMethodsofAccessibleInformationfortheVisuallyImpairedPeopleinBulgariaProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 27480

Project summary: The current project is orientated towards increasing the educational level of people with visual impairments, enlarging of the possibilities for their independent education by assuring of accessible information. That will provide an opportunity for equal conditions for education, vocational training of those people and their fully inclusion in the structures of the civic society. Their competency will be increased, they will be able to work, to participate actively in the activities out of their closed home spaces, they will feel as free people full of will for life. In the framework of one year there will be recorded on audio tapes, scanned and edited in electronic format a rich library of most necessary educational materials for university and high‐school students fully accessible for independent learning by blind people. In each publication will be a short announcement for UNESCO’s mission and activities. For the project activities implementation there will be employment for six persons with visual impairments and two people without disabilities. There will be created elements of integrated working environment . The website of Horizonti Foundation will be upgraded for exchange of ideas and establishment of wide network of blind people from Bulgaria and abroad.

Contractor: Hussein Ismail



Personnel: 3960

Contracts: 15720

Training: 3250

Equipment: 2700


AfricaAnimated!Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 866000

Project summary: Following UNESCO’s mandate to promote independent, culturally relevant, educationally valuable and cost competitive media production, the proposed project aims at establishing a Media Training and Production Centre for Eastern and Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean Region. Its mission is to

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establish a hands‐on training and production facility for Computer‐Assisted (Children’s) Animation. Targeting media professionals and project managers, the centre and its production acts as a production and training institution as well as a centre of excellence.

Contractor: Mariana Cifuentes



Personnel: 120000

Contracts: 132000

Training: 375000

Equipment: 179000


•‘EMPOWERING8’WORKSHOP•–applyingtheproblem‐solvingmodelforschoolsinSouthandSouthEastAsia[Beingthe‘InformationSkillsforLearning’Workshop‐Part2]Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 34425

Project summary: In the emerging Information Society, timely access to relevant information has become critical for quality decision‐making and problem‐solving. This fact has been recognized very well by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) through its ‘Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression’ (FAIFE) Programme, and Unesco’s the ‘Information for All Programme’ (IFAP). Preservation of information and universal access to information is not possible without narrowing the gap between the information rich and the information poor people between and within the developed and the developing countries. Only by providing massive real‐time access to quality information to one and all, the democratization of knowledge and information can take place. But mere access to knowledge and information cannot facilitate socioeconomic development and peaceful co‐existence. This can be achieved by promoting information literacy through capacity building at grass root level. If the ‘Information for All Programme’ is to fulfill Unesco’s mandate to contribute to ‘Education for All’, then information literacy must be promoted at school level. Only this way, a holistic approach to use of information for empowerment of school going children, teachers, and teacher librarians can be ensured. With this view, an international workshop on ‘Information skills for Learning’ sponsored by IFLA/ALP was organized at National Institute of Library and Information Sciences (NILIS), University of Colombo, Sri Lanka from 01‐05 November 2004. (Print and CD Versions of full report available from Ms. Pradeepa Wijetunge, Director NILIS. Email: [email protected]) Based upon

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recommendations of the IFLA/ALP‐NILIS Workshop, a follow‐up workshop is being conceived with the sponsorship of IFLA/ALP and the Unesco/IFAP with the following objectives: 1. To develop ‘Empowering 8’ the problem‐solving model so successfully conceived in the IFLA ALP‐funded Workshop ‘Information skills for learning’ (1 – 6 November 2004). 2. To develop it as a central process in information literacy and to provide the introductory stages of schools’ education that will permeate pedagogy at all levels and in all subjects of education. 3. This Workshop is stage 2 following on that so successfully held in November 2004 (see the Proceedings; International Workshop on ‘Information skills for learning’ where it became apparent, as the Workshop evolved, that there were many new concepts, ideas and new teaching methods that needed to be explored in greater depth in order to make Empowering 8 an even more effective tool.

Contractor: Dr. Jagtar Singh



Personnel: 25025

Contracts: 500

Training: 5100

Equipment: 1000


PromotingSkillanduseofOpenSourceinKenya(PSUOSK)Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 24952

Project summary: The objective of PSUOK is to increase awareness of Free Libre/Open Source Software (OSS); promote use of OSS and improve the capacity of Information Technology(IT) professionals; and reduce use of pirated software amongst the Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Kenya. Pact Kenya proposes to setup the first OSS Resource in Kenya which is expected to provide; 1)access to OSS materials and publications, 2) training of IT Professionals on OSS 3) a link of Kenyan IT professionals with huge global open source community, which will provide opportunities for South‐North and South‐South collaboration and knowledge sharing expected to result in poverty reduction. OSS refers to software which can be copied and used freely, and its users have access to the source code. It is more cost effective and can free the scarce resources NGOs have to development projects. Its limited use is attributed to lack of awareness, low capacity, and lack of access. To address

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these challenges, we will provide a suite of software, OSS Materials and training manuals relevant to NGOs in the resource centre, and train members of different NGOs to use OSS software.

Contractor: Pact Kenya



Personnel: 9500

Contracts: 4400

Training: 3000

Equipment: 5500


DevelopmentofasustainableprogrammeindevelopingcountriesforprovidingequalaccessibilityofICT(InformationandCommunicationTechnology)topeoplewithspecialneedsProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 0

Project summary: The declaration of principles of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS’2003 in Geneva), pays particular attention to the needs of people with disabilities while building the information society. SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENTS can be made by making ICT solutions which are equally accessible for people with special needs providing them equal opportunities in education, employment, entertainment, and media in their local environment. The social inclusion of people with special needs based upon equal information accessibility is not much investigated in developing countries. A well planned effort taking indigenous elements of these countries or societies into account is required to make significant headway. For this purpose, it is required to initiate: a. An international accessibility conference in developing countries playing the central role to explore local situation, and adapt existing ideas and approaches from developed countries. b. Triggering the coordination/integration of information networks consisting of people with special needs, their families, schools, hospitals, rehabilitation centers, doctors, experts, companies making products for these people, and other related entities. These will have close interaction with the conference for providing useful feedback for continuous refinement of objectives vis‐à‐vis end user requirements, smooth implementation of proposed solutions, and getting help in dissemination and evaluation stages.

Contractor: Professor Dr. A Min Tjoa



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Personnel: 30000

Contracts: 20000

Training: 10000

Equipment: 10000


WebResourceCenterforInnovativeTeachingandCriticalThinkingProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 18510

Project summary: The knowledge based society is a society of diverse interactions, intensive exchange, networking, active and critical processing of the flow of information. But the predominant part of the teachers in Bulgaria is not ready yet to base their own learning on those principles and to facilitate their professional development by the means of ICT. Most of them keep on relying mainly on the formal institutionalized forms of training, though they are not very satisfied with their contents and format. The aim of the project is to support the educational change in Bulgaria through providing an alternative way for in‐service teachers’ development which includes: • Creating the website “Web Resource Center for Innovative Teaching and Critical Thinking” which will concentrate teaching materials, information, partner contacts, peer support, exchange of experience and ideas; • Piloting a model for preliminary preparation and professional development on using and creating web‐based resources, in support of and in accordance with the national ICT strategy in the sphere of education. The web‐site will provide equal and easy access to information and resources for flexible update of the teachers’ competencies regardless their location of work and living, in compliance with the EU documents promoting higher mobility and flexibility.

Contractor: Bulgarian Reading Association



Personnel: 9400

Contracts: 1530

Training: 2440

Equipment: 930


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TheDevelopmentoftheJournal“TheProblemsofLegalInformatization”Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 35000

Project summary: The Journal was founded in 1997 and is published by the National Center of Legal Information of Republic of Belarus. At present it is a bi‐annual publication that covers theoretical and practical matters concerning legal informatization. Taking into account the recommendations of the Conference “Legal Informatization‐ 2004”, declaration of the WSIS and goals of the UNESCO Chair in Information Technologies and Law, the project aims at the further development of the Journal with a view to cover the following topics: Creation of the systems of access to legal information; Information and legal aspects of creating e‐government; Interstate legal information exchange within CIS; building the Information Society; Formation and development of the network of UNESCO Chairs in Information Technologies and Law; Implementation of UNESCO recommendations in the sphere of access to governmental public domain information; Building the Information Society. It is planned to transform the Journal in an international publication by attracting foreign authors and distributing it in the CIS countries. A complete electronic version of the Journal will be created. Some of the materials will be published in English as well. The editorial board is to include specialists from the CIS, Central and Western Europe.

Contractor: National Center of Legal Information of the Republic of Belarus



Personnel: 5000

Contracts: 6000

Training: 2000

Equipment: 20000


LesNouvellesTechnologiesdel'informationetdelacommunicationauservicedel'éducationProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Democratic Republic of the Congo

Cost (USD): 42500

Project summary: Le projet que nous avons l'honneur de vous présenter ce jour porte sur l'insertion des NTIC dans le système éducatif de 30 écoles primaires et

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Secondaires de la Province du Kasia Oriental en République Démocratique du Congo. Nous avons obtenu un don de 425 ordinateurs de seconde main etat établi de fonctionnement avec garantie de la part d'une ONG Américaine Worl Computer Exchange (www.computer Exchange.org) USA pour ces 30 écoles afin de les connecter à internet et les placer en réseau avec d'autres écoles et centres de connaissance au mode dans l'objectif d'améliorer le niveau d'éducation et pallier au déficit du droit à l'information et à la formation en RD CONGO

Contractor: Franck KAMUNGA CIBANGU



Personnel: 5000

Contracts: 2500

Training: 12500

Equipment: 20000


TOSUCCEEDTOGETHERProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 21927

Project summary: The present project is designed to activate the civil society in order to confirm the local democracy in the area of the town of Lom. Lom is a small town situated on the Danube River and is part of Montana Region. The purpose of the project is establishment of Information Training Center through which to work for the realization of the mission of “Association of NGOs – Lom”. We also aim to exchange positive practices with organizations from the nongovernmental sector in the region and other towns. Members of the Association are 11 Nongovernmental Organizations /NGOs/ and 7 physical persons. With the realization of the project we attempt to build up the potential of the members of the NGOs through trainings in preparation, management and accounting projects. These training sessions, the access to information and the international exchange are going to secure stability of the nongovernmental sector in town.

Contractor: ASSOCIATION OF NGOs ‐ LOM



Personnel: 3720

Contracts: 5100

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Training: 2935

Equipment: 4880


BritishCouncilEritrea‐LibraryandInformationProjectProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Eritrea

Cost (USD): 24990

Project summary: Public libraries and public access school libraries are recognised as one of the most effective channels through which the great majority of people in Eritrea access information. The introduction of ICT in libraries will greatly increase the availability of information. Building on a successful pilot and a comprehensive needs analysis, this multi‐stakeholder partnership will contribute to the increased use of computers for the improvement of access to, and dissemination of, information in Eritrea¡¦s libraries. The project will target public access libraries within the following partner institutions nationwide: „h Public Libraries „h Senior, Junior, Vocational and Technical schools „h Government Resource Centres „h Religious, youth centres and NGOs The project will provide a holistic support package to enable partner institutions to introduce and extend use of ICTs in their work to deliver greater access to information for marginalised communities. This project encompasses the crucial capacity building elements of training, hardware and software provision and technical support. At the end of the funding cycle the project will achieve financial sustainability, enabling the benefits to be replicated without dependency on further donor funding. The involvement of key government stakeholders and wide dissemination of evaluation results will help catalyse greater ICT provision to libraries.

Contractor: Stephen Campbell, Computer Aid International



Personnel: 1117

Contracts: 4575

Training: 2789

Equipment: 16433

Miscellaneous: 76 0

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UniversalAccessToInformationProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: Nowadays, people in Serbia are still learning to implement democracy and are not completely acquainted with the rights and responsibilities they have as the members of the civic society. Economy transition has left many people without jobs and their opinion is that democratic changes cannot bring them any good. Media in the Timok region represents a problem for itself, non existence of expression of pluralism and cultural diversity in the media is a problem with which we already dealing with. According to this Resource Center Bor has devoleped a strategy through which we should raise educational level of the media professionals as well as of citizens living in Timok region.

Contractor: Resource Centre Bor



Personnel: 6000

Contracts: 6000

Training: 9000

Equipment: 3000


LivingHeritage‐worldmodelProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: New Zealand

Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: Living Heritage is a free, bilingual, web‐based, curriculum‐linked environment which provides the means for young people and their teachers and communities to share the local stories and perspectives of their neighbourhood, family, whanau, history and events with the world's audiences. It provides the templates, processes, clearance forms, and pedagogical foundation for a purposeful learning experience combined with the opportunity to discover the unique stories, people, perspectives, cultural mix and history of their region.

Contractor: Jill Wilson



Personnel: 8000

Contracts: 18000

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Training: 8000

Equipment: 6000


ImpresosMexicanosProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Mexico

Cost (USD): 35000

Project summary: To digitize, all content of 228 titles under the Impresos Mexicanos colection. This project includes the cropping and deskewing of each image and the Optical Character Recognition to form a searchable data base. This will provide the end user with an image on a PDF format. This data base will be placed for consultation on the Internet through an specific portal. The administration of the digital format of this colection will be under the National Library of Mexico. This colection is of high importance for the research and general. Mexico was the first country in America to have a printing press and 26 of these volumes are from that period (XVI century). Includes works of world interest such as the Graduale Dominicale, printed by Antonio Espinosa one of its kind. 202 volumes are from the XVII century. The Impresos Mexicanos are considered by UNESCO a part of the "Memory of the World" program at a regional level.

Contractor: Rosa Maria Gasca



Personnel: 20000

Contracts: 8000

Training: 4000

Equipment: 2000


ThePamphletProjectProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: My firm Red Earth (URL: http://www.redearthindia.com/ ) aims to facilitate artistic expression and culture in India, from classical, to folk to modern; by way of organising events and publications. The flagship initiative, The Pamphlet Project is aimed at reviving the pamphlet, a literary genre with immense potentialities that has gone out of vogue today. The project wishes

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to exploit the specificities of the genre (as well as other genres like broadsheet and leaflet) to articulate issues of popular culture, urban life, and the arts and culture in India; seeking to foster a climate of free information, public discourse; and creation of public opinion. The vision of the project is to make available easy platforms for publication of alternative, non‐mainstream work that counters the hegemonies of the mainstream media. In addition the project aims to bridge the popular – academic divide that is all pervasive in the publishing world. Though the project focuses on reviving forms of print culture, this is to be complemented by a strong online component (website, blogs, and forums). The inaugural issue of the project, 'The Metrosexuals: Exploring the Unexplored. Volume 1: Introduction' was released in October 2004; and is a multi‐faceted study of Metrosexuality, in global and Indian contexts.

Contractor: Himanshu Verma



Personnel: 10500

Contracts: 0

Training: 0

Equipment: 5500


ArtCookIslandsProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Cook Islands

Cost (USD): 90000

Project summary: This project will exist in two phases: 1. Publication of an art history book documenting the extraordinary history of Cook Islands Contemporary Art with reference to traditional art forms. This book will achieve an important role in national arts curriculum in addition to being distributed regionally and internationally. This book will also play a role in tourism, effectively increasing the profile of our art industry with our most important foreign exchange earner. 2. The establishment of a website that records not only the history and record of works but all on‐going information pertaining to the arts in the Cook Islands, contemporary and traditional. Sales of traditional/contemporary work and the universal availability of previously unavailable information will be a fundamental aim of this website.

Contractor: Ben Bergman



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Personnel: 5000

Contracts: 80000

Training: 5000

Equipment: 0

Miscellaneous: 0 0

CommunicationandBiodiversityConservationinLatinAmericaandtheCaribbeanProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: In rural areas of Latin America, where people actually interact with the environment for better or worse, newspapers, cable TV and the Internet have limited reach. NatureServe believes that Spanish language radio is the most effective means to communicate with these people at the local level. Reaching them with accurate scientific information and showing them ways how they benefit economically from protecting the environment will have direct impact on preserving and restoring biodiversity in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).Working together, Nature Serve’s ARRIBA network and Hispanic Radio Network have established a strategic alliance to develop a communications initiative for Latin America and the Caribbean. Modeled on the “Planeta Azul” (Blue Planet) radio series that has been airing in the United States, the initiative will improve education on environmental issues by connecting the reliable scientific information produced by Nature Serve’s ARRIBA network with a new audience of local communities, as well as decision‐makers in Latin American countries. Our initiative will inform people about the threats facing biodiversity in the region, as well as the social and economic benefits that a healthy environment and biodiversity provides to their societies.

Contractor: Juan Pablo Arce, Director ‐ Latin America and Caribbean, NatureServe



Personnel: 15000

Contracts: 20000

Training: 5000

Equipment: 0


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InTerConnection:Linkingpeople,ideasandglobalinformationAlocalandglobalpublicinformationpartnershipprojectbetweenTimorLeste’sprimarylocallyrunpublicinformationNGO’s–XananaGusmaoReadingRoom(publiclibrary)andTimorLesteMediaProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Timor‐Leste

Cost (USD): 25279

Project summary: Timor Leste as a nation is still information poor, due not only to low literacy levels, but very poor socio economic conditions and education levels. It is rare for media outlets to have internet access for journalists. It is even rarer for the general community to have access to Information technology, with few households being able to afford phone lines, let alone internet access or PC’s. Internews and the Xanana Gusmão Reading Room (XGRR) share a common vision to increase access to quality, relevant information about local and international events, ideas and people – to enhance access to public information to build participatory democracy. Internews does this through supporting the development of independent media organizations in Timor‐Leste. Most journalists have limited access to phones or internet to enable effective journalism research. 10‐15 journalists currently use Internews internet access daily to assist them research and file stories for the 5 newspapers, 17 radio outlets and 1 TV station in Timor Leste. www.internews.tp www.easttimorphotographers.com XGRR does this by providing a public space where people in Dili can access information to educate and expand their knowledge about their own local communities, their nation, the region and beyond. Up to 100 people a day access XGRR services with 1581 visitors in January Both of these organizations have been working in partnership to increase public access to audio‐visual resources about Timor‐Leste through the donation of Internews video resources to the Reading Room collection and the joint hosting of regular film nights focusing on local history and media ethics for journalists. After five years developing the media in Timor Leste, Internews is shifting to a localization strategy to slowly phase out its program in a sustainable way to ensure donor investment in media development is not lost through a rapid exit strategy. To enable this transitional phase Internews is supporting the establishment of a local media development NGO – Timor Leste Media Development Centre (TLMDC) Over the next 6‐12 months Internews staff and a select handful of Timorese experienced journalists will slowly transition to the newly forming, locally run, TLMDC. This new media NGO will be located in the community based venue managed by the Reading Room complex. Internews will continue to support this TLMDC over this “incubator” period to ensure skills and assets are not lost through hasty handover. TLMDC will also continue to be partners of Internews International ‐ a network or locally managed media development centres established in developing countries.

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www.internews.tv/home/index.php

Contractor: Nicole Wiseman



Personnel: 1725

Contracts: 0

Training: 7400

Equipment: 11300


InfocentrodeAlfabetizaciónDigital(IAD)Project status: Unfunded

Region/country: Peru

Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: El propósito del Infocentro de Alfabetización Digital (IAD) es incrementar las capacidades de las y los jóvenes para responder a las exigencias del desarrollo socio económico globalizado y en permanente competitividad, dominando los conocimientos y herramientas de las TICs para que tengan mejores posibilidades de encontrar un empleo digno o de autogenerarlo, así como producir y compartir información sobre empleo juvenil, resaltando la incorporación del respeto a la propiedad intelectual con énfasis en la NO PIRATERÍA de Softwares tan frecuente en Perú. Propiciaremos que los jóvenes de este proyecto alfabeticen digitalmente a mujeres de organizaciones de base para mejorar el intercambio de comunicación con su familia y otras organizaciones similares a través del conocimiento y uso de Informática Básica e Internet. Los ejes serán igualdad de géneros, inclusión de jóvenes (con y sin discapacidad), respeto intergeneracional y dimensiones éticas de la sociedad de la información. Este Infocentro será un lugar de encuentro de las redes sociales, de la comunidad y de sus organizaciones, tendrá como objetivo acortar la brecha digital que se genera tanto por la carencia de acceso a la tecnología como por la inexistencia de capacitación para emplearlos de manera que contribuyan a superar la condición de pobreza.

Contractor: Gina Bardelli



Personnel: 6000

Contracts: 3600

Training: 3600

Equipment: 11000

Miscellaneous: 800

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InternetAcademyInitiative(IAI)inIndonesia:E‐LearningProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: IT curricula are becoming more commonplace in developed countries, colleges and universities in developing countries are often not able to provide up to date IT curricula due to a lack of trained staff and equipment. They are being left behind in the information age, and widening the gap between rich and poor countries. Through an innovative partnership with educational institutions across the world such as: UNESCO; Cisco System; Oracle Education Initiative; and others. IAI in Indonesia are going preparing students and young generation for demands and enormous opportunities of the information economy while creating a qualified talent pool for building and maintaining networks. Two Internet Academy Initiative will be developed under UNESCO‐IFAP program with collaboration with Ministry for Research and Technology (RISTEK); Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI); University of Siliwangi; Widyamandira University, Cisco System and Oracle Education Initiative, as a pilot projects . The two IAI will be located in Siliwangi University, Tasikmalaya District in West Java and the other is in Widyamandira University in Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, East Indonesia. Tasikmalaya district is a district with so many potential economic to be developed, such as agriculture; fisheries; animal husbandary; marine products as well as small and medium enterprises. The population consist more than 2 millions people with University students: about 10,000; High secondary school students: about 150,000 ; Elementary school students: about 300,000. Kupang district is a district near the border with East Timor. The population in Kupang district are about 500.000 people. The students in Widyamandira University come from districts surrounding, and about 7,000 students are enroll in this university.

Contractor: Ms. Utari Budihardjo



Personnel: 2500

Contracts: 1000

Training: 10000

Equipment: 10000


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PacificTelecentreOnlineCommunity(PacTOC)Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 60000

Project summary: Background :‐ From 1‐3 Dec 2004, 60 representatives from 16 countries met at “Connecting Island Communities. Pacific Telecentre Workshop”, to report on and foster a vibrant telecentre movement in the Pacific Region. Participants included telecentre operators, librarians, community media specialists, researchers, private sector and policy‐makers as well as regional and international agencies. The workshop was facilitated by the Foundation for Development Cooperation, with funding support from the Global Knowledge Partnership, Sasakawa Pacific Island Nations Fund (SPINF) and the New Zealand Commission for UNESCO. A major recommendation from this workshop was a call to establish the “Pacific Telecentre Online Community” (PacTOC). PacTOC :‐ will be an online resource and knowledge‐sharing centre to support the establishment, sustainability, upscaling and replication of people‐centred, development‐oriented, multi‐purpose community telecentres in the Pacific region. PacTOC will be developed using OSS, and it will be an Open Content site. This project has secured support of FDC, GKP and SPINF. We wish to continue the partnership with UNESCO to develop this important resource for the Pacific region.

Contractor: Mr Stuart Mathison



Personnel: 10000

Contracts: 30000

Training: 20000

Equipment: 0

Miscellaneous: 0 0

ICTforWomenJournalists(Asia)Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 31600

Project summary: A short course in an ICT classroom with long‐term follow‐up to assist women journalists in Asia to make a great contribution to the media. To help them get their work published, and readily available in printed and electronic form. To give the women the ability to work as digital journalist, and in digital publishing. To start them on the road to understanding the changes to their professional duties and obligations involved in this wider horizon. On‐

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going research at AIBD indicates that most Asian and some Pacific women learn these skills faster and better in a gender specific group, where the cultural, social and religious issues of working with men do not arise. The course is designed to persuade women they can work with computers and the Internet and to teach or improve the basic skills and concepts needed. Follow‐up by email and blogs provides a means of affordable continued learning and advice as well as group support and international socialising on both a personal and professional level. It is proposed that a two weeks regional workshop for 20 participants from 18 Asian countries be held in Kuala Lumpur.

Contractor: Mr Javad Mottaghi



Personnel: 5900

Contracts: 3500

Training: 19300

Equipment: 0


UsingICTsandschoolinfrastructureforimprovinginformationandcommunicationsinBhutanProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Bhutan

Cost (USD): 24750

Project summary: Bhutan has a number of initiatives underway to improve the flow of information within Bhutan, with particular emphasis on rural and regional communities. One activity is a pilot telecentre project, trialling three telecentre models. To date, the school‐based telecentre has offered the most promising results in terms of community access. Bhutan is also in the process of rolling out computer laboratories to all higher secondary schools in Bhutan. Many of these schools support a cluster of non‐formal education classrooms. These laboratories can become a valuable information resource for schools and the communities they serve. In order to ensure that these new ICTs are used efficiently and effectively, it is necessary to build the capacity of computer lab technical assistants to maintain the labs, and information professionals to use the labs. In addition, providing digitized educational materials will help disseminate Bhutan’s unique cultural inheritance, as well as enhancing the education system, and the flow of information to regional and rural communities by using ICTs.

Contractor: Mr Karma Jurmi, IT Co‐ordinator

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Personnel: 2850

Contracts: 6000

Training: 7250

Equipment: 8400


TraningCoursesforLibrariansfromCountyLibrariesinWesternPartofChinaProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 48000

Project summary: In order to promote information literacy,through capacity building particularly for information professionals,strengthen awareness about the importance of preservation of information of all kinds, promote a better understanding of the ethical, legal and societal implications of ICTs,China Society for Library Science will organize training courses for librarians from county libraries from different area.Training method is selecting 10 experts to give lecture to 1500 librarians from poor area of China. The project will launch in Sep 2005 and finish in Oct 2005.Training themes are"Basic Knowledge of Dtabase for Library Collection","Search and Use of Library Collection","Search and Use of Library Database","Import and Use of Foreign Database","Coustruction Projects of Small and Middle Digital Library","Modernization Management and Services in Libraries".

Contractor: Tang Gengsheng



Personnel: 10000

Contracts: 2000

Training: 25000

Equipment: 10000


ForWhatthePhoneRingsinRuralChinaProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 9450

Project summary: This project is to conduct an ethnographic study of use of the telephones and

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cell phone in three rural communities in China. With China being the world number one in telecommunication population of 600 million (including 305 mobile users) in less than a decade, the telephone/cell phone has played an essential role in transforming Chinese society. The change is escalating in convergence with other new media technologies such as the Internet, text messaging, broadband/wireless connection, digital video and so on. However, social and economic bearings of this telemedia‐volution, specifically in China¡¦s rural areas, remain at the periphery of communication studies both in China and abroad., although there are numerous market surveys and studies on telecommunication as the industry. This project, the first of its kind, aims to examine the social use of the telephone in China¡¦s rural society in three aspects: a) To what extent is the diffusion of the telephone a catalyst for productive processes and leads to mass entrepreneurship? b) How has it begun to shape the way people communicate, socialize and perceive a community? and c) In what manner does the use of the telephone create new forms of entertainment and self identity?

Contractor: WU, Mei



Personnel: 1250

Contracts: 7500

Training: 125

Equipment: 375


IncreasingthefamilyincomethroughICTfacilitatedsmallscalebusinessdevelopmentinSriLankaProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Sri Lanka

Cost (USD): 24995

Project summary: REN or Rural Enterprise Network Guaranteed Limited that brings together rural micro scale agro processors was conceived by ITDG to address certain pertinent issues that plague rural producers in Sri Lanka. Currently REN is incubating twenty agro‐processing enterprises in Sri Lanka with committed fund of InfoDev for technology transfer, community mobilizing, other trainings and business incubation activities. The proposed project is to fulfill the matching fund requirement that aims to examine and demonstrate the approaches of increasing the financial viability of ICT interventions in Agro Processing Micro Enterprise sector. The logistic practices of dispersely located REN member enterprises (i.e. small scale agro processors and producers) are inefficient due to

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unavailability of proper mechanism to link with the buyer, suppliers and other stakeholder in the general business environment. Service needs of the enterprises identified are timely information and facilitation of linkages with the stakeholders in the general business environment. In the proposed project REN will decentralize the network through setting up micro enterprise development centers at the villages that utilize appropriate ICT interventions to facilitate the functions of micro enterprises. REN will work with these enterprises and introduce simple and effective applications of ICTs to facilitate the logistics of the businesses, strengthen their market linkages and link them with the e‐business world through micro enterprise development centers. During project period (i.e. one year) REN will develop ICT infrastructure viz. (a) telephones (b) computers (c) open and user friendly software and user friendly interfaces in the medium of the communities (ex. Stock entry software in Sinhala medium and user friendly data transfer systems) at five village level micro enterprise development centers and provide free access for the members of enterprises to those software. This will create a user friendly ICT environment for data transfer and exchange of information. This exchange of information will alter the daily production plans according to the market requirement and facilitate keeping product quality according to the buyer requirement and prevent stock out situation of the network etc. Proposed project will conduct training pogrammes to the trainers on utilizing ICT facilities available at micro enterprise development centers to facilitate logistic practices of the enterprises, which in turn will reduce the cost of production. Facilitation of the information flow to the enterprises via. micro enterprise development centers will enable them to find the market opportunities and new niche markets, which in turn will increase their profit margin. All in all, the proposed project will increase the income level of about 140 families (i.e. the members of the group enterprises). Simultaneously the project will increase the income of about 85 poor families of indirect beneficiaries.

Contractor: Rural Enterprise Network Guarantee Limited



Personnel: 7980

Contracts: 1545

Training: 1635

Equipment: 13710


InformationAccess&EducationQualityImpactingCulturalChangeProject status: Unfunded

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Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: Project Introduction The gender aspect of digital divide is grossly underestimated in third world countries. Pakistan is country with a rich cultural heritage, where the role of women has been traditionally defined to homes. Globalization demands a shift in the workforce structure and equal opportunities to all genders. NWFP is Province of Pakistan, where extremisam and hardline factors have strengthened in the society. The region is know for its religious orthodoxy and the limited mobility of women in rural settings. The gender gap in access to education has been highligted by the lack of quality education in goverment schools which hosts the poor and marginalized sections of the society. The central hypothesis of the project, aims to drive access to information throught the improvement of quality in education and realization in societies about the need for engagement with the globalization process. ICT offers a potential of providing information to communities through girls schools by running school based telecenters. In order to meet this challenge the project will serve as a starting point in this direction. The program will social mobilization and identification of the cultural pardigms around information and its use. Needs will be identified that can be met by the provision of information through the school based telecenters. The project, will select key information needs and prototype them for its evaluation. Following are the key steps of the pilot program.

Contractor: Noor Mohammed Khan



Personnel: 20000

Contracts: 10000

Training: 3000

Equipment: 10000


DocumentationvirtuellepourledéveloppementruralenAfriquecentraleProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 35000

Project summary: Non seulement les documents sur le développement rural produits en Afrique centrale sont rares mais aussi ils font l’objet d’une conservation insatisfaisante . Plusieurs éléments expliquent cet état : ‐ les documents produits par les services étatiques sont mal conservés : la plupart des services documentaires étatiques étant sinistrés.

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‐ les différents conflits que connaît la région ont affecté les fonds documentaires ‐ les documents sont produits par des projets qui ne pensent pas la à conservation de leur productions documentaires à leur échéance ‐ les documents sont produits par des ONG qui disparaissent au gré des financements. Un travail de recensement et de numérisation de la documentation produite ‐( qui aboutirait à la réalisation d’une bibliothèque virtuelle serait judicieux pour assurer la conservation de cette documentation souvent originale et appropriée à un public qui représente souvent plus de 60% de la population active. La difficile accessibilité de l’information dont il est ici question peut se vérifier aisément à l’heure des inforoutes en essayant d’obtenir un type d’information ‐ exemple culture du Gnetum africanum, du Dacryodes edulis,..‐ sur internet…Non seulement cette information est rare, mai aussi lorsqu’elle existe elle est très souvent purement scientifique et par conséquent inaccessible . La réalisation d’une telle bibliothèque virtuelle ‐ principalement constitués des publications des institutions actrices du projet et de documents sans copyright‐ contribuerait à rendre la documentation plus accessible en milieu rural en proposant une approche différente des bibliothèques villageoises traditionnelles en développant des « points info services pour le développement rural « de proximité, et mobiles au besoin, dotés essentiellement de l’outil qu’est le Cd‐Rom qui actuellement s’avère plus accessible qu’internet pour les zones rurales. Un tel outil serait plus convivial ( utilisation de noms des plantes en langue locale ; recherche facilité; impression des pages les plus pertinentes qui peuvent être remises au demandeur d'information qui peut les emporter.), moins onéreux, plus facile à gérer (tout le travail de traitement des documents disparait, l'espace nécessaire et le personnel nécessaire sont limités) qu'une bibliothèque traditionnelle.

Contractor: Service d'Appui aux Initiatives Locales de Développement (SAILD)



Personnel: 8000

Contracts: 6000

Training: 6000

Equipment: 12000


Inter‐regionalInformation‐EducationalWomenNetworkofICT(IIEWNICT)Project status: Unfunded


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Cost (USD): 0

Project summary: The matter of this project consists in that through the realization of the very project we want to assist to the further strengthening of open informational society in Azerbaijan, to improve MDG (Goal 3. Encouragement of the equality between women and men and widening of the rights and possibilities of women). In the frame of the very project it’s planned to create Aliens of national NGO of workers in the sphere of ICT in Azerbaijan Republic. The creation of such Aliens will assist to the consolidation of the efforts of NGO and to advance the following main directions 1/ ICTs for Women’s Empowerment and Gender goals 2/ ICTs for Youth Participation 3/ Indigenous & Displaced Communities & ICTs 4/ ICTs for Poverty Reduction. For the achievement of above pointed we will use different set of methods. It’s very important for us is the creation of vital, stable mechanism that will continue realization of the project after completion of financing from the side of IFAP. Especially for this project we developed the strategy of the partnership between NGO for the achievement of our long‐termed aims. The very project is pilot.

Contractor: Ramin Mammadov



Personnel: 3230

Contracts: 2550

Training: 5620

Equipment: 10200


CommunityTechnologyLearningCentersProjectProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 220656

Project summary: National Commission for Human Development (NCHD) is a charitable organization established by a Presidential order under the National Commission for Human Development Ordinance 2002, as an autonomous body of the Cabinet Division of the Government of Pakistan. NCHD is mandated to promote Human Development in Pakistan by supporting government line departments, non‐governmental organizations and elected officials at the district level in primary education, literacy, income generating activities and provision of basic health care services. Funding for NCHD has been ensured by establishing Pakistan Human Development Fund (PHDF). Pakistan Human Development Fund (PHDF). Pakistan is the first country to establish a Public‐Private Partnership to mobilize global resources for Human

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Development following the Monterrey Conference for the International Financing of Development, March 2002. The Pakistan Human Development Fund (PHDF) is a public‐private partnership that channels resources from the Government of Pakistan, the private sector philanthropists and UNDP, into the NCHD and its programs. PHDF has been registered as a guarantee limited company under the Companies Ordinance 1984. It has an independent board of Patrons and Board of Directors. Community Technology Learning Centers Project (CTLC). In its efforts to bridge the digital divide among communities and the rural & urban areas, NCHD is establishing CTLCs in collaboration with Microsoft Corporation. The primary targets for this training are the women of rural areas and the officials of government line departments. The basic purpose of these centers is to develop computer skills which can be utilized for income generation activities by the women and capacity building of government line departments. The training mainly focuses on basic computing skills, Microsoft Office Applications, World Wide Web and Data transcription. Microsoft Corporation (MS). Microsoft is partially funding the CTLC Project by providing, a) computer hardware b) software c) Microsoft Unlimited Potential curriculum and d) training the Master Trainers. And, all other capital expenditures (building renovation, furniture & fixtures) and operational/recurring expenses are borne by NCHD.

Contractor: Muhammad Arshad Khan



Personnel: 122829

Contracts: 3658

Training: 3016

Equipment: 34449


APrototypeofDigitalCarpetMuseumonSilkRoads(apartoftheDigitalSilkRoadsProject)Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: In the countries outskirts of Silk Roads, there exist thousands of carpets, which has been succeeded as their valuable cultural heritages. The patter and method to produce those carpets are varied from region to region, from time to time, and inherited from mothers to their daughters. However, various political and economic backgrounds and wave of modernization often cut the chain of this succession and existence of carpets with

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significant historical value is facing a crisis. Archiving those carpets is very important to know the ancient history of Silk Roads. In this project, using Digital Image System, which has been developed more than 10 years in Hitachi Ltd, we are to produce a proto‐type of Digital Carpet Museum, which will be the first trigger to establish digital database utilized for researchers of Silk Roads and its history.

Contractor: Strategic Product Development Center, Hitachi Ltd.



Personnel: 10000

Contracts: 10000

Training: 0

Equipment: 10000


PromotinginformationliteracyandCollectiveresponsibilityICTProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: Information literacy has had a devastating impact on national development as it particularly affects women who are marginalized at all levels of Kenyan society. 60% of Kenyan women are illiterate or semi‐illiterate and occupy less pay and inferior positions in public and private and employment compared to their male counterparts. Despite the fact that women constitute 52% of Kenyan population, this numerical strength has not been reflected in this countries political representation for instance 18 of 222 are women M.P in a high law making organ. This has frustrated women in pooling their agenda of enactment and implementation of policies which affect the advancement of women. A country and leadership that is not sensitive to information capacity of women enhancement of potential of women makes it difficult for women to penetrate to decision making structures and therefore contributes to lack of women in decision making structures. Kenyan women will continue to suffer from marginalization due to dismal representation in the nations decision making structures. There is need to promote information literacy and develop gender responsive policies. This project will contribute to equality by further building women's capacity in information recommendations from consultative workshops which will form the basis for action to further institutionalize issues in governance and advocate for increased women in decision making structures.

Contractor: National Council of Women of Kenya (NCWK)



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Personnel: 3157

Contracts: 2632

Training: 14421

Equipment: 1574


PREPARATIONOFTVJOURNALISTS‐ECOLOGISTSProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 23870

Project summary: From our point of view it would be better to acquire journalistical education as second one, as well as to get specialization for journalists in defined sphere (e.g. ecology, sociology, politics, law, etc) with profound study of the special subjects. We can say that “loss of confidence to information providers” is a result of the fact that many journalists are not competent in the questions they write about. On the base of investigation a conclusion was made that even after solution of financial and technical questions it won’t be possible to overcome the existing crisis in means of public information without high‐professional journalist stuff. Increse of independence, pluralism, responsibility and professionalism in Mass Media by preparing professional specialists for TV understanding in the ecological questions. Lack of professionals in this field is a major problem in Armenia. To contribute to the solution of this problem, “Gloria” has prepared the project of training of journalists‐ecologists. Within the frames of the project the following plans are made: invitation of foreign expert Russia, organizing of the educational process with using of invitation and local specialists, buying equipment for training room. The project offers teaching of the TV – journalism of the ecological character along with special subjects (bioecology, social ecology, and ecological law) to the journalists.

Contractor: Women's Public organization "Gloria"



Personnel: 2760

Contracts: 12600

Training: 1510

Equipment: 4500


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AseemitNepaliBishwakosh(UnlimitedNepaliEncyclopedia)????????????????????Project status: Unfunded

Region/country: Nepal

Cost (USD): 0

Project summary: This project hopes to create the first Nepali Encyclopedia (Nepal does not have any form of encyclopedia at all) which will be bi‐lingual in Nepali and English language to fulfill the information needs of Nepalese. This will serve as the primary needs of the Nepalese in both rural and urban settings to have equal access to information thru rural community tele‐centers in our own National Nepali language. This will assist in the preservation of information that has not been recorded and printed till date and will provide easy universal access to it in all forms of print, online thru Internet and offline thru CD or DVD. This project will also get the communities involved from the early stages in voicing their need on what requires to be published thru surveys in both the web as well as thru rural community centers, libraries, tele‐centers, schools, health posts and other development centers. This project will also contribute towards the information of sciences, culture, ethnic diversity, languages, religions & its practices, history, geography, and hopes to position itself as a supplementary tool for formal and non‐formal education, will assist in reducing digital divide and will make the society more knowledgeable. This will also help in literacy and reading habits of people as well as assisting academics in research on Nepal.

Contractor: Unlimited NuMedia Pvt Ltd



Personnel: 12000

Contracts: 3000

Training: 2000

Equipment: 3000


SIFAP(SearchInformationforAllProject):adistributedsearchenginetoenablemultisources/multilingualinformationaccessProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: ∙A collaborative initiative is proposed to develop and test a multilingual search engine application to enable 1) multisources information access 2) a distributed access to information supporting the creation of local contents. ∙The output is a software solution for 1) overcoming information barriers that Internet users face regarding the access to contents 2)enabling

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distributed access to information from remote websites. ∙The work is based on an existing market leader search engine technology and is intended to donate the results to the International UNESCO community. ∙Exalead has several International implementation successful cases including www.torino2006.org : for the Olympic games in Torino; www.finanze.it : For the Italian ministry of finance; www.science.gouv.fr for the French ministry of Research and technology; Moreover to help with disaster relief, Exalead's search engine is being used by "Thailand's Official Tsunami and Disaster Centre" to make the list of victims and missing people accessible in an instant. This service is available at www.thaitsunami.com

Contractor: Università IULM Milano (www.iulm.it)



Personnel: 14000

Contracts: 3000

Training: 5000

Equipment: 20000


EnvironmentalInformationandInformationSocietyinSerbiaandMontenegroProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 24470

Project summary: The main idea of this project is capacity building of national electronic network of environmental NGO’s from Serbia and Montenegro, encouraging of using information technologies for distribution of information, and allowing universal access to the environmental information. In society of Serbia and Montenegro environmental problems very often are dismissed. There are many reasons for that: society has faced with many problems as a country in transition (unemployment, social problem, economical transition), but also there is no adequate access to the environmental information and environmental NGO’s are not develop enough. Three years ago the Electronic Network of Environmental NGO’s in Serbia and Montenegro was founded. The main idea was to make communication channels for exchanging and distribution of environmental information. At this moment there are 200 NGO members organisation, over 500 individuals, with 10 local coordinators. At this moment it is good to do capacity building of this existing network with equipment, education of new local coordinators, and IT experts. After this improvement of the Network it would be possible to make environmental information more reachable to

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public. Also public would use the infrastructure of this Network for searching for environmental information, and could use NGO background to influence the government.

Contractor: Young Researchers of Serbia



Personnel: 8900

Contracts: 3770

Training: 3900

Equipment: 5900


ICTApplicationtoOvercomePovertyandInequalityinSmallPopulationAggregatesProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Ukraine

Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: Victor Jushchenko's victory at the presidential elections has given birth to hopes for improvement of life in Ukraine through democratic reforms. Carrying out the reforms may be dramatically complicated unless there are noticeable improvements of living standards in small population aggregates. Lack of future prospects and unemployment cause depression and harbor an illusion that a return to the Soviet system may guarantee full employment. World experience provides evidence that people are able to improve quality of their life by way of new expert knowledge and skills acquired with the information and communication technologies (ICT). It may contribute to cope with the task on "essential reduction of the population, which is below the breadline and strengthening positions of middle class" set by the government of Ukraine in its Towards People program (www.kmu.gov.ua). Implementation of the program of entering the information space requires development of new methods for training in modern professions that is the effective mechanism to provide social support for the population and fight poverty. The 6‐th statement of the strategic recommendations of The Blue Tape‐Ukraine 2005 Commission, which worked under umbrella of the United Nations Program for Development (www.un.kiev.ua), suggests cutting down the state expenses and direct social help to those who really need it. The goal of the project is to enable population in small aggregates become proficient in ICT to order to get jobs and find their place in the new democratic society.

Contractor: Valentyn Kosinsky


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Personnel: 12000

Contracts: 3000

Training: 4000

Equipment: 5000


OnlineInformationCenterforCulturalandArtsProjectsinZimbabweProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Zimbabwe

Cost (USD): 23000

Project summary: Arts and culture are an important sector in Zimbabwe, providing employment and entertainment to all members in society. Though arts and cultural projects the diversity and richness of Zimbabwean heritage has been showcased internationally. The arts and cultural sector is a platform for the cross‐cultural interaction and exchange of ideas. It is one of the most effective ways to convey messages about challenges to the Zimbabwean society and the world at large e.g. the impact of HIV/AIDS on society, marginalization of women, minority peoples of Zimbabwe amongst many others. This projects aims to create a one‐stop information portal detailing arts and cultural projects in Zimbabwe with content from music and the performing arts industry to film, visual arts, documentation on Zimbabwean heritage, literature and the applied arts industry (crafts). The website will be a marketing tool for organizations involved in the arts and culture, a portal with various communities of practice who will engage in discussions and exchange ideas on making their voices heard while publicizing opportunities for funding, employment in the arts and cultural sector and inter country cultural exchange projects. The online information center will make accessible African content while preserving information about the heritage of Zimbabwe.

Contractor: CyberplexAfrica



Personnel: 8000

Contracts: 5000

Training: 4000

Equipment: 4000


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¡§Knowledgeaccessibletoanyone¡¨Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 23569

Project summary: One of our aims is to encourage rising of the information flow, oriented to the young people in Bulgaria and developing of the information society. In this connection we want to represent you our project ¡§Knowledge accessible to anyone¡¨, which will raise the information literacy among our targeted group and will help introducing the information and communication technologies in education. In this projekt training for acquiring skills to work with information and communication technologies will be carried out, as follows: 1. Microsoft Office ‐ Windows ‐ Word ‐ Excel ‐ Outlook Express ‐ PowerPoint 2. Work with data 3. Work with Internet Training will be carried out according to specific curriculum, corresponding to development and modern achievements in the sphere of information and communication technologies, worked out by ITCE center. The main purposes are to enlarge the participation in setting up the information society, in which people can learn permanently and improve their skills. In order these challenges to be met is necessary for young people to possess skills and abilities corresponding to the new economy of knowledge to use the possibilities for employment and to develop their potential in maximum.

Contractor: Foundation VEGA



Personnel: 4320

Contracts: 4000

Training: 2800

Equipment: 9140


InformationResourceBaseonWomen’sRoleinEnvironmentalConservationandManagementintheAsia&PacificRegionProject status: Unfunded

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Cost (USD): 28600

Project summary: With support initially from the UNDP under Sustainable Environment Network Program (SDNP) and Government of India (Ministry of Environment & Forests), and later from World Bank through Government of India (Ministry of Environment & Forests), the proponents have been working on gender dimension of environmental conservation and management. The two areas of concentration were: a) women’s contributions on environmental conservation & management and b) the environmental factors that specifically affect women. Through these assignments enormous volume of information pertaining to India have been collected, collated and analyzed. Information on cases of women’s role, environmentally sound technologies to reduce drudgery of women, and R&D activities were specifically explored. The proposed exercise will be built on the existing Indian website www.womenenvironment.org developed through aforesaid assignments. Similar exercise will be undertaken for countries in Asia & the Pacific such as Australia, Bangladesh, China, Fiji, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Republic of Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, apart from India, who are partners of the Asia & the Pacific Information Network (APIN). Information will be collected mainly through Internet search and email. Besides, the focal points of the APIN network will be utilized to locate Government departments, institutions and NGOs working in the field and to gain access to printed reports, directory materials, brochures and so on. Apart from creating a new website / portal for wide and easy accessibility of information, a state‐of‐art report will be prepared and a limited query service will be rendered.

Contractor: Dr Ms Papia Lahiri



Personnel: 20100

Contracts: 0

Training: 0

Equipment: 2000


AVirtualNetworkforFOSSinZimbabweProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 27240

Project summary: The project goal is to promote the development, use and support of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in Zimbabwe – and in the medium term to other SADC countries. We seek to address the two main reasons why open

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source software is not spreading as quickly as it might, namely: that there is a lack of local technical support and lack of knowledge of the availability of local language capability. Working with the main stakeholders such as the Computer Society of Zimbabwe and the Software Development Association we will establish a credible virtual support network for FOSS. The work is linked to awareness raising about FOSS that has been undertaken by the Civil Society Technology Service Centre (run by ITDG and funded by OSISA). The CSO’s we work with have identified a need for more knowledge and support on FOSS. By working with information professionals we aim to strengthen the ability of the economy to respond to these needs. We will work with the University sector to influence curricula development, and with the Computer Society of Zimbabwe to establish a professional code of conduct. The ethical, legal and societal implications will be discussed and disseminated via workshops held with key stakeholders and CSOs.

Contractor: Ernest G. Mapunga



Personnel: 10000

Contracts: 9240

Training: 7500

Equipment: 0


OnlineInformationCenterforPeopleLivingwithHIV/AIDSinZimbabweProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: To date, support for People Living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA) in Zimbabwe has been largely in the area of care giving. This project intends to provide further support to PLWHA by; improving their access to knowledge through access to an online information center, while preserving information through documenting testimonials and discussions primarily by PLWHA and health professionals and affected people. Currently most PLWHA in Zimbabwe get their information about living positively with HIV/AIDS from health institutions and professionals, non‐governmental organizations and the media. This project proposes to enhance access to information for the HIV infected people as well as enable them to share ideas and concerns with their colleagues, health professionals and other interested people, by establishing an online information center for PLWHA. The center will be a library for documents, case studies, research, nutritional advice and testimonials about living positively with HIV/AIDS, and provide active online community that will allow PLWHA to interact anonymously. The website will also have a drug store with information on

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ARV prices, pharmacies selling Anti Retro Virals (ARVs) and government ARV treatment programs.

Contractor: CyberplexAfrica



Personnel: 8000

Contracts: 5000

Training: 5000

Equipment: 5000


InteragencySecondaryEducationDigitalLibraryProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 52120

Project summary: The Interagency Digital Library is a follow‐up to the 2002 and 2004 meetings of the Interagency Consultative Group on Secondary Education Reform and Youth Affairs (ICGSERYA). The group members agreed on the need for enhancing the exchange of information among professionals working in the field of secondary education in order to strengthen and support secondary education systems in the crucial roles they play towards the achievement of the EFA objectives and the Millennium Development Goals. The goal is to provide researchers, practitioners and policy‐makers, mainly in developing countries, with access to a wide range of relevant publications from various organizations. The library, to be continuously updated, will be hosted by UNESCO Secondary Education website with links to other institutions’. Interactive features will be incorporated for feedback and communication among users. A CD‐Rom version will be produced every two years for users in areas with limited Internet access. The first edition will focus on Africa, with contribution from UNESCO, ADEA, the World Bank and OECD. Activities include the collection of publications, their digitalization, the creation of the Core collection, the printing and distribution of the CD‐Roms, and the promotion of the library. The estimated total cost for the first phase is $52, 120, including $10,000 contribution of UNESCO ED/STV/GSE. 1.3 Total project budget: $52, 120 Appendix 1: Detailed activities and budget estimates from Human Info – NGO 1. Scanning/ OCR into the tagged XML format needed for collection – estimated 7.000 pages (1.3 Euro/page = 9.100 Euros) 2. Conversion and formatting costs of 12.000 electronic pages: (0.7 euro/page = 8.400 Euros)

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3. addition of about 5.000 pages already digitalized and converted publications from other organizations such as UNESCO 4. Creation of Core Collection: creating several versions till approval, multilingual interfaces (6000 Euro) 5. Cover and label art‐work, design and films (400 Euro) 6. CD‐ROM Printing and delivery to UNESCO ‐ based on 20.000 delivery in Paris and end‐user support per CD included (8.000 Euro) 7. Miscellaneous costs: phone, travel, others (500 Euro) TOTALS : 32.400 Euros

Contractor: Edem Adubra



Personnel: 6000

Contracts: 42120

Training: 0

Equipment: 0


InformationforSubsistenceProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 24503

Project summary: NGO “Strength of Village” is organization from Knjazevac, town on the east Serbian border. The members of organization are working for six years on informing and education of villagers of the Knjazevac County. The County has 48652 inhabitants and eighty‐six villages, but villages are perishing. By the Local Authority Statistic, in 1948, Knjazevac County had 61560 inhabitants, and 92,11 % was living in villages. Today they are only 48% of County population. The reason of this emigration is information and education isolation of villages. The education, ICT, culture, and business in the villages are staying on the same level that was before thirty years ago. The only information that villagers of Knjazevac County are receiving is two channels of the Republic television station. The main reason of information inaccessibility in villages is bad profit for institution and companies which job that is. By the Local Authority Statistic, here is 11092 hectares of dereliction arable land and more then two thousand left village houses. The agriculture production is perspective for Knjazevac County inhabitants. Because of that, NGO “Strength of Village” primary goals are to break isolation of villages, with education of villagers for ICT, Democratic society, modern agriculture production, and business planning. We will achieve these goals with regularly informing of villagers through informative centers, internet and reading

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rooms, local bulletin, and seminars. Moreover, these activities will create condition for youths from the town to beget their business and family in villages.

Contractor: NGO "Strength of Village"



Personnel: 6960

Contracts: 2750

Training: 2843

Equipment: 11200


TrainingofHumanResourcesinICT'sandInformationforDemocracy,TransperancyandDevelopmentProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: Within Kenya's priority of setting up an e‐government, the project seeks to enhance the capacity of government information officers to manage the information and communication for national development. It will focus on imparting vital skills in information gathering, packaging and dissemination of the state as well as civil society information. Trainees will also be introduced to knowledge that will allow them to sort and store this information according to the need and value. Also to improve vertical and horizontal information flows with ICT's between the state, its agents and citizens.

Contractor: Alfred Mutua, Public Communications Secretary



Personnel: 2000

Contracts: 3000

Training: 14000

Equipment: 5000


InformationSupportonAssistiveDevicestoPersonswithVisual,HearingandSpeechandPhysicalDisabilitiesintheAsia&PacificRegionProject status: Unfunded

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Cost (USD): 32600

Project summary: The proposed exercise will be based on the experience gained through execution of two Government of India (Ministry of Science & Technology) assignments on “Development of Website on Assistive Devices for Persons with Disabilities” and “ Comparative Analysis of National & International Scenarios on Assistive Devices for Persons with Disabilities and Development of R & D Plan for India”. Through these assignments enormous volume of information pertaining to India on assistive devices for empowerment of visual, speech & hearing and orthopedic challenges have been collected, collated and analyzed. Information on technology, market availability, and R&D activities were specifically explored. The proposed exercise will be built on the existing Indian website supportivedevices.org developed through aforesaid assignments. Similar exercise will be undertaken for countries in Asia & the Pacific such as Australia, Bangladesh, China, Fiji, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Republic of Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, apart from India, who are partners of the Asia & the Pacific Information Network (APIN). Information will be collected mainly through Internet search and email. Besides, the focal points of the APIN network will be utilized to locate Government departments, institutions and NGOs working in the field and to gain access to printed reports, directory materials, brochures and so on. Apart from creating a new website / portal for wide and easy accessibility of information, a state‐of‐art report will be prepared and a limited query service will be rendered.

Contractor: Dr Mrs PAPIA LAHIRI



Personnel: 20100

Contracts: 0

Training: 0

Equipment: 2000


DigitizationofNigerianNewspapersandMagazinesProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: The National Library of Nigeria has been empowered by law to be the National Depository of copies of all materials published in Nigeria. Newspapers and Magazines which are part of these materials are fragile, occupy space, costly to bind, but more easily accessible when digitized. we

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need to preserve them in electronic format for easy dissemination via the internet and CDs. This can only be done if the materails are digitized and put on the internet and CD‐Rom to make them available virtually to all users.

Contractor: NATIONAL LIBRARY OF NIGERIA



Personnel: 15

Contracts: 2500

Training: 5000

Equipment: 16000


Toimproveaccesstoarchivesincustody.Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 35000

Project summary: In accordance with the information for all programmes guidelines for action, and in comformity with PRAAD Act 353 of 1987, the presevation and conservaton of archives and the openess of access to them is of paramount importance. Of equal importance is the emerging evidence of an explosive and chaotic growth of computerization and electronic records and the need to effectively manage such records. The project therefore, is to enable PRAAD imporve, access to the numerous, valuable records in the custody of its repositories by undertaking the following: ‐ Improvement in the environment within which the records are stored in the repositories. ‐ Stocktaking of the holddings in the repositories and thereby rectifying misfiling as well as rediscovering lost files. ‐ Updating of all existing lists (most of which are torn). ‐ Hosting of Guide on website (praad‐gov.org) Basic training in electronic records management will be provided to PRAAD staff to ensure their authenticity, reliability, verification and security sot that they can be accessed overtime in support of good governance. As at the end of the project, the expected outputs will be: ‐ Archives storage in repositories of PRAAD Headquarters improved and the records readily and timely accessible. ‐ International co‐operation and interaction through published Guide on website enhanced. ‐ PRAAD staff capacity to confront Electronic Records problems improved. The project successful implementation will cost Thirty‐five Thousand US

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Dollars.

Contractor: Public Records and Archives Administration Department (PRAAD)



Personnel: 5000

Contracts: 5000

Training: 10000

Equipment: 10000


VirtualLibraryofArchitectureProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 35000

Project summary: The proposed project Virtual Library of Architecture is oriented towards poverty reduction in the specific field ‐ the field of architectural education in the Serbian speaking region of ex‐Yugoslavia. It is aimed in establishing a collection of architecture related books, theses and dissertations, scientific and professional papers and a range of multimedia materials basically available to faculty/students from several schools of architecture at the universities of Belgrade, Novi Sad, Nis, Podgorica, Kosovska Mitrovica and Banja Luka (about 4000 undergraduate and postgraduate students and 250 faculty). The project is based on an already existing, recently improved academic Internet link (40Mbps) that connects major academic centers of Serbia and Montenegro as well as on the local computing equipment (computer labs, library based terminals, etc.) of each school. Establishing a Virtual Library of Architecture would be the first step towards introduction of e‐education principles in the field of architectural education in the region.

Contractor: Mirjana Devetakovic Radojevic



Personnel: 8000

Contracts: 4000

Training: 12000

Equipment: 5000


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PromotingICTskillstoimprovequalityandequityineducationandlearninginVietNamProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 21500

Project summary: To accompany rapid socio‐economic development in Viet Nam, the United Nations Volunteers in partnership with UNESCO Viet Nam is seeking to develop a project proposal building ICT skills, ICT training and ICT awareness to increase equity and quality of education and learning. Amongst others, the project will fit into Viet Nam¡¦s Comprehensive Poverty Reduction and Growth Strategy, the Millennium Development Goals, the WSIS Action Plan, UNESCO¡¦s Medium‐Term Strategy and IFAP¡¦s priorities for 33C/5. The aim of this development phase is to prepare a project proposal which could subsequently be implemented. The ensuing project should promote volunteerism and enhance ICT skills, ICT awareness and ICT training capacities to provide greater quality and equity in education and learning in Viet Nam. The proposed structure is the rapidly expanding network of Community Learning Centres (CLCs), an existing UNESCO sponsored Government initiative providing learning opportunities in the community. This project development phase should be used to bring stakeholders on board, to identify a national counterpart prepared to take leadership, to jointly formulate a project and to assess specific needs and capacity gaps, to draft and budget the project proposal as well as to prepare and implement a fundraising strategy.

Contractor: Alex Stimpson



Personnel: 13000

Contracts: 4000

Training: 0

Equipment: 0


Equalaccessofuserswithvisualandmotiveimpairmentstolocalandwebbasedinformationresources.Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 46892

Project summary: Present computer and Internet penetration and usage are considerably low among disabled people in Bulgaria. Hence the importance of adapting the electronic resources to their needs. Òhe current project will bring to users with visual and motive impairments equal, adequate and customized access

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to web content, relevant to their specific needs. A survey of target groups’ information needs and their skills in information search and retrieval will reveal the current status of the problem. Based on its results, a specialized collection of Internet resources will be created, designed to accommodate the specific needs of the target groups. An Internet portal will be designed, locally or remotely accessible by a broadest range of Bulgarian users regardless of their age, disability or location. Upgraded infrastructure facilities will provide direct access to the public information and library services in support of the target groups, specifically important to the career of students, researchers and to the Life Long Learning of broadest range of users in the Sofia region. The expected project results include improvement of the personal and professional development, social inclusion and well being of the target groups on the basis of user‐friendly information infrastructures, adequate to their needs.

Contractor: National Centre for Information and Documentation



Personnel: 13200

Contracts: 6400

Training: 5150

Equipment: 21342


Promotinggreeninformationliteracythroughcapacity‐buildingforinformationprofessionalsProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Czech Republic

Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: The project will establish a network of environmental information specialists in four Central European countries (Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland) where potential exists to expand activities to encompass ultimately the whole of Europe. This international partnership will build capacity of information professionals and promote environmental sustainability by fostering universal access to environmental information. A meeting of the network members will be organised and will include a training on ICT utilisation for the provision of environmental information in libraries/information centres. The members of the network (project beneficiaries) will be involved in determining the institutional setup, strategy, methods of operation, and use of technical tools for functioning, expansion and long term sustainability of the network.

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The project aims to satisfy the needs of 360 libraries in 15 countries of Central and Eastern Europe assessed during a survey of environmental information centres, resources and services (done in 2003 by the applicant, results available at www.rec.org/envinfdirectory). Proper attention will be paid to monitoring and evaluation of project using qualitative and quantitative indicators. The Information Services of the European Environment Agency as a project collaborator will contribute to the expansion of the network to "old" EU member‐states and will offer their experience in meeting of Aarhus Convention requirements.

Contractor: The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe



Personnel: 23700

Contracts: 0

Training: 20000

Equipment: 1000


InternationalConferenceUNESCOBetweenTwoRoundsofWSISProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 44000

Project summary: The conference is a thematic meeting which will be organized as part of UNESCO contribution to the process leading towards the Tunis phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). The decision to hold the conference was proclaimed during the UNESCO Director General Mr. Koichiro Matsuura visit to Moscow (September 2004). The conference will be hold under the aegis of UNESCO Director General Mr. Koichiro Matsuura and President of Russia Mr. Vladimir Putin. The participants will discuss the intermediate results of realization of WSIS’ Declaration of Principles and Plan of Action and make contribution on forming the UNESCO position for the second phase of WSIS.




Personnel: 4000

Contracts: 3000

Training: 0

Equipment: 34000

Miscellaneous: 3000

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"ITlinktoemployment"Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 24885

Project summary: The project “IT link to employment” includes organization of free computer classes for middle‐aged population registered with the Employment Office, specially those suffering severe financial hardship. People aged between 40 and 60 will have an opportunity to learn computer basics. The classes will be held twice a week in fully computerized classrooms of PROTECTA in Nis and Vranje. Majority of people of this age group has almost no computer knowledge and for some of them, it will be the first time to come in contact with computers. In this way, they will get an opportunity to gain practical knowledge, which they can utilize for new jobs and thus directly influence their social and material position. Likewise, apart from the computer classes, they will also learn how to write CVs to present themselves to potential employers, how to get prepared for an interview and how to conduct business communication. PROTECTA’s classroom in Nis has eight computers available for the computer classes and Vranje’s classroom has four. Participants will have classes twice a week in duration of two hours each and one‐day practice to revise what they learnt.

Contractor: PROTECTA



Personnel: 12197

Contracts: 9972

Training: 1463

Equipment: 0


CommunityMultimediaCentreProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 43000

Project summary: In response to the difficulties of rural communities to reach information for development and public information on education, agriculture, health etc. the project propose to provide them with up‐to‐date information relevant to

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social, cultural and economic development. In this regard the Government of Kenya proposes the creation of a Community Multimedia Centre in Kenya The project activities will address the need for networking, developing and implementing common strategies for: sharing resources and capacities, training, radio programmes production, electronic content creation, outreach programmes to the communities, equipment maintenance and renewal. The project will target the rural population at large and in particular the physically challenged, illiterate, the girl child, women and youth. This project is hope to serve as vital platform for debate on development, governance and human rights at the local level as well as for the preservation on promotion of local culture and indigenous knowledge This project is also expected to assist the Government of Kenya to develop a national action plan for the establishment of country‐wide community network as a strategy for enhancing universal access to information in remote and disadvantaged community areas.

Contractor: Samson Kabitieri



Personnel: 500

Contracts: 500

Training: 10000

Equipment: 30000


PreventioncampaignSAFESURFProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 17355

Project summary: The prevention campaign SAFE SURF is based on the previous experience of our Foundation in the region of Veliko Tarnovo. Implementing our last project in this region – “With open eyes”– we noted that the children willingly give their personal details and send their photos to strangers while surfing in Internet. Having in mind this experience we reached the idea of the necessity of a prevention campaign to raise the awareness about the existing risks for child Internet users. SAFE SURF consists in training students from 8 to 12 years old from 4 schools in Veliko Tarnovo to use Internet in safety way. By building a team of 4 teachers (1 from each participating school), 1 expert in ICTs, 1 lawyer and graduating students in pedagogy and psychology (voluntary workers) we will ensure the professional work methods of the training. The

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children will learn the rules of the SAFE SURF through special lectures, games and practical exercises. Open demonstrational lessons, informational brochures and posters will popularize the necessity of safety rules among the mass public. The badges and the hats as well as the certificate, which every child participant in the project will receive, will contribute to memorizing the rules and to practicing them. Our project corresponds with the Bulgarian governmental strategy for establishing an information network and high‐speed internet in all schools in Bulgaria. As the government action plan does not provide special education for safe Internet use we consider that it will be very helpful to realize this project and to also multiply it in other schools and regions in Bulgaria.

Contractor: Preobrajenie Foundation



Personnel: 4600

Contracts: 4320

Training: 750

Equipment: 1700


CreationofCenteronTrainingofLibraryPersonnelonUseofICTsinPreservation,DigitalisationofDocumentaryHeritageandPublicAccessProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: The project aimed to promote and develop the concept of "Creative Knowledge Based Information Society" through creating the specific center for library employees on use of ICT hardware and software for digitalization of documentary heritage and providing free public access to all information digitalized. As the most part of library employees are the women, the project will also serve for empowerment of women by strengthening their professional skills. Besides, there will be established a network with local and international institutions and organisations for further sustanable development. During the implementation of the project some of the documentary heritage at the libaries will be digitalized (as the part of training courses) and educational multimedia resource materials will be created. Moreover, the target group will be informed on importance of linguistic and cultural diversity in cyberspace, ethical, legal and social implications of the Information Society.

Contractor: National Commission of the Republic of Uzbeklistan for UNESCO


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Personnel: 1800

Contracts: 3200

Training: 5000

Equipment: 12000


StrengtheninginformationandcommunicationlinkagesintheNationalAgricultureandAdvisoryServicesofUgandaProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: Studies by the Uganda Participatory Poverty Analysis Project show that lack of information is a contributory factor to poverty and powerlessness in most rural areas in Uganda. The Ugandan Plan for Modernization of Agriculture recognize the importance of information as a strategic input in strengthening livelihoods of farmers to take informed decisions about their lives. The Government of Uganda has started to address this problem through the establishment of the National Agriculture and Advisory Services (NAADS) under the NAADS Act of June 2001. NAADS is a semi‐autonomous body with a fundamental aim to develop a demand‐driven and farmer‐led agricultural service delivery system, in particular targeting the poor subsistence farmers but with emphasis on women, youth and people with disabilities. The new farmer‐led institutional arrangement in NAADS has generated a tremendous demand for agricultural knowledge and information with resultant urgent need for identifying and making available relevant information on agriculture in order to back up private service providers (SPs). SPs need information management and communication skills to interact with farmers in a participatory and facilitative manner. They also need basic media skills to become expert information seekers as well as acquire the capacity to adapt technical information in support of farmer groups.This project proposes activities geared towards filling these gaps through creation of awareness among key stakeholders, capacity building of service providers to work‐online and increasing access to and availability of key information on technologies. This project links to other projects such as the ITK Uganda DFID‐CPHP supported project and India‐Telesupport project.

Contractor: Paul Nyende



Personnel: 4000

Contracts: 0

Training: 14000

Equipment: 2500

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SchoolArtWebsite¡VDevelopingInternetspaceforschoolkids¡¦creativeworksandculturalexchangenetworkProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 22265

Project summary: The objective of this project is to contribute to developed Bulgarian information society and modernized education through the development of Internet space for school kids providing a field for creative expression, contacts with coevals, distance learning and out‐of‐school activities. The project aims at involving kids and young people in useful activities while they are on‐line and to make them aware of the opportunities for learning, creative expression and communication provided by the world wide web. The broader project objective is to build a wide communication network providing a focal point for projects and organizations targeting development of civil society, education, ethnic and cultural tolerance, children¡¦s rights, etc., which use the successful practice of the competition as a tool for communication with their target groups. Given the approaching accession of the country to the European Union, it is essential to create organizational and technical conditions for Bulgaria¡¦s inclusion in the European cultural networks. Owing to its implementation specifics ¡V an English version is envisaged ¡V the project will provide ground for cooperation of existing Bulgarian educational, cultural and non‐governmental organizations, as well as of organizations from the Balkans and from Europe. Thereby it will create a communication field for the realization of international projects and initiatives involving kids and young people from Bulgaria as well as from other parts of the world.

Contractor: KOM Foundation



Personnel: 8400

Contracts: 9865

Training: 0

Equipment: 1500


Guadeloupe:MémoirepourdemainProject status: Unfunded

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Region/country: France

Cost (USD): 29300

Project summary: Culture de l'oralité, la Guadeloupe est riche d'un patrimoine "immatériel" de pratiques et de savoir‐faire traditionnels, transmis de génération en génération. Dans la société d'aujourd'hui, alors que les modes de vie changent radicalement, les artisans et artistes encore dépositaires de ces savoirs n'ont plus guère l'occasion de transmettre leurs expériences. Il pourrait s'agir de la dernière génération, au‐delà de laquelle ne restera plus de trace de ce patrimoine. Le projet "Mémoire pour demain" se propose de collecter auprès de leurs dépositaires cette mémoire non‐écrite afin que son témoignage puisse survivre. "Mémoire pour demain" a pour objectif, à partir d'une enquête de terrain, d'aller à la rencontre des artistes et des artisans afin de collecter ces mémoires, de les éditer et de les faire partager au plus grand nombre en les mettant en ligne sur le web, sous forme d'interview, de photos et d'enregistrements audio. Ce projet, qui s'appuie sur les compétences de la Médiathèque Caraïbe en matière de patrimoine caribéen, sera mené partie en français et partie en créole. La réalisation et la finalisation de "Mémoire pour demain" pourraient servir de plateforme pour un projet similaire s'étendant à d'autres territoires de la Caraïbe, et intégrant l'anglais et l'espagnol.

Contractor: Patrice Beziau



Personnel: 5000

Contracts: 16800

Training: 2500

Equipment: 3500


DEBRAINFOforSEE(Croatia&surroundingcountries)Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 35000

Project summary: EB is a rare condition affecting approximately 1:17,000 live births. As a result, most health professionals will have little or no knowledge about how to care for a child or adult with EB. The most severe forms of the condition are inherited recessively (both parents are unaffected carriers of the defective gene) so new parents are equally ignorant. Experience has shown that the

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provision of early and continuing expert advice and support from specialists as well as accessibility to information at the right time makes an enormous difference to the quality of life of affected individuals. Excellent contacts have been made with the University Hospital in Zagreb and a small number of committed doctors, we have established a specialist EB clinic where a full range of medical procedures can be provided. This service is also open, thanks to Debra Croatia, to people with EB in the surrounding countries and South East Europe. It is also important to increase the means of communication between individuals affected with EB as well as theirs families. Access to information and knowledge will be available via our web site and booklets that will be distributed in surrounding countries and the rest of SEE.

Contractor: DEBRA CROATIA



Personnel: 23054

Contracts: 5000

Training: 1500

Equipment: 4586


Eng‐Mglbilingualcorpus(EMBC)Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: We propose to create large parallel English‐Mongolian bilingual corpus of example sentences aligned in prase level from different fields. It is a time consuming hard mechanic work. However, once we do it, it gives us a basis of studies with the purpose to obtain linguistic resources such as a bilingual dictionary, bilingual grammar, and machine translation. Currently, the largest English‐Mongolian dictionaries have maximum 35,000 head words. While reading English texts, often we find words which do not exist in such English‐Mongolian dictionaries. The corpus provides necessary information to find associations between English and Mongolian words in sentence pairs. Using the corpus with alignment methods, we are able to develop rich English‐Mongolian dictionary for all words automatically. Moreover, there isnt machine translation system between Mongolian language and any other languages. It is possible to develop English‐Mongolian and Mongolian‐English translation system based on the knowledge acquired from the corpus with computer program. It would greatly help people to translate documents from one language to other or read internet information etc. Our experience:

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Our team consists of 3 members,L.Buyanjargal, D.Tsedevsuren, and P.Delgerjav. L.Buyanjargal’s research theme is Natural language processing which is closely related with development of the corpus. P.Delgerjav got master degree in Toho University, Japan, in 1999 on natural language processing. He has published 2 papers, one is in English (http://www‐clips.imag.fr/getta/User/Wang‐ju.tsai/unllinks.html) and other one is in Japanese, in Japan. Also, he had participated as a team leader, in the UNL, International Machine Translation Project, launched by UNU/IAS from 1996 to 2002. D.Tsedevsuren and P.Delgerjav had developed English‐Mongolian dictionary of about 40,000 words in their own format. Also, we had developed about 8 thousand stroke rule for transforming from UNL to Mongolian and reverse. Based on our experience and our circumstances, we can implement it within 2 years period.

Contractor: L.Buyanjargal



Personnel: 8500

Contracts: 5800

Training: 6000

Equipment: 4000


StandardsofE‐governmentinKazakhstanProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: Despite of the Concept of Electronic Government in Kazakhstan was adopted in 2004, the strategy of its realization raised a lot of questions. The expectations of the main client groups (citizens, businessmen, enterprises and officials) were not studied. This is a main tactical gap. Moreover, today civil servants have no enough professional skills of using information resources and ICT for communication with society and providing citizens with information. For instance, web‐sites of the governmental bodies which are considered as a basic and primary element of e‐government does not fulfill the main task on providing of information (of course, there are some successful exceptions). As a rule, the most number of the web‐sites are considered by users only as a “sign board”, which consists of minimum of information about the ministry, agency or committee. In order to remove mentioned gaps and problems we offer to realize the following measures: to conduct diagnostic research, prepare Handbook for web‐administrators of officials and organize series of tranings for local civil

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servants.

Contractor: Sofiya Issenova



Personnel: 9800

Contracts: 4000

Training: 6200

Equipment: 3500


'MinorityMediaandMinorities'‐CrossboarderInformationDisseminationinSouthEasternEuropeRegionProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 34700

Project summary: The project goal is to raise the regional minority and majority media, and journalists’ awareness of the issues which arise when reporting diversity. The diversity issues to be covered on such gatherings are the issues of Roma as national minority in Serbia and Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia and Macedonia. Moreover, the issues of Hungarians, Serbs in Croatia and Croats in Serbia as minority groups and women as a marginal group in the whole region will be covered. The awareness is to be raised through examination of journalists’ attitudes towards relevant issues, through theoretical input critical analyses of the media and two journalistic trainings. Participants in the project are 24 journalists working in minority and majority media in Serbia and Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia and in Macedonia. The journalists will produce the maximum number of 24 media outputs which will later be distributed and broadcasted/printed in at least 24 media operating in minority/majority languages. Therefore, presuming that the lack of information is the main reason for development of prejudice, initiation of discrimination and conflicts – this project waims toward the spread of information as one of the elementary processes for creating tolerant opinion and attitude that results in tolerant communication among across the boarders.

Contractor: Novi Sad School of Journalism



Personnel: 5080

Contracts: 14890

Training: 13270

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Equipment: 400


ThegenderdigitaldivideinPakistan–tomeasureandtobridgeitProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 24780

Project summary: Foreign direct investment in and access to ICT has increased significantly in Pakistan during the past years. Today, access to mobile phones is twice as high as the number of telephone connections. However, so far no assessment of its impact on gender‐specific access to ICTs and efforts to increase women’s and girls’ development benefits from it have been made. In other developing countries, there is evidence of an increasing gap in access to ICT between women and men. Therefore, this project has the following objectives: 1. To measure the extent of the gender digital divide in Pakistan and the impact of liberalisation of telecommunication services thereon; 2. To draw lessons for appropriate technology and governance conducive for improved access of women and girls to ICTs. The following activities shall enable us to reach these objectives: (i) Baseline study on use habits of ICTs and the human development‐ICT nexus for women and men in Pakistan (ii) Needs assessment regarding women’s and girls’ access to ICTs (iii) Afternoon seminar, and (iv) Stakeholder workshop, both discussing results of the baseline study, results of the needs assessment, technical innovations and governance structures for ICTs which can be conducive for bridging the gender digital divide.

Contractor: Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI)



Personnel: 8541

Contracts: 2750

Training: 0

Equipment: 83


GoodgovernancecapacitybuildingforthewomenrightssectorProject status: Unfunded

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Cost (USD): 24975

Project summary: Kenya has made commendable strides towards sowing the seed of democratization, good governance and respect for human rights. However for this to germinate, mature and bear fruit, more efforts are needed at all levels. Civil society actors have also played a major role but their impact is limited by lack of full knowledge and appreciation of the essential tenets, ideals and dynamics that underlie and shape democratic processes. The key challenge is to make civil societies models of what they preach to the government authorities. Another critical issue is how to ensure the participation of all actors, especially those that have been traditionally marginalized and existed on the fringes of decision‐ making. They include, women, youth, children, indigenous communities and persons with disabilities so that gender mainstreaming ca translate to some fruit. It is in the pursuit of this broadening agenda that Tabasco Community Based Organization has designed this project with a view of integrating women rights agencies into the challenging processes of promoting ideals of constitutional democracy, good governance and human rights in Kenya. The project seeks to achieve this by targeting institutions and organized groups working with women, children and the youth at all levels of the society.

Contractor: TABASCO COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATION



Personnel: 1125

Contracts: 3250

Training: 16000

Equipment: 3125


VisualDocumentationofPeople’sKnowledgebasedSustainableLivelihoodPracticesandInnovationforprovertyeradicationProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: Traditionally, popular wisdom/technologies have most effectively been used in mitigating the problems and difficulties, which surround popular lives, i.e. the life, and living of disadvantaged local and indigenous communities in Bangladesh. Local cases and examples of popular wisdom or indigenous knowledge, therefore, need to be documented and disseminate policies and actions implemented on a broader scale. Through the proposed Knowledge

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and Peoples' Innovation Bank it is expected to focuse on the issues of conceptualizing and documenting good practices of IK in Bangladesh, together with the particular wisdom and practices relating to biodiversity, health, agriculture, water, watershed, housing and disaster management. It is expected to address to all who have an interest in facing the challenge of the development of the rural poor irrespective of discipline, profession, philosophy or institution. The project is intended to design to reduce the poverty (social and cultural poverty) of the rural poor people by way of utilizing ICT and employment generation based on available local resources. The project output will particularly useful for all those who are directly or indirectly concerned with the problems associated with development in Bangladesh including social scientists, planners, policy makers, extension workers and both government and non‐government workers.

Contractor: BARCIK (bangladesh resource centre for indigenous knowledge)



Personnel: 10000

Contracts: 5000

Training: 3000

Equipment: 5000


eLearningforallProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 34793

Project summary: The driving idea of the project eLearning for all is to encourage and improve the ability of Macedonian teachers to make pedagogical use of ICT, through the specialized trainings and by the support of the Virtual Learning Resource Centre. A significant impact on the quality and efficiency of the teacher’s work is expected as an outcome of the project. The work programme is organized in two parts: eLearning courses and Virtual Learning Resources Centre I. eLearning courses This part comprises of training activities conducted by European experts in the field, which are aimed to provide the Macedonian teachers‐participants with the opportunity to acquire capabilities to develop and run e‐learning courses. Besides the theorethical insights, the teachers will be given the opportunity for practical implementation and testing the guidelines, tools, methods and approaches. Afterwards they will prepare reports on their experiences in practicing the e‐learning methodology and together with the

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trainers they will create a set of guidelines for excellence in practicing the e‐learning training, aimed at the facilitation of their work and of the newcomers in the field. The papers will be disseminated to all the educational institutions in Macedonia. Also, they will be published on internet (VLRSC‐see below). With the help of the National Commission of UNESCO, they will reach the key stakeholders in education in other countries in the region with underdeveloped e‐learning concept. II. Virtual Learning Resources Centre (VLRSC) VLRSC is a planned to be a web repository of information on both the theoretical and practical aspects of e‐learning, and at the same time to be a platform for creation of e‐learning courses. The teachers –participants will be included in its content creation in the phase of the research of the international experiences, which will give them an additional knowledge and afterward will be promoted on the VLRSC as first macedonian trained e‐teachers. The VLRC should stimulate the Macedonian national institutions to support the further development of e‐learning in Macedonia.

Contractor: EIN‐SOF



Personnel: 22386

Contracts: 5923

Training: 3484

Equipment: 0


PerspectiveProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 18967

Project summary: The project aims at development of skills and provision of knowledge to young people at the age between 15 and 20 years about the usage and importance of information in our globalized world. The accomplishment of these objectives is necessary for strengthening the position of information as an important tool for establishment of human society through improvement of information culture, public awareness and provision of incentives to youngsters for active learning that will result in promotion of research and innovation. The activities envisaged in this project intend to increase the ability of young people to process, distribute and save information and to integrate their ideas for development of their city by means of high degree public communication. These objectives will be attained by realization of consecutive training initiatives, accompanied by organization of regular

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Sunday schools and preparation of CD‐products, followed by foundation and functioning of the informal youth club Marco Polo. This project will allow: 1. Extensive training of representatives of different target groups. This type of education will provide exposure of integration principles of information and communication technologies in the sphere of informal civil education. 2. Acquisition of skills for active learning which include interest evocation, realization of meaning and reflection with the purpose of motivating young individual to take an active cognitive role in the sphere of information and its saving. 3. Clarifying the technical, political, economic and operational value of information in order to define its role for the decision‐making process by the modern young person. 4. Opportunity for multiplication of trained youngsters’ knowledge and realization of synergic effect of the training through the method of peer education. 5. Assimilation of democratic and common human values of young people, increase of their public activity and integration of their city development ideas in the local authority policy. The project is planned to take 14 months and includes the following types of activities: 1. Training activities– include thematic and logically bounded seminars, training and Sunday school for the purpose of acquiring knowledge and skills in the sphere of communication, network activities – saving and distribution of information, interest groups, health education – HIV, AIDS, tolerance and sex equality. 2. Information and analytical activities – include compilation of educational CD‐material, PR presentations and distribution, public appearances with view to enhance public information and communication culture, input‐output research of representatives’ opinions about their inclination for joining the processes of collecting, saving and distribution of information. 3. Operational activities – organization of meetings with representatives of local society, youth NGO’s, foundation of a youth club Marco Polo that will take up following training and presentations via peer education method.

Contractor: Milena Yankova



Personnel: 910

Contracts: 0

Training: 11680

Equipment: 5581

Miscellaneous: 796

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E‐democracyCentreonWheelsforWomenLivinginRuralAreasProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Lithuania

Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: The project capitalizes on lessons and capacities developed by earlier successful UNDP project "Capacity Building of Lithuanian Women through ICT and Networking". Both initiatives focused on training women to use ICTs and establish issue networks in order to increase their involvement in socio‐economic development and decision‐making on local and regional level. While earlier project took place in community centers, the current initiative is designed to reach women from the most disadvantaged rural areas of Lithuania. Making the use of a special info‐bus, fitted with conference and IT facilities, the project team will visit selected localities with a series of trainings and seminars for local women. Educational sessions will take place over a few months and will include three distinct components: a) trainings on the use of ICT; b) events for enhancing networking capacities; and c) leadership development workshops. We expect that the project will help participants to improve their IT skills, establish an informal network of contacts for dealing with the issues of gender‐equality, and, eventually, enable them to assume a leading role in the lives of local communities.

Contractor: Ruta Svarinskaite



Personnel: 3500

Contracts: 5000

Training: 9000

Equipment: 5000


ICTe‐learningwebPortalforInformationLiteracyande‐governancesupportProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 35000

Project summary: Creation of ICT distance learning and wide spectrum of ICT related data web portal, oriented to increase ICT literacy in Moldova and neighbor states by using free accessible resources. Promotion of UNESCO and EC IST realizations in the region. Dissemination of know‐how and practical results obtained in IST programs.

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Participation of civil societies in governance is a key to a successful development of genuine democracy and knowledge societies in Newly Independent States such as Moldova. Particular e‐governance is one of the most promising mechanisms for stimulating democratic governance. However, since their independency, no NIS country has set up a proper platform for promoting e‐governance or Internet governance which is well adapted to NIS needs. The project is intended to build an e‐learning portal on Information Literacy for e‐governance at RENAM that contains: ‐ Definition and criteria of information literacy in line with local needs and circumstances; ‐ Interrelationship between Information literacy and democratic‐governance;‐ Ways and modalities of linkage Information literacy and democratic governance. ‐ Guidelines on improving Information literacy for e‐governance. Audience of the portal shall be civil societies, NGOs, research and education institutions, and educators, teachers and university professors.

Contractor: RENAM – Research and Educational Networking Association of Moldova



Personnel: 19000

Contracts: 3500

Training: 5000

Equipment: 5500


E‐MOTIONINCULTUREProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 24479

Project summary: Within the ongoing information age, it is indispensable for the Macedonia to build capacities, which can allow its citizens to engage efficiently and effectively on the international scene in order to promote creative and attractive cultural content from Macedonia, preserve Macedonian culture and reinforce its efforts for cultural and social integration in the global community and at the same time contributing to its enrichment. Therefore the project E‐MOTION IN CULTURE undertakes the initiative intended to promote and encourage the development of the digital cultural content industry in Macedonia. For that purpose, this project aims to develop an available for all interactive, digital web based environment which will allow for the creation of various services and content‐driven products such as musical databases, photo and video albums, on the basis of valuable multimedia content in the domain of

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culture, by the application of state‐of‐the‐art communication and information technologies. The project E‐MOTION IN CULTURE is intended to reinforce cultural exchange among the common interest communities, on the benefit of the artists, content producers, professionals, researchers, cultural organisations, cultural operators, consumers and other stakeholders. It would provide wide multi‐thematic and multilingual access to the macedonian fragmented textual, audio‐visual cultural content and encourage people worldwide discover, use it, and share, the knowledge in the field. This project will also represent the first virtual cultural content market place in Macedonia.It will be the meeting place of the cultural supply and demand. The internet mediation of the selling, renting and leasing of IPRs(Intellectual Property rights) as the method of economic gain for the content producers will be promoted. Namely, the holders of an IPR will be given an opportunity to commercialize his asset by licencing, re‐licensing and by forming coalitions with other IPR holders to create new products. As for the open‐ended project profile and its expected sustainability, it should be said that this is in accordance with the market expectations that the Europe will be exploding of content in the years coming, and one of the trend is surely the cultural content..

Contractor: ALEF



Personnel: 16694

Contracts: 1297

Training: 0

Equipment: 0


Internetsite"Promotionofhealthamongchildrenandyouths"Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 21000

Project summary: The project aims promotion of information among the young people. Çà To accomplish this aim, an internet site will be created, that will be maintaned and renewed by young paople. The specific goal of the project is to give an opportunity for free exchange of ideas and access to health information. The thematics of the site will be health education, and the aim is the young people to educate themselves in the field of the information technologies and at the same time to become more informed about their health. The main activities include creating internet site from computer specialists.

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The information in the site will concern prevention of AIDS, STD, early pregnancy, healthy food and so on. This information will be gethered by the youths and the project team. There will be Forum section about themes, connected with health that are interesting for young people. Opinions of medical specialists will also be published. Our idea is to train the project team and 20 youngsters from the high schools from the region. Each of these 20 youngsters will train another 20 youths from their schools to work with the internet site. The main goal‐ arising of the informational literacy will be multiplied. Together with the acquiring of knowledge about work with internet the youths will arise their awareness about different health problems. The created informational infrastructure and internet site will be used after the project finishes, which guarantees its sustainability.

Contractor: Youth Center‐ Haskovo



Personnel: 5000

Contracts: 3000

Training: 3000

Equipment: 8000


AccèspublicauxtextesjuridiquesconcernantlesarchivesProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 41500

Project summary: Depuis de nombreuses années, l’idée d’élaborer un corpus des principales lois d’archives en vigueur dans le monde a été soulevée par la communauté archivistique internationale, et le Conseil international des archives en a fait une première publication en 1980 avec le concours de l’UNESCO. Sous l’effet de nombreux facteurs, ces textes ont évolués, ont été complétés, dans d’autres cas, des lois nouvelles ont été mises en place : pression croissante pour un accès libre à l’information, passage de certains pays à un régime démocratique, voire accès à l’indépendance, volonté de protection du patrimoine national, mise en relation des archives avec une législation plus vaste englobant l’ensemble du patrimoine culturel et documentaire du pays, développement de dispositions particulières pour les archives informatiques. L’évolution rapide des techniques et des mentalités rend maintenant nécessaire la mise en place d’un outil permettant tant aux professionnels qu’aux usagers et aux dirigeants de disposer d’un corpus de textes élaborés dans des contextes variés, auxquels il serait possible d’accéder de manière simple, mais aussi dans le souci d’une approche

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comparative et analytique. La branche européenne du Conseil International des Archives, EURBICA, qui a déjà mis au point un prototype de base de données juridiques, se propose de développer cet outil , et de le mettre dans un deuxième temps à la disposition de tous les pays qui souhaiteraient inclure leur législation concernant les archives dans la base.

Contractor: EURBICA, branche européenne de l'ICA / CIA



Personnel: 0

Contracts: 5000

Training: 8500

Equipment: 25000


FreeEducationComputerCentersProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Kyrgyzstan

Cost (USD): 20700

Project summary: The Public Foundation for Open Technologies (PFOT) was established to promote the opportunities of Open Sources programs for development of Kyrgyz Republic. The project establishes a system of free educational computer centers in Kyrgyz Republic which are accessible to all and readily reproducible throughout the CIS. It uses the success and cooperation of the international open source software (OSS) community, local government, NGOs and community groups in providing resources for education, business, and community development that are legal (copy‐right free) and free to be duplicated and modified to meet the local needs and languages. Each center will include computers, literature, duplicatable CDs that promote computer literacy. The software will include a range of resources for use by teachers, businessmen, and professionals as well as students and those with handicaps. Regional trainers will educate new computer users, and the general public about the resources available, how to use these and how to contribute to these. NGOs, government agencies, teachers and local groups are encouraged to contribute materials to the centers, thus providing a means of distributing their information broadly and economically.

Contractor: Kalybek Kaldarbekov (The Public Foundation for Open Technologies)


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Personnel: 6000

Contracts: 2500

Training: 3500

Equipment: 5900


MonJavaProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: Summary We propose to establish International Java Training Center in the School of Computer and Information Technology (SCIT), Mongolian State University of Education (MSUE), Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Two points: 1. How does the software develop in Mongolia?. It starts from coding. It may suit a small scale hobby programming. Shortly, we develop software in “guerrilla style”. In other words, we start construction work of a building without design. Mongolian software developers need to learn to develop software through software development stages (specification, design, coding, testing, and maintenance) in order to meet customer’s requirements. Otherwise, we lose possibility to develop large scale software or commercial software. 2. Today every software development has close relation with web programming. So what, Java is a backbone in web programming. Our proposal We propose to establish International Java Training Center in MSUE/SCIT, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Our opportunity 1. We have rooms for Java school. 2. We are able to get every nessesary software for Java School for free from Jakarta project home page. 3. So far, we are writing text books on Java in Mongolian. Our necessity 1. We need 15 high spec computers. 2. To make it interesting and keep it in international level we need a good software specialist from abroad who has rich experience in Java. 3. Also, we need Java books published lately. Time limit One week. With the financial aid we can establish Java school within one week. Our experience in Java Our team consists of 3 members,L.Buyanjargal, D.Tsedevsuren, and

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P.Delgerjav. P.Delgerjav had graduated Java school in Tokyo, in 2002. Then, He had participated in a big project called “Mosla” in NTT company Japan as a code developer and worked as group leader in a big project called “Real Estate Management System” in “Hitachi systems and services” Company, Tokyo. Both of them had developed project in Java.




Personnel: 2500

Contracts: 500

Training: 19000

Equipment: 19000


MediaLiteracyintheInformationSociety,InfluencingYouthPerspectiveProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 9800

Project summary: The purpose of our project is to create of a series of illustrative materials directed towards inclusion of Media literacy and communication rights problem areas both in formal and in non‐formal education contexts. The projects provides for the creation of a working group of high school students (14‐17 y.o) with high interest towards the information technologies.The group will work on the creation of a series of picture‐cards dedicated to the key problems of media literacy and human rights in the information society (e.g. Global citizenship; Knowledge‐based society and new skills; ICTs and environment issues; Public Domain and copyright issues; youth creativity and new opportunities of the modern ICTs etc.) and adapted for the students of high schools and for their use in the course of the educational process. The group work is designed for 6 months being finished by creation of the dummy layouts, ready for printing that will be placed in the WWW for public domain (in Russian and English) . The project will be performed in the form of participatory action learning with participation of teenagers in all project stages. We consider the easy reproduction of our project in the other country as its important innovation advantage.

Contractor: Sergei Stafeev


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Personnel: 3800

Contracts: 4400

Training: 0

Equipment: 0


DialogueetéchangesculturelsentrelesdifférentspeuplesettraditionssurInternet.Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 41600

Project summary: Ce projet se place au cœur du développement durable à travers la création d’un lieu de libre échange des idées philosophiques et religieuses entre les peuples afin de permettre une meilleure compréhension de l’autre et de ses différences. Il s’agit de créer le site multilingue mondiale du dialogue inter‐ philosophique et religieux. Le projet consiste à développer un site Web existant (www.onelittleangel.com). L’activité consistera à créer d’autres versions linguistiques. Une attention particulière sera portée aux langues les plus parlées et à celles où l’accès aux philosophies étrangères est difficile. Le site mettra l’accent sur deux aspects : dialogue et compréhension. Le dialogue se fera à travers des citations de philosophes et de saints de chaque tradition sur des thèmes universels. L’aspect informatif consistera en des présentations succinctes des différentes religions et traditions (histoire, art, pratiques) et des biographies et portraits des grands personnages de ces traditions. Le projet se basera sur une association de loi 1901 qui cherchera une certaine autonomie financière à travers la mise en place de donation en ligne. Ce projet nécessitera toutefois l’appui de l’UNESCO (inscription de l’association auprès du site de l’«U.N.V». Il s’appuiera aussi sur d’autres réseaux de bénévoles comme le CPWR Network.

Contractor: Cauhape Sylvain



Personnel: 0

Contracts: 0

Training: 0

Equipment: 0

Miscellaneous: 2600

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Dushirehamwe'LetsReconcile'CommunityMultimediaProjectProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Burundi

Cost (USD): 0

Project summary: Dushirehamwe Community Multimedia is an umbrella project that brings together grassroots women groups from every Province of Burundi. It promotes a wide range of development activities: from dealing with issues of refugees replacement, Peace dialogues, reconstruction, healthcare promotion to disease prevention, income generation, poverty eradication, adult literacy campaigns, promotion of education among others. The Dushirehamwe rural CMC will respond to local as well cross borders needs and encourage more direct participation of community groups in dialogue and decision making though a variety of activities aimed at promotion of peaceful co‐existence. The Dushirehamwe CMC also aims at helping in building up local capacity for informed decision making to enhance personal, institutional and community development in the areas of health, education, the economy and general development based on facilitated communication exchange of experience, and access to information and learning resources, research results and newly developed techniques.

Contractor: Alonsor Aznar



Personnel: 6798.6000000000004

Contracts: 358

Training: 10000

Equipment: 9784.5

Miscellaneous: 0 0

ICTtrainingforsustainabletourismandnaturalresourcemanagementandmarketingProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: This project will introduce, demonstrate and demystify some of the concepts of ICT, as they pertain to natural resource management and tourism development and marketing, to trainers in 3 disciplines (tourism, wildlife management and journalism) in 3 colleges in 3 countries in sub Saharan Africa, namely Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia.

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Training will be based on open source, freeware and affordable software and hardware options in web design, multimedia content development and transaction and customer relationship management and will be both practical and theoretical. Pertinent training material, freeware and open source software will be made available online and offline. After the training, the trainees in the 3 countries will be encouraged to participate in an online community to share knowledge, problems and successes. This online community will be moderated by the consultants on the project. The project is a pilot, which will hopefully serve as proof of concept for rolling out the training to other colleges and to students. Feedback and lessons learnt during the training will be incorporated in a proposal for additional funding to scale up delivery of the training. The project will last for 4 months and will require travel from South Africa to Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia.

Contractor: Denise Biggs



Personnel: 1000

Contracts: 20000

Training: 0

Equipment: 10000


InformationsandknowledgeforallProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 32000

Project summary: Our assotiation want to make informations awilable to all organizations and to make through our website distribute our knowledge to other assotiations. Allso through seminars and workshops our knowledge make understandable and make new capacitys in other assotiations.

Contractor: Udruga slijepih Pozesko‐slavonske Zupanije



Personnel: 12500

Contracts: 2000

Training: 500

Equipment: 15000


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BusiaCommunityRadioandInternetProjectProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: Much poverty in Kenya is concentrated in rural areas that have no or very limited access to information. Busia District is one of the poorest districts in the country with poverty index of 67%. Busia district suffers from three main community disasters. These are poverty, ignorance and disease( HIV/AIDS). ICT’s provide a powerful tool to leapfrog the development divide between developed and poor countries and speed up efforts to combat hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and gender inequality. Thus ICT’s can bring literacy, education and training in the most remote rural areas of our community. Through ICT’s schools, communities, universities, hospitals and research institutions can connect the best knowledge available to meet their daily needs. ICT’s can spread health messages and help to treat and prevent HIV/AIDS and other infectious and communicable diseases.. It is for these reasons that we have recommended “ Busia Community Radio and Internet Project” to Busia communities as a strategy to address poverty and HIV/AIDS prevailing in the district. The project will be based in Ikonzo Sub location of Bujumba location within Butula division of Busia District of western province serving a minimum population of 370,000 people and more.

Contractor: IKonzo Musanda Self Help Group



Personnel: 5000

Contracts: 2440

Training: 3750

Equipment: 11750


ClearinghouseonarchivalautomationsoftwareProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 0

Project summary: Provide a list of archives who have been successful in automation of archival fonctions and actualise the survey on commercial software.

Contractor: Comment Jean‐Marc


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Personnel: 6500

Contracts: 19500

Training: 1300

Equipment: 9100


PreservationforNationalPhotographicHeritageofMadagascarProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 160000

Project summary: The National Infomation Agency holds morethan 400,000 photos and negatives on Malagasy history and culture. They are precisely assorted into each themes but keeping in a deficient state. some of them are already damaged or missing. these ara an exclusive photos that only this Agency keeps. Thas, find a remedy for this substandrad storage system is an articulate issue.

Contractor: RASAMOELINA Louis / NEMOTO Tomokazu



Personnel: 33000

Contracts: 0

Training: 0

Equipment: 20570


ReducingPovertyUsingICTProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Turkey

Cost (USD): 23800

Project summary: AIP Foundation, serves the people who are for some reason unable to help themselves. By this means, the Foundation supplies food and clothing for the poor, help women, promote literacy and give scholarships. Stemming from this expertise, AIP Foundation targets better use of ICT to enhance the reach and effectiveness of its operations. Our project is based on a dynamic, interactive web based platform open to public. Our current database will also be moved here. Both individuals and companies will be motivated to participate in the project and there will be media support.

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We demand funding for the first year of the project, to set up the system, obtain hardware, get training and personnel. Financially poor students and housewives in our database will be trained to manage web content and participate in other parts of the project. We expect that the system will generate far more funds than is required for operating costs, in the following years. We believe this will be a popular project in Turkey, promoting understanding of the social implications of ICT. As the objectives are “SMART” and open to public, this project will also be inspring for other Turkish NGO’s, opening the way.

Contractor: Gulcin Zengin



Personnel: 9600

Contracts: 5600

Training: 5100

Equipment: 3500

Miscellaneous: 0 0

InternationalWorkshoponstrategiesforpermanentaccesstoscientificinformationinSouthernAfrica:focusonhealthandenvironmentalinformation.Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: This Workshop will provide an international and inter‐disciplinary forum to promote a deeper understanding of, and requirements for long‐term preservation and open access to digital scientific information resources for sustainable development in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. It will be organised jointly by the US and South African National Committees for CODATA and the International CODATA Task Group on the Preservation and Archiving of Scientific and Technical Data. The South African National Research Foundation (NRF) and other regional organizations such as the Medical Research Council will provide local logistical support. An international planning committee has been formed under the auspices of the US National Academies with expertise in the scientific, management, legal, policy and economic and institutional factors associated with digital archiving and open access approaches in health, bio‐medical and environmental sciences.

Contractor: Dr Eddy Maepa



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Personnel: 10000

Contracts: 0

Training: 0

Equipment: 0


RECO‐ILP"Answerstothedigitaldivide"Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 54000

Project summary: The information literacy is the solution for reducing the digital divide, the gap in between those who have access to the information and those who haven’t. Behaviours and practices differ from one country to another. So do we have to unify the approach or work with what is unique in each region? What are the various pedagogical methodologies and best ways to reach the individuals (illiterates, disables, refugees, migrants,…)? The importance of gender problematic will be emphasised in the whole project. We want to receive more information about digital literacy initiatives and conducts in the following 5 zones: Central Europe, Mediterranean Europe, Western Europe, Maghreb and sub‐saharian Africa. Each partner from the 5 zones will send a few pages report that describes the national initiatives and best practices (plus a selection of typical examples). The reports will be analysed by experts from academics and Esnet network‐ with a high expertise in the e‐inclusion domain. Recommendations will be delivered to the UNESCO. A bilingual site (French and English with the addition of some national information written in the local language) will be build. It’ll let the participants know about the collected data and make them discussing the final recommendations.

Contractor: Esnet/Resenet



Personnel: 30000

Contracts: 20000

Training: 1000

Equipment: 1000


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CapacityBuildingforInformationSharingProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Saint Lucia

Cost (USD): 24913

Project summary: In response to a failure to implement its decisions aimed at organizational change, the Ministry of Education, Human Resource Development, Youth & Sports has invested in a Change Management Project. The main aim of the project is to help change the rhetoric into action. Knowledge management is being advanced as a tool which can be used to make the new vision of the ministry its reality. To this end the Ministry, through its Knowledge Management team, has developed a KM Strategy. Key to that strategy is the orientation of the staff to Information and Knowledge Management. One of the guiding principles of the KM Strategy is that the staff of the ministry has the information and the knowledge it needs to improve its work processes. In keeping with the programme priorities of the IFAP Bureau the Ministry is interested in promoting Information Literacy through the capacity building of its officers. By virtue of the fact that they are involved in advancing the education goals of the nation, Ministry personnel are seen as information and knowledge workers. This project therefore involves building the capacity of the Ministry to use the information/knowledge it currently possesses to leverage its ability to make better decisions for the education system as a whole. The project will help promote the ministry's mandate to create, preserve and share information that can be used educate the nation's populace. Education in St. Lucia is seen as a unifying force which will help improve the lives of every St.Lucia. There its collaboration with the OERU, it is hoped that the work being done in St. Lucia will serve as an example for the rest of the OECS. As such, participants in the project will be introduced to • The basics of Knowledge Management in practice which include generating new knowledge; using knowledge in decision making; embedding knowledge in processes, products and services; representing knowledge in databases, documents etc; • Strategies for using information/knowledge to influence the decision‐making processes of the ministry; • Strategies for using information/knowledge for action on decisions rather than talk about problems and solutions. • The use of information sharing platforms for the improvement of their work processes.

Contractor: Cindy Emmanuel



Personnel: 1000

Contracts: 3000

Training: 17913

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Equipment: 1000


E‐WisdomProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: Summary We propose to produce 14 hour video lessons on VCD,DVD for the basics of Computer science for children, students, ordinary people. Two points: 1. There is not enouph computer teachers in schools in our country especially in rural places. Methodology levels and skills are different for different teachers. 2. There are not enouph books on computer science in Mongolian language. Our intention For above mentioned needs, we are proposing to produce following self studying matterials as a teachers’ backup for all people who want to learn computer. We would make video lessons systematically easier to understand lending the allmighty of computer and video effects. We are planning to do lessons on following themes. ¹ Lessons Minutes 1 Computer 45 2 Information 45 3 Data expression 45 4 Circuit elements 45 5 Integrated circuit 45 6 Data operation 45 7 Memory 45 8 CPU organization (1) 45 9 CPU organization (2) 45 10 Computer organization 45 11 Interrupt 45 12 Operation system 45 13 Computer and Communication 45 14 Network 45 Our previuos experience Our team consists of 3 members,L.Buyanjargal, D.Tsedevsuren, and P.Delgerjav. P.Delgerjav and D.Tsedevsuren had participated , in the UNL, International Machine Translation Project, launched by UNU/IAS from 1996 to 2002. As for video lessons we have some experience. We made 5 hour video lesson on Economics and some other subjects with an ametuar camera. Unfortunately, our video film couldn’t meet the quality because of not accessing powerful computer with capturer and DVD, and professional

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cameras. Based on our experience and our circumstances, we can implement it within 1 year period.




Personnel: 2500

Contracts: 2000

Training: 3000

Equipment: 17500


WindmillHillCityFarmCommunityArchiveProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Cost (USD): 25062

Project summary: A grass‐roots project to remember, celebrate, and record the social history of one of the UK's oldest City Farms and it's diverse local communities. To convey an inspiring story of how ordinary people can achieve extraordinary things. Based in an economically deprived urban area, the project will involve local people in the collection of artefacts, images, documents, stories, and memories and conserve them in an online digital archive that will be open to all. Through engagement with the project people will learn valuable ICT skills and an appreciation of the importance of the preservation of information. The project will be scalable and aims to be adopted as a participative model for community archiving projects at a regional and international level. The resulting online archive will help to promote the idea of sustainable lifestyles and environmental conservation in line with the aims of the City Farm movement.

Contractor: Bridget Primarolo



Personnel: 9355.5

Contracts: 0

Training: 11832

Equipment: 2740.5


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WebPortal gEarthWire/Serbia hProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 24500

Project summary: EarthWire Serbia and Montenegro is a free daily service that gives Internet users an overview of environmental news from Serbia and Montenegro. The web service ménages the daily maintance and updating through reviewing the major on‐line newspapers from the country for environment and sustainable developed‐related news stories. Relevant stories are linked to EarthWire Serbia and Montenegro. Relevant news and press releases from ministries, NGOs, research institutions and cooperation fs are also linked or posted on the web pages.

Contractor: The Regional Environmental Centar for Central and Eastren Europe, Country office Serbia and Montenegro



Personnel: 3500

Contracts: 9000

Training: 7000

Equipment: 3000


DigitalizationoftheSouthSerbiadailyNarodnenovineProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 24441

Project summary: daily newspapers Narodne novine, the only daily newspapers southern of Belgrade that has been continuously appearing in Nis since 1944. The existing archive is in paper stored in the Municipal Library of Nis where the access is limited due to few copies available and the wish of preserving them at best. Saved in one place, easily accessible in a digital format at the Municipal Library, such archive would enables local journalists and media analysts to base their writings or projects on facts and indisputable data. Further, the population of Nis and of the rest of Serbia would have the opportunity of going through the significant volume of articles, columns, interviews and others reflecting the events, thoughts, personalities that appeared. This kind of electronic archive can stimulate general quality and accuracy of the published information, as all data (on personalities, institutions, social phenomena and current events) are easily accessible.

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Contractor: Media Center Nis



Personnel: 12464

Contracts: 0

Training: 0

Equipment: 9027


BuildingknowledgenetworkstorespondtotheneedsofthepractitionersinSriLankaandEastAfricaProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: Development practitioners such as NGO field staff or agricultural extensionists need good technical information and advice to support development initiatives. Currently, for example, practitioners in Sri Lanka urgently need information on housing, fishing and boat building to help communities rebuild their lives after the tsunami. And in Kenya, ITDG has learnt through its technical enquiry service that practitioners constantly seek technical information e.g. about shelter and energy to improve the livelihoods of the very poorest. The information currently available from universities, NGOs, government organisations and the private sector, is too often supply‐driven and inadequately coordinated. What is urgently needed to meet the growing demand for technical information are effective knowledge networks, set up to be demand‐driven and responsive to practitioner needs. ITDG has extensive experience of information systems in developing countries and of providing a demand‐led technical information service. We plan to facilitate more effective, regional knowledge networks to offer demand‐led information services for development practitioners in selected sectors. We propose to convene information professionals in Sri Lanka and Kenya, to share best practice in interactive information sharing. These workshops would build local capacity and strengthen regional knowledge networks, offering a more coordinated and comprehensive demand‐led technical information service.

Contractor: Intermediate Technology Development Group



Personnel: 0

Contracts: 0

Training: 30000

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Equipment: 0


WOMEN'SINFORMATIONFORDEVELOPMENTNETWORK(WIDNet)Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: The Zambia Association for Research and Development (ZARD) with partners has developed the Women's Information for Development Network (WIDNet), an information / knowledge sharing programme that will employ ICT mediums to enable target groups access developmental information. It will also collect, document, preserve indigenous knowledge; disseminate information and knowledge to women, girls, the women's movement, civil society organizations, parliamentarians, government departments, media, learning institutions and communities.The WIDNet concept was developed through consultation with partner organisations. ZARD will act as the hub where the organization and its partners will work in the spirit of partnership in programme implementation by sharing information that will be generated and disseminated via a website that will be called the “ZARDWIDNet.” Information is a powerful tool for poverty reduction, socio‐economic development and the empowerment of women. Women’s access to information and their participation reduces illiteracy, ignorance and poverty, maternal and child mortality and HIV/AIDS. Women have limited access to relevant information and have no skills to enable them have access to information and share knowledge for making informed decisions.WIDNet is also aimed at building capacity of target groups by enabling them to access and use ICTs effectively in planning and executing their development and research activities.

Contractor: ZAMBIA ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (ZARD)



Personnel: 4150

Contracts: 12220

Training: 2780

Equipment: 5600


1.1IDEAWebsite:ameansforUnitingDrama&TheatreEducatorsworldwideProject status: Unfunded


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Cost (USD): 77681

Project summary: The aim of this project is to design a website that will unite a world of drama and theatre educators through sophisticated but user‐friendly online communication, collaboration and coordination. The proposed IDEA website is a substantial but achievable and vital project. The website will provide an interactive and collaborative space where the global community of drama and theatre educators equally share their discussions, opinions, experiences, events, publications, cultures and their vision and ideas. This object will reinforce and stimulate the existing partnership between the members of IDEA and more in general between grassroots organisations and individual participants in the field of drama/theatre & education. The pluralistic aim and approach will be ensured through: ‐ ongoing consultation in the design phase that tightly meet user needs ‐ functioning effectively on a wide range of computer systems so that also the “information poor” will have access to the website and actively can participate and ‘own’ the website. ‐ the use of three languages: English, French and Spanish. Thanks to the employed methodology for the development of this IDEA website, the IDEA members and the global drama end theatre community are involved in the design so that the result will be a continuum of completed features live on the website. By this interactive exchange art will be promoted as a vital and indispensable part of a full human education. The structure of the IDEA Website will contain the following features (see for details under: Activities) Online Publication Management Online Events Calendars Online Discussion Online Opinion Pieces Online Notice System Online Meeting Management Online Collaborative Special Project Management Online Resource Collections Online Web Link Collections Online Media Galleries Individualised Regional / Association Websites Interest Groups / Communities Organisation and Individual Membership About IDEA –General Information

Contractor: IDEA – International Drama/Theatre & Education Association



Personnel: 62246

Contracts: 0

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Training: 7308

Equipment: 3045


TheSteppingStonestoE‐cultureofcommunicationbetweenpeopleProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 24975

Project summary: The overall goal of the project is to foster the e‐ culture of communication among people as a basis of development of e‐ knowledge society at local and regional level through promoting and implementing its fundamental elements: e‐ government, e‐ learning and e‐ citizenship. The objectives of the project are to develop municipal e‐communication policies and delivery of services that will enable both local public administrations and all the citizens to equally benefit from the gains of the E‐ knowledge society. These gains include the right of all citizens to access public services in the most effective way, to actively participate in local public decision making progress that affect their quality of life. The main activities of the project are based on the general need for the development of interaction between the local authorities and citizens from the traditional one way provision of information to an integrated level of interaction. It includes promoting the advantages of ICTs among the community and creating a friendly, social and technical environment for implementation of e‐ government services and e‐ citizenship on a broad basis at digital meeting points in the public libraries; providing special trainings for both information professionals and disadvantaged groups of the community to build up the necessary capacity to meet the challenges of e‐culture and the reengineering of the existing administrative services, tailoring the administrative services to the needs of citizens by making them more accessible and responsive

Contractor: Nely Nikolaeva Gospodinova



Personnel: 3573

Contracts: 3400

Training: 4160

Equipment: 13111


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Research,InformationandCommunicationprogramsProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 35000

Project summary: Establishing an information resource base on all areas of violence against women for internal and external use. Creating a resource center of excellence on violence against women in Kenya and the region.

Contractor: Coalition on Violence Against Women‐Kenya



Personnel: 7100

Contracts: 8125

Training: 8400

Equipment: 9868.75

Miscellaneous: 1506.25 0

PublicLibrariesasE‐GovernmentIntermediariesProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Cost (USD): 24924

Project summary: This project will investigate the role of e‐government intermediaries (EGIs), focusing on whether this is a viable role for public libraries to assume. EGIs are defined as agencies or individuals who can assist people with their e‐government use in recognition of the fact that although governments around the world are establishing e‐government services, use remains low in certain geographic areas and among certain sections of the population, especially disadvantaged groups. The characteristics of successful EGIs will be identified with the aim of establishing good practice in breaking down the digital divide and opening up e‐government services to those who may benefit the most from them. Public libraries in the United Kingdom have been involved in developing e‐government services from a variety of perspectives: as designer and host; as transaction service provider; and as facilitator through the provision of free ICT facilities with which citizens can access a wide range of e‐government services. A case study approach will evaluate whether public libraries exhibit the characteristics identified and whether they have other qualities which either promote or limit their capacity to act as EGIs. The results will be of interest to other public library systems internationally as well as e‐government service providers.

Contractor: Dr Anne Goulding



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Personnel: 19505

Contracts: 1219

Training: 0

Equipment: 0


PromotingandprovidinginformationonScienceandTechnologyliteracytogirlsandwomeninNigeria.Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 24900

Project summary: Science and technology are critical factors for national development. Science and technology provide the means for states to meet their economic, cultural and social needs. They also provide the means for people to meet their physical and emotional aspirations. The equitable distribution and creation of science and technology is a necessary prerequisite for the development and improvement of the human well being. It is essential that the potential of all sectors of the population be fully utilized to actualize the readiness for global science and Technological advancement. Maximizing a nation’s human resources potential is one obvious way of building scientific resources and of encouraging scientific literacy. The potential contribution of women in S&T has been and still is undervalued and under utilized (NABST, 1993). Women are almost entirely overlooked in science and technology development and transfer. This occurs despite their pivotal role in development — as expressed in their productive and reproductive roles through which they provide most of their family’s basic needs. Hence, NACETEM is committed to reaching out to get more women into science and engineering careers for reasons related to economics, equality of access, relative employment stability and utilization of talent, as well as personal satisfaction and intellectual challenge for the women involved.

Contractor: Hassan Omowunmi



Personnel: 4000

Contracts: 9000

Training: 4500

Equipment: 6400


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BridgingthedigitaldivideandunlockinghealthresearchinformationsourcesinRussianspeakingcountriesProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: SHARED ¡V Scientists for Health and Research for Development ¡V is a Network that promotes the exchange of information on health research on the Internet (www.sharingpoint.net). Users such as decision makers and researchers may search the repository getting results from different sources and different languages. SHARED can include countries that use Russian for scientific communication without having to translate their information. Like many developing countries, most of the existing information sources in former Soviet Republic countries are not digital or not structured. The objective of this project is to start the SHARED network in this region by supporting countries to organize and digitalize their information on health research using DIPE (Directory of Institutions, Projects and spEcialists), which is the application SHARED uses to manage information at the local level. We propose to develop a Russian version of DIPE that would offer a multi‐lingual interface and exporting capabilities to allow information to be SHARED. The project will increase the IT capacity of the participant countries trough workshops and trainings, focusing on information management and information technologies. In addition, the project will profit from the SHARED experience.

Contractor: Agnes Soares da Silva



Personnel: 15600

Contracts: 10000

Training: 16700

Equipment: 2500


CONSOLIDATINGwww.penelopes.orgProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: In 1997, when most people in France did not know yet what Internet looked like, a group of courageous women started the dream of contributing to one fundamental right : the right to information and expression, by bringing to women, information freely written by other women through the use of ICTs. The aim was creating an independent media, that would analyze international current events with a gender focus, enhancing access to

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information and thus opinion, reinforcing the right to say what other women couldn’t even whisper. Since then, this punctual monthly work was possible on a volunteer basis and www.penelopes.org became one of the most recognized feminist alternative media, with more than 30.000 visits per month, receiving invitations for media‐coverages and permanent information demands. Penelopes developed parallel projects like the audio adventure, « Women’s voices», series of debates and portraits of women activists across western and eastern Europe, an international solidarity‐based economy women network, a paper magazine… This huge data‐base contains today over 8,000 papers in 3 languages (French, English and Spanish), audios, videos, petitions. Today, 8 years later, www.penelopes.org needs to be re‐structured and its hosting needs to be improved. Also, the volunteer work (writing and training writers) needs funding for recognition and commitment, but most of all to guarantee the perennial existence of this media. It’s about time this valuable and courageous publication is recognized and its long life is ensured.

Contractor: Association Les Pénélopes



Personnel: 16000

Contracts: 18000

Training: 2000

Equipment: 0


NGOinaBoxProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: The project will provide an easy‐to‐use package of training and free software for NGOs and civil society in developing countries which will enable them to operate in an efficient and secure manner. This project is a collation of free and open source software, bundled with step‐by‐step installation and learning manuals backed up by audio visual presentations. The resource materials will be available in 5 languages (English, French, Spanish, Russian and Arabic) and the software will be compiled and constantly updated by specialists around the world. It will empower civil society with modern technologies and education in the field of information resources, multimedia, security and communication. It will be available freely to members of civil society and NGOs. It will be published with a Creative Commons licence which will allow for its reproduction and redistribution, creating the so called “avalanche effect”.

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Contractor: Front Line, Tactical Tech, Privaterra



Personnel: 6000

Contracts: 25000

Training: 3000

Equipment: 8000


Laradiopourpromouvoirladiversitélinguistiqueetculturelle:unportailwebenpulaarProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 33411

Project summary: Langue parlée dans la plupart des pays ouest‐africains le pulaar véhicule idées et expériences par delà les frontières nationales. Exploité à bon escient, ce continuum linguistique et culturel qui s’étent du Sénégal au Soudan et du Mali au Tchad peut constituer un facteur d’intégration original et efficace. De nombreux médias (radio principalement, mais aussi un peu de presse écrite) produisent tout ou partie de leurs contenus dans cette langue. Aussi existe‐il un réseau dense d’associations locales, nationales voire régionales. Le projet présenté ici consiste à créer un portail web dédié aux médias pulaarophones pour valoriser la production médiatique dans cette langue et accompagner le processus d’harmonisation des différents parlers qui en constituent la richesse. Ce site proposera dans un premier temps une banque de programmes radios, à laquelle seront ajoutés des rubriques utiles aux journalistes pulaarophones (répertoire des médias dans cette langue, des associations…). Les partenariats avec la presse écrite et les associations permettront par la suite une décentralisation de la mise en ligne de contenu et sera accompagnée d'un appui à l'appropriation du système d'édition. L'interface utilisateur comme l'administration du site seront en effet en pulaar grâce à un système de gestion de contenu en open source (SPIP).

Contractor: Institut Panos Afrique de l'Ouest



Personnel: 14476

Contracts: 10857

Training: 0

Equipment: 1333

Miscellaneous: 6745

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Creatingastructuredandvisibledatabaseforwomen’ssolidarity‐basedeconomicinitiativesProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: Since over three years now, The Penelopes have been meeting exceptional women all over the world who fight against poverty ad violence through the construction of economic alternatives. They have progressively joined an horizontal network launched by 5 partners in 2001. Fighting gender violence is only efficient by promoting women’s autonomy and economic independence from men. Thus, women develop collective economic activities, creating revenues, recovering dignity and increasing women’s self‐esteem. Over 100 groups in 31 different countries have joined the International Network of Women and Solidarity‐based Economy, with several purposes: improving visibility of production, breaking isolation and exchanging experiences and know‐how. Today this huge network needs to preserve and impulse their exchanges through a database and multiples websites in order to reach fair‐trade responsibles and most of all, to valorize their valuable work by acquiring visibility.

Contractor: josefina Gamboa



Personnel: 9000

Contracts: 15000

Training: 15000

Equipment: 3000


EuropeanUniversityLibrariesNavigatorProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 35000

Project summary: The forthcoming accession of Bulgaria to the EU will open new opportunities for Bulgarian students and researchers to participate and contribute to the European Research and Education Community. The access to the library information resources of the European universities is an important prerequisite for this. A lot of information on the university library resources exists on the Internet and in specialized on‐line databases. But there is a lack

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of knowledge and skills on how effectively to search for this information according to the particular user’s needs. Information professionals working at university and public libraries, information centers and research organizations in Bulgaria could play a significant role supporting and consulting students, lecturers and researchers for retrieval of information contained in the various university library resources in Europe. The project aims to improve the information literacy of information professionals regarding the access to European university library resources and to provide sustainability in capacity building of students, librarians and information specialists in line with the expected huge information demand of the university and research community in Bulgaria. To achieve this aim within its 12‐month life‐time the project will deliver a Directory of the European university library information resources in hardcopy, web and CD versions; User Guidelines for access to the university library information resources as a hardcopy and HELP menu to the web and CD versions of the Directory; and a Training course for information professionals, who will act as trainers and will ensure the project sustainability.

Contractor: ELISA CONSULT, Bulgaria



Personnel: 24000

Contracts: 6000

Training: 4000

Equipment: 0


InfraestructuraInformáticaparalaCreacióndelaBibliotecaNacionalDigitaldelaReddeBibliotecasPúblicasCubanasProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Cuba

Cost (USD): 20585

Project summary: Fundamentación El Sistema Nacional de Bibliotecas Públicas existente en Cuba esta formado por 405, las cuales están orientadas y asesoradas metodológicamente por la Biblioteca Nacional “José Martí"(BNJM) Actualmente la BNJM tiene en línea el sitio Web de la Biblioteca Digital de Clásicos Cubanos, el cual cuenta con aproximadamente 300 obras de cerca de 50 autores y que se insertará en el proyecto Biblioteca Digital Iberoamericana Y Caribeña (BDIC), por el cual ya nuestra institución recibió un primer donativo de la UNESCO Entre los objetivos principales del Laboratorio Digital y de los módulos asignados a las 4 provincias beneficias por este donativo se encuentra la digitalización de obras libres de derecho de autor y que van a poder ser

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consultadas de forma gratuita por los visitantes del sitio Web de la BDIC y de la BNJM, a demás de la preservación de fondos de incalculable valor histórico y documental, que permitirán un amplio acceso a la información por usuarios no solo de nuestro país. Solamente la BNJM cuenta con aproximadamente 40 millones de documentos y a esto se le debe agregar el patrimonio que atesora la red de bibliotecas públicas del país, que de insertarse al resto de las provincias no beneficiadas en la primera etapa aumentaría de modo sustancial las posibilidades de acceso a la información y la preservación del patrimonio nacional. Creación e implementación de una infraestructura básica que permita sostener la Biblioteca Digital Nacional y por lo tanto publicar en Internet fondos documentales en formato digital especialmente seleccionados por ser representativos del patrimonio cultural de la Nación, es el objetivo de la presentación de este proyecto, su puesta en funcionamiento beneficiara a usuarios tanto nacionales como extranjeros a la vez que se daría una significativa contribución a la presencia de la cultura del país en el ciberespacio. El equipamiento solicitado permitiría a su vez, la creación de contenidos digitales en CD‐ROM, con los cuales se beneficiarían comunidades de usuarios en zonas apartadas sin acceso a Internet. Por último la ejecución de este proyecto contribuiría a que bibliotecas provinciales pertenecientes al Sistema Nacional de Bibliotecas Públicas Cubanas puedan participar en el Proyecto que ejecuta la Oficina Regional de Comunicación e Información de la UNESCO para América Latina y el Caribe, referente a la creación de la Biblioteca Virtual de Iberoamérica y el Caribe La ejecución del proyecto se desarrollaría en dos fases una primera con el financiamiento y la implementación del equipamiento para las 9 provincias restantes y en un segundo momento el financiamiento destinado para la BNJM.

Contractor: Biblioteca Nacional



Personnel: 0

Contracts: 0

Training: 0

Equipment: 19900


StrategicUseofICTforcivilsociety:ElectronicnetworkingforinformationsocietyinSouthEasternEuropeProject status: Unfunded

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Cost (USD): 42977

Project summary: The project is focused on electronic networking for civil society and is intended to contribute to the development of ICT policy and digital inclusion of different civil society groups in South Eastern Europe (SEE). Initial research has revealed low awareness and understanding of the WSIS process, even among people working in the field of ICT and civil society. There is a need to inform non‐governmental organizations (NGO) and civil groups about the process in general, how it could lead to information society development and reduction of the digital divide. Currently different government institutions dealing with information society are not well acquainted with the NGO electronic networking. The need of longer‐term cooperation and information exchange could be implemented through joint work related to the WSIS processes. The project will provide to NGOs and civil groups capacity building on strategic use of ICT and knowledge about the WSIS in order to foster joint work among NGO representatives and ministerial officials. This improved collaboration will result in disseminating best practices and experiences to other regions and civil sectors. BlueLink has good partnership with some ministries and will transfer its experience to other institutions dealing with information society, both in Bulgaria and SEE.

Contractor: BlueLink Foundation



Personnel: 6600

Contracts: 10632

Training: 16498

Equipment: 1200


ProductnetworkforIndigenousWomenGroupsintheWesternRegionofGuatemala–TheAREDOCCPortal.Project status: Unfunded

Region/country: Guatemala

Cost (USD): 15000

Project summary: The idea of the project comes from a requirement from different groups of women that produce textile products in the western region of Guatemala. There are more than 300 groups of these women in the region that want to work in networks using the Internet in order to coordinate the selling of their products to outside markets. The main idea of the project is to develop an open source web based portal for networking among the groups and as a contact to outside clients. Other goals of the project include: use different

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existing Internet access points already existing in Quetzaltenango to access the portal, use the portal as a mean of coordinating efforts between the groups in order to meet quantity and quality demands, use the portal to access information about training, design orientation and others that could help improve their products and finally, use the portal as mean of communication and also documentation of the cultural aspects of their products and their communities. The project will serve several purposes: to commercialize their products, training, networking and also to document cultural aspects of their communities via an Internet portal.

Contractor: Maria Zaghi ‐ Asociación RED DE OCCIDENTE



Personnel: 3000

Contracts: 5000

Training: 3000

Equipment: 1500


ExperimentalNutritionalCenter;simulationsoftwareforeducationalpurposesProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 50000

Project summary: “Experimental Nutritional Center” educational software for learning natural sciences in public libraries and public schools for children ages 6 to 15. The “Experimental Nutritional Center” is part of a software series for education support among Mexican public schools developed during 2003 and 2004 (10 titles up to date). Its aims are to promote awareness of a suitable nutrition to reach a healthy life, through the understanding of digestive functions and the role of the different kinds of nutrients in the organism, as well as to know about the risks of having a bad nutrition. The pedagogic approach is to lead the children to build their own knowledge applying the scientific method, making experiments and measuring variables using computer simulations of nutritional variables and contexts offered by the “Experimental Nutritional Center”. In order to prepare the teachers in the efficient use of the software, they are trained in its application methodology in the classroom (training in a classroom and remote training using the Internet).

Contractor: Latin American Institute for the Educational Communication.


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Personnel: 24000

Contracts: 10000

Training: 6000

Equipment: 0


AMultimediaEducationNetwork:ICTsforKnowledgePreservationandDisseminationProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: This project will build upon the ICTs‐related projects KAIPPG has implemented under the GenARDIS program (focusing on women, agriculture, and technology) and the GRASSUP NOW project, a four‐party ICTs/ODL project in Kenya sponsored by The Commonwealth of Learning, which is developing both a model of cooperation in information dissemination and modules of learning materials in the areas of nutrition, income‐generation, and environmental education. A UNESCO grant will allow KAIPPG to expand our multimedia activities to address ICTs and general literacy, to preserve indigenous knowledge‐‐especially in agriculture and traditional healing methods‐‐and to give greater access to health information, resources on rural development issues, and income‐generation methods. We will be able to increase access to and knowledge about the links between HIV/AIDS, agriculture and nutrition, gender inequality, and poverty, and foster an approach of self‐empowering activism, which in turn will help in the development of programs to address the identified needs. Our guiding philosophy‐‐helping people to help themselves‐‐will focus in this case on training people in the use of mixed ICTs (radio, audiovisual aids, CD‐ROMS, information kiosks, the arts) to help their rural communities collect, preserve, and disseminate indigenous health and agricultural knowledge and techniques, at the same time that they are becoming "literate", both generally and in terms of ICTs usage.

Contractor: James Onyango



Personnel: 5000

Contracts: 2000

Training: 14500

Equipment: 3000


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ConferenceonInformationLiteracyProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 35000

Project summary: This project will study and analyze the factors influencing access to information in the Caribbean. It will do this initially through pilot research activities which will be reported at a regional conference to be held in Jamaice in November 2005. Specifically the project will build capacity for information professionals through: design and test the delivery of a programme of information literacy; create in digital format an information resource on information activities in the Caribbean from 1980 onwards to demonstrate techniques of digitization as a form of preservation of information; analysis of the ethical, legal and societal implications of access to digital information resources in the Caribbean.

Contractor: Claudette Fay Durrant



Personnel: 5000

Contracts: 13500

Training: 13500

Equipment: 1000


RadiosComunitariasOnlineProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Brazil

Cost (USD): 22500

Project summary: Es creciente el papel del desarrollo de medios de información y comunicación alternativos en el camino de la inclusión social. El media comunitario es herramienta de combate a la pobreza y fortalecimiento de los valores democráticos. Con contenido local, promueve los derechos humanos, la igualdad de géneros y apoya el desarrollo sustentable. La radio habla el lenguaje de su comunidad y la programación refleja los intereses locales contribuyendo para la recuperación y desarrollo de la cultura y de la economía local. El objetivo del proyecto es integrar el uso social de las TICs a un proyecto de educación y desarrollo social – radios comunitarias e Internet. La idea principal es contribuir para hacer de la educación un de los derechos del ciudadano, de forma adecuada y adaptada a las diferentes agrupaciones sociales.

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El intercambio entre las radios será a través de un portal – empleando software libre – que servirá como proveedor de contenidos, con el propósito de recibir y divulgar lo que circula por las emisoras locales, facilitando el acceso. Para tenerse éxito, es necesario también incorporar y trabajar con personas que actúen como intermediarios comunitarios, que utilizan internet y replican el conocimiento adquirido para la comunidad.

Contractor: Carlos Antonio Silva



Personnel: 1000

Contracts: 0

Training: 50000

Equipment: 14000


ICTandEducation:projectmanagementandeducationalissuesinelementarypublicschools.Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 43813

Project summary: This project aims at providing specific knowledge for educators in what concerns ICT use for educational purposes and project management in elementary public schools. The course will be held in Spanish and Portuguese, using a semipresential (on campus and distance learning) method, in partnership with universities in four south American countries , where students will have access to libraries and Infolabs. The Learning Management System to be used is a free open source program developed by Campinas State University (UNICAMP), customized for the Methodist University of São Paulo. Target: 300 elementary public school teachers. Countries: North and Northeast of Brazil, Argentina, Uruguai, Colombia. Period: June to August 2005. Requirements: text editor and internet navigation skills. However, the indicated partners will provide tutors for computer use at the Infolabs. The student must be an elementary school teacher, working at public institutions located in areas of low HDI (Human Development Index).

Contractor: Fabio Josgrilberg



Personnel: 22114

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Contracts: 0

Training: 18081

Equipment: 0


AnOpen‐sourceMISToolkitforSHGs,SHGFederationsandotherCommunity‐ownedFinancialInstitutionsProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 105000

Project summary: The Mahakalasm MIS project is an extensible, open‐source, easy‐to‐use MIS toolkit for Self‐Help Groups (SHGs), SHG Federations and other community‐owned financial institutions. These institutions have proven to be effective empowering agents for local communities towards the goal of sustainable livelihood‐based rural development. Focusing on supporting economic growth through appropriate use of natural resources, these institutions can serve as a model for the rest of the world in how to live within one’s means and develop gracefully. However, the lack of management capacity is one of the main limitations for the continued growth of these institutions. Being owned and managed by the local women themselves, they have little access to formal tools or training. We believe that the development of an easily available Management and Information System toolkit would be a significant step forward in ensuring the continued financial performance, sustainability and growth of these institutions. Recognizing that such institutions come in a variety of shapes and sizes and have infinitely varying requirements, we are developing a modular, open‐source, tool‐based toolkit for MIS systems serving these communities, consisting of toe following components ‐ Standardized formats for data collection and recording ‐ Trusted web‐based back‐office solutions for data storage and reporting ‐ Accessible mobile‐phone based system for remote information capture ‐ Training materials and an education program for wider dissemination These components can be used together, or can be used separately, serving the needs of small local institutions that only need a basic manual records system, all the way to large multi‐state networks with far flung branches. This framework can also be used to provide other information services within the community.

Contractor: Vijay Pratap Singh Aditya, CEO, ekgaon technologies



Personnel: 16000

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Contracts: 6000

Training: 6000

Equipment: 5000


LibrairienumériquedelalittératureafricaineProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: La Fondation des Parlementaires québécois, en partenariat avec des regroupements d’auteurs africains, propose la création d’un projet‐pilote de Librairie numérique de la littérature africaine. Il s’agit d’un site WEB où les utilisateurs pourront télécharger, consulter en ligne ou commander une version imprimée ou sur cédérom, d’une sélection d’œuvres de la littérature africaines provenant du Sénégal, du Mali, du Bénin et du Burkina Faso. Des versions électroniques de ces œuvres seront produites sous forme de livres numériques par une équipe africaine qui sera formée aux technologies de production et de diffusion de publications numériques, telles que déjà appliquées dans la réalisation d’une Librairie numérique existante dans le domaine du Droit africain. Ce développement de capacité, l’existence de ce canal commun de diffusion, la possibilité de contourner les coûts de l’édition imprimée traditionnelle, et les mécanismes juridiques et techniques de protection des droits de propriété intellectuelle, inciteront les auteurs africains à exploiter le medium électronique de publication et à l’appliquer à d’autres contenus, et dans les autres pays africains. La promotion de la Librairie auprès des institutions d’enseignement du Canada francophone démontrera tout l’intérêt et le potentiel de cette application des TIC pour la conservation du patrimoine culturel du Sud et à sa diffusion vers les institutions scolaires et universitaires du Nord.

Contractor: Fondation des parlementaires québécois Cultures à partager



Personnel: 13800

Contracts: 1800

Training: 5000

Equipment: 9700


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ImprovingInformationLiteracyInstructioninAmericanSchoolsinForeignCountriesProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: United States of America

Cost (USD): 44977

Project summary: At no time in history has the ability to locate, organize, evaluate, manage and use information, skills collectively referred to as information literacy, been more critical to learners. Quality information literacy (IL) instruction holds an important key to preparing students to become productive citizens of the world. Responding to this need, S.O.S. for Information Literacy, is a freely‐accessible national database of information literacy teaching resources for improving information literacy instruction in elementary and middle school libraries and classrooms. Funded by a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to Syracuse University’s Center for Digital Literacy in 2002, S.O.S., features a Web‐based multimedia resource of IL standards‐based lesson plans, support materials, and examples of “best practice” real‐life demonstrations that exemplify effective and motivating techniques used by practitioners. In the course of evaluation, it was discovered that educators in American schools in East Asia could also make use of this resource if expanded to meet several international needs as described in this proposal. This project will build on the successful work and experiences of S.O.S. for Information Literacy in the United States to extend the usefulness of this unique IL resource to a global community of educators.

Contractor: Syracuse University, Center for Digital Literacy



Personnel: 30477

Contracts: 12500

Training: 0

Equipment: 0


PilotProjectfortheImplementationofUNESCO’sPolicyGuidelinesontheDevelopmentandPromotionofGovernmentalPublicDomainInformationProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 34600

Project summary: This pilot project will develop and implement a public domain Information Policy Framework for governmental information at the national level in three Central American countries‐‐Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and El Salvador‐‐using the UNESCO Policy Guidelines on the Development and Promotion of Governmental Public Domain Information. The project will:

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1. Assess the status of existing governmental information regimes in each country and identify areas that may require new policy development or changes to existing policy. 2. Identify and systematically address for each individual policy element a number of analytical factors, and policy formation and implementation factors. 3. Identify and involve representatives of all major stakeholder groups in a consultative process. 4. Develop specific implementation plans to help ensure that the policies are acted upon, and that they are implemented in an appropriate and efficient manner consistent with the specific conditions and needs of each organization’s activities. The plans will identify performance indicators and include elements of a monitoring and evaluation process. The work will be done through a series of meetings between mid‐2005 and mid‐2007. A final report summarizing the results of this pilot project in all three countries will be submitted to the participants from these countries and to UNESCO within three months of the final meeting.

Contractor: Paul F. Uhlir



Personnel: 25000

Contracts: 0

Training: 0

Equipment: 0


CommunityLibrariesasprovidersofInformationLiteracyProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Belize

Cost (USD): 32000

Project summary: The Belize National Library Service (BNLS) supports thirty‐two service points of which thirteen are in district towns. This translates to nineteen villages out of over two hundred existing in Belize that are served by sub‐libraries and one mobile library (1978 model). Committed as it is to promote an informed society, the BNLS seeks the opportunity to create a more equitably informed society through the development of community libraries and expanded bookmobile services in rural areas. Through public awareness campaigns, this project will make community members more aware of self‐development opportunities. The goal is to create an information and knowledge based society, independent lifelong learners and promoting respect for diverse cultures.

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An Internet presence created by BNLS will act as an agent of change, linking libraries, educational systems, and social agents. The Internet site will provide a directory of information resources and access points. An online public access catalogue (OPAC) will make the national library collections available to all Belizeans. Realizing that the information society has impacted Belize, the BNLS must move towards bridging the digital divide. ICTs will be utilized to raise the level of information literacy, increase access, and improve efficiency. Given the relatively high level of poverty in rural areas the expansion of community libraries will be achieved only through the establishment of partnerships with stakeholders. Overall community library development represents an efficient, cost‐effective means of equitably disseminating information necessary to improve quality of life.

Contractor: Belize National Library Service (BNLS)



Personnel: 4800

Contracts: 3200

Training: 12800

Equipment: 9600


PreservingBelize’sPatrimonythroughPublicAwareness,AppropriateEnvironmentandTechnologyProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Belize

Cost (USD): 32000

Project summary: The Belize National Library Service (BNLS) has two components: Public Library Services and the National Collection. As envisioned in the Five Year Strategic Plan 2004‐2009 the National Collection will evolve into the National Library with the ability to collect, conserve, and disseminate national information. Since its inception in 1935, the BNLS has through legal deposit legislation, purchases and donations built a significant collection on Belize and its regional partners. This collection is Belize’s patrimony which the BNLS is entrusted to preserve. It presents opportunities to promote historical information that is currently inaccessible due to its deteriorated condition; preserve documents in their original formats; make information available in new user‐friendly formats; fully support the information needs of local and foreign researchers; and make information accessible online. To do so, the BNLS must stimulate and engage public interest and support; enable a suitable environment for

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information and media storage; and utilize technology to advance services and improve efficiency. A public awareness campaign is necessary to guarantee compliance with the legal deposit legislation; to ensure the upward and downward flow of information and to document oral traditions. For the National Collection to evolve into the National Library, the public must be fully aware of the role and function of the National Library and recognize the value of preserving Belize’s patrimony and its contribution to the national development.

Contractor: Belize National Library Service



Personnel: 3200

Contracts: 4800

Training: 6400

Equipment: 16000


TheStonesofmyState–SãoPauloProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 24500

Project summary: This project intends to present more than one century of Geology history in São Paulo, with the production of a documentary registering the rich Geology of São Paulo State, in Brazil, starting from the report of the professionals that “have built and build” science in this state, some of them already octogenarians, but who, besides contributing with the extensive photographic material and historical register, will contribute with their particular life experiences.

Contractor: Claudia Lopes



Personnel: 20000

Contracts: 0

Training: 0

Equipment: 3500


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Education,HealthInformationLiteracy,andPreventionofHIVInfectionamongWomenandChildren:AGlobalModelofSustainableDevelopmentProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: This project is designed to generate a global model of improving female health literacy to strengthen information capacity in HIV prevention for women and children. Given the rising threat of HIV to women and children, the need for equitable access to health information has never been greater. A report by UNAIDS, 2004, indicated that women now make up nearly half of the 37.2 million adults living with HIV. Women’s mortality has major implications for social and economic development. For example, the orphans left behind tend to incur major social problems. Strengths of this project are: an existing private‐public partnership (UN agencies, private funders, academic institutions, and the community) in a global network of countries in Asia, Africa, and Central America; community involvement and capacity building; multiplying related projects; potential for external funding; global application. Specifically, the project aims to: 1. train female information professionals as change agents to increase health literacy against HIV among women. 2. increase women’s capacity to access women’s health and maternal‐child health information in formal or informal educational settings. 3. integrate HIV‐related literacy and female empowerment information in all educational curricula. 4. improve use of the media or related technology as tools to increase HIV literacy.

Contractor: Mei‐ling Wang



Personnel: 7000

Contracts: 6000

Training: 30000

Equipment: 1200


PromotingAccessandCapacityBuildingforScientificInformationResourcesandICTInfrastructureforResearchandEducationinDevelopingCountriesProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: The Inter Academy Panel (IAP) proposes to undertake several activities in the area of the scientific information access / digital divide problem. These include: 1) Drafting and publishing two background issue papers.

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2) Developing and disseminating a WSIS II tool kit focused on improving the involvement of scientists in the WSIS process. 3) Organizing a workshop in Dakar, Senegal in October 2005 on promoting access and capacity building for scientific information resources and ICT infrastructure for research and education in developing countries. Specifically, the workshop would bring together IAP members, sponsor representatives, and experts on the ICT and scientific information access issues to: (a) provide focused briefings and proposals for specific actions and new partnerships with IAP; (b) identify and discuss projects that sponsors might be willing to fund; and (c) agree on an agenda for action for IAP in this critical area. A report summarizing the results of this action‐oriented meeting will be produced and published on the IAP Web site. 4) Supporting participation by three IAP representatives from developing countries in the WSIS II and related scientific meetings in Tunis.

Contractor: John Boright



Personnel: 9200

Contracts: 0

Training: 0

Equipment: 0


FormaciónderecursoshumanosendocumentaciónaudiovisualProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: La masificación del audiovisual ha dado importancia a los procesos de consumo de imagen y al desarrollo de un trabajo de sistematización inteligente de los recursos documentales existentes. Debido a que el audiovisual es el registro que constituye parte de la memoria histórica de las sociedades, y que en específico el video ha demostrado ser un recurso eficiente en apoyo a la enseñanza; resulta fundamental hoy en día, crear recursos humanos especializados en la preservación y manejo de dicho patrimonio. La Videoteca Nacional Educativa desarrolla la tarea de formación de cuadros de especialistas en documentación audiovisual, en los ámbitos de preservación, conservación, sistematización, y distribución del acervo audiovisual educativo de México. Con la intención de fortalecer los procesos de actualización de los profesionales en el manejo de la información y contribuir con ello a potenciar los usos de video, en términos de su organización y explotación

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múltiple, en cuyas posibilidades se encuentra la de orientar imágenes y contenidos como fuentes alternas de apoyo a la enseñanza y al aprendizaje.

Contractor: SECRETARÍA DE EDUCACIÓN PÚBLICA ‐ VIDEOTECA NACIONAL EDUCATIVA



Personnel: 5000

Contracts: 7000

Training: 3000

Equipment: 8000


InternationalManagementSymposium:ForAudiovisualArchives(IMS)Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: The IMS will be a unique opportunity for the international archival community to come together to discuss key management issues facing archives in a world affected by dynamically changing technical and political environments. This symposium is being planned as a three‐day event open to everyone in the field. The purpose of the IMS is to examine strategic planning opportunities as well as management challenges currently being faced by archives around the globe. The event is intended to meet an expressed need in the moving image and sound community and present an opportunity to discuss common issues and find possible solutions. Several national archives have readily offered up their institutions as case studies. This event has been tentatively scheduled to be held May 2006.

Contractor: Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA)



Personnel: 15000

Contracts: 0

Training: 0

Equipment: 5000


ICTforWomenJournalists(Pacific)Project status: Unfunded


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Cost (USD): 32650

Project summary: A short course in an ICT classroom with long‐term follow‐up to assist women journalists in the Pacific to make a great contribution to the media. To help them get their work published, and readily available in printed and electronic form. To give the women the ability to work as digital journalist, and in digital publishing. To start them on the road to understanding the changes to their professional duties and obligations involved in this wider horizon. On‐going research at AIBD indicates that most Asian and some Pacific women learn these skills faster and better in a gender specific group, where the cultural, social and religious issues of working with men do not arise. The course is designed to persuade women they can work with computers and the Internet and to teach or improve the basic skills and concepts needed. Follow‐up by email and blogs provides a means of affordable continued learning and advice as well as group support and international socialising on both a personal and professional level. It is proposed that a two weeks regional workshop for 10 participants from 6 Pacific countries be held in Suva, Fiji.

Contractor: Mr Javad Mottaghi



Personnel: 8200

Contracts: 3500

Training: 18000

Equipment: 0


MagazineForChildren'sFutureProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 0

Project summary: This project was inspired by the informational needs of two different groups of people: the orphans of Kazakhstan and the non‐kazakh adoptive parents of the Kazakh children. The main idea is creation of a quarterly paper‐based magazine for the adoptive parents of Kazakh children in the U.S., Europe and South Africa. The magazine will include articles about Kazakh culture, traditions, history, language, people, and other related topics, which, according to our survey, are of a great interest for the new parents who want to keep their child informed about his or her motherland. Our survey also showed that there are about 3500 of those parents, who are ready to buy the magazine and thus support the orphans. All profits generated from the magazine sales will be spent for Kazakhstani

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orphansâ€™ health and education needs. Particularly, our organization will use these funds to set up internet computer classes in the orphanages in the cities of Taraz and Merke, and will also sponsor emergency medical treatment for those orphans who need it. The uniqueness of the project is that we only need the budget for the first issue. After that, the revenues from the magazine sales will be supporting the establishment of the internet computer classes and the medical surgeries as well as the printing of the next issue. Thus, this project will continue indefinitely bringing much benefit to the all participants as long as there is an interest in it.

Contractor: Aizhan Batyrbekova



Personnel: 9000

Contracts: 16500

Training: 0

Equipment: 0


ICT4DCAMPAIGN&WORKSHOPSProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 65000

Project summary: The Youth Development & Entrepreneurship Foundation,a non profit making organisation that equips people ICT and Entrepreneurship skills globally. The Information Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) Campaign is a well thought out programs for youths and adults alike. The level of awareness and applications of ICT is still very low in most developing and third (3) world countries which necessitated the campaign. It is broadly divided into Two (2) Categories: Awareness & Orientation Training & Education The ICT Awareness & Orientation includes;constant conducting of seminars,conferences,summits,and workshops to introduce and create awareness on uses of ICT and how its applications can bring about positive results to the user. The Second Phase,is the conducting of training programs on all facets of ICT across the regions,with emphasis on software development,Engineering. The campaign will usher in innovation and invention .

Contractor: Youth Development & Entrepreneeurship Foundation (YDEF)


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Personnel: 10500

Contracts: 7000

Training: 21000

Equipment: 22500


MaprikandAngoramCommunityMulti‐purposeTeleCentresProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Papua New Guinea

Cost (USD): 22000

Project summary: Maprik town is located about 120 kilometres outside of Wewak, the provincial capital of East Sepik Province. It is a small town with a population of about 5,000 people. Most people there are government employees. The majority of the people commute into Maprik from rural villages surrounding the town. The only access to Maprik is about 4 hours drive by truck. Road condition is not very good and may take longer during wet season. Angoram town is located about 100 kilometres out of Wewak town. The only access there is by road. Due to the very poor road condition, it takes about three hours to drive to Angoram. During wet season, the road is impassable and is only accessible by 4‐wheel drive vehicle. The World Bank in collaboration with ITDG of England and HELP Resources recently completed a survey on Rural Electrification for Angoram. The survey results also highlights lack of proper communication and information services and a major contributing factor to low level educational, health and economic opportunities of the town and district as a whole. The purpose of the initiative is to make a range of information services, including new Information and Communications Technology, readily available to the people in rural areas of Maprik and Angoram Districts of East Sepik Province. The Goal is to give the opportunity to rural people (small business people, teacher, health workers, administrators, community leaders) especially women, to have access to Information and Communication services such as internet, phone, fax services to carry out rural focused economic, social or educational activities that will lead to improved standard of living.

Contractor: Christopher Maingu



Personnel: 5000

Contracts: 4000

Training: 1000

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Equipment: 10000


SisterSchoolsTokelauProgrammeProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: New Zealand

Cost (USD): 40000

Project summary: Establishment of an online learning community, using interactive web community tools, for primary schools of Tokelau and of South Wairarapa, New Zealand, supported by Tokelau Department of Education and Wairarapa REAP (Rural Education Activities programme). The purpose of the project is the online networking of schools and their wider communities to allow them to share resources, collaborate on projects of mutual interest, and to learn more about one another. Members of the learning community will be able to communicate, interact, collaborate, and network online. The project is designed to allow people in the remote developing Tokelau atolls, and some remote rural areas of New Zealand to have access to and to share educational advantages enjoyed by wealthier developed countries of the region.

Contractor: Tokelau Dept of Education



Personnel: 15000

Contracts: 0

Training: 10000

Equipment: 10000


ComparativeAssessmentoftheArchivingofScientificObservationalDatainScientificAgenciesinSoutheastAsianRegionProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 34400

Project summary: There are a number of agencies that serve as “watch dogs” in the scientific community. Weather bureaus, research agencies, observatories, radars, environmental monitoring stations, just to name a few. The data being gathered by these organizations reflect both the organization and chaos of our world. According to the International Council of Science, scientific

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agencies like these should develop institutional repositories for the preservation and dissemination of their data and endeavors. Thus, the development and use of institutional archives should be supported.This project aims to study the status of the archiving of scientific observational data as practiced by the different scientific agencies in the Southeast Asian region. This initiative will try to define a policy framework in archiving scientific observational data and to establishing a network of their repositories in Southeast Asian region.

Contractor: Manila Observatory, Philippines



Personnel: 7600

Contracts: 0

Training: 22500

Equipment: 3000


ComputerizationofpubliclibrariesinthePhilippines:AworkshoponCDS‐ISISandtheInternetProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Philippines

Cost (USD): 24800

Project summary: In a large percentage, access to information in the Philippines is limited within the four walls of a library and education is limited to those who can afford to be in a university. The advent of information and communication technology has provided an alternative to the information society. Information has become more accessible and available.The Philippines has 861 public libraries distributed in the country’s 13 different regions. These local libraries contain each region’s documentary heritage. Collection of national value that is not known to the Philippines and the world.UNESCO’s free library software, CDS‐ISIS has given the libraries a new means to manage their collection in a most efficient way. However, the benefits of the software cannot reach its full potential if the librarians where national heritage resides do not understand it or how to make use of.Training on CDS‐ISIS and the Internet will be given to public librarians in each region of the Philippines. This will be a traveling workshop where the aim is to teach as many librarians there are in specific region.After the training, trainees will then create their own CDS‐ISIS library system and link their catalogs to an online union catalog.

Contractor: Department of Library Science, Graduate School, University of the East, Philippines


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Personnel: 7800

Contracts: 0

Training: 14000

Equipment: 0


InformationTrainingontheUseofaDocumentationandStorageSysteminRemoteSensingandGeographicInformationSystem(RS‐GIS)DataProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 33600

Project summary: Earth observing satellites play an important role in the study and evaluation of the state of the environment. The use of data from remote sensing satellites has been increasing for it provides the basis for environmental management. Recently satellite images have provided us with the extent of degradation of the countries hit by the recent tsunami.However, the integration of RS‐GIS based data is a demanding task. The project aims to create an organized documentation and storage system for RS‐GIS related data using the Marine Information and Data Archive System (MIDAS). MIDAS was initiated in 1999 by University of the Philippines Marine Science Institute (UPMSI) and the DOST‐PCAMRD under the South China Sea Research program. After the project ended, MIDAS was maintained by the Marine Science Institute getting support from various projects and agencies. The software has been proven efficient; however, there is a further need to develop it.Training using this software will be conducted to the researchers of the Manila Observatory (MO), a non‐profit scientific research institution that conducts urban poverty and environmental baseline, modeling, and planning studies RS‐GIS techniques. Preserving all of the accumulated data is vital for change detection studies to be conducted. A documentation and storage system will facilitate information flow and collaborative work among researchers and would ensure uniform treatment of data regardless of changes in data handlers. This training would not only benefit the organization but would also serve as an evaluation of the said software. After the pilot testing, evaluation and writing of report, another training will be set involving participants from Sri Lanka, Thailand, India, and Indonesia‐‐‐the countries heavily damaged by the recent tsunami.

Contractor: Manila Observatory, Philippines



Personnel: 7300

Contracts: 7400

Training: 15000

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Equipment: 2600


CommunityLibrariesProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 0

Project summary: My name is Ashwin Vissa and I am studying architecture at the School of Architecture, Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT), Ahmedabad. I am currently working on my research thesis, which is tentatively titled “ Understanding the Nature of Public Spaces in a Traditional Context.” My interest in this project was first initiated about a year ago, when I was working on a design project that was based in a suburb of Chennai called Thiruvanmayur. The project was geared towards providing the residents of one particular locality with viable community spaces, basic amenities and usable public spaces that were sorely missing. As a student of architecture, a primary concern of mine was the fact that in the city of Chennai there hardly seemed to exist any spaces in the public domain of a relatively small community that could be classified as “public spaces” that could serve as nodes for public gathering and interaction. Among other things, the architectural program also envisaged the making of a public “reading room” that would serve as an access point for literature for the members of the community around, as well as the students of the three primary schools in the area that did not have their own libraries. Having graduated from a well established school in the city, as a student I always took for granted the many facilities and amenities that were provided for us by the school. Therefore, it came as quite a surprise to me that there were actually schools in Chennai that did not have many of the facilities that most of us did not even deign to think twice about. This project was born out of that need that was noticed in this one particular locality in Chennai. It is hoped that this project can be set up as a pilot project that can pave the way for many other similar projects in other neighbourhoods in Chennai that face the same problem.

Contractor: Ashwin Vissa



Personnel: 2000

Contracts: 4000

Training: 2000

Equipment: 5000


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ImprovingLabourInformationServicesinMongoliaProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 24500

Project summary: The proposed project activities aimed to address the problems of lack of very important job related information by poor and unemployed and inequality of information among poor and reach in terms of job opportunities existing among poor and reach in Mongolia. The project goal is directly supports the policy priority of Government of Mongolia and major donors around Economic Growth Support and Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper in terms of developing non‐governmental initiatives to promote labour related information research and service provision in Mongolia. In order to address these problems the proposed project plans to establish the consolidated and single labour information database and information distribution channels at the selected libraries in Mongolia, and train and build capacity among specialised labour information professionals for the purpose of improved information creation, collection, management and delivery of job opportunities to the most needy people. As a result of implementation of the proposed project there will be a number of benefits emerging to the Mongolian society in terms of the following: • Improved equity among users of the most valuable job related information access; • Established institutional framework for partnership for creating, managing and distributing labour information to users; and • Finally, contribution to the reduction of unemployed and poor people in Mongolia. The project will be sustainable in future both in terms of financial and instutitonal sense as the operational income from job advertisement and established capacity within involved libraries will be institutionalised.

Contractor: Mongolian Education and Social Development Centre



Personnel: 3800

Contracts: 6200

Training: 9000

Equipment: 3000


MultiPurposeTeleCenter(MPTC)Project status: Unfunded


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Cost (USD): 23700

Project summary: Development of a society largely depends on the access to information. The flow of information from and towards the poorest should increase, if poverty is to be reduced. ICTs greatly facilitate the flow of information and knowledge offering the socially‐marginalised and the poorest of the poor unprecedented opportunities to assert their own entitlements. It is in this context, ICTs are now widely recognised as a powerful tool to tackle poverty. The claim that the ICTs can lead to a greater access to information is based on the principle of unlimited access to information and equal participation by all kinds of people. Multi Purpose Tele Center (MPTC) will be the physical access center for the local communities to obtain information and support. The project will establish 1 center at Chittagong area with internet technology to collect & disseminate information, network and partnership development. Integration of services will be the key strategy of the project and introducing Income Generating Information services to make the center financially viable. Various alternative service delivery channels will be used in the center to disseminate information to the local communities. Services will be covered through the MPTC including education, awareness, enterprise development, citizen services and health advices.

Contractor: Shahid Uddin Akbar



Personnel: 3800

Contracts: 5900

Training: 4000

Equipment: 4300


ConservationandLivelihoodsinBhutanthroughEquitableAccesstoInformationProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: Royal Society for Protection of Nature (RSPN) is the first and only national non‐profit NGO (non‐government organization) in Bhutan working in the field of environmental conservation. Since its establishment in 1987, it has evolved as a complementary partner to the Royal Government in its endeavours to conserve Bhutan’s rich natural resource base. Its conservation strategies now include awareness building, environmental education, species conservation and promoting alternatives to solve environmental problems. Communications and Information Unit of RSPN, Thimphu Bhutan support the organization in terms of advocacy, materials development, data management and dissemination programs and activities through

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newsletters, website, annual reports, publications, leaflets, posters and educational materials which are distributed freely to the people. It also maintains a vast network of nature clubs and members in schools, institutions and other individuals and organizations. In order to maximize participation of the general public especially 79 percent of the total population of Bhutan who lives in the rural areas, the proposed project strives to strengthen awareness about the importance of information of all kinds such as, traditional/ indigenous knowledge on environment and socio‐cultural practices to be disseminated to the present and future generations. This will be done through collection of information from various ethnic communities, elderly group of people, village medicine men and other local experts and scientists. This will be further produced as audio–visual illustrations, leaflets, manuals, journals and publications to be utilized for awareness campaigns, workshops and trainings on preservation to the general public.

Contractor: Sonam Dorji, Communication Officer



Personnel: 5500

Contracts: 2500

Training: 12000

Equipment: 4000


ModelingtheInteractionofMolecularOxygenwithTransitionMetalsinMildConditions–UnderstandingtheKeyElementsforMimickingBiologicalSystemsinCatalysisandEnvironmentProtectionProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 33200

Project summary: In biological systems, the interaction and subsequent transfer of molecular oxygen by enzymes, containing transition metal cations, is a highly selective and energetically favorable process. On the contrary, industrial processes, involving transition metal compounds as catalysts, are much less selective. High loadings of the active component, containing a transition metal are needed, which poses serious threat towards the environment. The goal of our study is to gain insight in the interaction of oxygen with transition metals in terms of molecular and electronic structure by molecular simulations. Further, to understand how the role of the enzyme and protein environment can be mimicked by an inorganic surrounding so as to “host” the active site with the transition metal center and promote activity and selectivity in

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oxidation. For this purpose, various zeolite environments will be studied, both theoretically and experimentally. Simulation studies will be performed with high‐level quantum‐chemistry methods. Experimental characterization of synthesized materials will be performed by infrared and Raman spectroscopy. The spectral studies will serve as a marker, whether a desired environment, proposed by theoretical methods can be really achieved. More specifically, the 3d transition elements will be addressed, i.e. scandium, titanium, vanadium, chromium, manganese, iron, cobalt, and nickel.

Contractor: Ellie L. Uzunova, Assoc. Prof. Dr.



Personnel: 1400

Contracts: 3000

Training: 8800

Equipment: 16500


CommunityInformationCenterWebportalProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Cambodia

Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: In late December 2002, Open Forum of Cambodia, a local non‐governmental organization, had received grant from USAID through The Asia Foundation under an agreement (FSN 374) to support the establishment of the first Khmer‐language Web portal (www.cambodiacic.org) entitled “Community Information Centers for Democracy and Development”, providing greater access to information and communications for teachers, students and organizations in the provinces. The Website serves as the information resource center or an online library, with updating educational and informative materials in daily manner. So far, more than 10.000 web pages of information were stored in database, facilitating users to search for. After carrying out this project until now, there are supports from students, civil servants, teachers both in country and abroad, especially teachers and students living in provinces. Enhancing communication and education through electronic technology called mailing lists in Khmer. Funding for this project (from October 01, 2004 to September 31, 2005) has been cut 50% due to internal policy of USAID on all USAID‐funded projects. As as result, the CIC web portal would have to reduce its scope of content to focus mainly on SMEs and Commune council. Therefore additional funding is needed to maintain and to develop the portal to continue to ensure educational information and the variety of contents in order to provide the people, especially teachers and students in provinces better access to

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information and educational materials.

Contractor: Open Forum of Cambodia



Personnel: 9800

Contracts: 6000

Training: 6000

Equipment: 1200


DevelopmentofaguideforestablishingtheElectronicDataInterchange(EDI)frameworkservingtheInformationSocietyofVietnamProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: Our world is entering a new era of the future Society, which has been named in various ways: the information society, digitized economy, knowledge‐based economy… But whatever name is given, the future Society will definitely have the Knowledge‐based foundation. The risk of being left behind is increasing when the gap of the scientific and technological knowledge is widening. The inequality in accessing and sharing information has presented developing and under‐developed countries with the very difficult tasks of self‐ reforming to build the capacity needed to absorb the existing huge treasure of knowledge to overcome backwardness and then actively participate in creating new knowledge. The Government of Vietnam has decided to speed up the country’s industrialization, modernization so that Vietnam will basically become an industrial country by 2020. This means the economy will shift from the backward condition with low productivity, efficiency and based mainly on manual agricultural production methods to industrial production with high productivity, efficiency and is based on the latest scientific and technological advances. Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is a technology which provides standard formats to exchange data in an electronic environment. EDI solves the problem of sharing data between disparate operating systems, applications and computers, facilitating the establishment and the development of e‐Government and e‐Commerce. The development of a guide for establishing an EDI Framework serving the Information Society will set out the government’s technical policies and specifications for achieving interoperability and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) systems coherence across the public

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sector. The project will define the essential prerequisites for joined‐up and web‐enabled government and businesses. It is a cornerstone policy in the overall ICT applications strategy in Vietnam.

Contractor: Ms. Nguyen Thuy Nhi



Personnel: 0

Contracts: 15000

Training: 8000

Equipment: 0


TrainingandCapacityBuildinginUtilisationandIntegrationofICTsinSchoolCurriculumontheCopperbeltofZambiaProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: This proposal is the culmination of discussions held by teachers, lecturers and information professionals during educational seminars in and outside Zambia, which pointed to the need for equipping them with ICT skills and building capacity for integration of ICTs in the school curriculum. The project overall goal is to enhance the quality and standards of teaching and learning environment through the use of ICT based resources in schools as espoused in the National Strategic Plan (2003‐2007). The project specifically aims at training and capacity building of teachers and pupils in use and integration of ICTs in school curriculum. Project activities will include organizing training workshops in ICTs integration and utilisation; production of ICT‐based teaching and learning resources, and their distribution and application in selected schools on the Copperbelt. A Knowledge Fair and TV/Radio Programme will be held to exchange experiences in ICT use, strengthen awareness and promote understanding of the development implications of ICTs. Project benefits will include empowerment of teachers and pupils with life‐long ICT skills, modernized teaching and learning environment, enhanced sharing of information and resources, equitable access to teaching and learning resources. This national project will be based on the principles of gender equality, non‐discrimination, sustainability and ownership.

Contractor: e‐Brain Forum Copperbelt Chapter



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Personnel: 5000

Contracts: 5000

Training: 12500

Equipment: 1500


InformationTechnologyLiteracyforGovernmentOfficialsinSupportofE‐GovernanceinCaspianRegionProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 35000

Project summary: In line with booming market‐oriented economy in countries in the Caspian region that covers Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan ‐ The governments are moving toward applying E‐governance. ‐ However due to IT illiteracy of majority of governmental officials, government authorities are seeking international expertise in resolving the problems of IT illiteracy.. ‐ Some statistic findings show that 80 % of government officials are under IT illiteracy in the region. ‐ Such poor rate of Information Technology Literacy may jeopardize the opportunities of introducing internet government, thereby hindering democratic governance in the countries. The project is intended to: ‐ set up curricula and tools on IT literacy for government officials in line with local needs, taking into account the “European Computer Driving License” proposed by EU. ‐ organize training courses for national IT literacy trainers to conduct local training for their own needs. ‐ establish a network covering leading training institutions namely i) Regional Academy of Online Network Governance and System Administration (RAONGSA) in Azerbaijan ii) "SIBIS" Information Service Center in Turkmenistan, iii) Innovation Teaching Centre of Tbilisi State University, in Georgia, iv) The Institute of Informatics and Control Problems in Kazakhstan This would lead to government investments in IT literacy training for government officials and contribute to the building of knowledge societies in the region.

Contractor: Baku Scientific and Training Centre



Personnel: 12000

Contracts: 15000

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Training: 3000

Equipment: 2500


E‐learningInitiativeinEnvironmentalSustainabilityProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: International experience shows that using Information Communication Technology (ICT) in Environmental sustainability awareness and education is an innovative and cost‐effective strategy. During the last few years, Internet access in Ulaanbaatar and other cities of Mongolia has been rapidly increasing. Young people’s need and interest in the Internet for their daily life is growing. To date, more than 300 Internet cafes provide community Internet service in Ulaanbaatar, Darkhan and Erdenet and even in countryside the access to the Internet is increasing. These Internet cafes have become attractive and friendly places where young people meet and socialize. Some ICT private companies, like “Pixel”, provide internet access in the local language for Mongolians living and studying abroad. Everyday, they have more than 11,000 Mongolian visitors from different countries and Mongolia, providing on‐line information and other services to them. The progress of ICT development, greater availability of Internet access, and our community needs provide us with a good opportunity to integrate ICT in to Environmental Sustainability awareness and education in Mongolia. Through this strategy, we can connect government and non‐government agencies, local communities and those abroad. In addition, this proposed project would contribute to public‐private‐civil society partnerships in Environmental Sustainability. This project is designed to follow‐up UN decade of sustainable development education through using ICTs approaches.

Contractor: International Institute for Future, Mongolia



Personnel: 3500

Contracts: 6000

Training: 8000

Equipment: 5000


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EasyofficeProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: We propose to publish 2 books and 8 hour video lessons for Microsoft Office?s usage and make them available for school children, students, and general computer users. Needs: Mongolian new government which had been established in 2004 year, launched a programm called “E‐Mongolia”. It’s slogan is “A computer and internet in every family”. Moreover, there are other reasons like shortage of studying materials in Mongolian language for computer application and shortage of computer teachers especially in rural areas. Our intention For above metioned needs, we are proposing to produce following self studying materials as a teachers’ backup to strenthern computer usage. ¹ Studying materials Quantity 1 Word2003 (4 hour video lesson) 1 2 Excel2003 (4 hour video lesson) 1 3 Text book on Word2003 1 4 Text book on Excel2003 1 Our methodology Video lessons: Make it systematically easier to understand guided by simple live examples using computers and video effecs. Books: We are planning to do books, contents of which is shown by picture and color effects so that it gets easier to capture working flow and understand even without a computer. Time limit: Based on our circumstances, we can tell, we will finish 8 hour video lessons and two books on Microsoft Office within one year if we have got financial support for apparature, publishing, copying VCD,DVD and deliver for users.

Contractor: INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR FUTURE



Personnel: 1500

Contracts: 12000

Training: 1000

Equipment: 10000


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Women'sUniversityinAfricaGenderLibraryProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: The Women’s University in Africa aims to become a leading institution in Africa in the field of gender studies. As a newly established institution, WUA has a focus on the Millennium Development Goal of making tertiary education available to all by 2015. WUA also supports the MDG on gender parity and the main accent of this project is the formation of the WUA Gender Library to serve as a first point of information for staff and students of the University and other local professionals. This project views technology as a tool with which to achieve social development goals, not an end in itself. It is a useful tool with which to improve the management and exchange of information, dispelling myths associated with gender issues, empowering women to take more control over their lives and sensitise males to the predicaments affecting women. By adding to the information base available, WUA will anticipate more reasoned and appropriate debate and research in the field of gender studies. In the longer term the Zimbabwe nation and ultimately the African region would have access to the collection and benefit from debate and policy that it would impact upon.

Contractor: Women's University in Africa (Ms Rosie Mercer)



Personnel: 5420

Contracts: 700

Training: 1430

Equipment: 8870


Theschoolofinformation‐communicationtechnologiesforpubliclibrariesofthåCentralAsiaProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 35000

Project summary: The National library of the Republic of Kazakhstan being led by priority tasks before it and namely: the raising of educational level of population, scientific‐technological and cultural development of society through the widening of possibilities of informational exchange at the international, national and regional levels, chose the category proposed by you ‐ information literacy. The National library of the Republic of Kazakhstan being led by the Universal

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declaration of human rights and also by the UNESCO priorities in the sphere of communication and information, expressed in its medium‐term strategy for 2002‐2007 (31 C‐4), sets the goal before itself for the developing of possibilities and participation in the formation of the informational policy in the Central Asian region and also rendering educational services on information‐communication technologies, renders access to knowledge firstly in the public domain. Taking into account the global problems of the millennium, the National library of the RK sets before itself the objective to be conducive to the rasing of quality of life and development of global partnership. Supporting the principles of the World Summit of Informational Society, the National library of the RK set the spheres for action: the development of information‐communication infrastructure, rendering of access to information and knowledge, the capacity building of information professionals. The concrete task is the organization of the school for the informal teaching of information‐communication technologies for library workers and also the creation of affiliates of the given school in the Central Asian republics. The expected results: the training of methodologies of qualification upgrading of library workers in the ICT sphere for instructors from the Central Asia, thus there will be created the own group of instructors by the given sphere. After the trainings held which are planned 4 in number by 2 modules in each by its summaries there will be held the monitoring by the UNESCO/Almaty cluster office in close cooperation with the Supervising Council and the members of the Cetral Asian region network. The instructors of the trainings will be the UNESCO/Almaty cluster office (S.Karpov) and the Bangkok UNESCO bureau (the compiler of the ICT course for libraries). The trainings are planned from May to October 2005.

Contractor: Auezov Murat Mukhtarovich



Personnel: 5000

Contracts: 5000

Training: 15000

Equipment: 3000


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InternetforAllâ€“Georgia(IFAâ€“Georgia)Project status: Unfunded

Region/country: Georgia

Cost (USD): 22000

Project summary: Project is proposed to develop and implement full localized, internationalized and globalized Internet package (browser, e‐mail agent, web‐editor, chat, etc.) for Georgia. It also aims (and focused) to provide the full access (filling meaningful language gap) to ALL population of the country to the internet. Project is considered as the part of the global initiative which intents invention and implementation of new localized tools for the different ICT. Main objective is to give possibility to population of Georgia with language barriers participate in global information society and share information locally and globally.

Contractor: Georgian Information and Communication Technologies (NGO)



Personnel: 4000

Contracts: 15500

Training: 0

Equipment: 2500

Miscellaneous: 0 0

GeneratingandDistributingPeerHIV/AIDSAwarenessMaterialandPromotingLetterWritingSkillsandThroughaNationalHIVAIDSLetterWritingCompetition.Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 32000

Project summary: The Botswana National Library Service provides the nation access to information and promotes its utilisation, for information literacy, promotion of research, and for personal and national development. This drives the nation’s vision of an Educated and Informed nation, and emergence of an HIV /AIDS‐free generation by 2016. The HIV / AIDS scourge threatens realisation of this vision. The project will promote literacy, develop communication skills, and enhance HIV / AIDS awareness. It involves a letter writing competition, aimed at the pre‐ and early teens including school dropouts. It requires letters to be submitted in Setswana and English. Four to five hundred entries are expected. Rules for the competition will require details of information sources used. Public and school libraries will be requested to enable participants’ search for necessary information.

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Participants would have to show knowledge of the HIV/ AIDS circle, from infection to full‐blown. Letters could address a parent / sibling or peer to warn them of risky behaviour. Creativity will be rewarded. Fifty winning letters (making two booklets – English and Setswana) will be published and distributed to widely across the nation. Winners and their institutions will receive prizes. Participation should empower pupils to talk openly about HIV / AIDS.

Contractor: Botswana National Library Service (MBaffour‐Awuah submitting )



Personnel: 0

Contracts: 13000

Training: 0

Equipment: 0


DEVELOPMENTOFAUGANDALOCALLANGUAGEINSTRUCTIONRESOURCEBASEProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: Uganda is located in the middle of the Great Lakes region of Africa and lies astride the equator with a population estimated at over 26 million in the year 2005. It shares borders with Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan and boasts of a rich diverse natural resource base, a variety of agro‐ecological climates and ample rainfall in about three quarters of the country. It is in the midst of a remarkable transformation following years of turmoil in the seventies and early eighties. The National Resistance Army took over power in 1986 and implemented a recovery programme that quickly turned the economy around and overall economic growth has averaged 6.5% over the past 16 years. Despite this achievement, however, Uganda is still rated among the poorest countries in the world with 35% of people living below the poverty line by 2000. Due to the period of insecurity in the north that has lasted nearly 20 years, the proportion of people living in poverty in the north now stood at a high 66% in the year 2000. EDUCATION OF CITIZENS AS A MEASURE TO FIGHT ABSOLUTE POVERTY The government of the Republic of Uganda recognized the value of education of its citizens as a vehicle to fuel development and fight absolute poverty among the population that is currently dependant on subsistence agriculture to a level of over 80%.

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In a foundation study, the government instituted an educational review commission whose results were published in the Uganda Education White Paper of 1992. TEN YEAR EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT PLAN ESIP 1992‐2002 There ensued a number of programmes initiated to implement the recommendations of the white paper among them were reforms in the Education Strategic Investment Programme (ESIP I) 1992 ‐ 2002 Under this programme is the now famous Universal Primary Education (UPE) initiative has been implemented for the past eight years since 1997. This provided free education and has served as one of the key strategies in the achievement of the Education For All (EFA) goals. Due to the increase in enrolment, there was a risk of lowering the quality of education delivery due to drastic increases in the pupil teacher ratios beyond manageable sizes. Accordingly, interventions under the ESIP were made in the Primary Education and Teacher Development Project (PETDP) to boost the training and recruitment of teachers under the sub‐project Teacher Development and Management System (TDMS) while the School Facilities Grant (SFG) boosted infrastructure by building more classrooms and teachers houses. NEW TEN‐YEAR EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT PLAN ESSP 2004‐2014 While under ESIP, increased access, and gender parity to primary education have been achieved, the new ten‐year development plan code‐named Education Sector Strategic Plan (ESSP) (2004‐2014) will focus on sustaining the achievements in primary education access while strengthening quality and extending new support to secondary education as well. STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE QUALITY IN EDUCATION, 2005 Under new strategies to improve quality education, government has instituted reforms in the Primary School Curriculum beginning January 2005. The reforms entail, among others, that a pupil acquires the basic competencies at each grade level and at the end of the primary cycle a pupil should have acquired the required competencies in literacy, numeracy and life skills. The reforms will give separate attention to lower and upper primary. Primary 1 to 3 will have a separate curriculum with its aims and objectives. It will be restructured to put greater emphasis on the development of literacy, numeracy and life skills. LOCAL LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION Furthermore, it was recommended to institute suitable Local Language of Instruction (LOI) as a measure of increasing quality in the delivery of lower primary education in rural schools, while English will be used in urban centers. Testing in rural schools in subjects other than English shall be done in the local language of instruction. Teachers in service will have to undergo an in‐service course to enable them handle lower primary while those joining teachers’ colleges fresh shall be introduced to lower primary methods. DEVELOPMENT OF A UGANDA LOCAL LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION RESOURCE BASE The proponents of this project know of new local language support material that is in various stages of research / production at Makerere University that can be tapped to support the development of LOI materials for the lower primary sub‐sector. Accordingly, this proposal plans to establish a Local

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Language of Instruction Resource Center to facilitate the creation of content for instruction materials by target teachers and publishers. The recommended subjects include Agriculture, Integrated Production Skills, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Religious Studies and Local Languages. The resource center will develop resources to support authors in the development of content initially for two regions, namely Central and Northern Regions as pilot. The Western and Eastern regions will be served later to benefit from the lessons learnt in the first phase.

Contractor: KITYO GALIWANGO MICHAEL & PAULO EDWARD MUGAMBI



Personnel: 12400

Contracts: 3000

Training: 3000

Equipment: 3600


DIGITALISATIONOFMEDIAARCHIVESINTHECENTRALAFRICASUBREGIONProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: Two of the countries of the subregion targeted in the project have experienced persistent civil wars over the last two decades. These unstable political situation have ruined democracy and development of the various sectors of the countries including the information and communication sector. Understandably, the media has an influential role to play in national development especially in conflict prevention and resolution through disemination of vital information on human rights and democratic governance. The media organs in this countries do not dispose of archival systems through which vital information material could be preserved. Hundred of hours of recorded material are in reel tapes, audio cassettes and which are presently in a poor state and deteriorating.Accessibility is poor due to lack of appropriate cataloguing and adequate shelving. Digitalisation, which is aim of this project aims at resolving the problems of programme preservation in media organs in the three countries (Cameroon, Chad and Central African Republic) of the sub region. Through this digitalisation multiple copies can be reproduced in formats that are more durable in the tropical environment with harsh weather conditions and with the possibility of the data being copied or transfered into nex generation formats without any information loss.

Contractor: MR. Bernard HADJADJ, DIRECTOR


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Personnel: 3500

Contracts: 1500

Training: 25000

Equipment: 14000


Thevirtualshow‐roomofBulgarianandItaliancultural/archeologicalheritageasacultural‐bridgeandinformationpreservationtoolProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 41600

Project summary: The aim of the proposed project is to organize a systematic storage and display of cultural/archeological heritage on the Internet. A pilot virtual show‐room of the cultural/archeological heritage of the North‐Eastern part of Bulgaria and the region of Salerno, Italy shall be implemented as the first stage of a number of cultural‐bridge‐building activities. The steady trend of internationalization requires a global economic and social cohesion. This process would be impossible without the establishment of sustainable intercultural bridges, helping people to recognize, understand, respect and become interested in other nations’ cultures, and thus become more and more inclined to exchange experience, know‐how, success‐formulas. Scheduled activities: systematic gathering, storing and displaying digital content/information (photos, videos, explanatory texts) on the cultural/archeological heritage of Bulgarian and Italian regions through a dedicated web‐site; carrying out a world‐wide promotional campaign on the project developments and results; and establishing a strategy for continuation of the project activities on the basis of broadened partnerships. Considering the insufficiency of systematically gathered, stored and virtually displayed content on cultural/archeological heritage, the 2005 priorities and focus of IFAP and the importance and applicability of modern ICT, the activities proposed under the project give an adequate response to a clearly identifiable problem.

Contractor: Zinev Art Technologies Ltd.



Personnel: 18600

Contracts: 7000

Training: 4000

Equipment: 4000

Miscellaneous: 8000

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LocalizingKnowledgeSocieties:BuildingInformationCapacityinMarginalizedCommunitiesProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: The project will develop and pilot a programmatic tool to build the capabilities of remote communities to identify the community’s most essential information needs and flows, and to access, manage (organize, store), understand, use and share information which will meet these needs. The tool will be developed through participatory learning processes in ‘information literacy and skills’ in remote and marginalized communities among information and knowledge agents. The project will identify a total of six locations in remote areas of the Philippines, the hill state of Uttaranchal in India and at least one other location, with existing locally designed initiatives. In selected pilot locations, the project will support appropriate infrastructure development – computers, CD‐based materials, internet connectivity ‐ in collaboration with the local and national groups. The project will build on lessons learned from an on‐going IFAP project (Building and Enhancing Information Networks between Local Communities/2004/UNESCO NDL), particularly in terms of the development of participatory information capacity building tools and curricula. The project will collaborate with UNESCO’s enthnographic action research and innovation network on ICT for poverty reduction evaluation. For more information : ∙ Ethnographic Action Research. ∙ Innovations for Poverty Reduction ∙ Profiles and Experiences in ICT Innovation for Poverty Reduction . The project will also contribute to more equitable flows of locally relevant information, as well as local linkages to external information sources and other networks.

Contractor: UNESCO Asia‐Pacific Regional Bureau for CI (on behalf of project partners)



Personnel: 0

Contracts: 13000

Training: 12000

Equipment: 10000


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HowtobenefitfromITliteracyProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 35000

Project summary: IT literacy is like a piece of fertile soil. You can wait for something to grow on it or you cultivate it in a systematic way. This project promotes the later. The first part of the project is a series of two‐weeks workshops for broadcasters in six AIBD member countries. During the workshops the broadcasters analyse and improve their systematic use of IT in order to improve their business. The practical experience and material from the workshop can be used by the broadcasters to produce national programmes on the subject. Mainly local IT staff attend to these workshops. Journalists and Producers only attend occasionally in the first part. The second part of the project is a one‐week follow‐up workshop in Kuala Lumpur. Here producers present their (newly created) programmes on the subject and exchange ideas among each others to further promote IT literacy in their countries. Mainly Journalists and Producers attend to the second part. This part is not limited to the broadcasters from part one. Due to its special status as an inter‐governmental organisation, the Asia‐Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD) has the necassary contacts and the necassary long‐term experience in setting up, running and evaluating such a project.

Contractor: Winfried Trumper



Personnel: 500

Contracts: 0

Training: 33300

Equipment: 1200

Miscellaneous: 0 0

AIFTIC:AlphabétisationInitiationdesFemmesauxTechniquesdel'InformationetdelaCommunicationProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Senegal

Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: Ce projet souscrit aux programmes nommés "Information pour tous" , "Accés universel pour tous" de la conférance générale de l'UNESCO à sa 31e session : Ainsi l'AJD PASTEEF conscient de cet enjeu majeur qui préocuppe tous les acteurs de développement a décidé d'initier un projet d'alphabétisation et d'initiation à l'outils informatique.

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ce projet permettra à 300 femmes cibles d'être alphabétisées en Français et initiées à l'utilisation de l'outil informatiques et un renforcement de leurs capacités . Ce projet sera localisé dans deux régions du Senegal (Dakar département de Guédiawaye, Thiés commune de thiés).

Contractor: Association des jeunes pour le Développement AJD PASTEEF



Personnel: 12000

Contracts: 3333

Training: 2583

Equipment: 7084

Miscellaneous: 83 0

SettingupofacenterofinformationandcommunicationinruralenvironmentofMadagascarProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 24500

Project summary: To bridge the divide and connect the remainder of the world’s population whose livelihoods can be enhanced through ICTs is the urgent challenge of the development community . Developing country like Madagascar must actively embrace the ICTs revolution and will face barriers and the risk of not just being marginalized but completely bypassed. This project seeks to improve the level of knowledge of the rural population who could benefit from lessons learned and find their own approach to bringing ICTs to the service of their development. The setting up of a center of information is very important for the rural population especially the young people and femal . It is necessary to equip the center by computer materials to provide access to the Internet . It is a place of exchange of ideas and experiences between the young and also the women to improve their knowledge. There are also sessions of animations that people chose the topics to develop. Backings of capacity will be indispensable to have a maximum of efficiency for the staff personal and the rural population .

Contractor: Mialisoa Lalaina Razanapera



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Personnel: 8575

Contracts: 2450

Training: 4900

Equipment: 7350


StrengtheninginformationandknowledgenetworkingbythepoorintheBrazilianAmazon:usingICTstoenablelocalcontentandindigenousknowledgeexchangeProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 44000

Project summary: A key element of Information Poverty is the denial of communities’ own knowledge and accumulated experience and learning. So – paradoxically – the information poor are in fact very rich. However, they lack channels and tools, as well as capacities, to document and share their knowledge, and to assess and appropriate useful knowledge from elsewhere. Recent work by NGOs (e.g. M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation in India, Arid Lands Information Network in Kenya, Thai RuralNet in Thailand) has shown that the introduction of ICTs to existing networks can play a vital role in enabling the production and dissemination of local content by communities themselves, thereby empowering them to participate directly in the emerging knowledge society. The Amazon, a region of cultural and environmental diversity, is also a region with many active networks. However, their full potential for information and knowledge networking is not yet being exploited by their members, and they do not always reach out directly to their ultimate beneficiaries, poor communities. The large distances and relative lack of infrastructure in the Amazon mean that there are few experiences combining ICTs and knowledge networking. Through an international workshop to present best practice from other regions, this project proposes to link together and maximise the potential of existing Amazonian networks to create an enabling environment for local content production and dissemination by poor communities using ICTs, focusing specifically on the theme of livelihoods.

Contractor: Open Knowledge Network (an international network supporting local content creation and exchange by local people in local languages, using appropriate ICTs)



Personnel: 32000

Contracts: 1500

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Training: 6000

Equipment: 2000


"Media‐terraneum":partnershipsandtrainingsformediaprofessionalsacrosstheMediterraneanSea.Project status: Unfunded

Region/country: Morocco

Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: The recently liberalized regulatory framework for the audio‐visual space in Morocco, calls for the development of the capacities of an emerging generation of media professional. Trainings and international partnerships are surely themost effective means to build those capacities in order to guarantee freedom and democracy. Such partnerships must be built on the already existing relations that links Morocco with other countries, in order to best value their effects. To this regard, the Moroccan migrant community in Italy constitute a strong vector of cultural and economical exchanges between the North and South sides of the Mediterranean Sea. The project "Media‐terraneum" aims at the creation of a group of media professional in Khouribga, Morocco, the region of origin of most of the Moroccan migrants in Torino, Italy, for the production of local content to be diffused in Italy among the Moroccan migrants, through Italian community media. The group will be formed and trained by Italian media professionals in Morocco and will produce a newsletter and a radio program to be distributed locally and broadcasted in Italy, among the Moroccan community in Torino. The project will be deployed along one year and will be articulated in three components: training, content production, broadcasting.

Contractor: Paolo Palmerini, Cooperazione Internazionale ‐ COOPI



Personnel: 12000

Contracts: 4000

Training: 16200

Equipment: 9800


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WestAfricaComputerLearningandResourceCenter(WACLRC)ProjectProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 76000

Project summary: WACLRC will seek to provide affordable access of information and communication technology to all users. The project will be based in Washington, DC with a start‐up project in Sierra Leone. WACLRC will serve as a lifelong learning center for individuals of all ages and will emphasize the learning functions of its technological services. WACLRC will seek to improve the development of human capacity through computer‐assisted training, as a way of empowering people and bridging the digital divide. The aim of WACLRC is to equip people with the technological knowledge and skills set to help them develop the necessary sustainable progress for participation in the global economy. WACLRC will also seek to strengthen the awareness and benefits in the local communities of preservation of information through database creation and management. Special emphasis and encouragement will be placed on gender equality and the empowerment of women. At the outset, WACLRC will operate according to the following three strategies: (1) outreach programs to inform and familiarize potential users of the unlimited possibilities of ICTs; (2) services to make potential users aware of the services available at the center; and (3) basic computer training as a way of improving human capacity as well as part of an essential source of revenue.

Contractor: Matilda Macklin



Personnel: 25000

Contracts: 8000

Training: 5000

Equipment: 30000


STRENGTHENINGTHECAPACITYOFFEMALEJOURNALISTSINTHECENTRALAFRICANSUBREGIONProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: Concerted regional and quite often national efforts have been harnessed to reinforce national media organs in countries of the Central African subregion. Such efforts have quite often resulted in situations where the objectives earmarked could not be measurable, not been realisted and are not time‐bound. On the other hand, the sub region has been experiencing political instability with democratic institutions crumbling into historic relics.

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The media which has the shoulder the responsibility of contributing to restoration of democracy through conflict prevention by raising people's awareness on the ills of democratic mal‐governance, quite often fuels a culture of hate, intolerance, and blackmail. This results from a lack of professionalism which is exacerbated by the non mastery of the basic tenets journalism. With a new political dispensation being put in place in the Central African Republic and Chad on the one hand, and the relative progress made in fredom of the press and pluralism in the media, it is observed that the low level of professional standards in the countries of the sub region needs a new focus ‐ that of a gender‐focus capacity building for professionals of the media. The raison d'être for this gender focus is based on the relatively insignificant number of female journalists working in both the public and independent media in the sub region. Thus the cjhallenge here will not only be to focus training for female journalists but also to provide a leeway of encouraging more female journalists to take equally a place in building and information society accessible to all.

Contractor: BERNARD HADJADJ, DIRECTOR



Personnel: 2000

Contracts: 1500

Training: 30000

Equipment: 10000


EstablishmentofthefirstprivateradiostationinBhutanProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 50000

Project summary: The project will establish the first private radio broadcasting in Bhutan. This new channel while definitely providing an alternative and independent source of information, will however not compete with the existing national radio for listeners. It will rather compliment by focusing on youth and people who do not listen to radio. Studies have shown that the National Radio being developmental in nature, does not appeal to children and youth who have adopted a different taste, culture and attitude. Radio suffers in urban areas because of television and fairs even worse among youth and younger generation of Bhutanese. With 45% of Bhutan’s population being under 15, in a decade or so there will not be any radio listeners in Bhutan. As such, this station will address this serious and emerging problem with programming focused on youth issues, HIV/AIDS, unemployment and entertainment programs.

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Finally to achieve sustainability the station will also carry out programming that would bring revenue. This would also be in conformity with the Royal Government’s effort to boost the private sector. Programmes in this category will include radio spots, commercials and sponsored programmes such as transport information, traffic updates, hospital timings and other public service announcements.

Contractor: Pema Rinzin



Personnel: 6000

Contracts: 2000

Training: 7000

Equipment: 20000


COMMUNITYBROADCASTINGDIGITIZATIONProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: This pilot project is a follow‐up activity to the Zambia Community Media Forum (ZaCoMeF) project which Panos Southern Africa established in 2004 following a needs assessment undertaken in 2001. ZaCoMeF is currently coordinated from Panos premises in Lusaka the location of the ZaCoMeF secretariat. The Community Broadcasting Digitization project will strengthen community radio's role in the Information Society. There is need for community broadcasters to see to it that their potential as local content producers and disseminators of information to grass roots communities, which are usually unserved by the mainstream media, are exploited to the benefit of the communities they serve through the usage of information and communication technologies (ICTs). The project will enhance community radio journalists' skills in digital content creation, digital audio File Transfer Protocol (FTP) capability, Internet search etc. It will stimulate dialogue on community broadcasting digitization and facilitate understanding of, and community media advocacy, through ZaCoMeF, on issues affecting digital broadcasting in Zambia such as the political, legal, economic, ICT policy and regulatory issues, including taxation on digital broadcasting equipment.

Contractor: Panos Southern Africa



Personnel: 10000

Contracts: 5000

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Training: 3000

Equipment: 3000


“DOCUMENTATIONOFPOLISHHOMEARMY”Project status: Unfunded

Region/country: Poland

Cost (USD): 26900

Project summary: ABSTRACT Contradictory to the common belief many black pages of the World War II remain uncovered to the wide public and deprive new generations of their right to learn the truth about one of the most ruthless periods in the history of man‐kind. The story of patriotism, struggle for peace and democracy, social awareness and heroic determination reworded with repressions of the communist state now receives unique opportunity to be widely published and communicated to anyone who understands the importance of those still recent times. Polish Home Army was established as the military wing of the Polish Government in Exile. For several years this vast organisation ran civil war under double occupation of Nazi Germany and Soviet Union. At the same time the Army actively supported underground state organisation operating under extreme conditions. Hundreds of extraordinary individuals engaged by the Polish Home Army left thousands of historical pieces and huge heritage of archival materials of extreme value to the latest history of Europe. These unique collections resisted destructive efforts of communist authorities but still remain dispersed and hardly available. The project assumes establishing a consortium consisting of two public and one non‐governmental organisations powered by the latest innovations in the field of IT application development designed by Infogenia – leading provider of knowledge management solutions for cultural institutions. The organisations are in possession of several thousand museum pieces, over thirty thousand books and magazines as well as numerous personal files of soldiers, officials and collaborators fighting for one of the most spectacular resistance originations in the history. This proposal is filed in to guarantee the right preparation of the digitisation of those collections and online access to them through establishment of hardware and software infrastructure personalised for the sake of the long term project objectives. Except for financial burden of that side of process, the preparation will have also a scientific and methodology dimension provided by the studies of consortium expert’s workgroup. Increasingly critical factor of improving data management system will be enclosed in this carefully crafted project thanks to the professionalism and long‐time experience of its participants. Infogenia Company has extensively investigated possibilities of strengthening, complementing and enhancing

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archive accessibility. The long term scope of this initiative is to create easily reachable public platform of information on Polish Home Army and its dramatic history, the consortium will provide hardly available files to scientists, historians, scholar circles, combatants and anyone interested in learning facts which are difficult to find in history publications in Poland and in other countries. Programme’s double line activities will ensure maximum synergies of knowledge from both sides – the archivists and technology providers. All the parties are extremely dedicated to work for the scope of promoting wide access to information through libraries, museums, archives and schools. The higher goal of this enterprise is to preserve remaining proofs of nearly forgotten history and search for those which have never been shown so far. After the political transformation of the socialist block, we are offered unique chance to spread information about forgotten pieces of European history to people around the globe. The supreme social and educational benefits of such actions are undoubted. Project has been officially endorsed by Polish National Commission for UNESCO.

Contractor: Archive of New Records



Personnel: 0

Contracts: 15600

Training: 0

Equipment: 11300

Miscellaneous: 0 0

The100postersforchangeProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 32400

Project summary: The project titled “The 100 posters for change” is an interactive platform for spreading awareness about “key issues of social / cultural concern” through posters. These issue could be gender, access, education, health, civil infrasructure, access to information, access to instruments of self‐development, media space, creative/potential space etc. Today, India faces a wide range of such issues that need mass understanding and support. We want to reduce the cost of taking up an issue and creating mass awareness for it, so that more and more citizens are involved in the process. We want to distribute the cost of identifying and raising issues to a wider mass of people. This project can potentially give a voice to the national concerns perceived by thousands of individuals and organizations across the country.

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Additionally, we propose to do this through an organized, participative and community‐financed process. This will be a time‐bound project of 12 months. The project goal will be to produce and distribute the 100 posters in these 12 months and then release them in the public domain. Existing publications: http://www.crimsonfeet.org

Contractor: Alok Charitable Trust, reCut project



Personnel: 10000

Contracts: 4000

Training: 400

Equipment: 3000


Info4allProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 43500

Project summary: Gatherings of young, artistic people are to be held in smaller towns of the TFC region in southern Balkans, as sponsored by EBRD/EWI. Gatherings will be organized by the core group, in close association with local youth. The theme of the events will be increasing cultural and social awareness amongst youth in the area, to be facilitated by the free exchange of information on the internet. This aspect will be enable by a web site to be run by the core group, via live digital video at the gatherings, sustained by the web site.

Contractor: Martin Ilievski



Personnel: 10000

Contracts: 11250

Training: 12000

Equipment: 6250


GlobalWiktionaryProject(http://en.wiktionary.org)Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 45000

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Project summary: To create an international dictionary of words and phrases in both written and sound format. These will be presented as public domain and be accesible free of charge to any Internet user around the world. The collection of samples, including common and less common languages, will be done by volunteers working with local information specialists.

Contractor: The Wikimedia Foundation



Personnel: 12000

Contracts: 0

Training: 6000

Equipment: 20000


TheatreInInformationDisseminationProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 60000

Project summary: Quite a number of people at every age, both sex and every segment of the community are leading their lives with out the obtaining the right information concerning the basics of their day to day life. A significant portion of the society need to be informed about the need of the right information, has to raise questions, has to discuss the solution through a possible medium which he/she can obtain the right information at the right time. Theater as a language of communication, and as a medium of long lasting effect on the process of perception & life transformation, can inform to its audience, can arose discussion among the community, and can promote the subject matter efficiently. Makuria Theatre Studio & Entertainment, with its rich experience & reputations in the field of performing arts and theatre in development, is preparing for a theatre text, production and performances based on "Access for Information ‐ Knowledge". 8 performances of the production will be staged for both national & Regional audiences (5 performances in Ethiopia & 3 in Bagamoyo Tanzania, for the September 2005 Eastern Africa Art Festival.

Contractor: Abate Mekuria



Personnel: 4000

Contracts: 20000

Training: 25000

Equipment: 10000

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ECO‐EYEkidsProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 41600

Project summary: The project's goal is to create a Web portal with ecological subjects oriented at school children, e. i. youth. Texts would be pedagogically and didactically prepared, adjusted to children's age and designed in a modern fashion, attractive to the youth. The project would be mutual to three countries ‐ Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republic of Croatia, Republic of Serbia and Montenegro. Basic principles on which the project is based are: national, religious, cultural and every other tolerance, non‐violence, co operational relations, equality of languages, cooperative work on similar ideas, developing the sense that the care for the environment is mutual and it doesn't know state boundaries, and didactical developing of content in such a way that it fits the age and knowledge of children. Content‐wise, the most important thing would be reporting and raising awareness of the youth about the illegal and harmful changes to the environment, ecological similarities and differences between certain regions, raising the culture of living in these two states, and in this way reaching the environment care standards of Europe. The project would be lead by three Eco associations (one from each country), and three schools (one from each country). Main leader of the project would be Branko Šredl, B. Sc. Biology, higher educational advisor for nature and biology.

Contractor: Branko Šredl, B. Sc. Biology



Personnel: 19600

Contracts: 5000

Training: 6000

Equipment: 6000


Kid'sMediaClubofBhutanProject status: Unfunded


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Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: Bhutan opened to television and Internet in 1999. Although the Bhutanese population is now more informed from the exposure, studies have shown that in the last five years since the introduction, negative effects of television are beginning to appear in the society – especially among children and youth. Children are watching too much TV. Such trend could have long‐term irreversible effect on a country that once boasted of being the last Shangrila. On the other hand Bhutan’s only Internet Service Provider is still struggling to pass the piteous 10,000 subscribers mark thus widening the digital‐divide between Bhutan and the World. A media club that provides information literacy to children needs to be established in the capital city of Thimphu. The club will provide a learning environment to interact with the media as creators and critical viewers – while also learning the technical and creative aspects of ICT including traditional ICT such as TV. Kid’s Media Club will be an non governmental organisation. Initially around 200 children are expected to enrol with the club. If successful, the project will expand to schools in Thimphu that has a student population of 40,000, which is around one fifth of the total population of the country.

Contractor: Dorji Wangchuk



Personnel: 0

Contracts: 0

Training: 5000

Equipment: 18000


SEMINAROFAFORMULATIONOFNATIONALPOLITICSFORNICTSINDRCProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: AROUND THE WORLD, THE NEW INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES ARE GETTING IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT. IN AFRICA, THIS IS THE SITUATION NOT ONLY IN SOUTH AFRICA REPUBLIC BUT ALSO IN SOME COUNTRIES LESS IMPORTANT IN MANY ASPECTS THAT DRC AS BURKINA FASO, CAMEROON, IVORY COAST,GABON,ZAMBIA, SWAZILAND, KENYA AND NORTH AFRICAN COUNTRIES. IN THE DRC, SOME SPORADIC EFFORTS ARE MAKING FOR COMMUNICATION DEVELOPMENT BUT THERE IS NO A NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR ALL CONGO IN THIS MATTER. ALSO, THE TODAY CONGOLESE LEGISLETION IS NOT COMPATIBLE TO THE SITUATION OF NEW

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COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES.SO, THIS LEGISLETION MUST CHANGE .STRATEGY THAT WHY THE ORGANISATION OF THIS SEMINAR IS VERY IMPORTANT SO THAT THESE TWO NEEDS WILL FINISH: NEED OF A NATIONAL POLITICS FOR NICTS AND NEED ALSO OF NEW LAWS ABOUT THIS SENSITIVE SECTOR OF NATIONAL LIFE.

Contractor: NATIONAL COMMISSION OF UNESCO / DRC



Personnel: 5000

Contracts: 5000

Training: 8000

Equipment: 5000


Incommunicado–AlternativesinICTforDevelopmentProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: Incommunicado is a two‐day international workshop that approaches the growing ’ICT for development’ (ICT4D) sector and its conceptual and organizational idioms from a committed‐yet‐critical ’insider’ perspective, focusing on perspectives rarely acknowledged by the euro‐american ICT4D mainstream. Through pre‐ and post‐conference (online) publications as well as a series of discussions, the workshop wants to explore and share analyses, concepts and strategies that have been articulated in response to the WSIS process and its controversial vision of an info‐political multistakeholderism. Involving participants from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, it aims to create a space to allow those active mainly in the field of ICT4D to come together with people from other areas of media activism/criticism that have developed relevant approaches to the questions raised by the WSIS process and its implications for the future of ICT4D. To facilitate such encounter and exchange, the workshop follows an open format to encourage cooperative work and informal networking. The call outlines five topic areas, an editorial collective (open to all participants) ensures that current information on all topics as well as moderators and focused presentations are available and freely accessible. Call at .

Contractor: Sabine Niederer



Personnel: 20000

Contracts: 10000

Training: 2000

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Equipment: 3000


Incommunicado–OpenAccessResearchJournalProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: Building on the research of incommunicado network members , a peer‐reviewed open access journal will be launched to offer an alternative to proprietary magazines that continue to dominate the field of communication and media research. Its focus will be on voices from the 'Global South' marginalized in info‐political debates (often for lack of translation), as well as issues that have remained off the WSIS agenda. Its core content principle is 'the commons,' articulated along multiple vectors, including a) competing concepts of the commons (such as the US‐Jeffersonian model that dominates the euro‐american media mainstream vs community/indigenous/subaltern knowledge proposals), b) the use and development of open source multimedia tools in advocacy and education, and c) the use of public resources and the environmental sustainability of resource‐intensive ICT development (esp. related to hardware manufacturing/disposal, whose hazardous effects have only recently been acknowledged as human rights concerns). A commons approach will also be followed throughout editorial and publication processes ‐ the journal will be based on open source applications and foster the use and development of non‐proprietary alternatives in the field of research in acknowledgment and support of the Berlin Declaration .

Contractor: Soenke Zehle



Personnel: 8000

Contracts: 10000

Training: 1000

Equipment: 5000


RomanianMediaResources–OldRomanianPublicationsinForeignLanguagesProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 24389

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Project summary: Romanian Media Resources – Old Romanian Publications in Foreign Languages project addresses the need of preservation of information and universal access to it. This project intends to further on the Romanian Media Resources (RMR) Program, initiated by Concept Foundation in 2001. This program meets the public's need for information by cooperating with participating institutions and was created to improve professional information technology devices (full‐text data bases), using the principles of librarianship for organizing and accessing the information. The RMR Program aims at saving and completing the old periodicals collections by digitalization. The project realizes a series of databases, which comprises the main newspapers from the Romanian media market, together with the old periodicals only available until now in the collections of the Romanian Academy Library. The objective of the Romanian Media Resources Program is to create a unified electronic data collection with regular updates of the most important periodicals, which will be made available to the public in libraries in Romania. For 2005‐2006, the project will focus on digitalizing, indexing and classifying the old Romanian publications in foreign languages. Through the Romanian Media Resources Program, CONCEPT Foundation wants to offer a modern resource of research and documentation for the journalist filed.

Contractor: CONCEPT Foundation



Personnel: 24389

Contracts: 0

Training: 0

Equipment: 0

Miscellaneous: 0 0

InocenceinSuffering!Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 24960

Project summary: This project promote a nutritive supplement for the children’s food, children who are in crisis (infected with HIV and sick of AIDS), in order to maintain their health situation and for preventing the eventual sickness by the vitamins’ contribution from the quails eggs. Comparing with chicken egg, quail egg contains 6 times more B1 vitamin, 5 times more phosphorus, 15 times more B2 vitamin, 5 times more iron. Quail eggs contain vitamins and minerals (A, B, D3, E, plus Calcium, Zinc, Sulphur, Potassium and Magnesium), that cover daily needs (5/per day/child), has anti‐allergic effect, it promote children’s specific medication recommended by doctors and we hope to fortify their body as much as possible to prevent them being ill. The

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project will last 1 year (12 months).

Contractor: Lidia Teona Lozonschi



Personnel: 6360

Contracts: 14828

Training: 1940

Equipment: 660


PROJECTTITLEBRIDGINGINFORMATIONGAPS(BIG)Providingfortheinformationneedsofcommunitylibraryusersbystrengtheningcapacityofcommunitylibrarystaff.Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 53000

Project summary: PROJECT CONTEXT The Northern Cape is the largest Province in South Africa having a landmass of 361, 830 km covering approximately 30% of South Africa. Despite having the largest surface area, the Northern Cape has the smallest population of 822 727. Most communities are isolated due to the vastness of the Province with little or no basic facilities for individual development. The unemployment rate in the Province is currently standing at 26.1% and the percentage of people with no formal education standing at 14.3%. PROJECT BACKGROUND The Northern Cape Provincial Library Service (NCPLIS) with its Head Office based in Kimberley, supports a community library network of 162 service points. These consist of 98 community libraries that form part of a municipal system, 23 library depots serving institutions such as mines and prisons, and 41 mobile book box services established in schools, community centers, churches and municipal pay points. There are at present 192 252 registered members that borrow more than 3 361 446 library materials/items per annum. In addition, the community libraries provide educational and informational support and assistance daily to non‐registered members. PROJECT RATIONALE To create conditions that allow the poor to break the cycle of poverty and to ensure economic growth and development, it is vital to develop the human and social capital of the people of the Province. This would require: Ø Creating opportunities for life‐long learning Ø Improving skills of the labour force Ø Increasing accessibility to knowledge and information Libraries play a pivotal role in the above processes thus contributing to the

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educational and social growth of individuals. The NCPLIS has through funding received (for the period 2001‐2004) from the Carnegie Corporation of New York managed to successfully accelerate the process of increasing access to knowledge and information through the provision of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in 80 established libraries and simultaneously breaking the digital divide that exists between the rich and poor. PROJECT SUMMARY The Internet Service provided in community libraries within the Northern Cape is utilised as a resource tool to meet the daily information needs of all age groups, which cannot be provided for through books and reference sources. As there is no established School Library Service in the Province, the pressure on the community libraries to provide updated information supporting school curricula is increasing at a rapid rate. The ability of library staff to meet the information demands of both learners and students is linked directly to their skills, capacity, and confidence levels. The benefit of ICT in the community libraries and success of its application in accelerating access to information relies heavily on the IT literacy levels of library staff. The lack of skilled ICT experts within our community libraries is a common feature. Troubleshooting and technical support and advice through a centrally established ICT unit is also problematic taking into consideration the vast distances within the Province. With the “Building Information Gaps” Project the NCPLIS aims: Ø To improve the dissemination of information utilizing ICT services through a process of training and capacity building programs for library staff, thereby broadening their knowledge and skill levels. Ø To improve technical knowledge of library staff through practical training programs thus enabling them to attend to minor day‐to‐day ICT related problems. By focusing on capacity building of community library staff, the benefits of the project extend to the library user as the increase in capacity of community library staff contributes directly to improved service delivery standards.

Contractor: Northern Cape Provincial Library and Information Service



Personnel: 12000

Contracts: 14000

Training: 25000

Equipment: 0


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Zenenadelu/WomenatWorkasaFocalPointofWITTProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 34950

Project summary: Women Information Technology Transfer (WITT) is a network for sharing ideas in different countries in order to make ICT more available to women. Women at work (WaW) has been chosen to be a Focal Point. Focal Points are local coordinators of WITT trainings. They mobilize, plan and organize the WITT trainings in their regions. The task of the WITT focal points is to help build organisations with strong skills, strong networks and the ability to call on each other¡¦s expertise when needed. As Focal Point WaW would define specific needs of women¡¦s organizations in terms of using ICT as a strategic tool and offer practical skills trainings as a respond to those needs. During this one year project: We will bring members of groups working in diverse areas together to develop information strategies and share information sharing tools; Organizations will be encouraged to participate in WITT network, and strengthen each other¡¦s ability to make an impact in the region; Develop WITT web site under Free Software publishing tool SPIP and in 9 different languages; With the aim to strengthen women¡¦s organizations and all who work towards diminishing gender gap in Information Society.

Contractor: Zene na delu/ Women at Work contact person Ms. Milica Gudovic, Program Coordinator



Personnel: 8400

Contracts: 7650

Training: 15100

Equipment: 1000


CYBERETHICSProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: The CYBERETHICS project aims to answer the question how to guarantee affordable access to fair, reliable and safe information on the web. Implications of ICT at the level of ethics (privacy, surveillance, family filters, diminished cultural consciousness and language change), law (intellectual property rights, digital rights management) and society at large (freedom of

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speech versus privatization of information, multicultural and multilingual retrieval barriers of information in the public domain, social justice) are at stake. A better understanding of the ethical, legal and societal implications of ICTs will be enhanced through various activities such as conceptualization and field study (see WP 1), demonstrations and comparisons (WP II), and interactive conferences and web presence with the potential to be applied in different countries, not only the participating countries. A discussion platform will be launched where anyone can take part actively, defend their points of view and propose recommendations for further actions (WP III), consultation with experts (WP IV) and formulate awareness raising course applicable in education and beyond, and dissemination of the results (WP V). CYBERETHICS builds on previous experiences and benefits of the explorative (net)work of the European FILTER project.

Contractor: ESI Vrije Universteit



Personnel: 24050

Contracts: 1000

Training: 6000

Equipment: 3000


SpeakingTheWorldatSchool#2Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 22820

Project summary: School #2 will purchase badly needed computers to enhance the school’s capabilities for teaching multiple languages. Computers equipped with sound cards and headphones will allow students to experience clear English and Russian accents as well as the ability to employ language‐learning software. Computers with installed modems will provide easy access to materials in diverse languages as well. Along with languages, computers will also allow students to learn basic skills and have a chance to one day succeed in a more computer‐dependent world. The school will purchase twenty computers, enough for an entire class. Each student will have a chance to study business and computer applications, in addition to learning English and Russian. Students will be able to learn simple, necessary tasks such as document and spreadsheet creation, data filing, and Internet research.

Contractor: School #2



Personnel: 0

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Contracts: 600

Training: 200

Equipment: 21920


ICE‐InformationasCulturalEntityofthecivilsocietyProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Slovenia

Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: Fostering new (contemporary) educational, informational, advisory, cultural and artistic praxis, and scientific and, technological aspects connecting culture and technology, arts and sciences, education and research emancipating and demystifying new media as a creative tool within the global village. It is non‐profit making and is aimed for students, high‐school kids, the deaf and dumb (first time on the Internet), unemployed (job possibilities), refugees, Small People Association, Handicapped People Association (certified handicapped friendly institution), groups of teachers have workshops and whole classes of pupils use our infrastructure. We’ve hosted Walfdorf teachers, Student Cultural Association, faculties, universities, American College of Management and Technology. Our space is open to a wide range of interests; from people, who are stepping into the world of electronic communications to professionals. Our philosophy is media emancipation and integration, people responsibilities spawned with ecology of thinking and is based on the openness and collaboration with other institutions and individuals. We are connected on inter‐city and inter‐state levels and we are strongly involved into the European projects as on the Cultural or Information Society Technologies programmes. KIBLA is member of the Slovene Multimedia Centres Network, which includes 12 Slovene multimedia centres and it’s the first of a kind in Europe.

Contractor: Association for Culture and Education KIBLA (ACE KIBLA) / Multimedia Centre KIBLA (MMC KIBLA)



Personnel: 8500

Contracts: 4500

Training: 3500

Equipment: 5500


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SOCINFODO,http://www.socinfodo.org.do‐ModuleUniversidadAutónomadeSantoDomingo/UASDProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Dominican Republic

Cost (USD): 39340

Project summary: This module is addressed to make the main public university of the country, Universidad Áutónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD), familiar with the fundamental concepts on ITC as a development tool.

Contractor: FUNDACION REDES Y DESARROLLO ‐ REPUBLICA DOMINICANA



Personnel: 8100

Contracts: 11900

Training: 10800

Equipment: 6000


InteractiveHAMradiocommunicationforPovertyreductionanddisastermanagementProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 24850

Project summary: Ham Radio is a scientific hobby enabling universal brotherhood and exchange of ideas and knowledge and increase the means of communication between people and educate all . It assumes importance at times of disaster when electricity fails on which all our communication system works.HAM with its battery setup alone can give effective , reliable , cost effective communication. To quote few examples earthquake in Gujarat. Super cyclone in orissa, 1992 cyclone in Nagapatinam , fire accident in Big Temple and the Present Tsunami which ravaged the east coast. 20 village will be connected through HAM radio operated by trained and Govt of India licensed volunteers. These village will have the benefit of day to day interaction with scientist on sustainable agriculture. Healthcare environment etc. and help the Dt administration at times of disaster. .A repeater station located in a centralized place enables easy coverage of the entire dt.A Hambulance‐a modified ambulance fitted with HF and VHF equipment will be pressed into life saving activity at times of disaster with volunteers trained in first aid and amateur radio operation.. During normal days this Hambulance will go to schools educate the students on environment protection and expose the students to HAM Radio.and create an electronic culture in the school activity and improve the quality of education. The HAM clubs formed in the school will expose the children at a

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young age to the mysteries and excitement of science and technology

Contractor: Dr V.Palaniappan



Personnel: 279

Contracts: 395

Training: 232

Equipment: 23744


InformationHeritagePortalsProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 44934

Project summary: To build capacity of YES Country Networks in three primarily Islamic countries to promote information literacy by strengthening the understanding among young people on the vital importance of treating knowledge and information as an essential part of ones heritage.

Contractor: Niraj Shekhar



Personnel: 13573

Contracts: 21061

Training: 5800

Equipment: 0


CommunitiesinDialogueProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 57500

Project summary: The Center of International Learning (CIL) establishes international dialogues or conversations among grassroots groups around topics which are current and critical for the participants and for society in general. CIL establishes and manages these dialogues in order to build an infrastructure for peace and uses Paulo Freire’s learning techniques as a model for our interaction. CIL’s work is driven by the contradiction that even in societies that are perceived to be information‐rich such as the United States, there is a disparity between

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the decision‐making class and the disenfranchised. Some of the partners in developing countries, however, have a much keener understanding of certain protections that are available to them (such as the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of the Child). The dialogues empower participants from both developed and developing societies to value the wealth of information that is in their own communities and the communication that is set up with other communities frequently allows participants to think about their own concerns in a new way. CIL seeks funding to expand our Communities in Dialogue program and to manage our on line forums.

Contractor: Center of International Learning, Inc. (CIL‐USA)



Personnel: 19900

Contracts: 10300

Training: 15000

Equipment: 6000


SevakSolutions:OpenSourceLicenseforMicrofinanceOutreachProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 136500

Project summary: Establish a License Entity (non‐profit) to license and support the deployment of the Remote Transaction System (RTS), a software application developed to extend the reach of microfinance services into rural and remote areas. In August 2002, 8 organizations* joined together to catalyze a breakthrough in the scale of microfinance delivery. Together these partners developed a new technology solution to increase operational efficiency, reduce transaction costs, provide increased customer service, and extend the reach of microfinance into rural areas. The solution was pilot tested in three institutions in Uganda using very different business models. The partners behind the RTS now wish to make the solution available to the entire microfinance industry by creating a public good offering open access to the executable and source code. Although much of this dissemination effort in the near‐term will be voluntary, some funding is required to create an effective mechanism to license the solution, provide appropriate development coordination, and support standardized Application Program Interfaces (APIs). This next step leverages an investment of more than $3 million in the design, development, testing, and deployment of the RTS solution. Funds and in‐kind support for this initiative came from the partners, USAID, Stanford University, HAAS School of Business at UC Berkeley, Cornell University, FOCCAS, FINCA Uganda, the Ugandan Microfinance Union, Bushnet and a

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myriad of volunteers from many walks of life. * Hewlett‐Packard, ACCION International, FINCA International, Grameen Foundation USA, Freedom from Hunger, echange, LLC, Bizcredit, and PRIDE Africa.

Contractor: Sevak Solutions



Personnel: 45000

Contracts: 60000

Training: 25000

Equipment: 500


SCOUT@BUSProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 40800

Project summary: More than 40% of primary school children and youth in Croatia do not have access to Internet, computers, knowledge and skills to use ICT's. Since 1996, the Scout School supported by the Zagreb Authorities and the Croatian Government's Ministry for Health and Social Welfare, has been running the program "Miraculous Croatia". The program's aim is to prevent socially unaccepted behavior through scout activities in nature. By the bus adapted for the needs of children called the "BLUE BUS", the Scout School offers possibilities to urban children and youth to spend one or more days in a rural environment. The Scout School's "BLUE BUS" could be easily adapted and equipped to become a unique space for rural children and youth without possibilities of having access to ICT's and participating in different activities based on ICT's. With the UNESCO's support to the "SCOUT@BUS" project, the Scout School's program the "BLUE BUS" will be beneficial for both, urban and rural youth. Professional educated volunteers in the Scout School and the partnership with the Croatian National Youth Council, which participated in the preparations and at the WSIS Summit, Geneva, 2003, are additional indicators of the Scout School's capacity to successfully run the proposed project.

Contractor: The Scout School



Personnel: 3000

Contracts: 3300

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Training: 7000

Equipment: 22800


AIDSformediaProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 0

Project summary: The project seeks to establish the coalition of journalists writing on AIDS and information managers of AIDS‐service organizations in countries with widely‐spoken Russian language (former Soviet Union). It is done by using regional networking tools (listserv of at least 100 active addresses, website, developing/translation and dissemination of news, collection and dissemination of good practice print media, developing a guide on work with media for AIDS‐service organizations using experience of both journalists and information managers from AIDS field). Project monitoring and evaluation is done externally and internally. Further development of the coalition is planned in 2006 by extending group. After the coalition model is piloted, it will be advised to use it for developing partnerships with European media and AIDS service organizations (preliminary discussion with the European AIDS Treatment Group has taken place already). The project length is nine months. Its implementer is Central and Eastern European Harm Reduction Network using regional experience, in partnership with local harm reduction and their support organization initiative and in collaboration with regional information consortium partners. CEE‐HRN is a leading network in HIV/AIDS and drug field in the region, and unites more than 220 members.

Contractor: Central and Eastern European Harm Reduction Network



Personnel: 14400

Contracts: 5000

Training: 0

Equipment: 400


CapacityBuildinginICTTrainingthroughInternationalCooperationProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 45000

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Project summary: Information society issues are high priorities with the Croatian Government and in particular with the Ministry of Science, Education and sports which provides large budget on national ICT infrastructure. Whilst computer infrasstructure with schools is within EU average and accesso to Internet 100%, general computer literacy is determined by restricted portion of ICT within national curriculum as well as lack of public awareness on ICT use in global information exchange. National UCT policy sees the need to develop concepts and standards for effective and widespread use of ICT to be provided by basic education system. Schools thus become key actors in providing public information on a large scale reaching out to pupils and serving as access points for information literacy for a new generation of citizens. ICT teachers and schools lack skills of making full use of new media in eduprocesses. The role of Education Institute, among others, consists in carrying out different issues in ICT TT as well as enhancing cooperation both at EU and regional levels. The project represents a follow‐up of the Institute ICT TT activities developed on a regular basis and particulary of those recently supported by Microsoft Croatia in line with the existing Partners in Learning MoU, when participation of outstanding national/regional ICT teachers was secured with focus of enhancing capacity building in ICT TT through cooperation. The project results will be shared and used as basis to formulate recommendations for further development of information literacy in participating countries.

Contractor: THE INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA



Personnel: 10000

Contracts: 12000

Training: 20000

Equipment: 0


WebsiteasastoolforClinicalLegalEducationdevelopmentinRussiaProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 15100

Project summary: This project utilizes the World Wide Web opportunity (web site) for better information exchange to strengthen the network of legal clinics all over Russia and NIS states, to involve new members in clinical movement, to promote new world tendencies in Clinical Legal Education in the view of

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forthcoming reform of Higher Education in Russia (within Bologna Declaration). The project serve as continuation of work in Clinical Legal Education Development in Russia that was began by Law Institute since mid‐1990s. The project is based on available web site www.lawclinic.ru that was created in 2001 and it’s quite known among the most active members of clinical movement in Russia, other NIS states as information resource on activity of Center for Clinical Legal Education (Institute of Law) and its partners and already poses library of educational materials and database on Russian legal clinics. As result of project we expect the site to become completely All‐Russian information portal (online library, upcoming events, open discussions etc) about Clinical Legal Education for professors and law students, NGO professionals working in Human Rights and for potential partners abroad to find out more about Clinical Legal Education in Russia. Duration of the project 10 months: April 1, 2005 ‐ February 1, 2006

Contractor: Center for Clinical Legal Education, Institute of Law named after Prince P.G. Oldenburgsky



Personnel: 9700

Contracts: 2400

Training: 2000

Equipment: 0


PromotingKnowledgeManagementintheMinistryofEducationProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Cost (USD): 33000

Project summary: The Government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines is in the process of developing a Knowledge Management system for the Ministry of Education. This system should help to improve the Ministry’s organizational efficiency, responsiveness, competency, and innovation. If successfully implemented and accepted by stakeholders, it will reduce the necessity to keep reinventing the wheel, and make it easier for information professionals working in education to share and learn from the experiences of others in the field. The local knowledge management system is part of a regional knowledge management network that is headquartered in St. Lucia at the Organization of East Caribbean States Education Reform Unit Project (OERU) and sponsored by CIDA. The technical aspects of this project have begun, but the local Project Committee realizes that without urgent and intensive information literacy training for the intended end users of the system, the Project will not

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succeed. In fact, The Government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines Education Sector Development Plan (2002 – 2007) identified a low level of Information Literacy among some senior officials as one of the serious weaknesses of the organization. It is with this in mind that this project proposes to provide 21 hours of training to 48 persons involved in information collection, analysis and dissemination including (i) Ministry of Education information professionals (ii) librarians and archivists (iii) personnel from the Agency for Public Information.

Contractor: St. Vincent and the Grenadines UNESCO National Commission



Personnel: 2500

Contracts: 15500

Training: 5000

Equipment: 9000


IgboLinuxTranslationProjectProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: The Igbo Linux Translation Project aims to locaize the free and open‐source Linux Desktop Operating System and its companion software applications into the Igbo language. There are conservatively about 30 million people in Nigeria and surrounding countries who speak Igbo and this provides a sizable user base for providing the benefits of computer and information technology in a language that is deeply understood and at a price that is tremendously appealing ‐ zero‐cost. By making knowledge and information easily accessible to the Igbo masses, this project will promote information literacy, the integration of computer use in primary and secondary schools in line with the UN's Millenium goals, development of local digital content by artisans and ICT capacity building and infrastructure in Igbo‐speaking institutions.

Contractor: Nwabu Umeadi‐Nnebe



Personnel: 30000

Contracts: 0

Training: 5000

Equipment: 0

Miscellaneous: 10000

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MediterraneanVoice(MedVoice)–TheInformationNetworkonHumanRightsandDemocratisationintheMediterraneanRegionProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Algeria

Cost (USD): 46000

Project summary: The MedVoice project aims to establish a network that will enable efficient access to information concerning Human Rights/Democratization issues in the Mediterranean region, and contribute to genuine inter‐cultural communication based on a dynamic exchange of information. MedVoice will be instituted under the auspices of the University of Malta, which already successfully hosts the Mediterranean Human Rights and Democratization Masters Programme and views the project as a follow‐up to the well established concept for building solid communication bridges among the Mediterranean peoples. The Network (Medvoice) intends to be the portal to information on human rights, fundamental freedoms and democratization issues in the Mediterranean through the set‐up of a dynamic website with all relevant and updated data and linkages that will enhance capacity building, co‐operation and communication among human rights actors. An online editing/project team that will coordinate the network, with selected collaborators providing specific information at local level in their respective countries. Apart from cooperation with well‐established organisations, MedVoice will focus on giving access to the network information to young committed human rights experts in order to increase their chances of an effective participation in the democratisation process and in the emerging global information society. The data collecting and disseminating process will also include specific small‐scale projects that will be developed according to the requests of partner institutions and others acting in the field of human rights.

Contractor: Mediterranean Voice (MedVoice)



Personnel: 22000

Contracts: 10000

Training: 5500

Equipment: 7000


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DevelopmentofanonlinetrainingandtoolboxplatformdedicatedtoICTcommunitycenters.Lifesizedtrainingtestusingtheplatform.Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: The project will be carried out in Venezuela and France. It consist of the following items: 1) Development of a free online platform. This platform will permit exchange of training material, and tool sharing dedicated to ICT community centers from deprived neighborhoods where Colombbus has been working for more than 4 years. 2) The toolbox will include tools such as an evaluation and monitoring tool developed by Colombbus and presented at ITU in 2004. ICT training material will be elaborated using Colombbus' experience to initiate the platform. It will address the following areas (hardware and software installation, maintenance, databases, training animation, community ICT center organization, pedagogy, and accounting). 3) Realization of a life sized training test using the platform with the Venezuelan ICT community centers working with Colombbus. Training of 60 persons. 4) After the test, translation in French and promotion of the project with African association partners of Colombbus. This project will be carried out by Colombbus in collaboration with partner Venezuelan associations.

Contractor: Colombbus



Personnel: 28000

Contracts: 2600

Training: 8300

Equipment: 3900


TAMINO‐THEWAYTOORPHEUSProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 22100

Project summary: In 2006 the World will celebrate 250 years from the birth of the Greatest Austrian composer Volfgang Amadeus Mozart, the genius of the Modern epoch." Tamino‐the way to Orpheus" is a musical project including 10 autentic, original, Bulgarian songs written byBulgarian composers and poets. The performers in the Project are: The sinphony orchestraa of the Pleven

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Musical School, conducting by maestro Plamen Markov and famous Bulgarian singers Ivelina Balcheva, Vanya Kostova, Nikolay Ivanov and Ivo Nedelchev.The final product of the Project will be CD and the conserts with the songs of the Project to many cities in the country and the region, conserts in Austria and Germany, meetings and conferences.Project duration ‐ 24 mounths.

Contractor: Ivo Boyanov Nedelchev



Personnel: 5000

Contracts: 4300

Training: 7200

Equipment: 4600


Strengtheningthecapacitiesandconditionsforelderlyaccesstointernetservicesandactivities.Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: Strengthening the capacities and conditions for elderly people access to internet services and activities that will help them reducing lonely feelings, connecting people, spread of information, knowledge and experiences between themselves and other people, improving social awareness about elderly status and roles in the families and community, creating the pattern of internet education in the family from elderly mirrors to younger generations, especially children. Project will focus on building and implementing the experimental model of internet access for elderly people. Project activities, which are : research and evaluating on needs, capacities, conditions and obstacles of elderly access to the internet services; participatory approach on creating program, plan and training courses for elderly group in internet access; monitoring and evaluation during and after training courses, designing messages and developing advocacy that encourage and support the elderly people assess to internet services, mobilizing elderly participants as the volunteers do advocacy at communities; finally elderly trainees and researchers will work together on setting up a website for elderly.

Contractor: Vietnam Academy of Youth and Children ‐ Faculty of Sociology ( Dang Canh Khanh, Prof, Phd, Vice chairman of Academy and Dean of Faculty of Sociology )



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Personnel: 6000

Contracts: 8000

Training: 10000

Equipment: 500


ECIPITExpertsBuildingProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Egypt

Cost (USD): 27075

Project summary: We are The Egyptian Center for Intellectual Property & Information Technology ( ECIPIT ) Which is a non governmental organization (NGO), in Egypt. Our project is training 25 Lawyer and Juries for 6 months. They will be trained on computer usage and they would also be trained on legislations and regulations that organize the information society. At the end of the course they will obtain two certificates the first is (ICDL) certificate and the second a legal diploma shared with Helwan University. The participants would be chosen from governmental and non governmental sectors. Then they would sit for an exam so as to choose the best, taking into consideration the equality in gender. We made a partnership with two entities one of them is Helwan University, Governmental University, which will give the diploma certificate sharing with ECIPIT. The other partnership is with IT Incorporation, which is a private company, so as to give the training of ICDL and give the certificates, that corporation is authenticated in training by the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology ( MCIT ). The ICDL certificate would take three months then the Legal Diploma for three months. We will make a press conference in Cairo, by the beginning of the training course, which would be attended by representative from the Unesco office, in addition to the initiatives who are responsible for building the information society in Egypt. That would help to promote our project to society especially on covering it by the media and press. Within the project, we will hold on three seminars so as to increase awareness of the importance of information technology and its effects on our life. The seminars will be held in Alexandria, Assuit and El Mansoura. Which are important governorates in Egypt. The aim of holding these seminars in different governorates is, to make a coverage all over Egypt. We will make three newsletter to clarify the most important international projects in the developing countries about the ICT & its role in facing poverty, education and democracy. Those newsletters would be done by two ways. An electronic one which would be posted on our website. The other one would be as a paper and to be delivered to all Ministers, Governors, Businessmen, Members of people assembly and Media.

Contractor: Egyptian Center for Intellectual Property & Information Technology

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Personnel: 2900

Contracts: 8300

Training: 12875

Equipment: 2150


ImprovedKnowledgeforAfricanHumanitarianActionProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Angola

Cost (USD): 34850

Project summary: The effectiveness of humanitarian action is recognised to be crucially dependent on the systematic application of knowledge and learning activities. While this should include the ‘indigenous knowledge’ of local NGOs, delivery partners and the ultimate beneficiaries of aid, such knowledge is frequently under‐used and lacks systematisation. This project will promote and facilitate the improved utilisation and systematisation of ‘indigenous knowledge’ in humanitarian responses across the African continent. It will do so by developing a knowledge management system (KMS) for use by an African organisation with field offices in over 10 countries. The project will build capacities of staff and partners to use and update the KMS. This will enable the capture and storage of various forms of relevant humanitarian knowledge, and its dissemination to internal and external stakeholders. The applicants are Overseas Development Institute (ODI), the leading think‐tank on humanitarian and development issues, and Africa Humanitarian Action (AHA), a leading African humanitarian NGO delivering medical and educational services to displaced populations. This project will build upon ongoing DfID‐funded work, which sees ODI and AHA working together to develop a knowledge strategy for AHA. The proposed KMS will be a vital mechanism for delivering on key objectives of the AHA strategy.

Contractor: Ben Ramalingam



Personnel: 24250

Contracts: 7600

Training: 1000

Equipment: 0


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LesTICpourlapromotiondelamodeafricaineProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 877000

Project summary: Le projet consiste à amener les femmes spécialistes de la mode à l’utilisation des TIC comme vecteur de communication, de partage de connaissance, et de promotion de leurs productions. Il s’agira en effet : • d’identifier ces couturières, les mobiliser, les sensibiliser, de travailler avec les associations de femmes artisanes existantes • de les former à l’utilisation des TIC (tic au service de la mode) • de concevoir et de réaliser une Portail Internet où les modes et/ou les modèles seront exposés afin de leur permettre : i. d’échanger entre elles (mail, forum, liste de diffusion, chat) ii. de s’informer à travers les site Internet et des émissions radiophoniques et télévisuelles spécifiques à cette corporation iii. de communiquer avec leurs clients et le reste du monde iv. de commercialiser leurs produits au‐delà des frontières nationales (e‐commerce). Ce projet sera réalisé avec l’appui de partenaires et de plusieurs ministères au Bénin : le ministère de la culture, de l’artisanat et du Tourisme (MCAT); le ministère de communication et de la promotion des technologies nouvelles (MCPTN); le ministère de la famille, de la protection sociale et de la solidarité (MFPSS) et enfin le ministère de l’enseignement technique et de la formation professionnelle (METFP).

Contractor: Maryse Affoyon



Personnel: 174400

Contracts: 85000

Training: 68750

Equipment: 209100


LocalizationoftelecottagemanagmenttrainingmaterialProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: Preparing localized versions of the telecottage management training

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material, for letting teaching telecottage managers on national languages. EUTA has a training material in english, what we can use for knowledge exchange among the EUTA countries and even further. The English version is good enough to start courses for the ones speaking well enough the language, but with localization we could widen a lot the circle of users. The further language versions could help the better usage of the material. The groups of local experts could not only translate, but make localization of the training material, adding local examples and some local knowledge, like local regulations, local possibilities for PPP. The project would contain a short training on how to put together the formalized material, what are the parts needing localization, translation and localization of the training, than putting together the e‐learning material.

Contractor: EUTA



Personnel: 14000

Contracts: 18000

Training: 5000

Equipment: 0


BibliotecaPúblicaporInternet‐BPIProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 46175

Project summary: The goal of the Biblioteca Pública por Internet (www.bibliotecapublica.org/) is to provide free Spanish library resources and services to underserved populations throughout Mexico and Latin America, as well as to the Spanish‐speaking Internet community worldwide, in order to promote personal and professional development through access to high‐quality information resources. The Biblioteca Pública por Internet (BPI) is conceptualized as an important complement to the growing network of Community Learning Centers (CLCs) throughout Mexico and was initiated in response to the fact that most rural, Mexican communities have limited or no library services. We believe that the children, young people, housewives, farm workers, and others who are furthering their education in the CLCs should have access to library resources and services that support their studies and encourage their interest in reading and learning. Furthermore, the BPI is freely available on the Internet and is therefore accessible to a worldwide audience. The BPI is a project of the Tecnológico de Monterrey Universidad Virtual and is modeled after and supported by the Internet Public Library (IPL) of the

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University of Michigan, the award‐winning Internet site that provides access to evaluated, organized Internet sites and library reference service to English‐speaking Internet users worldwide.

Contractor: Ms. Catharine Cebrowski



Personnel: 33600

Contracts: 5575

Training: 2000

Equipment: 4000


WorkshopforcapacitybuildinginGreenstoneDigitalLibrarySoftwareProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 35000

Project summary: The project will support a series of training workshops on the use of the Greenstone Digital Library Software, which was developed by the University of Waikato with support from Unesco. The first workshop will train trainers from the universities and other training institutions in the region, in the creation of digital libraries with text and multimedia formats.

Contractor: Fay Durrant



Personnel: 3000

Contracts: 6000

Training: 20000

Equipment: 4000


BuildingcapacitytocoverICTPolicyinVietnam.Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 24880

Project summary: â€œICT for allâ€ has been an important objective of Vietnam to boost economic developments and social progresses. World experiences have showed that right policy could contribute greatly to this process while bad

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policy could significantly harness it. ICT policy requires changes in perception and skills to build and advocate it. The local capacity of Vietnam to cover ICT policy via both conventional media and the Internet remains rather poor. The proposed project aims to improve the local capacity to cover ICT policy in Vietnam to contribute to ICT for all program. Focus would be on the process of ICT policy building and the ways ICT policy is advocated. Main activities would include skills training workshop organizing and network facilitating. The project will be implemented for 12 months in Hanoi. Final project products would be i) 50 journalists be trained on skills to effectively cover ICT policy ii) 50 individuals be trained on special skills for covering ICT policy via Internet and iii) a forum for sharing best practices on ICT policy is created and facilitated.

Contractor: Nguyen Thu Hue‐ Country Coordinator‐ GIPI VN



Personnel: 5200

Contracts: 7150

Training: 9030

Equipment: 2200


CapacitybuildingforsharingGoodPracticesforPhilippine‐basedcivilsocietyorganisationandnetworksProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 35000

Project summary: The project will bring together development‐related information of Philippine‐based civil society organizations and regional networks. ANGOC is a Philippine–based regional Asian organization whereas FallowNET is a Southeast Asian network of experts on soil fertility. Strong national civil society partners are identified. Awareness will be raised by information staff of 15 partner organizations in operating shared web‐based systems and training provided to ensure effective data management. Entry, classification and upload of existing information of the organizers and partners will be facilitated in the InfoBridge Platform, a common web‐system for sustainable development information already used by civil society and government organizations in Europe, Asia and Africa.

Contractor: Asian NGO Coalition for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ANGOC)


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Personnel: 18000

Contracts: 6000

Training: 2600

Equipment: 4500


InformationLiteracyProjectProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Nepal

Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: Project summery Around 85 percent of the population of Nepal lives in rural and remote areas, with a literacy rate of nearly 52% in total. In these deprived regions of Nepal, television and newspaper are rare commodities specially women who work in the house depend on radio for their entertainment, information and for company as people get use to hear their preferred radio broadcaster. Radio is considered a warm media listeners feel that they are talked to and they can also reply and participate. Information literacy is a foundation programme of Idea Action. It aims to raise awareness and develop skilled human resources on ICT. The motto of Information Literacy Programme is to empower grassroots communities for equal access through ICT. The decade‐long experiences have confided us that information is a quite useful mean to reach at community level. In Nepal it is estimated that only 0.95 percent of the total 23.3 million populations have access to the internet and it is mostly based in urban areas of the country especially in Kathmandu. Observation in this situation, we will be developed one portal website, where will be included online news update, forum, message board, youth profile with article upload option etc. Correspondingly, we will be published e‐bulletin in every Friday for using our huge mailing list. The most important tool is Trainings for Trainers (TOT) to schools teachers in some selected community schools from 10 districts. Teacher can change student easily than their parents and parents will be changed by their children. Similarly, it will be conducted awareness raising in 10 district committees and around 1000 rural youth clubs through network organization. In the same way, it will be provided skills development training for selected network organization¡¦s volunteer youth activities. As a result, they will be developed as an information literacy activist and skill human resource form all walks of social life and all pockets of the of country. Idea Action is entering into an innovative programme area with mechanism of conflict resolution. In view of the growing social tension resulted as an aftermath of the Maoist People¡¦s War of Nepal, Idea Action wishes to contribute in this particular context. Idea Action realises that conflicts are

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part of social life; they can not be completely eradicated. The best way to deal with them is to narrow the gap of warring factions and make them agree to disagree in a round table with due honour of their sentiments and cherished goals. Thus, conflict resolution forms part of its Information Literacy Programme.

Contractor: Shakti Shali Ghimire



Personnel: 4000

Contracts: 2000

Training: 14000

Equipment: 4000


PreparingtheEasternCaribbeanfortheInformationSociety(PREP‐ECIS)Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 35000

Project summary: Implementation of a Project comprising three (3) components, one (1) at the National Level and two (2) at the Regional Level (OECS): 1. Capacity Building through a series of Seminars and workshops on: Information Literacy; Information Management and Ethical dimensions of the Information Society (Regional) 2. Public Consultations and Seminars for relevant Public Sector Officials on Freedom of Information and Privacy and Data Protection legislation (Regional) 3. Implementation of ISO Standard 15489 on 'Information & Documentation ‐ Records Management'. (National)

Contractor: UNESCO Information, Communication & Informatics Sub‐Commission, Saint Lucia



Personnel: 3500

Contracts: 13000

Training: 12000

Equipment: 4500


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ShavotCommunityTechnologyCenterProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 22700

Project summary: Women’s Center: Ihlos seeks to create a Community Technology Center in Shavot Tuman for the following reasons: to provide the community with access to computers complete with affordable, stable Internet access, to train women and others with employable skills, to improve the health of women in the Shavot district by training medical professionals in the use of the Internet to obtain current medical knowledge, and to create a digital space for the capture of Khorezm’s unique culture. Life in Shavot is often difficult, particularly for women. There are no major industries in the district making employment opportunities scarce. In past years, trade with Turkmenistan supported the local economy but the border has closed and while smuggling is a part of life here, it is a dangerous part. The population suffers from many different medical difficulties as a result of the Aral Sea disaster but isn’t recognized as a “disaster area” because it's in a different region. Karkakalpakistan, the region to the north where the Aral Sea once was, attracts most of the aid dollars and the most attention. Access to information, to new ideas, broader markets, and to the wider world will provide inspiration and hope for a beleaguered people.

Contractor: Women's Center: Ihlos



Personnel: 2200

Contracts: 2400

Training: 1000

Equipment: 16600


WindowtotheWorldProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 28700

Project summary: Internet connectivity and internet‐based programmes will be piloted in remote and information poor communities in the Philippines with women and young people spearheading the project. A core of volunteers, particularly women and young people, will be trained on internet and multi‐media system and on most appropriate ways to bring relevant information to the rest of the community. The computers shall also be used to acquaint the community members on modern information and communication technology. Other means of available community communication and

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institutions – such as schools, audio tower, community or local radio, village forum, print, folk media and schools on the air ‐ shall be integrated into the system. In effect a community‐operated multi‐media system (COMS) could be developed. The COMS shall be linked to the local literacy enhancement programmes and relevant schools’ projects. It will also serve in the adult education thrust of the locality as well as in other community development projects. The COMS will forge partnerships with institutions such as the Pinoy Farmers Internet. The COMS may be piloted in areas where there is available community radio for greater impact on the community. The COMS will be connected to national and international institutions for access of the community to wider information.

Contractor: Tambuli Foundation



Personnel: 2700

Contracts: 3000

Training: 7500

Equipment: 14000


BuildingcapabilitiesoflocalmediapractitionersforsustainableagricultureadvocacyProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 26000

Project summary: The project will (1) orient 150 local journalists and broadcasters all over the Philippines on the concepts of sustainable agriculture, (2) arm these journalists with data and information for them to better advocate sustainable for agriculture through their media outputs, (3) come up with a media advocacy plan developed by media people themselves, to be implemented with NGO partners across the country. The project is a series of 4 training sessions, bring together an average of 40 local journalists in the provinces and cities, to talk about, learn and understand issues and concerns relating to sustainable agriculture, towards the end of making them advocates of sustainable agriculture. The output of the project is a media plan, developed for implementation by the participants themselves, in partnership with sustainable development NGOs and POs willing to provide support to the advocacy effort. The same media plan will include initiatives in five media: Print, Broadcast Radio, Broadcast Television, Electronic/Wed media and Special/Non‐traditional/community‐based Media

Contractor: KAISAMPALAD: Phil. NGO Council for Food Security and Sustainable Development

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Personnel: 2000

Contracts: 2000

Training: 20000

Equipment: 1000


DemocratizingReadingAmongMinorityChildrenofSouthCotabato(DReAMChildren)Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 19500

Project summary: It is acknowledged that among the most important challenges of the Information Society is that of addressing the issue of social inclusion where every individual must have access to information so that they get a fair chance to conduct a life of dignity in this increasingly competitive and information‐intensive and information‐driven environments. This proposal is premised on this framework as well as on the idea that the disadvantaged segment of society, comprising a majority still, are as much our social responsibility as their more privileged counterparts. The march towards the global vision of an Information Society, therefore, should include everyone. The proposal aims to address the concerns of the children of non‐Muslim minorities (Lumads) of South Cotabato who remain with very limited or without access to reading materials. To date, there are hardly public provisions for learning resource centers in communities where most of the Lumad children are concentrated. Worse, even the publicly funded institutions providing basic education for them do not have functional school learning resource centers to speak of, and if there are, they are no more than houses of outdated textbooks. A trip to the mountains of Lake Sebu, South Cotabato, home to T'bolis, for instance, reveals much of this sad reality. The importance of this provisions (information and learning resource centers) cannot be taken for granted as most of the indigenous minorities come from very weak economic backgrounds, and are therefore incapable of providing for their information needs. For all these realities to come at a time when the rest of the world struggles to catch up with the digital marathon is scary. How can a generation of these indigenous children march with the rest of the world amidst their resource‐hungry realities? This project aims to address this problem. The putting up of learning resource centers specifically intended for the Lumad children of the municipalities of Lake Sebu and T'boli, South Cotabato shall hopefully

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contribute to narrowing the divide, and reducing, if not totally eliminating the so‐called casualies of change by allowing them equal participation and opportunities (democratization) in the present state‐of‐affairs.

Contractor: Fraulein A. Oclarit. Registered Librarian



Personnel: 7000

Contracts: 3600

Training: 1500

Equipment: 6000


ResourceCenterforBasicSector‐GovernmentPolicyEngagementforPovertyReductionProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 26320

Project summary: The Project will fund the institutionalization of a resource center which will serve as an information center, clearing house, knowledge bank and training resource center for poverty reduction policy development efforts by the Basic Sectors (The 14 basic sectors under the National Anti‐Poverty Commission includes Farmers, Fisherfolks, Women, Children, Youth, Senior Citizens, Indigenous Peoples, Victims of Disasters and Calamities, Formal Labor and Migrant Workers, Workers in the Informal Sector, Persons with Disabilities, NGO, Cooperative, and Urban Poor) at both national and regional/provincial levels. Currently, the Philippines has institutionalized the mechanisms for engagement under the National Anti‐Poverty Commission and the Regional KALAHI Convergence Groups. However, these mechanisms have not been maximized due to the inability of the Basic Sectors to respond to the technical level of engagement required when dealing with government, particularly at the policy development and program formulation level. A resource center would provide support to the efforts of the Basic Sectors towards maximizing available venues for engagement in policy development and program formulation. Among the functions of the resource center would be: (1) serve as a clearing house for basic sector information on policy and programme developments in the provinces nad regions, (2) serve as a

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coordinating center for basic sector initiatives towards policy engagement, (3) databank basic sector reports, issues and concerns, agenda development and other relevant sectoral materials relating to poverty reduction initiatives undertaken by the sectors, including best practises documentation, (4) provide technical support to provincial and national sectoral leaders in their engagement with government for poverty reduction policies and programs. the project will be co‐supported in terms of funds nd technicla support by the Philippine government through the National Anti‐Poverty Commission's Secretariat, and other funding and assisting agencies, institutions, and NGOs would be tapped to provide program assistance through the year.

Contractor: Office of the Vice Chairperson for the Basic Sectors



Personnel: 4320

Contracts: 2500

Training: 15000

Equipment: 2500


SisterSchoolsofthePacificProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 153000

Project summary: Establishment of an online learning community for primary and secondary level students and educators of schools of the Pacific, using interactive web community tools. The purpose of the project is the online networking of schools and their wider communities to allow them to share resources, collaborate on projects of mutual interest, and to learn more about one another. Members of the learning community will be able to communicate, interact, collaborate, and network online.. The project is designed to allow people in remote developing or small countries, and remote rural areas of developed countries to have access to and to share educational advantages enjoyed by wealthier developed countries of the region. The programme will allow all educators, students and people from the wider school community with Internet access to participate, The programme will use proven online interactive web community tools, knowl how, training and support supplied by Communities Online Trust.

Contractor: Communities Online Trust



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Personnel: 46000

Contracts: 22000

Training: 48000

Equipment: 9000


InformationNeedsAssessmentfortheIndigenousMinoritiesoftheSouthCotabato,SultanKudarat,Cotabato,SaranganiandGeneralSantos(SOCCSKSARGEN)Region,PhilippinesProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 12000

Project summary: There is a dearth of baseline data in the country that document the levels of access to information and information resource infrastructures for the non‐Muslim indigenous minorities of the SOCCSKSARGEN Region, Philippines. It is not clear to what extent information has been made available to these indigenous peoples. The absence of this very important baseline data could account for the poor position in the advocacy campaigns towards equity of access to information. This project proposes to answer to the absence of this baseline data in the hope that such profile would justify later policy advocacies for indigenous literarcy and increase awareness on the long‐term value of information and information resource infrastructures as vital requisites for raising the quality of life of the Lumads of the SOCCSKSARGEN Region, and increase appreciation on the intrinsic worth of learning resource infrastructures as vanguards and repositories of the richness and vibrancy of indigenous cultures.

Contractor: Fraulein A. Oclarit. Registered Librarian



Personnel: 7000

Contracts: 1000

Training: 1000

Equipment: 1500


eBlackBoardProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 26942

Project summary: eBlack Board: Each Centre (kiosk) will impart some Elementary education to

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the village children, youths and adults on a nominal fee. It will empower and educate the villagers with knowledge and hence benefit them in getting good employment. Here, we would lay a lot of importance on women and girl child in particular because they are the neglected and unprivileged class. 'Educated mothers', if we achieved will bring about a sea change in our society.

Contractor: eHealth‐Care Foundation



Personnel: 5581

Contracts: 4651

Training: 5581

Equipment: 6105


Aninvestigationintofactorsaffectingadoptionanduseofe‐resourcesintheLeastDevelopedCountriesProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 0

Project summary: Scientific and technological information is increasingly becoming available in digital form. However, experience shows that the adoption and use of e‐resources, in which information in digital form is embodied, in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) are very low. E‐resources here refer to libraries and community information centers where digital information sources and Internet access are provided, telecenters, and Internet cafes. Thus, first hand knowledge of why there is unsatisfactory level of adoption and use of e‐resources in LDCs is necessary to ensure, among other things, that information society is a global reality. This research particularly aims to investigate the specific factors that are hindering or promoting the use of existing e‐resources in LDCs in order to address the question above and to determine what measures need to be taken in order to bring about more adoption and wider use of e‐resources in LDCs. Effective measures to capitalize on the factors promoting use as well as to address the inhibiting factors can only be taken if first hand knowledge on the factors relevant in LDCs is acquired. A large‐scale survey using questionnaire and interview methods of data collection will be conducted in a typical LDCs context to identify the factors behind the use and non‐use of e‐resources. For this purpose, end‐users of e‐resources in Ethiopia are selected. Six hundred end‐user of each category of e‐resources (digital libraries/community centers, tele‐centers, and Internet cafes) and up to 25 managers/owners from the different categories of e‐resources will be selected for the survey.

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Multivariate statistical techniques will be applied on the data collected to identify the factors affecting use and non‐use of e‐resources by the respondents.

Contractor: Dr. Gashaw Kebede



Personnel: 7500

Contracts: 9050

Training: 0

Equipment: 3550


AMOBILEICTTRAININGCENTERProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 24702

Project summary: This project is aimed at improving ICT awareness in rural areas. It will comprise of training the rural people on ICT use, providing services to organizations that need to train their staff in their local offices without having to move them to towns, where ICT training centers are located. The project will also provide services to organizations that need to disseminate information to far flung rural communities. This will be possible because of the mobility of the training center, such that it can be moved to any area where it is needed.

Contractor: MARGARET SEVUME



Personnel: 18400

Contracts: 0

Training: 0

Equipment: 6302


OpportunitythroughInformationProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 14940

Project summary: This project aims at improving the European Information Center’s working

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capacity. Addressing three areas,1) Disseminating of new knowledge, skills and concepts through trainings and seminars by the European Information Center team, creating an information professionals training program that will be continuously updated to meet all innovative information technology ideas. The trainings will be offered to information centers in the Northern Bulgarian cities of Lovech, Silistra, Razgrad, Turgoviste, Rousse and Gabrovo. 2) Creation of a Website and Electronic Catalogue and its support and management in the future. The website will include information on all services provided by the European Information Center and links to other useful resources. The electronic catalogue will be made accessible to the public and will list all the information available in the European Information Center. 3) Establishment of a youth education advancement career center, where youth can research different national and international education opportunities. This center will be equipped with a desk top, a lap top computer, a multimedia machine and a printer enabling research on issues such as scholarships, exchange programs, employment opportunities and related topics. The youth will be given a demonstration on how to use the equipment and information material available for efficient research.

Contractor: European Information Center ‐ Veliko Turnovo



Personnel: 800

Contracts: 420

Training: 3930

Equipment: 6370


Lira‐InternetforallProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 24955

Project summary: In Belgrade there is no free Internet Center, and we think it is necessary as access to information for poor population NVO Lira offers the solution for this problem, with your support, by establishing the Center that would increase the conscience related to access, flow and keeping the information. . By this Project we shall provide the equipping the Center, everyday eight‐month free use of the Internet and educational program (free training for work on computer). Each user will have a possibility to chat with the people from other regions and countries (Difficulties with traveling, due to poverty and hard visa regime). The work will continue by paying the services that would be cheaper than economical prices, and educational help remains free.

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The most endangered group of users, after expiration of eight month period, will use the Internet for free 10 hours monthly. Non‐employed users will be able to check the information about vacancies. We shall help to the students to get the information related to scholarships, exchanges, taking part on seminars, etc. The project will be followed up by marketing, in order to have better information and access to more population.

Contractor: Lira – Center for culture and society development



Personnel: 4980

Contracts: 8210

Training: 2000

Equipment: 9715

Miscellaneous: 50 0

SunriseInitiativeProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 23000

Project summary: The Sunrise Initiative (SI) had its beginning in December 2001 as a result of a basic media skills training offered to nine civil society organisations (CSOs) from South Africa. Currently 13 organisations from various backgrounds (land rights, women rights, agriculture, tourism, crafts) are participating. Our vision is strong participation of all people in developmental issues and information sharing through effective communication strategies between civil society, government and private sector. Our objectives are: 1. to strengthen local democracy 2. to promote capacity building among CSOs and communities 3. to encourage organisations and communities to voice out their concerns 4. to assist in poverty alleviation and contribute to local economivc development Programmes of the SI are A. Newsletter Production ‐ "Sunrise News" B. Capacity Building C. Strengthen Local Democracy We seek funding for the programme of the newsletter production. The first Sunrise News was published in February 2002 and has ‐ always in response to the demand from the ground ‐ developed intoa regular quarterly multilingual publication (3000 copies). It is recognised as a community newsletter by national libraries, the Government Communication and Information Services (GCIS) and media institutions.

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Since its inception the project has received technical and financial assistance from German development organisations.

Contractor: Aniela Batschari



Personnel: 8000

Contracts: 12000

Training: 0

Equipment: 0


CENTREMULTIMEDIASCOMMUNAUTAIREDUKIVUProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 23660

Project summary: Ce projet s’inscrira dans le cadre de la promotion de l’alphabétisation de l’information. A l’EST de la République Démocratique du Congo, il n’existe aucun CMC outillé pour servir de plate‐forme participative pour lutter contre la fracture numérique et l’écart des technologies de l’information et de la communication dont les ruraux, les pauvres et les groupes marginalisés du Sud‐Kivu sont victimes. La Radio Sauti ya Rehema veut devenir un CMC mais se heurte jusqu'à ce jour a un problème d‘équipement, de formation et d’un télé centre. Certes, cette station évolue dans une région post‐conflit ou des population traumatisées (par les affres de la guerre) et défavorisées dans multiples domaines et ont besoin d‘échanger des informations et avoir accès aux nouvelles technologies de l’information. La Radio Sauti ya Rehema couvre actuellement une étendue comptant plus de 4 millions d’âmes dont le ¾ se trouve dans des milieux ruraux ou il y a inexistence TICS et ou le non accès a l’Internet. Un telecentre pour compléter la Radio est utile pour répondre au besoin de la population qui est regroupé dans un cadre de participation à la gestion de la radio en RCP(Radio Club de Paix). La Radio Sauti ya Rehema étant une radio associative communautaire, œuvre dans le cadre de la promotion des droits humains, de la paix, du développement en RD Congo et dans les Grands Lacs Africains. Elle fut appuyée a son ouverture par l’UNESCO et avait bénéficié de la formation de l’UNESCO sur les CENTRES MULTIMEDIAS COMMUNAUTAIRE avec un Quit de Telécentre.

Contractor: DANIEL TCHIBO


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Personnel: 4200

Contracts: 3000

Training: 2500

Equipment: 12700


CreatingSustainableLivelihoodsforMountainCommunitiesinNorthernAreasofPakistan.Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 83666

Project summary: The Northern Areas (NAs) of Pakistan are globally considered to be the world’s unique mountain ecosystem with a population around one million. NA is spread over 72,496 square kilometers in the extreme north of Pakistan, and has been divided into five districts: Gilgit, Baltistan, Diamer, Ghizer and Ghanche. A heaven on earth, the area hosts centuries old civilization, pristine environment, cultural diversity, world’s highest peaks, largest glaciers out of Antarctica, natural forests, lakes, rivers and unique biodiversity with unmatched tourism potential. Northern Areas Administration (NAA) with technical support from IUCN has prepared Northern Areas Strategy for Sustainable Development (NASSD) which provides an over arching development policy framework for the region. One of the main recommendations of NASSD is to market NAs at global level to develop ecotourism potential thus helping these remote mountain communities create livelihoods and income generation opportunities and get them out of the vicious circle of poverty. Sustainable Development Networking Proramme (SDNP) at IUCN Pakistan is proposing ICTs assisted tools and applications to promote eco‐tourism in the region as there are no better tools than ICTs that can empower disadvantaged population like mountain communities in Northern Areas to overcome the divide through community networking and knowledge sharing.

Contractor: Shahzad Ahmad



Personnel: 37500

Contracts: 8000

Training: 5000

Equipment: 27166


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DevelopingComputerRefurbishingCapacityinSouthernAfricaProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 41000

Project summary: A grant of $10 000 by the Open Society Initiative of Southern Africa (OSISA) in 2004 enabled the Community Education Computer Society (CECS) to develop a comprehensive manual on refurbishing computers. The refurbishing project aims to recruit 16 participants from 8 countries to undergo 3 weeks of training in Johannesburg to equip them with the skills, knowledge and attitudes to refurbish, maintain, fix and upgrade computers for NGOs, CBOs, SchoolNets in the Southern African region. In each of the 8 countries, a CECS committee has been established who will be responsible for recruiting the participants. It will be a condition that at least one participant is female. Participants will be responsible for training additional participants when they return to their countries. This project forms part of the CECS ICT Literacy project and is implemented in 7 countries, aims to develop an awareness of the political, social and economic implications of ICTs and the Information Society. The refurbishing project will expose participants to proprietary and open and free software solutions.

Contractor: Community education Computer Society (CECS)



Personnel: 1000

Contracts: 7000

Training: 9000

Equipment: 4000


LOCALGOVERNMENMTUPDATEMAGAZINEProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 24400

Project summary: Local Government Update would be a monthly magazine focusing on all issues that are relevant to Local governance from the perspective of best practices and capacity building. It will be a publication with an intellectual and precise source of information and a window for promoting laudable ideas on such issues as micro and small business development; poverty eradication, waste management, public sector service delivery, leadership and good governance, management and due process in accounting and budgeting in governmental affairs, technology & e‐telecommunication and

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other matters of common social‐economic interest. Local government Update will add zest to governance at the grassroots by drawing the attention of stakeholders in local government maters. Its thrust will be. Ø To report and give coverage to local and international news that affect local governance. Ø To present case studies, research results, projects of mass social benefits for learning and adoption or adaptation. Ø To be a platform for the exchange of views and ideas and for the creation of knowledge. Our target audience include Local government chairmen; councilors;Public Relations Officers, career employees; State ministries for local government matters; federal ministry of intergovernmental affairs; NGO's, the Organised Private sector and others. The estimated readership is 40,000

Contractor: Chiedu Oshai



Personnel: 6800

Contracts: 6600

Training: 4000

Equipment: 5000


"Let'sknoweachotherbetter.DevelopingofschoolcapacitiestocreateinformationalresourcesoflocalcontentinMoldova"Project status: Unfunded

Region/country: Republic of Moldova

Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: ‐School teams will be selected from various parts of Moldova, with population of different ethnic origins, so that the resources developed will be used for purposes of intercultural education and understanding otherness. ‐The main purpose of the project will be to develop of school capacities to create, store and use, for educational purposes, informational resources of local content (cultural and linguistic diversity, promoting information about the community etc.) ‐The teams from schools will consist of teachers, librarians and students. ‐After receiving the training in developing web pages as resource and informational tool for and about their community, the school teams will develop the concept of their resource, based on project goal. The focus will be on sharing and promoting the information about the community, as well as on creating a link with educational process in schools, so that the created resources become a tool for education. The resources developed will be

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available for classroom use at various subjects, depending on the concept developed by each community. ‐ A guide for using the resources in educational purposes will be created by partricipants at the project and disseminated on a larger scale. ‐ A sharing of results and dissemination conference will be organised at the end of the project, in order to examine the ptoject outputs and outcomes, and to share experience and knowledge.

Contractor: Educational Centre PRO DIDACTICA, Liliana Nicolaescu‐Onofrei, executive director



Personnel: 4000

Contracts: 2000

Training: 15000

Equipment: 2000


MobileTrainingontheInformationandCommunicationTechnologiesProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Tajikistan

Cost (USD): 24500

Project summary: Information and communication technologies (ICT) offer unprecedented tools for social and economical development of the nations. Tajikistan considers ICT as enabler of development. But the main problem for Tajikistan still remains population unawareness on benefits of ICT. The Mobile ICT Training Project (Project) aims to facilitate growth of population awareness on ICT benefits to meet various local challenges in rural countries like Tajikistan via improvement of the secondary school teachers computer skills. The target group of the project is secondary school IT trainers with the focus to train them as trainers to help other modules' teachers in implementation of the new educational technologies in their activity. Equipped with a mobile computer class with GNU/Linux platform and other free and open source applications (FOSS) on‐board and a multiprojector the Project team plans to conduct 3‐day‐training in every 15 rural districts across the country. During the training the trainees will have an opportunity to improve their computer skills on various educational applications, to learn how to make use of different Internet technologies useful for education process. The trainings will be based on the free and open source software to equip IT trainers with legal accessible by source and content and affordable tools to promote ICT as enabler of development. In addition utilization of FOSS in educational system of the country is capable to promote its economic

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growth and technological independence from proprietary software companies. To conduct this event more effectively the Project will seek for the support of the Ministry of Education of Tajikistan by signing a memorandum of understanding and involving an expert of the Ministry into the Project team. Further development of the project considers creating a website under the organization site (http://www.cipi.tj) that is freely accessible to everyone. All materials related to the project as well as IT training curriculums for various modules drafted as one of the outcomes of the project will be placed in this site. Districts that have large population and are located far from the key cities of the country will be the target ones. The ICT‐oriented Tajikistani NGO CIPI has experience of conducting similar event in the past in Tajikistan. The Mobile Roundtable Discussion on the ICT as Enabler of Development facilitated expansion of the Internet in the Sountern part of Tajikistan.

Contractor: Public Fund Civil Initiative on Policy of Internet



Personnel: 3600

Contracts: 1350

Training: 11105

Equipment: 8000


PRODUCTIONETDIFFUSIONNUMERIQUEDESEMISSIONSSURLEVIH/SIDADANSLESGRANDSLACSAFRICAINS.Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 21130

Project summary: La situation acctuelle de la région des grans lacs africains fait que la majorité de la population ne pense qu'à la restauration d'une société pacifique et sans guerre ni discrimination ethnique et ou on retrouve une cohabitation pacifique.C'est la priorité de toute la population et c'est une ambition louable mais qui demande l'effort de tout le monde. Les nouvelles technologie de l'information et de la communication peuvent jouer un grand role pour la paix et pour la santé communautaire car un homme non informé présente un danger non seulement pour soi‐meme mais pour toute la société. Quand tout le monde ne parle que des conflits on oublit une gueurre caché qui est le VIH/SIDA.ET la région continue à en soufrir.C'est pourquoi cette initiative de sensibilisation ,d'information et d'éducation sur le VIH/SIDA à travers l'internet et des supports numériques.

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Contractor: Joseph NKINZO



Personnel: 3900

Contracts: 2730

Training: 6200

Equipment: 5000


UsingTraditionalInformationandICTtostrengthentheconservationofthelargestremainingrainforestinMadagascarProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: The project will aim to engage traditional views on conservation and natural resource management practices to help save the last big rainforest in Madagascar, namely the Masoala Peninsula, and some of the reefs surrounding it. Like in the rest of Madagascar there is a looming conservation crisis, partly because foreign donors and agencies try to impose technical measures on the local population without paying sufficient attention to the traditional views and local practices. These views and practices developed over two thousand years from peoples’ needs to use resources wisely for their own survival. Much of the traditional wisdom is based on common logic, such as to not catch more fish than you can use or your children will have less to eat, to an intricate system in which taboos and traditions are interwoven with the destiny of creatures living in the forest. The project will closely examine those traditional relationships between resources and local people, using graduates from the University of Toamasina’s environmental department who come from the area. The findings will be brought back to the people using ICT in innovative ways that will help bridge the gap between that which they know to be true, and the modern ways to try and protect Nature.

Contractor: Feon' ny Ala (Voice of the Forest)



Personnel: 9000

Contracts: 4000

Training: 5000

Equipment: 4000


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TheLocalizationofPashto/DarilanguagesforAfghanistanProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Afghanistan

Cost (USD): 67300

Project summary: As it is clear to every one that information technology is bringing a wide range of facilities to the day to day life of government, citizen and businessmen. It is having great impact on the efficiency of the outputs of the work undertaken by these different entities. Looking at the percentage of the content available on the internet and the software applications available in the market; 80% is in English and this in a way is not addressing the needs of those nations which have their procedures done in their native languages. The lake of local content is affecting the work process and efficiency of these nations. In case of Afghanistan the country’s official languages are Pashto and Dari and all the administrative tasks are done in these languages. So in order to introduce electronic administration and culture of paper less office it is a must to have the system in local languages. The project will work on the computer terms and will find appropriate terms in Pashto/Dari, which will be then used by different software developing companies and individuals. The project will also cover the Local and Lexicon for the languages. This project will address these issues and upon completion will open grounds for those who have literacy in their native languages to use computer and make use of this fantastic technology in their day to day tasks.

Contractor: Afghan Computer Science Association



Personnel: 63600

Contracts: 0

Training: 0

Equipment: 2300


UsingInformationCommunicationTechnologiestoEstablishaGlobalPartnershipamongMathandScienceEducatorsinAfrica,theCaribbean,andRuralandUrbanAmericaProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 73002

Project summary: The University of Toledo, in conjunction with project partners from the University of Namibia, The Pennsylvania State University, and George Mason University propose a project that will use Information Communication

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Technologies (ICTs) to create a global partnership among Math and Science elementary and secondary educators. This partnership seeks to identify concerns and barriers related to effectively teaching math and science. Participants will be pre‐ and in‐service teachers from Africa, the Caribbean, and rural and urban communities in the United States of America who will engage in online cross‐cultural collaborations. This online discourse will provide opportunities for knowledge sharing, identify areas for improvements in teacher education, identify professional development needs, and explore the use of ICTs to improve the teaching of teach math and science. The results will also provide a framework for designing a knowledge base of effective contextually relevant strategies, best practices, and Web‐based resources, the development of which will be the next phase of the project. Findings will be disseminated through conference presentations, peer reviewed journal articles, and a monograph. The project is budgeted at $73,002 for a 12‐month period. Of this $50,696 are direct costs and $22,306 are in‐direct costs.

Contractor: Dr. Noela A. Haughton



Personnel: 21696

Contracts: 0

Training: 5000

Equipment: 8000


BacktotheFutureProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 9620

Project summary: Thirteen years after the end of the fighting in Vukovar and the town is still suffering from many of the afflictions of being a post war area. With few services and prospects offered to young people, Vukovar is seeing its youth leave the region for good and this is one of the biggest and growing problems facing the town today. There is very little offered to youth in the form of extra curricular or non formal activities and young people have little opportunity to develop new skills or expand existing ones. A number of NGO’s in Vukovar provide free computer courses, but these are extremely oversubscribed and there is a growing demand which is not being met. The main aim therefore is to provide four three month computer courses for young people in the town, with the aim of providing free computer access for the duration of and after the courses end; to provide a place for computer access at no cost to the users. At present YPGD has three

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computers and one laptop for work, we would therefore require an additional five computers for the purpose of this course.

Contractor: Youth Peace Grooup Danube



Personnel: 2400

Contracts: 120

Training: 0

Equipment: 6000


EnablingCoastalCommunitiesthroughInformation&CommunicationTechnologyforDevelopmentinKaraikal,PondicherryState,INDIAProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 22000

Project summary: Enabling Coastal Communities through Information & Communication Technology for Development The Mission of DHAN Foundation is “Building Institutions for Development Innovation and Upscaling of Impacting Livelihoods to Enable Poor Communities”. The Information Technology for Poor theme has the objective of making Information Technology accessible to poor by developing relevant schemes through research, pilot activities and experimenting socially relevant programmes related to microfinance, agriculture, health and other social development programmes. The Project is proposed to be implemented in four tsunami affected coastal villages of Karaikal district, Pondicherry State, INDIA. The following services are proposed to be provided under this project. a. Adult literacy particularly for poor women b. Effective coaching for poor children through relevant multimedia educational content c. Coastal agriculture extension through relevant multimedia agriculture content d. Fishery technology extension e. Early warning system for farmers and fishermen It is proposed to provide all the services both online and offline. Video conferencing method will be used for people to people and people to resource persons (Government / Research Institutes) interaction as online services. Relevant content in CDs will be prepared and used as offline services. The beneficiaries will be poor women and children, farmers and fishermen of the coastal villages

Contractor: DHAN Foundation


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Personnel: 4000

Contracts: 1000

Training: 4000

Equipment: 12000


Developmentofprototypeweb‐basedIntegratedMalariaSurveillanceSysteminTangaregion,NorthernTanzania.Project status: Unfunded

Region/country: United Republic of Tanzania

Cost (USD): 25268

Project summary: Malaria is the leading cause of hospitalization and death among children and adults in Tanzania and other endemic areas in the developing world. Malaria case detection and management, surveillance, and community‐based control activities are fragmented, so that community is usually not prepared in case of any outbreaks. An integrated web‐based geographic information and decision support system developed through action research (soft system) methods involving health care, public health personnel, local government, and community members is expected to improve the detection and management of malaria cases, prevention and control of malaria transmission in the community. An Open source database management system (mysql with spatial extension) and web application (PHP) will be utilized to facilitate the system in improving the effectiveness of malaria surveillance activities. The developed system will serve as a tool to enhance concerted efforts in reducing the incidence of malaria and to continuously evaluate the effectiveness of control strategies in Muheza and Tanga Districts in Tanga region. The system will thus become a model for malaria control approach in other endemic areas and may as well be applied for other communicable diseases. The project will take 14 months and the estimated budget is USD 25,267.60

Contractor: Mr. Twaha Mlwilo



Personnel: 7000

Contracts: 2000

Training: 1500

Equipment: 12750


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MobilisingthePowerofKnowledgeNetworksandICTtofosterEvaluationinAfricaProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 34775

Project summary: Evaluation in Africa is at a critical stage of development. A greater emphasis on country‐led development, accountability, the MDGs and the NEPAD vision have contributed to a fast‐growing demand for local evaluators as well as new, more appropriate evaluation methods based on local expertise and experiences. To meet this demand, in 1999 African evaluators formed the overarching African Evaluation Association, as well as nearly 20 national evaluation associations. These “knowledge networks” have provided evaluators with a sense of community as well as an opportunity to amplify efforts to share information, build capacity and advocate for change. AfrEA has demonstrated its mobilising power through three Africa‐wide conferences, the last attended by more than 500 people from 56 countries. It has also started to develop a knowledge base which includes a database of African evaluators and a resource library on development‐specific subjects from HIV‐AIDS to crisis prevention. These resources include methodological guidelines, tools and indicators, evaluation findings, statistics and journals. African evaluation needs a vibrant community of evaluators and evaluation users engaged in learning, sharing and in giving voice to African evaluation expertise in national, regional and international policy contexts. Critical to this is an effective knowledge base and ample opportunity to share information across the continent using both African and international resources. This project will be the first phase in a major initiative to muster the power of ICT in combination with the amplifying power of evaluation associations and networks towards this vision. Led by AfrEA in partnership with national organisations and the UK’s Overseas Development Institute, it will develop and implement a digital information centre tailor‐made to suit African contexts, with national nodes acting as conduits for information and knowledge mobilisation and management in pilot sites in five countries across Africa.

Contractor: Lise Kriel, AfrEA Secretariat, in conjunction with the AfrEA Board of Trustees



Personnel: 18675

Contracts: 13250

Training: 2850

Equipment: 0

Miscellaneous: 0 0

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Advancinggenderequality:DigitalaudioproductiontrainingforgirlsinSouthAfricaProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 51761

Project summary: This project aims to put information in the hands of girls and establish them as active participants in the production, dissemination of radio ready "spots" on issues geared towards building on their personal and developmental needs. The outputs generated by the girls and young women will be disseminated to community radio stations, to raise broader awareness of the gender issues that girls face. The project will be implemented at the level of the country, in 6 of the 9 provinces. Its follows up on a 3 province pilot project implemented by Women’sNet in 2003/2004. It will combine both face‐to‐face and online networking components. ICTs will form a core component of the implementation and sustainability of the project The project outputs include, 6 provincial workshops targeting at least 108 girls, a multimedia web site maintained by the participating girls, a CD‐Rom that will contain the girls’ stories, materials for organisations and trainers working with girls, as well as a research‐based publication based on the ongoing evaluation of the girls’ learnings. Other outputs include increased life and leadership skills among the participating girls, greater awareness of the value and potential of ICTs for development, the ability to work cross‐culturally in teams, as well as how to mediate between diverging opinions.

Contractor: Women'sNet



Personnel: 10000

Contracts: 6000

Training: 32221

Equipment: 2460


GrantandSupportProgrammeforMediaevalChurchandMonasteryArchivesintheEasternCentralEuropeanCountriesProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: The purpose of the project is to promote the digitalisation of mediaeval church and monastery archives and to provide a user‐friendly web‐access to selected historical sources. As serious efforts have already started in all the large archives of Europe, we want to focus – in this project ‐ on the

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integration of the numerous smaller archives in the Eastern parts of Central Europe. Via a specific grant programme, we will address, select and encourage especially smaller archives in RO, CR, Serbia, SL, HU, AT, SK and CZ to start – on best practice – their own digital projects, to benefit from existing resources and experiences and to participate in a cross‐border network (www.monasterium.net). In the project, we also want to structure and enlarge our informal network of mediaeval archivists by establishing a legal entity and building up new sustainable working structures. The long‐term vision of the project is to install a virtual platform providing free access for research and education to the entire primary archival sources (and the relevant scientific descriptions) left from the 11th to the 15th century. The platform will directly support historical research and education (on university and school‐level).

Contractor: Dr. Thomas Aigner



Personnel: 2000

Contracts: 4000

Training: 4000

Equipment: 0


ImpartingDigitalInformationSkillstoInformationProfessionalsindevelopingcountries‐TrainingtoTrainersinIndiaandSouthAfricaProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 42000

Project summary: ncreasingly, the information generation and dissemination result in digital format. The system and technology of digital information dissemination is undergoing rapid developments. Some recent findings in the literature that students in developing nations have very poor information skill levels and even having undergone some significant training there is little evidence, in some cases, of any skills improvement. Consequently, the large student population in developing countries fails to tap the digital information resources. The only way of imparting digital information exploitation to a large number of students is through the information intermediaries such as library and information professionals. The most effective way of delivering information skills is for all stakeholders in the process to work collaboratively, and for information skills to be integrated into their professional life. These skills are underpinned to a certain degree by digital information literacy. However, there is very little activity to train the

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information professionals in developing countries. Encouraging information professionals to pursue tracking in digital information resources still challenges information access. Consistently, the prototype studies that assess the current knowledge of information professionals have observed that the likelihood an information professional will succeed in digital information technology access is enhanced by the availability of appropriate training. Hence, we felt the need to develop a comprehensive training programme for information professionals in two developing countries India and South Africa. This project would help to promote the importance of information skills to both the library, information and academic community at large

Contractor: Dr.P.Pichappan



Personnel: 10000

Contracts: 5000

Training: 15000

Equipment: 8000


CaravaneInformatiquedansquelquesétablissementsd’enseignementsecondairesduBurundiProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Burundi

Cost (USD): 20000

Project summary: Les volontaires de l’association BYTC vont mener des formations de formateurs en bureautique en faveur de quelques professeurs et de quelques élèves de deux écoles secondaires publiques pilotes : Lycée du Lac Tanganyika et le Lycée de Nyabiharage. Ces formations seront effectuées avec le matériel informatique de l’association BYTC. Avant les formations, les volontaires de BYTC devront créer un CD multimédia interactif de support pour le cours de Biologie de la classe de 7ème année. Le séjour sera de quatre semaines par établissement. La matière à donner s’étend sur l’initiation au système d’exploitation ( Microsoft Windows et Linux), initiations aux logiciels de bureautique ( Microsoft Office et Open Office), ainsi que l’initiation à l’usage d’Internet. La seconde phase va consister à créer des clubs d’informatique dans ces écoles pilotes et à équiper chacune de dix ordinateurs de seconde main et d’une imprimante laser que l’association BYTC demandera de la part de ses donateurs. Ces clubs seront mis en place à la fins de chaque formation. Le but de ces club est de continuer à étendre ces formations dans ces établissements d’enseignement. En effet, ceux qui auront bénéficié de la formation devront continuer à former les nouveaux adhérents aux clubs d’informatique.

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Contractor: NKURUNZIZA Jean Paul



Personnel: 8100

Contracts: 7000

Training: 900

Equipment: 3000


BEPTAGMultimediaAcademy‐BEstPractiseTAughtGloballybytheWorld'sBestProducersProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: The "BEPTAG Multimedia Academy" (short "Academy") is an extension to the existing road show of the World Summit Award (WSA), coordinated by the Salzburg based non‐profit organisation ICNM (International Center for New Media) and part of the larger World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), promoting information literacy for the interested public and for information professionals in Least Developed Countries (LDCs). The winners, finalists and awarded participants (out of the participating 168 partner‐countries of WSA) teach information and communications technology literacy based on best practises to visitors from their respective global region. The WSA is a main initiative within the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), is supported by partners in 168 countries and honoured to have as patrons eight heads of state. More on the WSA at: http://www.wsis‐award.org. Due to the excellent and widespread WSA network successful road show events were conducted in countries like Australia, Finland, Ireland, Hongkong, Spain, Romania, Germany, Canada, USA, Lebanon, Poland and others. It showed that they are either industrialised or emerging countries, but not LDCs. Each event was done in close cooperation with the local host facilitating the excellent connections in the respective country, leading to a very affordable budget of about EUR 7.000,‐ for the 4‐5 day workshop including all cost for preparation, marketing, public relations, travel expenses, fulfilment of the event, social programme, computer rental, working time and the teaching to the several hundred visitors – everything. However, it was seen that an outreach towards LDCs is difficult, respectively impossible within this network: Organisations in these countries can not afford to cover the self‐cost for the multicultural and international event and the WSA organiser ICNM as a small private non‐profti organisation cannot

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solely finance such efforts in these remote locations. The events will raise the awareness for the importance of the outstanding e‐Content in the development of the Information Society with an international, professional and multicultural approach. The concept of the Academy includes exhibitions, showcase events, workshops, lectures, key note speeches, as well as additionally featuring the best practise examples from the respective regions installed on the computers of the hosting partner. At the end of each Academy the host keeps all the winning products and handbooks for a further, autonomous and free use in the future, guaranteeing maximum impact and sustainability for further education. The nations suggested for the Academy to visit are Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Haiti, Samoa and Uganda.

Contractor: Christian Bauer – International Center for New Media



Personnel: 10000

Contracts: 10

Training: 0

Equipment: 0


AsianFilmArchiveProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: The Asian Film Archive is founded on a deep respect for the talent, passion and dedication of the countless individuals who have devoted their lives to the art of Asian Cinema. We are a non‐profit social enterprise with an objective to save, explore and share the art of Asian Cinema. Most discussions on the future of Asian cinema revolve around film production. Yet much more is needed if film is to become an integral part of our cultural life. We believe it is vital that a dedicated film archive be built to serve a nexus of activity to nurture the Asian film community. Films from Asia are increasingly hybrids of cross‐border and cross‐cultural influence. The process of globalisation has brought a sense of cosmopolitanism and transnationalism. With the rise of a diasporic consciousness, there are new contemporary Asian cultural negotiations represented in fresh cinematic works. Asia’s creative industries are gaining global attention. The development of an Asian Film Archive, which would collect acclaimed Asian film, will also encompass the functions of research, education, cinematique and outreach.

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Contractor: Karen Chua



Personnel: 10000

Contracts: 5000

Training: 5000

Equipment: 20000


MorroDigital(digitalslum)Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 68965

Project summary: Diaconia, founded in 1967 is a philanthropic organization, located at Ilha do Leite, Rua Marques Amorim, 504, Recife – Brazil Since 2001 Diaconia has a partnership with the local Tenants Association in the Morro da Conceição district, through the program ´ Promoção da Criança e do Adolescente ´(project of promoting children and adolescents), in developing together the project "Crescendo no Morro" (Growing up on the Hill) The program carries out planned activities based on the following lines of action: 1, Social/ Educational Activities (attending about 350 children), with the aim of bringing back and restoring respect for the historical artistic culture of the Morro da Conceição district, favouring the development of the people’s potentials, skills and the formation of citizenship awareness; community co‐ordination and mobilisation, with a view to strengthening community actions, co‐ordinating and organizing initiatives to better the standard of living in the neighbourhood, through partnerships. 2, Supporting the Families on a Social Basis, with the aim of systematically developing a work with the families to strengthen the relationships between children, adolescents and their families, as well as stimulating the families to get involved and participate in the project. All these activities are being carried out on the basis of a diagnosis carried out on the community in 2001 were guided, fruit of a diagnostic research , set up by Diaconia and the community in 2001. The setting up of the Internet Centre will be one more result of this partnership that has already given fruitful results and has contributed to a positive transformation of the lives of the people who live in the Morro da Conceição district. Diaconia works on the same basis in 5 communities in Fortaleza and Recife, where the projects of digital inclusion are to be multiplied

Contractor: Alexandre Botelho Merrem


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Personnel: 13461

Contracts: 2307

Training: 1923

Equipment: 18094


TrainingoftrainersinwebdesignandonlinenewspaperpublishingProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 30000

Project summary: The project is meant to build the capacity of ICT professionals in Malawi, Swaziland and Lesotho with special focus on women. The idea is to ensure that some of the institutions are equipped with skills website designing and online newspaper publishing. there is lack of skills in these areas. The motivation is that once the country has people with such skills they will train others who on turn will use the skills to create web pages in the areas of poverty reduction, e‐governance, food self sufficiency, HIV/AIDS, and education for all among others. Some of them will be able to establish online nespapers. In both cases there will be more information available to the citizens of Malawi for informed decision making and action.

Contractor: Malawi National Commission for UNESCO



Personnel: 3000

Contracts: 5000

Training: 18000

Equipment: 2000


PromotingDistanceLearningthroughtheUseofICTattheSecondaryLevelinNamibia,SouthAfricaandBotswanaProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 40000

Project summary: Within the framework of The UNESCO Cross‐Cutting Theme Programme: ICT Supported Distance Education for Secondary Schools in Africa, UNESCO Windhoek Cluster Office has been collaborating with the Education Sector and the Communication and Information Sector at the UNESCO

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Headquarters in the implementation of a pilot project in Namibia. Following the progress of the project so far, it is recommended that the project be expanded to South Africa and Botswana. In 2005, within the framework of IFAP, a joint training workshop will be held to further sensitise distance learning professionals in the three countries on information literacy and the use of ICT in open and distance learning. The workshop will be followed by exchange study visits by the participating institutions which will compile studies on the situation of ICT and distance learning at the secondary level in each country. Each country study will critically look at the following: • Institutional capacity • Infrastructure (access to computers, the Internet and radio) • Computer and information literacy • User needs (distance learners as well as learners at the secondary level) • Added values of e‐based learning Subsequently, the Project Team, comprising the UNESCO Programme Specialists and experts from the three institutions, will formulate strategies for developing relevant e‐mode of learning at the secondary level in the three countries.

Contractor: Ms Harumi Toyama (Associate Expert – Education/WIN), Ms Kaleni Hiyalwa (CI National Project Officer/WIN), Mr Edem Adubra (Programme Specialist – Education/STV/GSE), Ms Dana Ziyasheva (Programme Specialist – CI/BEJ)



Personnel: 1000

Contracts: 20000

Training: 10000

Equipment: 8000


EuropeanclassicsonlinedigitallibraryProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 44000

Project summary: The Sormani city library of Milan, Italy will donate a collection of 3000 books representative of European culture to the Library of Alexandria, Egypt. The collection includes out of copyright classics of European literature, history, politics and philosophy. The Library of Alexandria will scan the books and make them available for universal access through the One Million Books Project, a joint effort between US, Indian, Chinese Government, University institutions and Libraries whose goal is to make available an online library of one million books.

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Internet Archive, a US not‐for‐profit organization, partner in the One Million Books Project, will coordinate the project and upload the collection of digitized books, do the evaluation studies and will make sure to serve the collection through a high bandwidth connection. Access to the collection will be open and free of charge. Books will go through an OCR software and their text will be fully searchable. The project will be evaluated by measuring the number of accesses over a period of three months, success will be achieved if accesses are at the same rate of entire collection presented on line during the evaluation period.

Contractor: Internet Archive (contact Ottavia Bassetti)



Personnel: 26000

Contracts: 8000

Training: 2000

Equipment: 5000


KnowledgeSystemforTechnologyTransferProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: We are trying to eliminate poverty by making technology available to the marginalized sector. The Philippines is poor country with a relatively low technological capability in general. However, there are few centers of technical excellence in Physics, electronics and life science found in the universities. We believe that we could re‐channel the capabilities of these scientist and engineers to improve the productivity and profitability of agricultural produce and traditional industries.

Contractor: Pilosopong Tasyo Technopreneurs' Multipurpose Cooperative



Personnel: 10000

Contracts: 5000

Training: 0

Equipment: 5000


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PlanningofaCulturale‐ObservatoryforArmenia("Mashtots"Portal),dedicatedto1600thanniversaryofArmenianAlphabet,createdbyMashtotsProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: Creation of digital resources for cultural domain in Armenia until now is following an ad hoc path as regards methodologies for the production and management of digital projects. This is leading to the creation of digital resources of a short life span. Armenia's cultural e‐content scene remains fragmented, with relatively few active actors, limited intra‐Armenian cultural information flows, and weak ties between stackholders, thus hampering the development of a successful and internationally interoperable cultural e‐content. However, we are now at the stage where standards and guidelines are being constructed across experienced international communities. A broadly‐based infrastructure comprising software tools, skills and data standards is a prerequisite for the timely and cost effective creation and deployment of cultural e‐content. It is the structural basis for any sustained digitisation effort. The proposed definition‐phase project of planning of Cultural e‐Observatory for Armenia("Mashtots" Portal), devoted to 1600th anniversary of creation of Armenian alphabet, will help bring new ideas to maturity, allow for orderly feasibility and planning work, and provide a framework for early experimentation and appraisal. The project will try to provide a coherent framework for presently disperse initiatives, help identify collaborative paths and reach critical mass, and stimulate the active involvement of relevant parties within cultural domain institutions, private sector and government, with a view to creating an environment favorable to the wider deployment of cultural e‐content of Armenia.

Contractor: Information Technoloies Foundation



Personnel: 4920

Contracts: 10260

Training: 4800

Equipment: 3900


ICTtoolfordistancelearningforchildrenwithdisabilitiesProject status: Unfunded

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Region/country: Italy

Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: A collaborative initiative is proposed to develop and test an open source, open platform solution to facilitate educational content packaging, management and access by groups with disabilities. The focus is on children with physical disabilities.The outputs is a software solution for overcoming barriers that children with disabilities face regarding the production and access to educational content in distance learning. The work is based on an existing open source CMS solution (TikiWiki) and is intended to donate the results to the open source community. TikiWiki was recommended by The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation and listed as a Productivity Web Tool. (http://www.unesco.org/cgi‐bin/webworld/portal_freesoftware/cgi/search.cgi?query=tikiwiki&search2=GO

Contractor: Fondazione Ritiro San Pelegrino ‐ Gestione Istituto Malpighi


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Personnel: 4000

Contracts: 16000

Training: 3000

Equipment: 0


AplicacióndelasTIC(TecnologíasdelaInformaciónylaComunicación)enlaeducacióndepersonascondiscapacidadenArgentina,ParaguayyUruguayProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 40000

Project summary: El proyecto pretende trabajar con unos 200 niños y jóvenes con discapacidad de Argentina, Paraguay y Uruguay e intenta aprovechar el carácter multimedia, flexible y creativo de las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TIC) y las Tecnologías Adaptativas para construir “Centros estimuladores de las Inteligencias” en los que, mediante actividades de comunicación y curriculares multisensoriales, puedan desarrollar sus capacidades al máximo. Las TIC las utilizamos como elementos que facilitan la inclusión escolar y social de los niños y jóvenes con dificultades motóricas (parálisis cerebral, espina bífida, distrofia muscular), visuales (ceguera y deficientes visuales), auditivas (sordera e hipoacusia), intelectuales (síndrome de Down, borderline, retraso mental), trastornos generales del desarrollo (espectro autista, hiperactividad ). La capacitación directa se realizará a 125 maestros, 300 familiares y 250 profesionales (médicos, terapeutas, psicólogos, ...) en dos modalidades. La

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presencial, tipo workshops, para grupos reducidos, se completará con la capacitación virtual a través de Internet donde participantes y facilitadores podrán enviar y recibir mensajes (e‐grupos), intercambiar información (e‐mail), compartir experiencias (entorno virtual phpBB), realizar consultas o participar en las actividades que se propongan en cada módulo formativo (portal Web).

Contractor: Roxana Castellano, Red Especial Uruguaya



Personnel: 3000

Contracts: 19700

Training: 11750

Equipment: 4000


InternationalConferenceon"e‐governanceforthedevelopingworld:bestpracticesandcriticalsuccessfactors"Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 90000

Project summary: Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI) plans to organize an "International conference" on "e‐governance for developing countries" during July 1‐3, 2005. ASCI has experience in conducting e‐governance programs for the Colombo plan countries and GMS countries. The purpose of the event is to present expert knowledge on how information and communication technologies (ICT) can be used to help developing countries. International experts from governments, academic institutions and private sector organizations will be invited to participate. The aim would be to have a series of presentations, panel discussions and interactive sessions between the speakers, panelists and delegates attending from developing countries. Experts from developed countries will be invited to make presentations on best practices and successful implementations of e‐governance. Government experts and academics from developing countries would be in a position to make the case for their needs to evolve e‐governance programs. The overarching focus of the event is to bring government officials and experts from both developed and developing countries to engage in dialogue on how developing countries can move forward through the use of ICTs. There will be a "call for papers" to encourage wider participation. Proceedings of the papers presented in the conference will be prepared.

Contractor: Dr Narasimhaiah Gorla


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Personnel: 20000

Contracts: 10000

Training: 2000

Equipment: 13000


E‐DOK:ALocalizedPrimaryHealthInformationPortalforthePhilippineCommunityE‐centerProgramusinganInterfaceforComputer‐illiterateUsersProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: Based on the Philippine Medium Term Development Implementation Plan, 105 Community E‐Centers (or telecenters) will be installed across the Philippines by 2006. One of the key content that the CECs will allow access to the Internet will be health information. Information on health is most prominent, particularly for its vital nature and also for the unusual predominance of inaccurate data on health. Also, despite the plethora of health information on the Internet, very little is suitable for dissemination to rural communities, both in terms of language and content. Currently, there is no online Philippine repository of health content targeted at the community level. Most health information on the Internet is written in English and address diseases and health concerns in developing countries. This information needs to be reformatted to ensure local suitability and relevance. Improving access to reliable, relevant information for healthcare workers is potentially the most cost‐effective way to enhance the delivery of healthcare and reduce the burden of disease and death in developing countries. Not only must the content be localized and relevant, it must also be presented in a manner that will be appropriate for the majority of rural users who are computer‐illiterate. This project will be built‐upon the lessons of the Philippine Council for Health Research and Development in the deployment of Multipurpose Community Telecenters in the Southern Philippines.

Contractor: SynapseHealth



Personnel: 0

Contracts: 21000

Training: 2000

Equipment: 0


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InformationServicesforProcessAnalysisinSugarIndustry(ISPASI)Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 38000

Project summary: The Iberia‐American Reference Centre for Process Analysis in Sugar Industry (CRIAPIA) was created for developing process analysis tools (methodologies, software) and for promoting their use, own or developed in other places, in the Latin American sugar community. These tools, usually used in rich countries; but not in ours, are an important contribution for increasing economic and technical efficiency (energy, water use, etc.) with pollution reduction, and for the analysis of politics of diversification (cogeneration, alcohol, etc.), which constitutes the main strategy of Latin American sugar industry to face unstable sugar prices and increasing fuel prices in the world market and survive, guaranteeing thousands of jobs in the region. This Project is oriented to build part of the capacity for achieving the second goal. In this development phase, CRIAPIA will install appropriate equipment, and contract services for having a first efficient connection to Internet and for disseminating information (web site, discussion lists, newsletters, etc.) among industries and other beneficiaries. It is also of interest to create the first cell of a specialized Library on Process Analysis, with digital and traditional contents, and to train information professionals in centres of excellence for giving high level information services based on these new capacities.

Contractor: Raúl Sabadí Díaz



Personnel: 5000

Contracts: 10000

Training: 6000

Equipment: 10000


"InformationliteracycampaignsforthesecondaryschoolsinBosniaandHerzegovina"Project status: Unfunded

Region/country: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: The regrettable conflicts occurred last decade left secondary schools in Bosnia and Herzegovina in information illiteracy due to

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* Displacement of qualified school teachers abroad * Replacement of most qualified school teachers in business from the education sector; * Destroy of most IT equipment of secondary schools and the slow‐pace replacement * The new government is not in position to pay full attention to information literacy in secondary education and the lack of coherent education politics in the field. These are serious constraints together with the time and budget constraints due to the actual economic situation in the country. We intend to launch information literacy campaigns during the coming summer academic holiday for secondary schools to overcome current obstacles. Our mission would be to propose a model curriculum that can be used to integrate computer science fluency and competency throughout secondary schools in Bosnia and Herzegovina. We intend to propose and adopt the new teaching material and train the teachers from the secondary school. Our hope is also that this approach would be the initiation of many pilot projects that would further improve the level of secondary school computer science. However the university, which has no ways and means to fulfill the whole task only with the actual budget, is desperately seeking UNESCO's support.

Contractor: Faculty of Natural Sciences, dr. Haris Gavranovic



Personnel: 11000

Contracts: 0

Training: 8000

Equipment: 5000


INFORMATIONCENTREFORINTERNATIONALSTUDIESProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 50000

Project summary: The Jawaharlal Nehru University Library is one of the modern and well equipped university libraries in India. It has richest bibliographic resources comprising of various types of Book and non‐book materials accounting for more than 4.25 lakh volumes which include all disciplines for which study and research is conducted at the university. Library building is located in the midst of Academic complex of the University. The library is administered by the University Librarian with the assistance of Deputy Librarians, Asst. Librarians, Professional Asstts and Supporting Staff.

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The Library Committee functions as a policy making and advisory body with the Vice‐Chancellor as its Chairman and the University Librarian as Member Secretary and Deans of Schools, Chairpersons of Centres and representatives of faculty and students as members. Indian Culture Studies where international aspects information resources will be disseminated to the international users. The centre will hold an international relations information resources where the fields of study include 1. American Studies 2. Latin American Studies 3. Canadian Studies 4. West European Studies 5. International Legal Studies 6. International Trade & Development 7. Diplomatic Studies 8. Japanese Studies 9. Chinese Studies 10. Korean Studies. 11. International Politics 12. International Organisation 13. Political Geography 14. Russian, Central Asian and East European Studies 15. South Asian Studies 16. Southeast Asian & Southwest Pacific Studies 17. Central Asian Studies 18. West Asian and North African Studies and 19. Sub‐Saharan African Studies

Contractor: Dr. Muttayya Koganuramath, Univeristy Librarian, M.L.I.Sc.; M.A. ; M.Sc.I.M. (Sheffield, U.K) ; Ph.D



Personnel: 20000

Contracts: 4000

Training: 10000

Equipment: 10000


ComputernetworkandICTforchildrenwithspecialeducationalneedsintheRepublicofArmeniaProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: This proposal is aimed at securing funding for installation of a computer network for the public sector organizations, dealing with the problems of children with special educational needs. We intend to provide hardware, software, and training to NGOs across Armenia to empower local NGOs out of the capital city. These groups lack resources and skills necessary for advancing their goals. The computer network we intend to install will help local NGOs share information, discuss common problems, use the resources (particularly consultancy resources concentrated in the capital city of Armenia), create internet forums for their constituencies, provide computer literacy. There are over 120.000 handicapped people, including 10.000 children in Armenia. This number has been inflated by the dramatic earthquake of 1988 and the war in Nagorno Karabakh. The overall socioeconomic collapse left

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handicapped in the most miserable conditions, as it usually happens with vulnerable groups. The NGO sector and civic society play crucial role by addressing major challenges at grassroots level. We emphasize the provision of education for children with special educational needs and provision of essential information. The obstacles include the lack of information sharing tools, remoteness of some districts, and insufficiency of coordination efforts, lack of skills among local NGOs, parental training program, and of organizational capacities.

Contractor: “Havat” NGO of mothers of hard of hearing children



Personnel: 10000

Contracts: 3000

Training: 1000

Equipment: 7000


BETTERINFORMATIONFORMOREYOUNGPEOPLEProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 24600

Project summary: Scout Association of Vojvodina is an educational, non‐governmental organization of young people. The Scout Organization of Vojvodina is organizing its 5th regional Jamboree called “ADVENTURE” from 19.‐28.July, 2005 with 1000 participants from the region and other countries. The main goal of the jamboree is to provide an opportunity for the non‐formal education through the Youth program, which would meet their needs, and promote mutual understanding and cooperation in the region. Researches in Serbia are showing that only a low percent of families have computers (under 20%) and which have they don’t use the internet (only 30% of them). For improving this, we are making a workshop called Cyber Scout where the kids can learn various methods how to use computers to get to information. In free time the workshop will be offering free access to information trough the internet. After 10 days of the Jamboree the equipment will bee allocated in 15 local scout groups in the region for raising the level of information literacy of the society and strengthening the network in the region. As a consequence of the project 1000 children will have direct admittance to information on the jamboree and another 1000 in the local groups.

Contractor: Scout Association of Vojvodina



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Personnel: 1375

Contracts: 498

Training: 0

Equipment: 21967


SchoolandUniversityLibrariesDevelopmentthroughSelf‐EvaluationProjectProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 35000

Project summary: This self‐evaluation project is designed to enable strategists and trainers in Hungary and Portugal (and, through them, managers of library services) to build the capacity to support first‐year students in universities (Portugal) and in schools (Hungary) in enhancing their information literacy capabilities. The focus of the project is on equipping school library managers and university libraries when supporting first‐year information literacy programmes to evaluate their own performance in information literacy development as an impetus towards developing that practice. The project will exploit development work already undertaken in the United Kingdom (with central government funding) in order to enable participants in Hungary and Portugal to engage with self‐evaluation issues. (The UK model is in turn designed as an evidence‐based development initiative, since every element of the model is based on best‐practice drawn from research conducted in the UK, USA, Europe and elsewhere.) The project will also test the exrtent to which this ‘technology transfer’ model to can be applied as an information literacy self‐evaluation model in other national educational environments.

Contractor: David Streatfield



Personnel: 13500

Contracts: 6550

Training: 11450

Equipment: 1000


InformationSharingbetweenCoastalSocietiesthroughICTProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 42000

Project summary: The project will use ICT platforms to share information between three

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coastal societies – in Tanzania (Zanzibar), Angola and South Africa (Northern Cape). Inhabitants in the three areas have much in common. Most depend largely on living marine resources for their survival. Many live in abject poverty in spite of the rich living marine resources on their doorsteps. The coastal areas are also transforming in terms of access to the coast, emerging tourism and/or protected areas, and changes in resource ownership. Information on living marine resource utilization, including issues, methodologies, organization of fishers and obstacles that stand in the way of sustainable and equitable resource utilization will be shared. How the fishers organize themselves to attain maximum benefits while minimizing impacts on the open access marine resources, is a key issue in all three countries. Different forms of collaborative fishing are being explored in all three countries, ranging from worker‐owned businesses in South Africa to cooperatives in Tanzania and Angola. Much can be gained by exchanging information, “lessons learned” and broader perspectives but interactions are stymied by the long distances and cost of travel. Innovative use of ICT platforms, however hold the promise of bridging the existing information gaps, building a common knowledge base and bringing benefits closer to the ground.

Contractor: International Knowledge Management (IKM)



Personnel: 18000

Contracts: 12000

Training: 8000

Equipment: 3000


ProjetauBurkinaFasoProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Burkina Faso

Cost (USD): 20000

Project summary: Le projet se veut être un ensemble d’actions que l’organisation entend mener pour démystifier l’Internet dans le domaine éducatif et accroître le taux de réussite scolaire au Burkina . Cette démystification de l’Internet concoure à une réelle politique nationale . C’est pourquoi, des actions seront menées à l’endroit des décideurs afin que des décisions puissent encore être prises pour permettre l’accessibilité de l’outil Internet à tous les niveaux, la mise en place d’une politique de développement des rudiments de l’Internet pour chapoter ce système. Aussi, ce projet entend également accorder une place de premier choix aux producteurs de logiciels libres qui non seulement ne sont pas ( ou mal) connus , mais leurs produits sont méconnus du public. Le projet entend

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inciter le gouvernement du Burkina Faso à soutenir les efforts de ces promoteurs de logiciels libres et un cadre sera crée pour leur permettre de se retrouver et à pouvoir mobiliser des ressources pour soutenir la production de logiciels libres au Burkina. A terme, ce projet pilote se veut la lanterne dans le processus de la lutte contre la pauvreté en utilisant les NTIC pour accroître le taux de scolarisation et de réussite au plan scolaire

Contractor: Association Burkinabé pour la Survie de l'Enfance (ABSE)



Personnel: 2000

Contracts: 4875

Training: 1125

Equipment: 8250


DEMOBLIZATIONOF5,000DRUGADDICTS(YOUTHEX‐COMBATANTS)Project status: Unfunded

Region/country: Liberia

Cost (USD): 24640

Project summary: This organization was established on December,4th 2003.and it is initially targeting five hundred (500) to one Thousand (1500) youth drug addicts mainly in Montserrado County,(Monrovia). The Organization has not been able to succeed totally as yet, due to the lack of funds to provide skillful training programs. We have notice that when ever we demobilize and do not provide training programs to keep them busy, some at the end of the day, may return to drugs, due to complete idleness. Further more, demobilization of drugged minds without meaningful replacement, is meaningless. It is certain that an appreciable number of addicted youths in Liberia, and Monrovia in particular were students before taking up arms, mainly as a result of disruption of their schooling or skilled training programs by the war. As such, encouraging them to return to there pre‐was status will yield dividend rather than leaving them with drugs in the street. In effect, a little impetus to provide skilled training programs is all they may require. It is against this background that this project is proposed and submitted to you for support. The project which last for six months (6) is expected to commence by May 20th 2005, and will initially cover one thousand five hundred and more (1500 +) demobilized youth drug addict mainly in montserrado county, (Monrovia). International Education and Resource Network (iEARN) Liberia will implement the project with close donor monitoring. The proposed budget is estimated at twenty five thousand united states

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dollar ($25,000). This represent cost for purchase of tailoring, carpentry, masonry, tying and dying materials, maintenance, training, administrative and other expenses. Successful implementation of the project will help drug addiction, idleness and crime rate as well as increase the number of skillful youths in the civil society.

Contractor: Mr. Sylvester Younge



Personnel: 6900

Contracts: 8000

Training: 1500

Equipment: 6000


"MediasupportingEuropeanawarenessandyouthcommunication"Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 40082

Project summary: The idea of the project arised to indicate the influence of mass‐media on broadening youth knowledge related to essential policies and strategies (within EU, UNESCO, Council of Europe). The important point of the meeting is to present the media as a practical and even indispensable tool in creating young societies provided with information needed to define the term of European awareness and methods of its wide‐spread absorption. We are also convinced that implementation of this project will be helpful to estimate accurately the role of mass‐media as the source of trustworthy and reliable information supporting the proper and effective functioning of NGOs networks and as the medium or platform of intensified youth communication and information exchange. Talking about mass‐media, we shouldn’t forget about its components and technical aspects. That is why, we want to provide the participants with basic, but needful skills in journalism, to show them a “know‐how” of magazine and newspaper edition, scripts and creative writing, commercials, websites building etc. The project will have a wide international as well as local impact, it will consist of 3 sectors which will be implemented one after another. We hope that results and products of this co‐operation will be easily noticeable and will influence positively on active participation of young people in building common European society based on knowledge and information.

Contractor: Stowarzyszenie Orsus (Orsus Association)


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Personnel: 0

Contracts: 0

Training: 32832

Equipment: 2000


TofosterthecultureofinformationpreservationamongcommunitiesintheNigerDeltaregionofNigeriaProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: The project aims to foster a culture of information gathering, documentation and preservation among communities in the Niger Delta that are rich in indigenous knolwedge realting to agricultural practices and indgenous healthcare. The objective is to document and preserve such information that is presently restricted and in oral form for preservation so that development workers can readily access such information for development purposes. In addition, loocal people readily relate to information that is indigenous to them and applies to their development pecuuliarities.

Contractor: Policy and Development Center



Personnel: 5000

Contracts: 5000

Training: 8000

Equipment: 5000


BridgingKnowledgeDividebyRegionalPartnershipandAccesstoKnowledgePolicyFrameworkDevelopmentforFormerSovietUnionCountriesProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 14800

Project summary: Access to knowledge is of great importance for the developing countries and countries in transition like former Soviet Union (FSU) as policy instrument for bridging 'knowledge divide' and tool for the entrance in global economy based on knowledge. Specific for this region (FSU) countries obstacles and problems on the way to knowledge society should be analized and policy

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recommendations should be proposed to be implemented at national level with possible extension of the methodology and policy agenda at regional and global levels. It's proposed to create regional network for the study, public discussion and issuing policy recommendations with follow‐up implementation support. Two regional conferences will be held for 150 policy makers in the field of education and scince from 15 countries of FSU and regional study of access to knowledge obstacles and best practices undertaken by the outstanding experts. The issued policy recommendations and proposals for the action at international level will be widely accessible via Internet and the project implementation results with best practices of access to knowledge national projects will be published and presented at international & regional levels' meetings (WSIS etc.)

Contractor: Ukrainian Association of International Law



Personnel: 8800

Contracts: 6000

Training: 0

Equipment: 0

Miscellaneous: 0 0

YoungNigeriansScienceandHealthTele‐Academy.Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 24600

Project summary: The Young Nigerians Science and Health Tele‐Academy is a youth leadership program at Youth for Technology Foundation’s (YTF) Owerri Digital Village. The program empowers youth to perform the roles of health information workers and peer educators in their communities. The Young Nigerians Science and Health Tele‐Academy successfully uses a blended‐learning methodology that incorporates online training with onsite education. Using appropriate ICTs like open and distance learning collaboration software ‐ LearnLinc, digital cameras, computers, radio and the Internet, the program allows youth to collaborate with their digital peers, leading educators and health professionals to research, document, and disseminate information on community health issues; HIV/AIDS and water borne diseases. The program highlights the success of rural practices and provides community members with additional information on the prevention and cure. The Young Nigerians Science and Health Tele‐Academy equips young people with the technology and communication skills they need to be advocates on these issues especially as the eradication of the issues will reduce poverty.

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Less of the family income spent on treating HIV/AIDS and water borne diseases means more money spent on education of the children in the family. The World Bank Small Grants Program provided pilot funding for this program in 2004. See http://www.youthfortechnology.org/healthteleacademy.htm

Contractor: Njideka Ugwuegbu Harry (Mrs).



Personnel: 7500

Contracts: 0

Training: 3200

Equipment: 11500


COLLeCT(CollectingandmanagingdatasupportingCulturalTourism)Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: The aim of the project is the creation of a web platform supporting the development of a control panel for the strategic management of large cultural destinations and set up a Strategic Observatory to record and benchmark the results coming in from Italian and Spanish cities of Art. The project have the potential to be scaled‐up or applied in different countries, regions or situations. In this sense the long term objective is to establish a general collection mechanisms concerning data related to Cultural Destinations.The Project is based on a previous research experience of Destination Management Research group of IULM University in Milan. Expected delivery time 12 months from start‐up.

Contractor: Università IULM Milano (www.iulm.it). Referring persons: Manuela De Carlo, Andrea Carignani



Personnel: 15000

Contracts: 14000

Training: 5000

Equipment: 7000


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AgenciadeNoticiasSolidariasProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Argentina

Cost (USD): 33900

Project summary: El proyecto consiste en la creación de una agencia de noticias referida a temas solidarios exclusivamente. El formato de envío y recepción de noticias se hará por distintos medios digitales y tiene como misión permitir en acceso de los más necesitado a las oportunidades mediante el uso de las tecnologías y la igualdades en el uso de la información y los medios de comunicación.

Contractor: Federico Ricciardi



Personnel: 8000

Contracts: 6000

Training: 5600

Equipment: 3000


ConsolidationofasupportnetworkguidedtothepromotionanduseoftheTICsforthelocalorganizationsofthecivilsocietyofNicaragua.Project status: Unfunded

Region/country: Nicaragua

Cost (USD): 27110

Project summary: Nicaragua counts with 1900 NGO and 200 international organizations. The Sustainable Development Network promotes the social vision of the ICT by concept of communication for development; by means of the technical support, training and representation in spaces ICT has more than enough at national and international level. But SDN needs invigoration to take advantage of their potential. Cornelio Hoppman, ICT specialist, describes in La Prensa that the Civil Society and NGOs were the big absentees of the event ExpoINDE‐eNicaragua 2004 that he gathered the main characters of ICT in Nicaragua from the Government's optics and Private Company. The project will create a support network to promote the social vision of ICT in benefit of the local organizations of the civil society, to exchange knowledge, so much in the technical appropriation as in the social thing. A virtual space for the exchange, to share ideas, experiences and knowledge, it will allow the interaction. The organizations will use a server self‐managed. A physical space will offer access to Internet and will be the place of experimentation of alternative technologies and formation. The social impact will be in the biggest appropriation in the ICT by Nicaraguan local organizations and it will increase its capacity of incidence.

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Contractor: Red de Desarrollo Sostenible de Nicaragua



Personnel: 3600

Contracts: 2900

Training: 10210

Equipment: 5000


OvercomingtheinformationexclusionofruralareasthroughFreeandOpenSourceSoftwareProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 24000

Project summary: The traditional Bulgarian Community Centres (Chitalishta) are unique cultural and educational institutions. Thanks to their social prestige and geographic proliferation they have tremendous potential to contribute to the satisfaction of community development needs and to promote Information Society (www.chitalishte.bg). The development of a free access software in Bulgarian for self‐training in the use of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and the training of 112 Chitalishta staff from all Bulgaria will help promote a model of work with FOSS especially in the informationally excluded and poor rural areas, foster a broader use of IT and build an Information Society for all. Chitalishte Development Foundation (CDF) is the legal successor of the Chitalishte project (1997‐2004; $2,995,000) of the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture and the UNDP. The CDF team has a proven track record in introducing IT through the Chitalishte network. The CDF will implement the activities under this project in partnership with the Innovative Community Centres Association which members are Chitalishta with functioning Information and Training Centres established under Chitalishte project. The training will be held in them. The CDF team has experience in promoting the Millennium Development Goals in Bulgaria under UNDP administration. Duration – 10 months.

Contractor: Chitalishte Development Foundation



Personnel: 2500

Contracts: 9400

Training: 0

Equipment: 0

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ImplementationoftheMesoamericanEnvironmentalInformationSystemProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 35000

Project summary: The Mesoamerican Environmental Information System (SIAM, in Spanish) is the result of a Ministerial decision (No. 7/XXI, Nov. 25, 2003) to establish a regional environmental integration tool to systematize, harmonize, aggregate, and disseminate environmental data, accessible to the general public for decision making. Furthermore, SIAM will serve as the main repository of environmental knowledge in the region and will be the backbone of a regional environmental information network that includes the National Environmental Information System (SINIAs or SIAs, in Spanish) in each country. The proposed IFAP project will support the eight participating countries of the region, through participatory training, exchange workshops, and capacity building, to concur on the environmental thematic areas, indicators and exchange protocols to be developed and publicly and freely disseminate via web interface. These may include regional and/or national layers on biodiversity, ecosystems, climate change, water resources, pollutants, land use, forestry, environmental impact assessments, environmental culture, natural hazards, and terrestrial and marine protected areas. A year and five year SIAM work programmes will also be technically developed by mid level environmental information professional and adopted by the Environmental Ministries of the eight countries. This proposed IFAP project builds upon the 18 GIS layers develop under a World Bank grant in 2000, and will used the computational architecture of the Regional Visualization and Monitoring System (SERVIR) for Mesoamerica, developed by NASA and established in CATHALAC in 2004. It is envision that through this project, the IFAP could mainstream its presence in the Mesoamerica.

Contractor: Emilio Sempris



Personnel: 6000

Contracts: 7000

Training: 20000

Equipment: 0


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FreeandOpenSourceSoftwareinlocaladministrationsindevelopingcountriesontheBalkansProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 35000

Project summary: The project is intended to be a follow‐up to the UNDP/New York Global Programme “Capacity Development Through Knowledge Sharing and Networking: Free/Open Source Software for Developing Countries” funded project #GLO/03/219 ‐ “Support to e‐government initiatives based on the Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) at the local (municipality) level in the South‐eastern Europe” (FOSS project). It will take advantage of the already achieved results and partnerships established under this project and extend the activities and replicate the results in a wider scope. The primary objective will be to support and expand the activities of the FOSS project and to continue with helping understanding how to benefit from FOSS through piloting and advocacy activities and, in this connection, to change an existing environment into a one, in which open source software is understood and used for e‐government applications at the municipal level. The main activities will consist in: ‐ Transfer best practices in the usage of e‐government tools based on free and open source software in the Balkans region at municipality level Migration to free and open source software in a number of municipalities where identified as possible (at least three) Trainings to representatives from the public administration on the advantages of the usage of free and open source software (municipal employees mainly) Preparation of training materials It is intended that the project will last 9 months.

Contractor: Internet Society ‐ Bulgaria



Personnel: 15000

Contracts: 12600

Training: 4000

Equipment: 2000


ScalinguptheNeotropicEco‐IndexwebsiteProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 35000

Project summary: The continuing struggle to conserve biodiversity has resulted in successful

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projects that often can be replicated elsewhere and a myriad of lessons learned that can help others achieve positive results. Reports and conferences are the traditional ways of sharing project results, and while valuable, both require considerable investments of time and money. The Eco‐Index (www.eco‐index.org) is an online almanac of sustainable development projects in Central, South America, and the Caribbean, written in English, Spanish and Portuguese, visited by an average of 30,000 people each month. It features more than 750 projects of about 500 NGOs, government ministries and researchers. The majority of projects are based in Latin America; only 16 are based in the Caribbean. As the Eco‐Index is the only Web site dedicated to sharing information about biodiversity conservation in the Neotropics, it is crucial that all key institutions in throughout the Caribbean contribute to this valuable tool. A grant from UNESCO will increase the number of Caribbean‐based biodiversity sustainable development projects on the Eco‐Index, feature interviews in English and Spanish with project directors working in the Caribbean, give workshops at relevant regional conferences, and promote conservation and sustainable development initiatives in the Caribbean through the bilingual Eco‐Exchange/Ambien‐Tema newsletter.

Contractor: Miguel Navarro



Personnel: 24000

Contracts: 3000

Training: 0

Equipment: 0


E‐gobierno,aprendizajepolíticoyparticipaciónciudadanaProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 23000

Project summary: Partiendo de que las políticas públicas son lugares de aprendizaje mutuo entre los ciudadanos y el gobierno, se busca explorar los vínculos entre los usuarios de los servicios de gobierno electrónico y sus prácticas políticas y grado de participación ciudadana. El estudio tendrá como universo el Estado de Colima, en México. Se trata de una experiencia de éxito a nivel nacional y regional en la utilización de tecnología para la prestación de servicios de gobierno, a través de la implantación de infraestructura pública (kioskos de servicios gobierno) y de Internet. Algunas de las preguntas que se buscan contestar son: ¿Los usuarios del e‐gobierno, se incorporan a la vida cívica tanto o más que

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los ciudadanos que no usan estos servicios?, ¿qué tanto puede atribuirse la indiferencia o la participación ciudadanas de los usuarios de e‐gobierno, a un aprendizaje político derivado del diseño e implementación de la política pública de e‐gobierno?

Contractor: Estado de Colima, México.



Personnel: 8000

Contracts: 3000

Training: 2000

Equipment: 2000


STRENGTHENINGAWARENESSANDCAPACITYBUILDINGFORINFORMATIONPROFFESSIONALSANDDOCUMENTALISTSINGEORGIAProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 24770

Project summary: This project aims to strengthen the, documentation and information handling expertise of human rights organisations in Georgia through the training courses with specific focus on systematic documentation of human rights violations, applying advanced yet appropriate information technology. The aims of the project are to: ‐ strengthen monitoring, documentation and information handling capabilities of human rights institutions and organisations in Georgia ‐ facilitate networking and exchange of data/information among organisations in Georgia More specifically, the course will try to familiarise participating institutions and organisations with: ‐ the basics of monitoring ‐ human rights terminology and indexing ‐ the techniques of computerised information handling ‐ the use of information handling tools, more particularly the HURIDOCS tools ‐ the recording, retrieval and exchange of information on human rights violations ‐ specialised uses of HURIDOCS tools

Contractor: Human Rights Information and Documentation Center



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Personnel: 6000

Contracts: 4000

Training: 12520

Equipment: 1500


ForNewGeorgiaProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: Recent processes of establishing independent state, new social system and market economy in Georgia caused significant changes in educational system. Particularly, new educational system, unlike soviet one, is called to provide for formation of personality in very different situation, and satisfaction of state and public interests. Program for Reformation of Georgian Educational System is based on UN recommendations Educational Planning for 2000 (September 26, 1990, Mexico), and Recommendational Modules of International Institute of Unesco on Planning and Management of Education. Reform Programme was considered and approved by Government of Georgia on September 19, 1995. In 2004, Ministry of education developed Draft Law on General Education. Currently, Ministry of Education carries out substantial reforms, particularly, it intends to introduce children oriented educational system. This implies improved participation of children and parents, introduction of inclusive education principles, which were absolutely ignored in soviet system. It also should be mentioned that the educational principle itself undergoes changes ‐ if, till now, main tendency was passive acqurement of information, now the emphasis is made on practical application of the received information. Since the Draft Law on General Education envisages introduction of the approaches, which are absoletely new for the Georgian society, it is necessary to explain its essence to the population. In spite of attempts of the Ministry to disseminate information on the reforms, the society is not familiar with its main principles. The situation is especially bad in the regions, since information is gets there with delays or perverted. Under the proposed project, our organisation plans to arrange dissemination of the information (computerised presentation, publishing booklets and brochures, preparing social slips, etc.) on curent reforms at the popular level in collaboration with the Ministry of Education. This will serve for rising of awareness among students, parents and pedagogues, i.e. among the strata of population, who has the closest concern with the educational sphere.

Contractor: Youth Studio ADC


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Personnel: 3800

Contracts: 2900

Training: 11060

Equipment: 2800


FreedomofCreativity‐AdvancingfreecontentcultureandopecaccessscienceinadigitallynetworkedsocietyProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 0

Project summary: The impact of ICT on social development hinges on two prerequisites ‐ access to ICT and access to culture and science available through ICT. This project advances the ability of creators and scientists to use digital tools, global distribution networks of Internet and free content licensing to self‐organize beyond limitations of creative industries and intellectual property, providing users with information they can freely share and build upon. These creators understand moral consequences of the ability of digital technologies to provide information globally, potential of digital goods not to exclude and necessity of access to creativity and innovation to build upon in order to have cultural and social development. They organize to create free software, free culture and open access science. This project inteds to (1) support free content producing communities locally and internationally through an international publication on global free content creative production and (2) a free culture festival; (3) promote with local scientific and activist communities issues of free flow of information in knowledge society through public lectures; (4) help preserve the free content through an on‐line repository and (5) work with libraries to promote it; (6). research the free software adoption in Croatia. Project period May 2005‐May 2006.

Contractor: Multimedia Institute/Multimedijalni institut



Personnel: 9600

Contracts: 1200

Training: 0

Equipment: 0


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VlachinContextProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 0

Project summary: This project will result in a book and an interactive website that will act as public spaces to discuss Vlach and Vlach language in Vlach, translated to Serbian and English. It is generated by Big Family – a Valch grassroots organization on the Romanian border of Serbia in order to preserve and to regenerate the language and to legitimize the inner discourse about Vlach identity. It will do so through interviews about personal histories, through discussions in public gathering and through training sessions for 40 community members in interviewing, in recording and in IT processing of the information gathered. This in turn will allow developing and implementing strategies that will include culture, rural peripheral culture and this minority’s culture in the bigger discussion of development in the area. The website and book will empower this closed and secluded community, especially youth and young adults, by allowing them to participate in multicultural discourse without losing this identity. They will introduce this unique culture, act as a database, serve as initial contact to the community and be a foundation for a written language as a way of ensuring the development of infrastructure for formal and informal education in Vlach.

Contractor: Big Family ‐ Jorgovan Filipovic/Noa Treister



Personnel: 0

Contracts: 0

Training: 0

Equipment: 0

Miscellaneous: 0 0

Anti–CorruptionWeb‐PortalandDatabaseProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 18990

Project summary: In order to reduce corruption in the government and to make the activities of governmental structures more transparent and accountable, the level of the civil awareness should be raised by promoting educational activities to establish common anticorruption attitudes, by providing legal help to those in need, and by ensuring maximum free access to public information. Objectives of the project By establishing an information group and with the help of lawyers, the project hopes to:

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? Prepare, publish, and distribute leaflets providing practical information on Georgian legislation regarding services, permits, and licenses issued by the municipal government ? Provide legal assistance for all citizens and residents of Georgia ? Monitor the free access of public information, as determined by the Administrative Code of Georgia ? Create an Internet portal, which will provide a wide range of information on services, permits, and licenses issued by the municipal government, as well as information on governmental strategies and activities to combat corruption. The portal will also be able to access information on programmes, governmental and NGO reports and recommendations, monitoring results, concrete facts of violations, news etc. (Appendix A). In addition, the portal will also outline the elements of the anticorruption campaign and display the results of surveys on government corruption. Going beyond educating citizens on government procedures, it will allow them to voice their opinions on how the government is progressing toward meeting the transparency benchmarks it has set.

Contractor: Georgian Political Science Association



Personnel: 6800

Contracts: 2800

Training: 2450

Equipment: 4300


CaribbeanSportsInformationforSchools(C‐SIS)Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 35000

Project summary: Caribbean Athletics has been a big success on the international stage over the last seventy years. However, students in the region are very uninformed about these success stories and how they may assist with personal development and education. The project will use athletics as a model to electronically document information from the 1930’s to 2005 , using an aggregation of sources from the English, French, Spanish and Dutch speaking countries in the Caribbean. An interactive web‐based platform will be developed to help preserve and share regional sports information. The web application will involve interactive databases and e‐Learning features such as online interactive quiz, simple educational sports games and use of audio, video and animation sequences. Research highlighted on the UNESCO’s web site shows that sports has been

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seen as a medium for Drug Abuse prevention, as part of a Global Youth network, as an avenue towards Peace and Safe Environment practices. The UTech Multimedia Centre at the University of Technology, Jamaica is already working with near‐by community members in a project branded “ Sports and Technology for Community Development”. The biggest challenge however is finding a “one stop” virtual space which educates and informs. The University also has the region's only internationally certified High Performance Centre.

Contractor: Vilma Gregory



Personnel: 20000

Contracts: 3000

Training: 3000

Equipment: 6000


Preservationofimagesofcaravansariesartworkvulnerableofnaturalandhumandestruction'sProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 42000

Project summary: SUBJECT : Building up of a shared digital memory of the whole caravansaries for their preservation in case of natural or human destruction's. GOALS: To get a structured outfit of digital documentation resources ( textual, iconographic, planimetric, cartographic) able to support steps of virtual reconstitution in case of disappearance or of a major degradation of the site . Those virtual reconstitutions must be capable to accompany mainly the processes of: • restoration • rebuilding And to constitute in general: • Numeric inventories conservation. The set up of the information’s structure will also allow to contribute effectively to some operations of revalorization , and sustainable development of the sites for new uses.

Contractor: EVCAU research Team, EAPVS Architectural School



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Personnel: 25000

Contracts: 6000

Training: 6000

Equipment: 2000


aquisitiondesmaterielsinformatiquespourl'educationetl'encadrementdelajeunessescolairesProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: la jeunesse actuelle connait un deficit dans la formation surtout dans nos pays sous developpés où le systeme de l'education est presque traditionel car l'outil informatique n'esyt pas utilisé; peu des jeunes cacedent à l'ordinateur ou à l'internet. les jeuenesne connaissent pas leur droits et ne savent pas transmettre leur culture, ils n'ont pas l'information voulues ; comme desinformés, ils se tiennent en marge de tout se qui se passe dans leur pays. En RDC, le ministere de l'education vient de instituer le cours de l'informatique dans toutes les sections du pays et le cadev, notre institution est le geniteur du programme des cours d'informatique que le ministere a adopté au niveau national. mais il se pose unprobleme de materiel, c'est pourquoi avec WOld Computer Exchange nous sommes en partenariat pour obtenir un contener d'ordinateur pour repondre à ce besoin de l'education et de transmission de l'information.,

Contractor: IWELE VICKY



Personnel: 5000

Contracts: 3000

Training: 5000

Equipment: 30000


KnowledgeandActionsofInformationandTechnologyforDevelopmentProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 30500

Project summary: A knowledge base platform to integrate academic research, surveys and outcomes of projects based in Latin America and related to the use of

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information technology for poverty reduction, promote inclusion and socio‐economic development. The knowledge platform would be also a tool to integrate entrepreneurs, private sector, academia and the community demands into actions for social development using the ICTs.

Contractor: Liliana casallas



Personnel: 18000

Contracts: 5000

Training: 2500

Equipment: 3500


“Consolidationthroughinformation”.Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 35000

Project summary: Big barriers have raised in between Central Asian countries after the USSR collapsed. Despite of historical and language vicinity, Uzbekistan citizens for example need to obtain visa to visit neighboring states except for Kazakhstan. People have a lot of problem to contact even their relatives let alone an information exchange. Meanwhile a huge number of challenges could be only solved on a collaborative base. Some governments are trying to build a bridge but the most population is not involved. Our goal is to unite people of the Central Asia countries using environmental issues as a common understandable and very important problem, which is ignoring borders. Editing and issuing a common newsletter together with all five states reporters and experts will be an opportunity to inform ordinary people about each other’s life, problems, demands making them close to each other. We will strengthen relations between professional reporters of all 5 states and with our partners will publish 12 issues of the Newsletter during 2 years and deliver it for free among ordinary people of all 5 states. With the help of IFAP the newsletter will have more attractive shape, bigger volume and potency to became a common popular Central Asian magazine.

Contractor: Kamalov Yusup. Chairman of the Union for Defense the Aral Sea and Amudarya.



Personnel: 8000

Contracts: 8400

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Training: 2000

Equipment: 9300


CommonplatformformigrationtoFreeandOpenSourceSoftwareforNGOsintheBalkansandtheCaucasusregionProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 34960

Project summary: The project strives to create and develop a common strategy for the NGOs from the Balkans and the Caucasus region in order to ease the process of migration to Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS) in the regional context. The idea is influenced by the global tendency of implementing F/OSS for non‐profit and charity purposes, especially in countries in transition. The partners involved are InterSpace Media Art Center, Bulgaria nd Open Consultants, Georgia. The aim of the project is through sharing the knowledge obtained and providing free access to key strategies to promote the models for migration to F/OSS and encourage the women involved. In the form of capacity building the project will give the beneficieries a chance to become essential part of the free flow of ideas in the context of the global migration to F/OSS and to increase their level of literacy in the field of ICT. In the frame of the regional cooperation the activities planned in order to fulfil the mission of the project are: development of models and tools; translation and localization of F/OSS, creation of documentation with the knowledge obtained; exchange of shaddowing vizits for the partners.

Contractor: InterSpace Media Art Center



Personnel: 20400

Contracts: 4000

Training: 4560

Equipment: 5000


KNOWLEDGERESOURCESProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Sierra Leone

Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: With the emergence of new technologies and improved systems of handling

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information in the world today, Sierra Leone yet lags behind in the ways in which information (knowledge) resources are harnessed. This condition does not only exist because of the culture of poor gathering and preservation of information but is also entrenched due to poor institutional capacities on information management, lack of awareness of emerging trends and poor training and the high cost of engagement in the process of information production. In this order, achievement of developmental goals have been hindered, little or no information from and about the country are available, local research has been made very difficult; the circulation of unreliable information is high and loss of our history/heritage. Thus, Knowledge Resources (KR) intends to invigorate the information society in the country through awareness raising, training, partnership building among information organs and professionals (both private and public) and by providing institutional and technical support. And in this direction as well, KR hopes to focus on the development of decentralized structures, inclusive participation and advocacy for suitable policy formulations/reforms. Through these activities, the KR project is expected to run within an initial period of six and twelve months.

Contractor: MUSTAPHA SUNDIFU KATTA



Personnel: 6000

Contracts: 3000

Training: 6000

Equipment: 7000


AnIntegratedOnlineCommunityEnvironmentforDisabledUsersProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 39500

Project summary: This proposal is for funding development of a multilingual, integrated, online community environment specifically for users with disabilities. It will operate as a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) and a Knowledge Building Environment (KBE), both of which play an important role in online education. The KBE can also be used as a powerful extranet and knowledge management system for SMEs and not for profit organisations. Development will build upon the existing open source code base (Tiki) which is listed on UNESCO's Free Software Portal. Interface modifications will greatly improve access for people with 'print related disabilities', visual impairment and dyslexia in particular. An interface for 'symbol readers' will also be developed. This will create opportunities for those people with

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learning disabilities and various 'signing languages' to participate in the community. A full multilingual interface will also be developed to ensure that the benefits can be made available in any language. First year funding covers capital, code development, extensive trials, training and support. Second year funding covers operating costs for transfer of 'ownership', management and support into an international Community of Practice (CoP). The project will increase IT literacy, participation in education and social cohesion among the international disability community.

Contractor: The Vauxhall Centre



Personnel: 5500

Contracts: 14500

Training: 14500

Equipment: 3000


CommunityLearningCenters(CLCs)forDevelopmentProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 30800

Project summary: The disaster management and rehabilitation effort for tsunami victims has brought in a new dimension in which ecological and ICT tools must be integrated effectively. The Institute for Integrated Rural Development has a long and successful track record in the fields of both people‐based ecological management and knowledge management for achieving sustainable livelihoods. As a national‐level voluntary organization, IIRD is keen to become involved in the challenge of relief and rehabilitation of tsunami victims in a pilot area in Tamil Nadu; namely, Kanyakumari District by establishing “Pudhu Vazhvu Thodarbu Mayyangal” (PVTM, or in English, “ New Life Contact Centers”). PVTMs will be based upon the experiences of IIRD in establishing Community Learning Centres (CLCs) for ecological restoration and promoting a wide spectrum of sustainable livelihoods. The PVTMs will require external support for the first three (3) years and would become self‐reliant through internal sources afterwards. The key activities of PVTMs would be information and knowledge management to stimulate the effective governance of relief and rehabilitation as well as initiate ecologically sound livelihood activities in response to the effects of the tsunami.

Contractor: Institute for Integrated Rural Development (IIRD)


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Personnel: 9600

Contracts: 2200

Training: 5000

Equipment: 8000


T4All‐TranslationsforAllsoftware‐opensourcesoftwareforcollaborativewebbasedtranslationsofthousandsofessentialpublicationsProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 32000

Project summary: Thousands of essential publications for developing countries are presently available in public domain or free‐of charge from the United Nations, NGO and other sources. Unfortunately many of these publications are only available in English or a few other Western languages. Therefore a global solution should be devised to easily and structurally translate such essential publications into local languages by online volunteer communities. And this at acceptable quality and with no translation costs or logistics. The solution we propose is a collaborative open source web software harvesting the small voluntary effort of thousands of volunteers: the open source T4all software. It will allow to translate publications paragraph per paragraph by communities, schools, universities and other networks in each country. The advantage of using online volunteer translation to translate a very small portion of a publication (representing about 15 to 120 minutes translation work for each segment) is that they will translate this segment in their field of expertise or interest to their own mother language via Internet or e‐mail forms on a free basis and that thousands of volunteers can be recruited, so that potentially a book can be translated in a few days. This either as one‐time activity or at regular pace determined by each volunteer/ organisation. The T4all software will join the separately translated segments and implement reviewing and validation stages for the document in that local language. It will also be designed to include thesauri, motivational dimensions, online help and suggestions to enhance quality, etc Technically, the T4all software manages: 1) the segmentation process of each document 2) the volunteer list or community for each translation project 3) server and software aspects of online and e‐mail forwarding and reception of small portions of documents 4) the support, motivation and feedback to the volunteers 5) the validation, review and quality appraisal process of the documents

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6) with (later) additional of many features such as thesauri , guidance as to copyrights and translation permissions, lists of publications etc T4all software could become a global solution to create acceptable local languages translations of tens of thousands of essential publications or to help communities to translate important technical data etc. These local translations could then become accessible to the civil societies around the world that helped translate them in the first place and thus open fair and equitable access to information in local languages, and support these local languages and cultures.

Contractor: Human Info NGO Belgium/ Romania



Personnel: 27000

Contracts: 0

Training: 0

Equipment: 2000


ReconquistarProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: O projeto reconquistar é um programa de formação cidadã voltado para as populações mais carentes, extremamente pobres, da periferia sul da cidade de Fortaleza. É baseado na elevação da escolaridade (formal e informal).Tem como público alvo homens e mulheres chefes de famílias de renda per capita de até ½ salário mínimo; e jovens a procura do primeiro emprego. cursos de educação de jovens e adultos que tem por eixo didático temas geradores de discussões sobre a realidade de suas vidas, fazendo‐os refletir sobre a situação de vida em que estão e através da participação das lutas populares de suas comunidades, agir em defesa de seus direitos como cidadãos. São realizados cursos de informática, cidadania, meio ambiente, saúde, Farmácia Viva, Agricultura Urbana; Desenvolvimento de Liderança; Protagonismo Juvenil e Cooperativismo.

Contractor: ASSOCIAÇÃO SANTO DIAS



Personnel: 5000

Contracts: 3000

Training: 8000

Equipment: 5000

Miscellaneous: 4000

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InformationforAll:Designingaccessible,usableandmeaningfulContentProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: The Information Society, with its emphasis on data and knowledge has put content at the forefront. That new technological and digital literacy skills are required by all so that they are able to live and work in the Information society is well understood, and there are several ongoing initiatives dealing with this. Meantime, the ICT specialists work on improving the communication aspects of technology, in terms of speed, availability, cost and mobility. However, in the area of content production, the advances in desktop computing give everyone the ability to be a publisher, while the traditional publishing industries and content centred industries (film, TV) continue to create content, using know‐how belonging to a previous era, and repurposing and adapting material using new production technologies. The resulting output means that although there is much exciting innovation, there is also confusion resulting in content that is inaccessible and unusable, both in terms of actually interacting with it, as well as understanding it. This proposal seeks to clarify this area, by draw upon the expertise of content creators as well as information professionals and educating each other in the needs of digital content design so that it is accessible, usable and meaningful for all.

Contractor: Darzentas, Jenny



Personnel: 5000

Contracts: 5000

Training: 10000

Equipment: 5000


BuildinganinclusiveInformationSocietythroughtheempowermentofdisadvantagegroups(i.e.women,youth,physicallychallengedpersons,ruralcommunities)Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 24850

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Project summary: This project aims at building an inclusive and human centered Information Society through the empowerment of disadvantage groups (i.e. women, youth, physically challenged persons, rural communities) in Ghana. It promised not only to empower and activate the participation of these groups in the Information Society, but also provide practical avenues to improve their livelihoods as a means of fulfilling the targets set out in: the Millennium Development Goals, New Partnership for Africa¡¦s Development, WSIS Action Plan and WSSD Johannesburg Plan of Implementation. The project is a major example of bottom‐ up approach to addressing the needs of disadvantage groups to the extent that the core components aspirations expressed in the form of Resolution adopted by about 200 young people from every corner of Ghana and other parts of Africa during the eYouth Summit (Pre‐Event to the WSIS Africa Regional conference in Accra 2005), which was sponsored by UNESCO ¡V Accra Office. Activities lined up are as follows: Grassroot / Community Capacity Building and Information Sensitization Outreach; Setting up of Information Society Clubs for pre‐tertiary Institutions (including Institutions for physically challenged persons) with equal gender balance; Information literacy workshops for young media practitioners (print and electronic) and Innovation Exhibition Platform for disadvantage groups. The project would be implemented by the National Youth Information Society Campaign (NYISC) Secretariat under the auspices of Ministry of Communications and Science Education Unit (Ghana Education Service). Other partners include Prime Resources and African Youth ICT4D Network. Having participated actively in the WSIS and WSSD processes with proven track record especially in Ghana for implementing practical projects geared towards realizing the targets set out at these meetings the NYISC is better placed to deliver on the above activities efficiently.

Contractor: National Youth Information Society Campaign



Personnel: 3000

Contracts: 2250

Training: 12500

Equipment: 5100


ArabicContentNetworkProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Egypt

Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: Promoting Arabic Content on Internet aims to promoting the use of Arabic in

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science and technology. Such goal could be achieved through making available links to sites using Arabic languages in its contents. The use of correct Arabic language in Information Technology is another goal. This could be done by studying and solving the technical issues eliminating the use of Arabic on the Internet. This is well done through the umbrella of promoting Arabizing science. Translating scientific papers, articles and abstracts into Arabic is a step in this direction. Participating in Arabic OCR research activities is another step. Participating in national and regional conerences promoting using Arabic on Internet is a third step. Conducting regional and national conferences and meetings to promote Arabic content on Internet is a fourth step. Promoting scientific books written in or translated to Arabic is a fifth step. Helping other identities in promoting the same objectives is a kee issue in the success of the project. Arabization issue could be achieved through many steps. First step would be changing the Arabization scene in science and technology in education and culture. Second step would be increasing the number of sites using Arabic in its contents. Third step would be increasing the number of university courses given in Arabic. Fourth step would be tracking the number of Articles and other media activities promoting Arabic content issue. Fifth step would be increasing the number of participants in the activities through the site to be built or in the real meetings.

Contractor: Prof. Dr. Mohamed Elhamalaway



Personnel: 4000

Contracts: 12000

Training: 2000

Equipment: 3000


LocalOfficialGazettes‐ARepositoryofOfficialInformationProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 24200

Project summary: The project aims at preserving and offering to the public digital official normative acts issued by local governments in Romania within a unique website. Current Romanian law provides for printed copies of Local Official Gazettes to contain local regulations. Within the project, an open‐source Content Management System will be adapted and translated to Romanian, at least 50 pilot Municipalities will participate and transfer within the website their local regulations as well as other official information (such as

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mandatory public interest information), representatives of the pilot municipalities will be trained in using the website and an Evaluation Report will be published.

Contractor: Romanian Institute of Training



Personnel: 8400

Contracts: 3000

Training: 7500

Equipment: 2900


UNESCOWorldCulturalHeritageinSlovakia3DOn‐lineProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Slovakia

Cost (USD): 23000

Project summary: The purpose of the project is the digital realistic reconstruction of the most valuable places in Slovakia of Bardejov, Banská Štiavnica, Spišský hrad and Vlkolínec, as identified by the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage. In all four places the complex spirit of the site will be composed into true 3D virtual tourist routes with panoramas and digital stories published at the beautiful Internet site to be available on‐line with universal access to it. This will enable to share the values of the Slovak cultural heritage by the wide public, to enhance the awareness of the cultural diversity for the Internet global village population and to contribute to the semantic web by the excellent jewels. This will also enable people worldwide to be consciously (and interactively) proud of the values of the World Cultural Heritage. The project is the contribution to the preservation of the valuable cultural information and universal access to it. The contribution of the project will also be the development of the methodology for future completion of this work to the network of 3D cultural highlights in Central Europe.

Contractor: Doc. RNDr. Milan Ftácnik, PhD



Personnel: 15000

Contracts: 5300

Training: 0

Equipment: 2000


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VIDEOACTIVISMINOURCOMMUNITYProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 60000

Project summary: This program is designed in the first place to be conducted in local communities in order for the civic initiatives to gain bigger media attention and quality public exposure, thus stimulating development and visibility of local civic initiatives. Through lectures, workshops and internship program locals will be able to learn and take active part in producing news important for their community and paralely to learn how to distribute it to TV or through Internet, public screenings and festivals. The grass‐root initiatives are the only starting point to change the actual problems of communities, which are based on information, knowledge and skills in respect of influencing the reality, with the strongest role of TV‐media. The Education part of the project consists of two rounds with two phases. 1) Public projection “Introducing Video Activism” include the screenings of reports about activism, public discussion and explanations of basic ideas, concepts and meanings of video activism. 2) A basic workshop “Don’t Hate the Media, Be the Media” is a 3‐day intensive basic course with the intention of familiarizing participants with the video equipment (camera, editing) and basics of journalism, during which we are covering issues from theory to realization. 3) Advanced workshops will function as a follow‐up for the participants (7 days) of basic workshops. This will include advanced technical and organisational workshops (training for trainers, team‐leading, fund raising…). Internship where all participants of Advanced workshop will work in FADE IN for two weeks in real situation with professionals.

Contractor: INCREDEBLY GOOD INSTITUTION ‐ FADE IN



Personnel: 5200

Contracts: 9700

Training: 9250

Equipment: 7240


CoDIRS:CollaborativeDistributedInternetRadioSystemProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

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Project summary: From the current Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), streaming media and net‐based radio holds a great potential for collaborative production and distribution of radio programme. Yet, to take advantage of this potential, often a high level of expertise and technological prerequisites are needed. The project aims to develop a Collaborative Distributed Internet Radio System (CoDIRS), which will significantly lower the barrier to the production of net‐based radio. It will enable participants from different locations to contribute live audio feeds to a programme. The system will consist of a server with a web‐based interface for switching between different livefeeds and uploaded content. An editable timetable will allow for automation and scheduling. A automated archiving mechanism will ensure a growing database of on‐demand audio, including detailed description and searchability. A main aspect in the design of CoDIRS is to provide easy access for the producers of the radio programme by utilizing current teleconferencing and internet telephony software, which is widely available and commonly used. Open standards technology and the release of the CoDIRS software under an open‐source license will ensure free availability and extensibility of the system.

Contractor: Experimental Radio



Personnel: 14500

Contracts: 6000

Training: 1500

Equipment: 1000


ThePulaWirelessCommunityNetworkProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 15960

Project summary: Our project consists in building and enlarging the wireless community network in the town of Pula and helping other similar initiatives all over Croatia and eventually in the South Eastern Europe. We are now in project with the Croatian Academic and Research Network for making a wireless network for the academic community, so we want to use a part of the academic infrastructure to build a wireless community network open to the whole population of the town of Pula. The network backbone will be connected with the CARNet's backbone with MeshCubes (http://meshcube.org/) with directional grid antennas and spreading around with an omnidirectional antenna using the OLSR routing protocol (http://www.olsr.org/) because of scalability of the network and for the ease of enlargement. The other access points in town will be cheap Linksys

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WRT54G aps with OpenWRT firmware on them (a fully functional GNU/Linux – www.openwrt.org). In the network there will be servers with repositories with free software like a Debian mirror, etc... It will be possible to stream on the network, the Internet gateways should be provided by CARNet and enterprises that will join the network. There will be a splashscreen to choose a gateway. Everything is based on free software. If the project has good results it will be deployed in all towns of Croatia where CARNet has a node.

Contractor: Edgar Bursic, NGO Monteparadiso



Personnel: 6620

Contracts: 0

Training: 0

Equipment: 7840


Austrian‐MacedonianDramaContestProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 17000

Project summary: This project is aimed to start with a specific drama contest as an outset for fulfillment of something much wider and comprehensive, a web site promoting information society within the field of arts, especially theatre arts, and the cultural diversities in the different cultural backgrounds, giving an opportunity for raising awareness among these artists of the IT benefits they can grasp and exploit for upgrading the flow of information and ideas among them. This Macedonian Drama Contest is an initial point that would present the cultural background and the artistic vigor of the Macedonian playwrights across both the material and ‘ideal’ borders. It represents an attempt to open the two cultures towards one another and it will serve as an epitome for discovering all the beauty and heterogeneity of the diverse cultural experiences, and, simultaneously, recognizing the mutual streams and sensibility. It starts with Macedonia, which is well known for its sundry mixture of different cultures and frequent political commotions that influence artist’s inspiration. The final product – the intercultural website would fill in the blank for the missing platform in this field and would make them capable of exchanging ideas and thoughts through the advantages the information society offers.

Contractor: Dr. Christian Papke (initiator and project manager)



Personnel: 4000

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Contracts: 5000

Training: 1500

Equipment: 1000


CONNECTCroatia‐leveragingtheCroatianscietificdiasporaforknowledgegatheringandinformationtransferProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 24000

Project summary: A growing difficulty in transitional countries is their depleted intellectual workforce due to a massive outflow of intellectual/scientific human capital (“brain drain”). It is a common misconception that the potential of such diaspora is an irrevocably lost human resource for their country of origin unless they return home permanently. A new trend emerging with the rise of global knowledge‐based economy is to use the information and communication technologies (ICT) to harvest diaspora’s huge resources of know‐how, skills, expertise and connections to the world’s leading centers of excellence, without the permanent home‐return requirement. ICT enables us to gather, organize, store and make that information and expertise available for use in local projects. We successfully developed a virtual network called CONNECT, among Croatian intellectuals and scientists in diaspora and in Croatia. CONNECT grows fast and it has already reached the critical level when it starts to influence the decision‐makers in Croatia. Its key elements are the underlying ICT platform and self‐created form of public information media. The sustainability of this network requires investments in the development of ICT tools needed for the information flow and dissemination, spread of information literacy, knowledge creation and export of this human network solution to other potential users in transitional countries.

Contractor: Mario Juric



Personnel: 8000

Contracts: 4000

Training: 6000

Equipment: 5000


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PROAACCTEC(PROmotingschangingAgentsthrutheuseofICTsatthecommunities)Project status: Unfunded

Region/country: Panama

Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: With this project named PROAACCTEC, we look for motivate the development of the communities where PROA PANAMA is working, supporting and collaborating with the development of their people, mainly their children, youngs and mothers. We looks for increase the number of children, young and woman of all ages and abilities promoting the use and access to the computers, the use the internet, the knowlegde of the basic principles of entrepreneurship and the learning of basic english as second language as important tools for their professional future at the communities where PROA PANAMA has Schools (Los Lagos‐ Colon City and NUEVO TOCUMEN, Pacora, Republic of Panama)

Contractor: Luis Donderis Louison



Personnel: 8000

Contracts: 2000

Training: 5000

Equipment: 6000


“YOUTHFORINCLUSIONANDCULTURALDIVERSITY”YouthleadershipwithinacontextofpovertyandexclusioncommittedtoaninclusivedevelopmentandtoculturaldiversitybymeansoftheITCs.Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 90000

Project summary: Structural poverty in Latin America is compounded by exclusion. Poor people themselves marginalize natives, people with different capacities, African descendants, migrant workers, single mothers, those displaced by armed conflicts, HIV seropositives. Cultural stereotypes aid in the exclusion of those that are different. This Project aims at granting visibility and voice to those young people with a high potential for leadership that have taken a stand and committed themselves to denouncing poverty, fighting for their rights and changing the harsh reality they live in. A group of fifty youth leaders shall be selected and included in various processes. Proper informatic tools shall be selected and adapted so as to produce a systematic data collection of the various segments, thus building a collective memory from which nobody is excluded.

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An area for dialogue and exchange of experiences shall be created by means of e‐forums and e‐learning tools accesible to all. A Youth Portal for Latin America and the Caribbean is currently being developed by the Latin American Center for Youth (CELAJU, in Spanish) and UNESCO’s Regional Bureau of Information and Communication for Latin America and the Caribbean (ORCILAC/UNESCO, in Spanish) together with other organizations and networks. As a counterpart, CELAJU offers the support of the Youth Portal, to host the various services. Also, the establishment of agreements with other organizations and social networks shall be facillitated. Lastly, the Project intends to create a Sentinel Network granting a special certification to those communication initiatives that use ICTs and explicitly aim at both a positive consideration of differences and a creative articulation of technology with local realities.

Contractor: Centro Latinoamericano sobre la Juventud (CELAJU)



Personnel: 28800

Contracts: 18000

Training: 33000

Equipment: 0


PromotingYouthEmploymentforStudentswithDisabilitiesviaICTCapacityBuildingProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: United States of America

Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: This project meets a critical need: helping secondary students with disabilities from high‐poverty urban areas develop ICT skills that can lead to successful employment. Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC), a nonprofit educational research and development organization, will design, test, and evaluate a training‐of‐training model to build the capacity of ICT educators from school districts which are members of the Urban Special Education Leadership Collaborative, housed at EDC. The Collaborative seeks to improve outcomes for urban students with disabilities, including minority students, recent immigrants, and second lanugage learners. EDC will use a training‐of‐trainers model to engage ICT educators from the Collaborative’s largest and neediest school districts in a comprehensive online course: “Using the Internet to Conduct Research.” The course introduces ICT educators to the principles, tools, strategies, and skills (all aligned to NETS) needed to effectively and safely engage students with disabilities in online

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research. By teaching ICT educators how to access and utilize Internet‐based information effectively, we will be able to increase employment opportunities for approximately 700 high school students with disabilities in 35 urban districts. EDC will then evaluate the effectiveness of this course and training model and plan for replication in the remaining two‐thirds of Collaborative member districts.

Contractor: Dr. Judith Zorfass



Personnel: 11688

Contracts: 0

Training: 6290

Equipment: 0


NIUEICTTRAININGFACILITYPROJECTProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Niue

Cost (USD): 53800

Project summary: Project Aim: To provide the people of Niue with the appropriate computing and ICT skills, giving them confidence to participate fully in the ICT and the overall developments of Niue. The people of Niue will have a better and easier access to information, strengthening governance and narrowing the gap between the Government and its people. The project will involve setting up an ICT/IT Training Facility where different types of trainings can be delivered, such as hardware, using application software, and also offer certified training like International Computer Driving Licence.

Contractor: Frank Sioneholo



Personnel: 14358

Contracts: 0

Training: 0

Equipment: 17947


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TIC‐TAC.TecnologíasdeInformaciónyComunicación‐TecnologíasyAccionesComunitariasProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 78010

Project summary: Se pretende capacitar a profesionales de la información de una comunidad rural vulnerable para que diseñen e implementen proyectos de desarrollo con la participación de la comunidad. Se derivará un modelo de efectos multiplicadores porque los participantes se comprometerán a replicar la experiencia en comunidades con característica similares, además se logrará consolidar un programa de investigación e intervención comunitaria con TIC, con lo cual se potencian las posibilidades de impactar en otros escenarios (locales, nacionales o internacionales). / The main objective is to train information professionals of an underdeveloping and vulnerable rural community, to build ICT’s skills and capacities involving the community itself. A multiple effect model will result throught participants’ commitment to replicate the experience in other similar environments. Besides this, an ICT’s research and participation program will be established in order to foster medium and long term plans for local, national and international scenarios

Contractor: Ana Isabel Zermeño Flores



Personnel: 9950

Contracts: 0

Training: 32350

Equipment: 19750


CapacitybuildingforsmallsocialeconomyenterpriseinCentralAmericafortheuseofICTintheircommercializationprocessesProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 45000

Project summary: One of the most important challenges in the Central America region is the development of family and local enterprise. These have been one of the most important dynamic developments for the regional economy, that very frequently appear to be invisible in the mainstream discourse. One of the models that has allowed the development of the local economies, has been the self‐management enterprise model (in which owners are at the same time the enterprise workers). These enterprises are interested in profit, but have a social commitment to their local base and trough their work, they

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contribute to the economic, social and cultural development of the community. These enterprises have a local identity and work proactively on the environmental sustainability of their activities. Among them, we will find cooperatives, producer associations, productive networks, artisans groups etc. This project relies on the idea that the support and development of local economies is key for the information and communication technologies to have a positive impact against poverty, giving emphasis to collective productive processes and not individual processes. This project is sustained on the strengthening and encouragement of networking. The three proposed target populations are already consolidated networks working together. At the same time, this proposal comes from the interest of the people involved, who will define their own needs in terms of capacity development and the approach to obtain this capacity. There will be a fundamental emphasis on the role of women in social economy enterprises in these project. Not only when it comes to privilege the participation of enterprises lead and composed by women, but also to the role that they play in the social economy enterprises in general, even when they are composed mostly by men. The final purpose of this work is to design a process and the appropriate tools to develop capacities in the use of ICTs in commercialization processes, that can be later used in centers for the formation of this type of enterprise, such as La Catalina (a Center for the Formation of Social Economy in Central America and the Caribbean). In this way, other Central American enterprises will be able to take advantage of it. This project is also focused on the use of ICTs and the reduction of extreme poverty by the way of the development of small social economy enterprises, the strengthening of women's participation in local productive processes, and aiming to the environmental sustainability, since these enterprises not only emphasize profit but also economic, cultural and environmental development of their communities.

Contractor: Fundación Acceso



Personnel: 21000

Contracts: 5000

Training: 13500

Equipment: 1500


JamaicaCommunityDeveolpmentWorkersDatabaseProjectProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Jamaica

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Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: The project aims to collate and make accessible the professional information on local community development workers Island‐wide, their specialization and how they may be contacted through an easily accessible database available on the applicant’s website. The database will therefore be accessible worldwide and allow both local and international development agencies and Non Government Organisations seeking specialised skills within various Jamaican communities, the ability to contact local qualified persons with a working knowledge of the communities. The database will ease the process of searching for various community development skills, while strengthening existing informal networks and business linkages locally. The project will enhance the achievement of the millennium goals by providing information on local community persons specializing in the various areas of eth millennium goals

Contractor: Local Iniative Facility for the Urban Environment



Personnel: 9000

Contracts: 3789

Training: 3500

Equipment: 4356


CapacitacióndegestorespúblicosmunicipalesenSoftwareLivreProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: El objetivo del proyecto es fomentar la utilización de software livre en la administración pública de nivel municipal, con la creación de instrumentos y la capacitación de gestores públicos de los gobiernos locales, en temas de software libre y su utilización para la dinamización de los organismos públicos, creando una red de intercambio de experiencias, evaluaciones y debates. A la vez, informar el gestor público sobre las cuestiones legales y de licenciamento de software libre, y de como se les afectan las legislaciones nacional y regionales acerca de aquisición de software y servicios relacionados y los modelos de negocio (practicas comerciales de las empresas) relacionados a software libre. Estos instrumentos de información serán, principalmente, basados en nas nuevas tecnologías de la comunicación (información por vía electrónica, foros virtuales de debate y análisis de experiencias, discusiones presenciales

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y virtuales, participación interactiva en reuniones on‐line, etc) y permitirán acercar los profesionales responsables por planeamento y informática de cada ciudad con todas las demás, en un intercambio efectivo de conocimiento, experiencias y resultados. Este es un proyecto complementar a la librería de software libre para aplicación en municipalidades (FLO‐PREF), que tiene financiación del Ministério de Ciencia y Tecnologia de Brasil y objetiva crear una librería de software libre compartida para las administraciones de las pequeñas ciudades de Brasil, para viabilizar la informatización, con costes admisibles y liberdad de opciones.

Contractor: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina – Fundação de Ensino e Engenharia de Santa Catarina



Personnel: 5000

Contracts: 15000

Training: 3000

Equipment: 0


TEACHINGINFORMATIONLITERACYINBULGARIANLIBRARIESProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 45175

Project summary: Bulgaria is a European country with a low level of citizen access to information and information literacy skills. Only 15% of the Bulgarian population has Internet access. There are 3500 public libraries providing different levels of information services to the public. These libraries are just now entering the modern age with computers and information access for the public. American libraries, on the other hand, have positive, effective experience in delivering information literacy training to the public. This project will combine the needs of Bulgarian society, the readiness of Bulgarian public libraries, previous successful projects between Bulgarian and U.S. libraries, and the expertise of American public librarians. In this project, expert trainers from the United States will conduct train‐the‐trainer workshops in Bulgaria. Seven Bulgarian pilot libraries will demonstrate the model by conducting information literacy sessions with Bulgarian citizens. The trained Bulgarian librarians will train other Bulgarian librarians in these concepts so that the benefit of the project can extend beyond the original seven pilot libraries and continue into the future. The most important beneficiaries of the project are library users. The project will focus on groups with the least access to the Internet: unemployed,

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women, and people with very low‐paying jobs.

Contractor: Union of Librarians and Information Science Officers, Bulgaria



Personnel: 9600

Contracts: 6900

Training: 13175

Equipment: 14000


DigitalClearinghouseProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 61050

Project summary: The purpose of the Digital Clearinghouse project is to develop and enhance knowledge and skills in the use of Free/Open Source Software in sub Saharan Africa. The funding will enable the Digital Clearinghouse team to develop easy to use tutorials and user guides for open source software. Also, users can download tutorials, read and submit articles on their project experiences using open source software, participate in a wiki, publish and share blogs. The overall goal of this project is to promote and increase the use of Free/Open Source software and the production of local multimedia content, especially among those with limited resources. This project is organized around five main activities; 1) The development of a free/open source portal 2) the creation of an online information resource 3) The development of expertise in open source. 4) Workshops and training in Free/Open Source software, and 5) Research and development. The activities proposed in this application will have measurable impacts on the use of information and communications technologies in sub Saharan Africa. Through this project, awareness will be created about the abundance of free open source software, and users will be able to create local multimedia content. Through such an initiative, the region will be able to push its information and communications technology agenda at minimal cost.

Contractor: Kwasi Boateng ; Beatrice Akosua Boateng



Personnel: 38400

Contracts: 0

Training: 500

Equipment: 10670

Miscellaneous: 11480

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Multimediasolutionsforlocalcontent:BobMarley“talk”andReggaedancesProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: The year 2005 is considered a watershed year for reggae music since it marks legendary Bob Marley at 60 years. Despite his popularity in death and in life, very little new media attempts have been made to explain the linguistic style and the culture that he represented. This project will take the very first 45 minute Bob Marley radio interview done independently by well known broadcaster Neville Willoughby and explain each sentence to an online audience using multimedia and multilingual (English‐Jamaican) solutions. It will also distribute the re‐packaged interview on the web and on CD‐ROMs so that there is greater understanding of this reggae icon. The year 2005 is also a milestone in reggae dancehall since musician / dancer “Bogle” was brutally murdered recently . Bogle is responsible for the majority of recent dance moves which have not been well documented. As part of this Bob Marley web site and CD‐ROM, there will be 10 animated dances in tribute to Bogle and the legacy he left behind with explanations of the moves. One sample of this was done on www.reggaelovers.com which tried to highlight aspects of local culture which fits into UNESCO’s Universal Declaration on cultural diversity. The project will last for 6 months.

Contractor: Vilma Gregory



Personnel: 15000

Contracts: 4000

Training: 2000

Equipment: 3000


Non‐GovernmentOrganisationsInformationPlatformProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 35000

Project summary: The project will create a central point online for low budget Non‐Government Organsiations within the region to; 1) Promote their objectives, areas of specilization and ways in which they are

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assisting to acheive the millenium (irrespective of languages) 2) Facilitate informations sharing 3) Strentghen and build regional Partnerships within the NGO sector 4) The project will improve knowledge and use of ICT within the NGO sector through dynamic website which can be updated by individuals within the organisations from remote locations

Contractor: Apsis



Personnel: 20000

Contracts: 2500

Training: 5000

Equipment: 6000


ProposaltoStoreandDistributeRadioProgrammesaboutTokelauviatheInternetProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Tokelau

Cost (USD): 24899

Project summary: Summary This proposal aims to establish five centres for the digitization of existing analogue radio content and its storage and distribution using the Internet. Background Tokelau consists of three small and very remote islands in the South Pacific with a total population of approximately 1,500 people. There are significantly more Tokelauns living outside Tokelau, principally in New Zealand, Australia and Samoa – but like most peoples spread around the world. In Tokelau, each atoll has its own local radio station that is used to broadcast music, announcements and meetings of the Taupulega – each Island’s governing council. The larger communities in New Zealand have regularly scheduled radio broadcasts delivered through New Zealand’s Access Radio stations . These broadcasts are in a combination of English and Tokelaun. Proposal This proposal is to provide the tools, training, and first two‐years operational costs of a programme that takes the existing cultural and democracy content and preserves it and distributes it over the Internet. Assumptions: ∙ That the Radio Stations in New Zealand already have necessary equipment ∙ That the Training in New Zealand will take three days

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∙ That the Training for Tokelau Radio operators will take place in Apia. ∙ That the total time for a trainer, including travel, in Apia is five days. ∙ That the cost of travel and accommodation for the Tokelau Radio operators is NZ$1,000 for the period of training. Measurable Objectives The project is expected to achieve the following objectives: 1. Increase IT Literacy among the people of Tokelau and Tokelauns abroad. a. Those involved in the production will learn new technical skills that can be applied to other areas. b. Those listening will learn basic computer literacy as well as Internet literacy. 2. Improved Information Literacy a. Those involved in the production will learn and apply information editing skills. 3. Cultural Preservation & Enhancement a. The content will be stored in Digital form in multiple locations, preserving it for future generations. b. The content will be available to a much broader audience c. The content will be available when the listener wants. 4. Democracy Promotion a. Debates of the Taupulega and Fono (local and national) can be heard locally in real time (as occurs now) and globally when convenient. 5. Content a. Each of the five sites will produce at least 2 x 1/2 hours of content each month. b. At least one third of these programmes should be cultural and at least on third of these should focus around democracy. c. At least one third of these programmes should be in Tokelaun and at least one tenth of these programmes should be in English. d. Over the course of the project, this will amass to at least 120 hours of content.

Contractor: Teletok Tokelau



Personnel: 6211

Contracts: 7200

Training: 7128

Equipment: 4350

Miscellaneous: 0 0

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PreservingCAVR'saudiovisualandelectronicarchives‐Phase1Project status: Unfunded

Region/country: Timor‐Leste

Cost (USD): 43700

Project summary: The Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation (CAVR ‐ Comissao de acolhimento, Verdade e Reconciliacao de Timor Leste) is a national independent statutory authority, mandated to undertake truth‐seeking, facilitate community reconciliation, report on its work and findings and make recommendations for further action, and is due to present its final report to the Government of Timor Leste in July 2005. This work has resulted in the generation of a large number of audiovisual and electronic records, which are currently not identified or accurately recorded, and are not stored in conditions suitable to cope with the extreme climatic conditions in Timor Leste. The proposed project is the first phase of a two part project and will involve identifying, accessioning, registering and storing all audiovisual and electronic records created or received by CAVR officers during the Commission’s lifespan. The electronic records will be accurately recorded and stored on archive quality formats, with copies of the master copies stored in an off‐site repository. Phase 2 of the project will involve the digitisation and preservation of all audiovisual records. Training of local staff in archives and records management skills will be a priority. Strong liaison with other organisations will occur, with knowledge sharing and cooperative training taking place. Once CAVR has made a decision regarding future access to the records (taking into account legal obligations of copyright and intellectual property), the records will be in a suitable condition for access at a site to be determined or online through the world wide web. This project has International Council of Archives Programme Commission support.

Contractor: Del Cuddihy



Personnel: 10400

Contracts: 5000

Training: 12000

Equipment: 11300


Building,preservinganddisseminatingUganda'sdocumentedheritageProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 23000

Project summary: The National Library of Uganda was established by an Act of Parliament, in 2003. It’s mandate includes, among others, the establishment of a national

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bibliographic control agency and the promotion of a reading culture to all citizens for self‐development and lifelong learning. Uganda’s publishing industry is being restored and is becoming vibrant after decades of turmoil in the country. There are many documents that have been published by commercial publishers, government agencies and NGOs. However their distribution and usage as well as their preservation still remains quite limited. The reading habit has also remained very poor among ordinary citizens, partly because of a perceived lack of suitable, relevant and interesting material for the population. The NLU has embarked on a collection and listing exercise to make such publications known to and available to the public and also to preserve copies for posterity. It has collected close to 3,000 Ugandan published titles and has published the first issue of the National Bibliography of Uganda, with funding from the Government of Uganda. The work carried out so far by the NLU has been very limited because of limited capacity in staff competencies and in funding given the many priorities within government. The NLU intends to expand the project further so that: 1.At least 90% of local publications are collected and listed; 2.The National Bibliography is published and distributed at quarterly intervals and 3.Copies of local publications are acquired for distribution to the public libraries to be used by the local population.

Contractor: National Library of Uganda



Personnel: 0

Contracts: 0

Training: 5000

Equipment: 8000


ImprovementofinformationcultureofthepeoplewithdisabilitiesProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 19634

Project summary: The project is elaborated after identification of the needs of the people with disabilities, who have difficult access to information and problems with their social integration. The present project is directed to improvement of their information culture, with regards to the Internet, the legislation, and programmes, which are related to them and so on. The target group of the project includes nearly

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1000 people with disabilities. The project plans establishment of 2 computer centres with Internet access, training in computer literacy, creation of web site with forum, publications ofbrochures and leaflets. The implementation of the project will be six months in partnership with The Territorial organization of the Deaf in the municipalities of Svishtov and Belene and also the Association of people with disabilities in the municipality of Svishtov. As a result of project, implementation will provide opportunities to one of the most vulnerable social groups – the people with disabilities to improve their acquaintance regarding their legal status, the modern changes, and all kinds of information in relation with them. Also, they will be able to develop social contacts and to revitalize their communication, which is important for their adaptation and integration in the modern society.

Contractor: Euroregion Danube – South Association



Personnel: 1393

Contracts: 863

Training: 1028

Equipment: 10369


IntangibleHeritage&ICTs:oraltraditionsinEcuador&theInternet.Project status: Unfunded

Region/country: Ecuador

Cost (USD): 25100

Project summary: The aim of the project is to contribute to the preservation, promotion and transmission of living oral culture from Ecuador through information communication technologies (ICTs). It is focused on traditional storytelling as it is vulnerable to the trends of cultural transformations of the rural world brought by the rapid urbanisation of the country. This initiative will be based on research and participative activities involving storytellers, their communities and the general public to draw a baseline on the situation of traditional oral literature. The development of a website is at the centre of the initiative as it will provide the principal platform to (i) share the baseline, (ii) enable the discovery and exchange of oral tradition. Alternatively and complementarily,

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targeted local and national radio programs will play the same role. The major partner is one of the most important structures in Europe on storytelling and oral literature (CLIO).

Contractor: DOUCE DE LA SALLE, Félicité



Personnel: 10200

Contracts: 6400

Training: 1500

Equipment: 2100


CENTREMULTIMEDIACOMMUNAUTAIRE(CMC)DEMBALMAYO.Project status: Unfunded

Region/country: Cameroon

Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: Ce projet vise à transformer la Radio Communautaire des Femmes de Mbalmayo en Centre Multimedia Communautaire pour donner aux citoyens de cette zone rurale et particulièrement aux femmes, l'accès aux TIC. Il s'agit de promouvoir l'utilisation des TIC au niveau des communautés villageoise de base. Des facilitateurs formés par le projet aident les usagers à se servir des ordinateurs et autres équipements. Des programmes de navigation internet via la radio créent un accès indirect de masse aux ressources en ligne. La Radio Communautaire des Femmes de Mbalmayo actuellement gérée par les femmes est particulièrement efficace, car elle contribue à l'amélioration des conditions de vie de la femme. Une trentaine d'associations féminines de la région, s'y sont regroupées et jouent le rôle de premier plan. Elles contribuent ainsi à l'éducation de la jeune fille par les programes radio d'alphabétisation, droits de la femme, santé de la réproduction, lutte contre le VIH/SIDA (transmission de la mère à l'enfant).

Contractor: BERNARD HADJADJ, DIRECTEUR



Personnel: 3000

Contracts: 2000

Training: 10000

Equipment: 9000


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Peacebuilding,conflictpreventionandmanagementthroughthemedia.Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 59000

Project summary: This project, thus, is a web‐based initiative focusing specifically on sharing information about conflict prevention and post‐conflict peace building initiatives in the Great lakes region and Horn of Africa nations. It is a forum to share experiences and knowledge. The project will focus on topics like: the genesis and consequences of the conflicts, such as religious and ethnic factors, the land tenure system and political dictatorship. Other topics of interest include the impact of conflicts on the economies of affected countries, post‐conflict peace building initiatives, the humanitarian crisis and how it is being addressed. Other focus areas will include the role of the UN and African Union (AU) peacekeepers. In addition, women’s role in the quest for peace and civil society’s role in peacemaking efforts will be examined. The website will also carry news on the plight of refugees and Internally Displaced Persons, how their rights are being violated and what should be done to protect their rights, campaign against the use of child soldiers, reintegration of refugees and ex‐combatants and the process of demining and reconstruction of the war‐ravaged economies. The website will also publish and analyze reports released by human rights watchdogs such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, International Rescue Committee (IRC) and various think tanks, with regard to abuses in selected war‐torn countries.

Contractor: Clement Njoroge



Personnel: 19000

Contracts: 5000

Training: 15000

Equipment: 15000


EnhancingPartnershipforWomen’sEmpowermentintheTribalAreasofPakistanProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 11100

Project summary: The project Enhancing Partnership for Women’s Empowerment is about empowering local communities thru capacity building process so that they

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could make their own choices and get access to timely and accurate information all times and at all levels by involving newly elected women members of the Agency Councils, religious and social observers of the Tribal areas. We have selected Tribal areas of NWFP Pakistan for this particular project, as such belt in extremely vulnerable to accessing information of all kind and literacy. The project will facilitate Tribal chiefs, religious leaders and young people movements through dialogues and comprehensive media campaign.

Contractor: Global Development Program



Personnel: 2000

Contracts: 1000

Training: 4000

Equipment: 1100


Miseenplaced'uneradioàl'AssembléenationaleduMali,duBurkinaFasoetduNigerProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 200000

Project summary: Le vent de la démocratie qui a soufflé dans bon nombre de pays africains a vue l'entrée en scène de plusieurs partis politiques. De l'Assemblée nationale unicolore, l'Assemblée nationale comprend maintenant des groupes parlementaires se réclamant d'une majorité présidentielle et ceux d'une opposition. Les débats devant aboutir au vote des lois sont souvent ignorés par la plupart des populations, car ils ne sont pas couverts par les médias qui tout au plus, couvrent les cérémonies officielles d'ouverture des sessions. Rarement, le peuple n'a eu droit à une retransmission en direct des décisions le concernant. C'est pour combler cette absence de "rendre compte au peuple" et ce "devoir d'informer" que la mise en place d'une radiodiffusion de l'Assemblée nationale trouve tout sa justification.Les populations qui seront mieux informées, seront à même d'évaluer leurs élus et d'exercer ainsi leur citoyenneté. Les professionnels des médias verront leurs capacités accrues du fait de la disponibilité de sources demeurées inaccessibles jusque là.

Contractor: Rokia BA



Personnel: 20000

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Contracts: 50000

Training: 20000

Equipment: 100000


PromotingtheuseofICTsandLibrariestoimprovethequalityofEducationProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: Tonga has achieved Universal Primary Education and Universal Secondary Education for a number of years now. Although this status of achievement places Tonga in advance of many other countries in the Asia‐Pacific region, there are still many challenging areas that the Ministry of Education has to face. One of the most critical ones is to ‘achieve quality education’ for without quality education, quality of life can never be improved, and the eradication of poverty may never be achieved. More so, quality education makes participation in socio‐economic activity more meaningful and such a participatory process could lead to sustainable and peaceful development. Teachers play a key role in bringing about quality education. In Tonga, the teaching process is rather conventional where the majority of teachers use the textbook only to impart information to their students. In turn, students are not inspired to use other learning methodology to maximize the quality of their work. As a result, there is a great digital divide between developed countries and small developing countries like Tonga on how information is accessed to improve the quality of education and to promote and enhance the Knowledge Society. The purpose of this project therefore is to promote the use of ICTs and Libraries to teachers and librarians, so that they in turn can promote the same to students/library users for the purpose of achieving information literacy and universal access to information. This line of action is within UNESCO’s priority area, the Plan of Action of the WSIS and the Millennium Development Goals.

Contractor: Lucy Moala‐Mafi



Personnel: 0

Contracts: 0

Training: 19000

Equipment: 3000


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PromotingcapacityingenderequalitythroughstrategicinformationProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 123606

Project summary: The Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) is an international membership organization with six thousand individual members and 150 institutional members in 120 countries. Our mandate is to cause policy, institutional and individual change that will improve the lives of women and girls worldwide. AWID does this by sharing strategic information and creating critical spaces for organising. This project proposal seeks financial support from UNESCO to enable AWID to considerably expand its reach throughout the global South in terms of providing electronic information in the form of the most useful tools, analyses, news, discussions, urgent actions and announcements that will improve the ability of gender equality researchers and activists (in particular young women) to promote the rights of women everywhere. In particular, AWID will: • expand the interactivity of information on critical 2005 global processes (eg the MDGs, WTO, WSIS) • promote transfer of information among organizations and individuals of very different backgrounds and ages • share the latest information on gender and development and human rights related to HIV/AIDs, conflict, poverty, globalization, and organizational development. AWID is requesting a $48,000 contribution from the IFAP Special Fund for this important international project.

Contractor: AWID (Association for Women’s Rights in Development)



Personnel: 92783

Contracts: 20800

Training: 3150

Equipment: 6873

Miscellaneous: 0 0

Portaldelacienciacubana:LacienciaylainnovaciónenCubaalalcancedetodos.Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: Se propone un proyecto de investigación aplicada con el objetivo de conservar y difundir la memoria cubana de ciencia e innovación tecnológica,

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y simultáneamente estudiar periódicamente su comportamiento mediante un sistema de indicadores biblio‐informétricos. Parte de la digitalización, procesamiento bibliográfico y puesta en línea de las fuentes de información científico‐técnica del país que atesoran los principales resultados de la ciencia cubana: base de datos CUBACIENCIA (revistas científico‐técnicas cubanas desde 1987, tesis de doctorado y Premios Anuales de la Academia de Ciencias de Cuba); directorio de personalidades científicas QUIÉN ES QUIÉN EN LA CIENCIA EN CUBA; DIRECTORIO NACIONAL DE INSTITUCIONES CIENTÍFICAS; procesos y resultados de innovación en la industria cubana, BASE DE DATOS DEL FORUM NACIONAL DE CIENCIA Y TÉCNICA. La Biblioteca Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (BNCT), adscripta al IDICT, es depositaria nacional de las fuentes de información mencionadas y trabaja desde hace años creando productos informativos que sirven de base a la investigación propuesta, para facilitar el acceso universal a la información científico‐técnica cubana. Actualmente es necesario modernizar la base tecnológica del proceso y la puesta en línea de los resultados, mediante el Portal de la Ciencia Cubana. Igualmente, se creará un sistema de enseñanza informática para innovadores y jóvenes investigadores, mediante la creación del AULA DE LA INNOVACIÓN.

Contractor: M.Sc. Carmen Sánchez, Director, National Library of Science and Technology, IDICT.



Personnel: 0

Contracts: 1000

Training: 1000

Equipment: 22000


FortalecimientodelSistemadeInformaciónAmbientalCubano(SNIAC).Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: La informatización de la sociedad cubana es una prioridad estatal por lo que todos los organismos e instituciones del país están en la obligación de implementar acciones encaminadas a este fin. El Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología y Medio Ambiente (CITMA) en su Política Nacional de Información ha plasmado dentro de sus propósitos contribuir al desarrollo de la infraestructura nacional de información a través de la adecuada organización y desarrollo de los recursos, servicios y sistemas de información, así como el fomento de la cultura informacional de la Sociedad. La atención al medio ambiente, forma parte de las funciones que tiene CITMA en aras de alcanzar el desarrollo sostenible, por lo que las acciones en

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torno a la informatización le son inherentes e imprescindibles. De ahí que el fortalecimiento del SNIAC contemplado en la Ley 81 del Medio Ambiente y la Estrategia Ambiental Nacional, constituye un objetivo estratégico para los próximos años.

Contractor: Centro de Información, Gestión y Educación Ambiental (CIGEA)



Personnel: 0

Contracts: 0

Training: 0

Equipment: 20000


EstablishmentofTelecenterandExtensionWorkerstrainingintheuseofICTforAgricultureinformationinRuralLiberia.Project status: Unfunded

Region/country: Liberia

Cost (USD): 24985

Project summary: Fourteen years of civil crisis, which just ended in August 2003, has most of Liberia’s infrastructure destroyed and population of about 2.7 million displaced. Liberia has 70.1 % of its population living in rural areas, agriculture the source of income, deficient telecommunication infrastructure and Information Communication Technology, (ICT) – Television and Radio Broadcast, Internet Services (not available presently), lack of capacity and skills development among rural areas, the use of ICT to communicate agriculture and general information is very necessary. A Telecenter will be established in Gbarnga with ICT equipment, and Training of Trainers (ToT), to serve as Extension Workers trained, specifically in agriculture information, to further train rural farmers residing in Gbarnga and its environs. Rural farmers will obtain agriculture information from the Telecenter directly by use of cell phones, Internet, e‐mail, video, including entertainment from DSTV Channels. Gender will be considered both in selection of ToT and training of rural farmers. It is expected that at the end of 24 months, at least 1500 rural resident in Gbarnga and its environs will have access, training, and use of agriculture information, use ICT equipment to enable them improve agriculture productivity leading to poverty reduction and improving their standard of living.

Contractor: Eben Moses


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Personnel: 5400

Contracts: 2400

Training: 585

Equipment: 16485


ICTforWomenandChildrenRightsinUzbekistan(IWACRU)Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 24930

Project summary: Uzbekistan is a country with the limited civil rights. There are no independent mass media or opposition parties. There is very limited access to full information about problems like gender equality and primary education of children. Violence against women is a problem, although no statistics are available. Despite the fact that twelve years of formal schooling are compulsory, more and more children drop out of secondary school. One of the primary reasons children drop out of school, especially in agricultural areas, is that they are forced by local government officials to work in the cotton fields. There has existed the Scientific and Educational Centre (SEC) of the Uzbekistan Section of the International Society for Human Rights (ISHR), which is based in Frankfurt with aims to establish an Information & Communication Technology (ICT) network that covers the entire country of Uzbekistan. SEC in collaboration with NGOs has been proactive in protection of human rights inter‐alia of women and children rights in the nation. However it is far from proper advocacy of woman and children’s rights and bodies involved in the matter. The best way to approach this goal is experience. This project consists of two main areas of activity: ‐ Advocating Women and Children Rights and applying IC Technologies in concrete items of Human Rights. ‐ Assisting Human Rights defenders and NGOs in better understanding cyber space particular Internet. 7 key sites shall be developed that serve as focal points for geographical regions. The sites will be easy accessible for public sites that serve as a gathering point for those with women’s or children’s rights violations. It could lead to the opening‐up of the opportunity to use the ICT network to post alert warning on violation of women or children’s rights. Once information is gathered through the network, training shall be offered to explain the options for correcting the violations that have been reported. The ICT network shall also serve to store and provide information on addressing various human rights violations. Part of the information stored in the ICT network will be court decisions that speak to the rights violations

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that have been gathered. In addition, information about these violations shall be distributed to NGO’s that work for the improvement of women and children’s rights. Information about the violation of rights that is current and countrywide shall help these NGOs keep on target in their efforts to help the local population. In addition, these NGOs shall have access to the information stored on the ICT network for addressing the violations that have been identified.

Contractor: Scientific Educational Centre (SEC)



Personnel: 10200

Contracts: 700

Training: 5530

Equipment: 7000


BUILDINGTHEYOUTHSFORPOVERTYERADICATIONANDDEVELOPMENT(BYPED)Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 24990

Project summary: In September 2004, the British Council in partnership with the World Bank Institute in a pilot programme titled “Debate to Action” brought representatives of Nigerian Youth organizations together to strengthen their knowledge about development issues, share their experiences about working with youths on the ground and enhance their training skills. 120 representatives of 60 Youth organizations in Nigeria participated in the programme. The training module was based on issues in national development and sustainable development; the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs); and the National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (NEEDS). The World Bank Institute’s Book: “Beyond Economic Growth” was also used as a resource material for learning. After the training which culminated in a six week Information Communication Technology exposure of the participants through the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), participants were urged to go back to their organizations and extend the programme to other youths and youth organizations in Nigeria. The Economic Growth and Development Center (EGDC) participated in the programme and designed its extension programme. Although the EGDC has commenced its extension programme on a small scale in Abuja, it has the intention of taking the programme to a broader, more inclusive group and to other places in Nigeria.

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This proposal, estimated to cost about $25,000 seeks to take Debate to Action through the concept of national development and economic growth; using the MDGs and the NEEDS to Nigerian youths with the aim of improving their knowledge base; improving their livelihood opportunities; equipping them mentally for the fight against extreme poverty and hunger and bringing them to debate on issues affecting their development and future; and to participate in national policy formulations and implementations. NEEDS is Nigeria’s home grown poverty reduction strategy paper which outlines the present government’s mission for national and human development. It shares similar goals and objectives as the MDGs especially in the area of human empowerment only NEEDS is medium term and seeks to have attained most of its goals by 2007.

Contractor: THE ECONOMIC GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER (EGDC)



Personnel: 0

Contracts: 0

Training: 24990

Equipment: 0

Miscellaneous: 0 0

DON'TWANDER,ASK...Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 0

Project summary: Because of the fact that the local self‐rule cannot menage properly in the modern currents since they are not interested enough for education and computerizing of public service's works and favors which need the cooperation between sectors and obligatory existence of data base, the inhabitants of the city of Sjenica stay uninformed and depraved of many fast information, being unsatisfied with the service, they wander from window to window having lost their precious time. There ih so local radio‐station for informing in the city of Sjenica where the people can get information about the kinds of favors of the public services in the city, not to mention the programs which would thoroughly explain the work of state (public) sectors, economy in the local community and local, non‐governmental organizations. By broadcasting a radio program called ''Don't wander, ask...'' on the local radio station ''Amaro'' we would get thorough service, skilled and information from the field of work of all public services in the city, so that the inhabitants could work efficient and perform their duties towards the state and in that way they would make a better organization of their free time or they would have miss work less.

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We are planning to organize a radio program ''Don't wander, ask...'' which would be broadcast once a week from 12 to 1 pm on Tuesday and its repetition from 12 to 1 pm on Thursday (since there is a market on Thursday in Sjenica, many people listen to the radio).

Contractor: MILENA PECANIN



Personnel: 0

Contracts: 0

Training: 0

Equipment: 0

Miscellaneous: 0 0

AutonomouswebserveranddigitisationprogrammefortheNationalArchivesofNamibiaProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Namibia

Cost (USD): 37328

Project summary: The project aims to reform the technological regime within the National Archives by establishing an independent web‐server and database and improving both the content of and access to the database. The project also involves a six‐month programme of digitisation of rare and endangered documents.

Contractor: National Archives of Namibia



Personnel: 0

Contracts: 8620

Training: 2586

Equipment: 26122

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NALISCaribbeanNon‐toxicPestExterminationCentreProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: Insects pose a huge threat to tropical Libraries, damaging or destroying huge amounts of heritage material if not eradicated prior to inclusion in the

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collection. The National Library and Information System Authority (NALIS), acting in its capacity as a regional Preservation Centre under the auspices of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), wants to implement a non‐toxic pest eradication program to replace its current fumigation approach. Pesticides used for this purpose create long‐term health risk to library staff and patrons, as surface deposits of the poison are transferred to humans when material is handled. Pesticides also cause irreversible damage to the cellulose in treated objects over time. An alternate approach is to place books and documents in a low‐temperature freezer (‐50degree Fahrenheit) for three days. This approach is simple to use, has no side effects on patrons or the collection, and can be shared with other Caribbean libraries on a cost recovery basis to eliminate pesticide use in libraries on a regional level.

Contractor: Patricia Zephyrine, Executive Director



Personnel: 1000

Contracts: 1000

Training: 500

Equipment: 21000


ProvidingThutongResourcesOfflineProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 22800

Project summary: Thutong (meaning “place of learning” in seTswana) is the South African education portal, a not‐for‐profit project of the national Department of Education (DoE) which provides thousands of resources free to learners and educators. It gives them access to a vast and ever‐increasing range of quality curriculum and learner support materials, as well as educator professional development resources, administration and management resources and tools, education policy documents, and general news and information related to the latest developments in South African education. This proposal describes an additional service for the portal which will enable the offline distribution of these resources to thousands of education officials, educators, and learners throughout South Africa who are constrained in terms of a lack of IT infrastructure and internet access. At present, users run a search, and retrieve a list of relevant resources, which, while online, they can open and read, or print for further distribution. We propose the development of functionality on the site which will enable users to receive an off‐line CD of the resources they have chosen. This will be similar to the ‘shopping cart’ logic on sites such as amazon.com,

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where the user would click an icon next to each resource, indicating which material they would like to be cut to a CD and mailed to them. Then, while online, the user will complete a form listing their details. After completing the online form, s/he will then be sent a CD containing all the chosen resources, as well as a copy of the database and all the curriculum standards. This will all be available for the nominal cost of cutting the CD, and postage. Many users in South Africa are severely constrained in terms of both bandwidth and computer infrastructure. It would immensely aid their productivity and time management, and ultimately educational provision if they were able to receive an offline version of, for example, all the resources they would need for that term, or for a particular subject area. In addition, this service will enable education officials to target an identified area of curriculum need in their area of responsibility, and distribute resources accordingly.

Contractor: Neil Butcher – South African Institute of Distance Education



Personnel: 17462

Contracts: 0

Training: 0

Equipment: 0


NationalGeospatialDataClearingHouseProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: The Government Of Jamaica (GOJ) has long recognized the importance of geographically‐based information as a crucial part of the nation’s information infrastructure. It has been estimated that nearly 80% of government’s decision‐making involves geographic data in one form or another. A National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) is envisioned to ensure access to spatial data and support effective decision making . It will also facilitate better coordination among all the multi‐sector agencies, private companies, non‐government organizations and the public that all have a stake in this process. The creation and implementation of the National Geospatial Data Clearing House (NGDC) is a high priority in Jamaica’s NSDI initiative. This application will enable the discovery of geospatial data through the metadata properties and integration of these services with the web. The application will serve a wide cross section of users within the government service and the public, professional groups wishing to know where and what types of digital spatial

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data sets are available, in addition to being able to view them and conduct structured queries on the data sets. The application will provide the following: ‐ live access to selected spatial data sets ‐ tools for documenting the location content and structures of the data ‐ an interface that allows a user to query distributed collections of geospatial information through their metadata descriptions. ‐ data ordering mechanisms, ‐ user interface and tools for data and map display and browsing,

Contractor: Ministry of Land & EnvironmentSpatial Data Management Division



Personnel: 0

Contracts: 10000

Training: 5000

Equipment: 7000


AssemblingGenericComputersProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Saint Lucia

Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: The information age has seen the computer emerging as a major tool in the transition from the industrial age. Within the education system, the computer offers the potential for enhancing the teaching/learning process, developing the professional capability of students, fostering stronger communications links to communities and other institutions, and strengthening institutional capacity e.g. aiding in administrative processes of schools. Therefore, education has no choice but to reform curriculum to focus on the development of knowledge, skills and attitudes suitable for the information age. For the past decade, the Ministry of Education in St.Lucia has embarked on various Information and Communication Technology (ICT) projects in schools. One such venture is the construction of Computer Laboratories (labs) at all secondary schools under the Millennium Project. The average cost of building a computer lab is approximately US$100,000.00. The recurrent cost such as servicing and repairs accounts for 40% of the overall cost. The maintenance of computers has been a big challenge since the Information Technology Unit operates on a meager staff. This has resulted in lengthy response and down time, ranging from a few weeks to years in some

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instances. The effects are being felt right now since some of the labs are more that five years old, which coincides with the average useful life of a computer. This cost is further exacerbated when it comes to replacing proprietary components or parts. Consequently, this has hindered the Ministry’s ability to furnish the 86 primary schools with labs due to the high cost of acquisition, installation and maintenance of the machines. In addition, the use of computer labs in secondary schools has been used mainly for the Caribbean Examination Council Information Technology Program which mainly focuses on basic computer literacy and the use of productivity tools. The Curriculum Specialist responsible for Information Technology has been advocating alternative programs in Information Technology for students who already possess basic literacy concepts. One such program proposed is the Building and Maintenance of Computers. It is hoped that this program will be used to address some of the maintenance issues now plaguing the Information Technology Unit. It will also provide an alternative to the CXC‐IT program and will assist students not academically inclined towards the new thrust of skills training.

Contractor: Cathy Augier‐Gill



Personnel: 2000

Contracts: 0

Training: 3000

Equipment: 18000


Capacitybuildingforweb‐basedinformationsharingonsustainabledevelopmentforcivilsocietyorganisationsinBangladeshProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: The project will build capacity within a number of Bangladeshi civil society organizations in making information for sustainable development available at a Bangladesh Portal on the Internet. FoRAM is a network of 180 NGOs in Bangladesh working for promoting sustainable agriculture and rural development. One of the big NGO in Bangladesh named PROSHIKA is working all over the country for rural development. Its working fields are agriculture, gender, health, education, communication and development, internet setup , computer in develpment programme etcs. All of its area offices are connected with computer and it is going to established internet connectivity with rural areas. FoRAM is interling with PROSHIKA and try to established rural information center.

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The project will train information staff of 15 partner organizations in managing and sharing information on selected topics in a shared web‐based environment. Existing development information of the partners in English and local language will be selected, abstracted, classified and uploaded on the shared InfoBridge Platform used by civil society‐ and government organizations in Europe, Asia and Africa. This information will be made available at a Bangladeshi Portal National promotion and awareness raising will be pursued in conjunction with the national UNESCO committee Bangladesh and UNDP. Linkages are built in with partners in India, the Philippines, Uganda and the UK in sharing good practices on‐line.

Contractor: FoRAM (Forum for regenerative agrioculture movement)



Personnel: 14500

Contracts: 6000

Training: 3500

Equipment: 1000

Miscellaneous: 0 0

CapacityBuildingofInformationProfessionalsinColleges,TeachersEducationInstitutesandUniversitiesinEthiopiawithSpecialReferencetoInformationLiteracy.Project status: Unfunded

Region/country: Ethiopia

Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: A well informed society is an asset for the development of a country. In order to build such a society, development of good technology, information provision and resources are mandatory. In addition, so as to enable the society to cope with the information explosion, information literacy programs (ILPs) should be put in place. However, in Ethiopian higher learning institutions information literacy (IL) per se is not that much visible even though the contribution of IL for good governance, providing equitable access, poverty alleviation HIV/AIDS prevention and controlling is immense. It is based on these premises this project has been designed with the overall goal to build the capacity of information professionals in universities, colleges and teacher education institutions in Ethiopia with regard to promoting IL. The project will last for two years with the total budget of around 25,000 USD. Assessment, training of trainers, preparation of teaching materials, designing web sites and databases, purchasing of resources are activities identified in the project. Two professional articles and a book are the expected output of the project. Besides, professionals from participating

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institutions are expected to initiate and sustain their own information literacy programs at the end of the project. The project will be evaluated for its relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, cost/benefit, sustainability and impact.

Contractor: Wondimeneh Mammo AmenuHead, Faculty of Science Library



Personnel: 10000

Contracts: 0

Training: 1350

Equipment: 2000


YouthSPEARHEADProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 24375

Project summary: Youth SPEARHEAD is a project by which young people in Zambia shall use ICTs to generate, research, repackage and disseminate information on HIV/AIDS, Environmental Education and Human Rights for Development to other young people around the country who not have access to such information and whose lives can change for the better upon making use of the power of that information. The project shall be a vehicle by which various instruments and documents, that run the nation and the world hence are of individual importance to each youth in Zambia, shall be translated or watered down from technical and political jargon and repackaged for the consumption of youths. Further, the project shall rouse collaboration among young people in Zambia as they discuss matters that affect them and can be addressed by them using local and foreign resources. It will provide the youth with databases, libraries, and other tools, like guidelines, manuals and toolkits, in soft and hard copies, which shall teach and steer the young people as they go about carrying out social action projects that improve their lives and the state of their societies following the old adage that ‘Be the Change You Want to See in the World’. (short for Youth Action and Information Delivery for AIDS Reduction, Poverty Eradication, Environmental and Human Rights Education, Social Change and Development and Empowerment for the Marginalised)

Contractor: Shalala Oliver Sepiso



Personnel: 1875

Contracts: 4500

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Training: 8100

Equipment: 9500


BetterunderstandingofethicalandsocietalimplicationsofInformationSocietyforpeoplewithdisabilities.Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 40000

Project summary: This pilot project will address the needs of people with disabilities through the ICT in China. It will explore and test strategies, methods and tools for inclusion of people with disabilities in the emerging knowledge society in China. Over 60 million people with disability live in China. According to the statistics issued by the China Disabled People’s Federation (CDPF), the following population is affected: Impairment Numbers (in millions) Hearing 20,57 Intellectual 11,82 Visual 8,77 Physical 8,77 Multiple 7.82 Severe behavioral difficulties 2,25 The main professional occupation for people with disabilities, mainly visually impaired is massaging and the China Disabled People’s Federation provides this training in a number of special needs establishments. Except for China Braille Press, the Harbin E‐times Digital technology Development Co. Ltd. is so far the only Chinese IT company which designs computers and voice software for visually impaired people. IBM China volunteers association consists of IBM’s Chinese staff, which adapt the IBM speech viewer, speech recognition/voice controlled systems to the needs of Chinese customers. Booming IT industry in China does not consider addressing needs of people with disabilities as a priority. According to media publications and preliminary inquiries by UNESCO Beijing Office, the following reasons are responsible: ? Mainstreaming of people with disabilities through ICT is not yet high on the state agenda. ? Limited interest from the Chinese IT industry to this market can be explained by perceived marginal economic gains. ? Special needs educators lack ICT training and ICT experts lack information about needs of people with disabilities. The project will strive to address those needs through a number of activities.

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Contractor: Dana Ziyasheva (Mrs), Adviser for Communication and Information, UNESCO Beijing Sun Lei, National Education Specialist, UNESCO Beijing



Personnel: 0

Contracts: 18000

Training: 10000

Equipment: 10000


SettinguptheBARMCenter(BARM=BangladeshArchives&RecordsManagement)Project status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 56000

Project summary: The proposed BARM Center will produce a complete development program for records management in Bangladesh. Furthermore, the BARM Center will train people who are involved in archives and records management. We think of both categories of persons who are maintaining systems of records and persons who are structurally dependent on frequent use of the information from records and archives. In Bangladesh such a center is needed to spread the awareness about the need of proper information management. During the first decades of independence there was a constant decline of attention for record management. In the last couple of years, gradually more and more archivists, librarians and historians are calling for development of a professional, continuous and systematic records and archives management. A modern state based on the rules of law, a dynamic economy and equal opportunities for all inhabitants can not achieve its goals without proper records management.

Contractor: Vice Chancellor prof dr Md Alimullah Miyan of the IUBAT – International University for Business, Agriculture and Technology in Dhaka, BangladeshDrs Florus F.J.M. Geraedts, archivist of Leidschendam‐Voorburg, Secretary of the Association of South Holland A



Personnel: 28000

Contracts: 0

Training: 10000

Equipment: 8000


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NationalRepositoryofPakistanipublicationsProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 22000

Project summary: Pakistan Scientific and Technological Information Centre (PASTIC) is the National Information agency therefore all the publications published in the country should be available in PASTIC for strengthening the information base of the PASTIC. The information material generated in the country and published will be preserved in this National Information Centre. The information available with PASTIC will be accessible to all. Presently due to limited resources and financial constraints PASTIC can not acquire all the journals, documents, reports, proceedings of workshop/ seminars published in the country. All this materials will be acquired by PASTIC through this project and a central collection of materials in the areas of Science and Technology will be built. The facility of consultation and reference will be provided to the visitors paying personal visit to PASTIC. Another aim of this national repository of Pakistani publications is the provision of current awareness service.

Contractor: Mohammad Aqil Khan



Personnel: 7000

Contracts: 1000

Training: 1000

Equipment: 8000


PreservationofIndigenousDatabyEstablishmentofFullTextNationalDatabaseProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: Unfortunately, in Pakistan, people lack awareness about the indigenous Information. The situation needs to be improved through development of database and various promotional activities. An electronic database with access on web provides rapid and selective access. In Pakistan no work has been done on development of indigenous databases, which may be the source of promoting the Information flow within the country. PASTIC has the infrastructure in the form of National Science Reference Library, where most of the research journals, books published within the country are available. It also provides Documentation Service and publishes Union Catalogue of Journals available in all Libraries in Pakistan and a

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Directory of periodical published in Pakistan. The project will help the people to have access to the required information within no time. It will also help to provide SDI services. Develop a National inventory and digitized clearinghouse of information produced within the country. With the establishment of information dissemination infrastructure, all academic and R&D institutions in Pakistan could, benefit from this Database. PASTIC and its sub centres disseminate information to the people nationally as well as internationally. These services should be vastly publicized and my work in close liaison with the other public organizations and the industry.

Contractor: Pakistan Scientific and Technological Information Centre



Personnel: 2500

Contracts: 5000

Training: 5000

Equipment: 10000


DevelopmentofNationalS&TInformationPolicyforPakistanProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 20000

Project summary: The project has been prepared with the view that an information society has to be build in the country and the national economy has to be integrated with the global knowledge‐based economy involving Libraries, industry, telecommunications, and media need to be integrated. Pakistan has both a National Science and Technology Policy and a National Technology Policy. It is imperative that there should be a National Science and Technology Information Policy so that the general problems being faced by the information users, information centers and the S&T community regarding dissemination of timely and reliable information may be sorted out to some extent. The only organization in Pakistan which caters to the information needs of the researchers and industry in all fields of Science, technology, environment, trade, social sciences, etc is Pakistan Scientific and Technological Information Centre, PASTIC. However, the increasing cost of information and the limited resources are a major constraint in obtaining all the information needed by the country and disseminating it to the potential users.. Services of a consultant are therefore required by PASTIC to be arranged by UNESCO, who should be an expert in the field of information policy in the developing countries, and who could come to Pakistan to study the situation

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and give us guidelines in the developing a National S&T Information Policy. The policy would include use of ICTs, Information systems and services that can be made relevant to the objective of socioeconomic uplift, poverty alleviation, not just through its impact on economic growth, but also by improving access to health care, education and other social services.

Contractor: Ms. Nageen Ainuddin, Dy. Director



Personnel: 8000

Contracts: 0

Training: 4000

Equipment: 1000


DigitalInclusionPrograms:acasestudyonBrazil,ArgentinaandUruguayProject status: Unfunded

Region/country: Argentina

Cost (USD): 35000

Project summary: Information and communication technologies ICT have the potential of these technologies to improve access to information and therefore to increase opportunities for enterprises and individuals. As a result many digital inclusion programs have emerged, based on the assumption that providing access to ICT will improve firms and individuals conditions. However, in order to benefit from adoption and diffusion of ICT enterprises must first organize their information flows, which can be a difficult task, especially for small firms. The same argument can be made for individuals: bringing computers to schools, for instance, will not enhance education unless training is also provided. Besides, in developing countries not only the access to ICT is unequal but also the “digital exclusion” related to unequal access may reinforce the social exclusion. Regional disparities are also present in access to ICT. This project aims to discuss alternative policies for NGOs to promote digital inclusion in developing countries. We chose to study NGOs because they have more possibilities to be actively involved in poor communities, which so far have been mostly excluded from the digital world. We will compare the cases of Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay to check whether regional differences are important in the definition of policies.

Contractor: Renata Lèbre La Rovere



Personnel: 20770

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Contracts: 5769

Training: 1461

Equipment: 0


ZNBCVISUALINFORMATIONMIGRATIONPROJECTProject status: Unfunded


Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: A collection of over 2000 archived video programmes covering a period of over 20 years of post‐independence Zambia is threatened by a backlash from rapid changes in technology (apart from the devastating effects of the vinegar syndrome that has invaded the collection). Almost all archived information is stored on obsolete U‐matic tape format. Meanwhile, ZNBC has only one reliable U‐matic playback which is also used to air television programmes. The Corporation’s minimum requirement is seven u‐matic playbacks. Continued over‐dependence on this machine means that soon it will also breakdown thereby rendering all the recorded information inaccessible to intended users. ZNBC has never migrated information as dictated by technological changes due to lack of funds. Consequently, all contents on film 1 and 2 inches tapes have been assumed lost. Furthermore, the Resource Centre is not equipped with necessary machines required to process recorded information for easy citation and retrieval in an effective and efficient manner. This has resulted in loss of important information through unavoidable tape erasures and reduced utilization. To salvage these important recordings covering all fields of human endeavour there is urgent need to migrate from old to current formats.

Contractor: Zambia National broadcasting Corporation



Personnel: 0

Contracts: 0

Training: 0

Equipment: 21000


Mobilevideoserviceinruralandperi‐urbancommunitiesasawayofenhancinginformationliteracyforsocialmobilisationandchange.Project status: Unfunded

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Cost (USD): 25000

Project summary: The project involves their acquisition of a mobile video van which will enable Zambia Information Services (ZIS) to contribute to information literacy efforts in the country and provide a platform for information sharing for rural communities which have no access to television. ZIS produces many documentaries that target issues which fall under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and are of great importance to the rural and peri‐urban communities. They identify key developmental issues and show what other communities are doing to meet their unmet needs in a prudent and sustainable manner. The mobile video vans will thus expose rural and peri‐urban communities in challenges of reducing global poverty by the year 2015 under the Millennium Development Goals.

Contractor: Director, Zambia Information Services



Personnel: 0

Contracts: 0

Training: 0

Equipment: 25000

Miscellaneous: 0 0

PromotingtheCapacityofDeafandDeaf‐BlindTrainersProject status:


Cost (USD): 33888

Project summary: The Project will develop a ‘training for trainers’ curriculum for skilled sign language users (hearing, Deaf and Deaf‐Blind). This ‘training for trainers’ curriculum will provide a framework for sign language users to develop their skills to train others to work directly with Deaf‐Blind people as communication support workers. Communication support workers provide assistance to children and adults who are deaf or hearing impaired, in addition to having visual impairments. Many regions have a shortage of communication support workers. This is due to in part to piecemeal training opportunities, with some regions having no training provision at all. This curriculum can be adopted by regional training organisations and adapted to local conditions. By focussing on the development of trainers we anticipate a more sustainable provision of communication services to Deaf‐Blind people. The curriculum will be targeted at Deaf and Deaf‐Blind people with the appropriate skills, who are in an ideal position to act as trainers given their

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personal experience of deafness and sign language skills. Currently, training for trainers courses are generally not accessible to Deaf or Deaf‐Blind people or do not address the specific concerns of providing training to Deaf‐Blind people.

Contractor: Mason Perkins Deafness Fund (MPDF)



Personnel: 18500

Contracts: 8688

Training: 1900

Equipment: 3600


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