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Results of the St George's competition

margot@iwith.org (Margot Berg) — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:01:00 +0100

On April the 23rd, we celebrated the International Book Day. On this occasion, Iwith.org organized an annual literary contest. This year the rule was to copy Twitter and write 140-character-sentences.

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Let's present you our chimpanzee Kudia!

margot@iwith.org (Margot Berg) — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:56:00 +0100

Since January, Iwith.org is sponsoring a chimpanzee of the Jane Goodall Institute, a recipient of ours. Last year, we have worked together for the Speak Out in the jungle project. Now, we continue with the sponsorship of Kudia, a chimpanzee.

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Agroecology, a fair and responsible alternative

katarina@iwith.org (Katarina Kostic) — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:05:00 +0100

With over a billion people worldwide going hungry, one of the major challenges of the XXI century is to produce food for an increasingly crowded world threatened with global warming.

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Let's participate to Sant Adrià de Besòs carnival

margot@iwith.org (Margot Berg) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:38:00 +0100

Next friday - February the 12th - will take place the 2n carnival in Sant Adrià de Besòs. The youth center Barnabitas, one of our beneficiairies, participates in this initiative.

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Interview with Ferran Bolós, Christmas card contest winner of the "Iwith. ...

villarrealrauls@iwith.org (Raúl Villarreal) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:00:00 +0100

Ferran Bolós, is our winner of the "Iwith.org 2009 Postcard" award. He is very familiar with Iwith.org and our initiatives from working with the NGO Vols, a beneficiary of ours, as their communications engineer. He is currently on leave of absence until August when he returns from living in Tanger (Morroco) for eight months.

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Interview with Chiara Giacomini, "most sent postcard" award winner

margot@iwith.org (Margot Berg) — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:04:00 +0100

Chiara Giacomini, a 34-year-old-italian graphic designer that has been living in Barcelona for the last 10 years, won our postcard contest that ran last December, and was awarded the "most sent postcard" prize.
We met her in order to get to know a little bit more about this graphic designer, who created her own agency, a year ago: Chiara Giacomini | brand design.

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Discover our greetings' cards contest winners!

margot@iwith.org (Margot Berg) — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:41:00 +0100

Thank you a lot for your participation in our 6th greetings cards contest. It's over now and we wish you a happy new year 2010. Let's discover our two winners. We has two prizes: "the most sent card prize" and "the Iwith.org 2009 prize".

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Now, You Can Send Your Solidarity Xmas Cards using Iwith.org

margot@iwith.org (Margot Berg) — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:27:00 +0100

The cards have the solidarity message from Iwith.org, a non lucrative organization that works with New Technologies for the development of the most disadvantaged.Many organizations and also NGOs have sent in beautiful designs that will help to make known their selfless and altruistic work.

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Violence Against Children

katarina@iwith.org (Katarina Kostic) — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:19:00 +0100

The 11th United Nations NGO Forum on Human Rights was held in Stockholm July 6-7, 2000, with the plan to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Now the final report has been published, which will be an interesting resource for organizations working in the area.

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Iwith.org greetings cards competition: opening!

margot@iwith.org (Margot Berg) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:23:00 +0100

From the Iwith.org portal, your designs will be used to create virtual Christmas cards that will be sent all over the world. The initiative is guaranteed by the massive success of our previous competitions.

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iWith.org 2009: A collection of short stories

ramon@iwith.org (Ramon Bartomeus) — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:34:00 +0100

Due to the World Book Day celebration on April 23rd, Iwith.org announced the Iwith.org 2009 Literary Contest. That is why today, as part of the celebration we are releasing the collection of short stories on Bubok.

The authors are friends and stakeholders of Iwith.org that wants to share this book with all of you.

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Day of Prayer and Action for Children

clara@iwith.org (Clara Garcia) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:13:00 +0100

Presentation of Arigatou International's new project: the website 'Day of Prayer and Action for Children.'

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Mobile Phone Recycling Campaign to Protect the Environment

katarina@iwith.org (Katarina Kostic) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:44:00 +0100

The mobile phones that we all use and enjoy, without thinking much about the production process, are full of the mineral coltrane. The number of genocides in the Congo that are related to the recovery of coltrane grow every day. It is a shame worldwide where other ecological tragedies of great magnitude should also be added. Nevertheless, more than thirty businesses, the majority of them Western, continue importing minerals from the Congo, regardless of such tragic politics. Easy equation.

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Conferences at the Jane Goodall Institute, "Two Spaniards and 141 Chimpanzees, the ...

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:34:00 +0100

Our beneficiary, The Jane Goodall Institute, invites you to the conferences that Rebeca Atencia and Fernando Turmo are giving about their primate rescue and rehabilitation work in the Republic of the Congo. In addition, there will be a presentation of the Movilízate por la Selva (Action for the Jungle) campaign.

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Let's celebrate our diversity and act for interculturality thanks to Creativity.cat

margot@iwith.org (Margot Berg) — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:45:00 +0100

Last june, we published an article about Creativity.cat intercultural exchange. Nowadays, the journey is over. Margot, an Iwith.org volunteer, joined the adventure as a webdesign facilitator. Her testimony.

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Iwith.org supports socially responsible tourism in Guatemala

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:03:00 +0100

For four years we have enjoyed strong ties with the Fundación Rigoberta Menchú with whom we have collaborated on various projects. At our last meeting in Guatemala we agreed to support the socially responsible tourism project in the San Lucas Tolimán area and for that we are counting on the collaboration of CETT. Yasmin García, studying for her Masters in Business and Marketing on-line, has worked on the concept and development of the Project “Responsible Tourism in San Lucas Tolimán”.

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Travel experiences of an Iwith.org volunteer

bea@iwith.org (Bea Laszlo) — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:05:00 +0100

Sometimes we talk only for talking's sake. Some other times we do it to exchange opinions or because we are interested in getting to know the other's vision of the world. Thus, it may happen that we don't like other people's opinions. And sometimes we even try to change their ideas.

Personally, I would like to change the idea of many people that travelling is expensive, or even a luxury. On the contrary, I think that travelling is such a daily routine, as eating, drinking or sleeping. This article, precisely, is a small try to show you that travelling is easy and it's a pleasure as well. And well, in case you know that already, good for you.

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The main European artistic event for the youth in Girona and Vilanova is getting close

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:09:00 +0100

This summer, around 120 young Europeans from 15 different countries will participate in Creativity.cat, Act for Interculturality, which is the main artistic meeting for the youth at a continental level. Neagènia Intercultural, partner of iwith.org, is going to coordinate this meeting, which gathers participants aged from 18 to 30 years, with the aim of encouraging creativity, interculturality and public-spirited participation.

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GOOD NEWS: Yasuní Gets Approval from the Ecuadorian Government

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:39:00 +0100

Last September Iwith.org welcomed one of our beneficiaries, Movimiento Idún, and the mayor of the Orellana region of the Ecuadorian Amazon, Anita Rivas. We showed support for their campaign to keep oil underground in Yasuní, which will protect the biodiversity of one of the richest regions on earth. Today the Ecuadorian press reported good news for the campaign: President Rafael Correa has accepted the proposal.

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Hacesfalta.org, the internet portal of reference for the 3rd Spanish sector has a new face

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Thu, 28 May 2009 06:28:00 +0100

“You decide how, when and where” is the slogan of the new 2.0 version of hacesfalta.org the Internet portal acesfalta.org, which, along with technological improvements, incorporates open spaces for users to participate.

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Iwith.org visits the Rigoberta Menchu Foundation in Guatemala

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:30:00 +0100

Some reasons for our trip to Guatemala are to consolidate ties, to see how the projects are developing in situ and to analyse the Digital Democratization of Guatemala; but, the main aim of our visit is to celebrate Rigoberta Menchu´s anniversary.

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Sistema Conceptual present at Search Congress

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:00:00 +0100

Our beneficiary Sistema Conceptual presents its work at Search-Congress, held at Palau de Congressos in Montjuic, where Google, Yahoo y Microsoft, among others, are also giving outstanding presentations.

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Interview with the Winner of the E-card Contest

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:35:00 +0100

Monika Díaz, a Venezuelan resident of Spain, is the creator of “Niños Cantores” (Singing Children), an e-card that she created to support her friends at the NGO “Voluntarios por el Mundo” (Volunteers for the World).

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Iwith.org signs a major collaboration agreement with the Netherlands Development Organisation

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:09:00 +0100

The Netherlands Development Organisation (SNV) has more than 1500 professionals located around the world who put their experience and idealism at the service of local organizations that have the potential to generate large contributions to the development of their countries. As a result of this agreement, Iwith.org has put its Ab·core platform at the service of SNV Ecuador.

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Singing Children, winner of the Iwith.org Christmas Postcards contest

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:30:00 +0100

Christmas for La Moskitia, sent by Foundation Sid Moskitia, resulted winner in the category of most sent postcard by the internet users.

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Internet users: send solidarity action greetings this Christmas!

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:57:00 +0100

Non-profit organisations, individuals and designers have sent Iwith.org some beautiful Christmas cards which we have made into e-cards.

As an internet user, you can us these cards to celebrate the festive season. Choose the one you like best and the message most appropriate to you.

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ONL: Send your best wishes and message in an easy way this Christmas

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:55:00 +0100

Send your Christmas cards before the 15th December to Iwith.org. There, the photograph you send to us will be transformed into a beautiful electronic card that will allow your message of solidarity to reach far away and quickly.

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Iwith.org will attend the III World Congress against the Sexual Exploitation of Children and ...

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:46:00 +0100

This important event will take place at the end of the month in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Iwith.org will participate to show how diffusion through CITs can help strengthen the causes that fight against this type of exploitation.

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The Iwith.org 5th Christmas E-card Design Contest is Open

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:20:00 +0100

Attention organizations and artists! The Internet is offering you a new opportunity for creativity, involvement, and Christmas cheer: creating and sending Christmas e-cards to support charitable causes. Easily send your Christmas and New Year's greetings while adding some meaning to them. Participate in Iwith.org's Christmas E-card Campaign.

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II Conflictology Congress in Barcelona: Iwith.org attending

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:21:00 +0100

From October 27th to 29th, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya is hosting the second Specialists’ Congress-Meeting to analyze, study, reflect, debate, share and most of all, to discuss and emphasize proposals about the different situations in which conflicts appear. Iwith.org was invited to attend.

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Iwith.org promotes the ICT among universitaries.

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:12:00 +0100

Two important agreements made in recent weeks between the Universities and iwith.org show how they also penetrate into the study and use of ICT.

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Why ICT's can be a development tool?

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:59:00 +0100

Why does Iwith.org work with new technologies (ICT)? or How can technologies be a tool for development and progress? we were interviewed in VITA Europe, and there we tried to explain those questions. Also, at the end of this article we give you a video example, not an iwith.org's one, but a testimony that could perfectly fit on our objectives!.

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Successful conferences on development organised by ANUE with many beneficiaries of iwith.org present

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:26:00 +0100

Concerned with the lower and lower and less effective international contribution to development the Spanish United Nations Association, ANUE, organized in Barcelona the course ‘Tools for Development: Improving Aid for Africa’ with the purpose of launching a new model of International Contribution to Development that makes the most of the aid given. Among the speakers were Iwith.org and many of its beneficiaries.

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ANUE one of the Iwith.org beneficiaries, is offering a course on redefining the current ...

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:39:00 +0100

The idea emerged as a result of the recent assessment of development assistance undertaken by the United Nations in Spain, ANUE. The course is oriented around case examples from Africa and includes some practical workshops to facilitate its understanding. ANUE is one of our organization beneficiaries and Ramon Bartemeus, Resource manager of Iwith.org will be facilitating one of the course workshops.

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"Rethinking the digital divide" Conference, Leeds, England, 2008: Iwith.org's views

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:41:00 +0100

Guillermo Arbeláez, from depapaya.org, helped with representing Iwith.org at the XV Conference on Learning Technology in Leeds, England. You can find his impressions from such an important event and of our participation in the Posters section.

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Iwith.org to Attend Leeds Convention on the Digital Divide

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:00:00 +0100

Our organization will attend and display a poster. It will demonstrate our confidence in reducing the digital divide through access to new technologies and education.

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Iwith Signs a Collaborative Agreement with ICV

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:12:00 +0100

They are two organizations that work with new technology and in the virtual domain. Both believe in the "developing" power of TICs and as such, they have collaborated to give life to interesting projects and future opportunities.

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Fotógrafo Voluntario del Forum Alternative Channel expone en el FIB

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:39:00 +0100

As part of the show being held alongside the Festival Internacional de Benicàssm, Samuel Rodríguez, a photographer who actively collaborated on images for the Forum Alternative Channel, has been chosen as one of the 6 winners. Congratulations from all of us here.

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Iwith.org beneficiaries make headlines: winning prizes and putting on exhibitions

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:17:00 +0100

The examples of Algo Bueno and Mescladís show how important it is for an organisation to have a good quality web page that is constantly updated…We invite you to learn about their experience.

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Reveal the Digital Divide in Your Vacation Photos

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:54:00 +0100

For the second consecutive year, iwith.org is sponsoring the iwith.org Summer Photography Competition, in order to reveal the various levels of access to technology that exist around the world. We suggest that you take your camera on vacation and look around. Surprise us with a photo that will make the web visitors to our site aware of the issue.

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Conflicts and their relation with new technologies in Iwith.org’s course in Universitat de Girona.

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:09:00 +0100

Within the framework of the Master and postgraduate studies of resolution of public conflicts, the University of Girona ( UdG) offers four alternatives of specific training in the topic, one of which will be given by Ramón Bartomeus, Resource Manager for Iwith.org.

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Ghana - Gain a smile: attend a beautiful solidarity concert

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Mon, 26 May 2008 19:07:00 +0100

A tenor, a violinist, two pianists and the members of the NGO Ghana - Gain a smile that support rural African orphanages invites you, on June 12th, to an intimate concerto so that the music becomes a good excuse to gain smiles.

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New Training Offer from Iwith.org: Connect Your Organization to New Technology

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Wed, 21 May 2008 19:30:00 +0100

Thanks to the support of FTIC, Iwith.org, an NGO specializing in bringing new technology to Not-for-Profit Organizations, is offering three new Online courses. You will definitely be interested in this!

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Forum Alternative Channel: An international success

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:44:00 +0100

The Forum Alternative Channel: Social Networks and Responsible Media made the conference to an international success, creating a good initial point for the second conference in New York next November.

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Interview with the winner of our International Book Day Contest

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:00:00 +0100

We have used the Internet to learn more about Ronald Castillo Florián, the winner of our Books 2008 Competition. The author already has experience using the Internet to promote his work; in fact he has a blog which he updates daily.

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"El Príncipe Esquivo" winner of the Iwith.org International Book Day contest 2008

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:00:00 +0100

The collection of poems by Ronald Franklin Castillo Florian, from Peru, has been the most downloaded book in the 2008 contest. As of 12 o'clock on 22 April there were more than two thousand clicks to download one of the 23 works posted on our web site. Once again, we would like to thank the authors for their generosity and trust and the readers for their faith in the project.

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First Statistics on Saint George’s books download figures

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:00:00 +0100

After 8 days of the publication of the books on our website and now that we are less than 2 weeks away from the final of our Competition of the Day of the Book, we are giving you the first count of the download figures.

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New Iwith.org Course With 100% Scholarship for NGO Members and Collaborators

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:00:00 +0100

Iwith.org is a NGO that introduces Internet to organizations of the third sector. We are already helping more than 120 organizations with their websites. Another way to pass knowledge is through our Online courses. Take advantage of this unique opportunity. 100% scholarships for NGO's or volunteers for the "News on the Web" course.

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You can now download books from the Iwith.org Certamen

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:00:00 +0100

Whichever book receives most downloads between now and the 22nd of April will be accredited with Iwith.org's international book-day prize. The objective of which is to contribute to a useful online culture.

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First Day UN-GAID Meet Web 2.0: Impressions of Jordi Duran i Batidor

joduba@iwith.org (Jordi Duran i Batidor) — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:00:00 +0100

It has been a long journey, with very interesting experiences that we have lived today in the headquarters of the United Nations in New York, but I would like to share with you, before the day is over, what this journey has been.

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