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A Nobel Prize for the Internet (and Each and Every One of Us)

villarrealrauls@iwith.org (Raúl Villarreal) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:33:00 +0100

For years the Internet has been a tool for watching videos on YouTube, social networking, reading the news, and checking one's emails. Today, it is being promoted to have a new functionality: instrument of peace. The Internet is being backed on a global scale for a nomination of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. Here are the details…

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Find out about Blog Action Day: this 15-10 we will talk about Climate Change

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:01:00 +0100

On the 15th of October, for one day, all the bloggers of the world will write about climate change.

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WSA honors the World’s Best in e-Content and Innovation: Mexico hosts the Gala events from ...

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:23:00 +0100

The World Summit Award (WSA) and the World Summit Youth Award Winners Celebrations take place in Monterrey from September 2-5, 2009 in collaboration with the UN GAID’s Global Forum.

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On 17th May we celebrate Internet Day

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Fri, 08 May 2009 16:07:00 +0100

In order to make an announcement, the organizing committee has called a press conference next Monday 11th May full or surprises

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Web 2.0 Summit San Francisco 2009

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:01:00 +0100

Web 2.0 Summit is an annual event that connects business leaders, big thinkers, and innovative technologists who are shaping the future of the Web. It is a gathering place for international leaders of the new Web, who gather to discuss and debate the most important issues, strategies, and disruptions driving the Internet economy.

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EU will invest €22 million in the Information Society in Latin America

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:36:00 +0100

The aim of this project is to improve productivity, efficiency, education and the capacity to innovate taking advantage of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs).

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Iwith.org attends an important event about ICT and Development

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:00:00 +0100

On the next 10th, 11th and 12th February 2009 it will take place in Gijón, Asturias (Spain) the II International Meeting on ICT for Development Cooperation: Cooperation 2.0. Iwith.org is among the speakers. Due to the big interest of the associations and the huge coverage of the event, the deadline for registration has been extended until 3 rd February.

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Latin America and ICTs united through ELAC

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:41:00 +0100

The Strategy for the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean (ELAC for its acronym in Spanish) has published the first of six thematic bulletins dedicated to each chapter of the eLAC2010; these bulletins can be found in the Information Society Programme portal, on the ECLAC’s website.

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Courses on new communication tools for organisations

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:02:00 +0100

Following its successes in July this year, Avalon is now offering new courses on the methods of communication that have emerged with new technologoy and the opportunities they represent for the third sector. iwith.org is participating as a trainer in a practial workshop.

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Make the most of your Blog

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:41:00 +0100

For some time now Google has been offering to help Bloggers or web-page owners get the most out of their sites and out of the people who visit them, by placing virtual advertisements. Each click makes something for the owner of the blog. This division of Google is called Adwords and in view of the high demand but also low awareness, Google is organising on-line seminars on how to use this tool effectively.

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Elaboration of a map that shows the digital gap of the planet

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 22:00:00 +0100

A map of the service of broadband available in the World has been elaborated by the magazine Wired, with the objective of showing the huge technological differences that exist in the world starting from a speedy internet connection, one of the most problematic points of the so-called digital gap.

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Alter the Book Day, we celebrate the Internet Day

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Thu, 03 May 2007 22:00:00 +0100

In Spain, the most remarkable event is the Internet Day’s Awards Ceremony for which Iwith.org has selected its candidates. Get informed of the worldwide preparations for that day.

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The new document management systems: an alternative to the loss of information within the ...

myriam@iwith.org (Myriam Dufourcq) — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 22:00:00 +0100

Like companies, NGOs (non-profit organisations, associations, volunteer groups) produce and use a big amount of information that they share between users and members. Usually, the information is saved in a computer hard disc, people just need to ask for it when they need it. This organisational system has come to an end, it is too risky and too costly. Nowadays document management systems are easy to use and accessible to non-profit organisations.

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What's SPAM?

laia@iwith.org (Laia Duran) — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 22:00:00 +0100

SPAM is an invasion of our mailboxes, that collapses the bandwith of our Internet connections, reduces the productivity and in some cases it can be offensive to the receiver.

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Answer to the catastrophe

laia@iwith.org (Laia Duran) — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 23:00:00 +0100

After the catastrophe produced by the tsunami, many web pages were published to provide an answer to the affected ones and those who wanted more information.

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A "wedge" with high connectivity to Internet

ejotaese@adinet.com.uy (Enrique Sanchez) — Thu, 02 Sep 2004 22:00:00 +0100

Enrique Sanchez, journalist and volunteer of Iwith.org Foundation, gives us a perspective of ICTs and connectivity in Uruguay.

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