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01/07/2010 - The Biodiversity in Images
In 2010, the International Year of Biodiversity, Catalunya has been celebrating the Biodiversity Week, offering iWith.org a new opportunity to work in a web project developed for the Xarxa de Custòdia del Territori (Network of Territorial Custody) an the Departament de Medi Ambient i Habitatge (Department of Ambiental Environment and Housing).
01/07/2010 - iWith.org’s 2010 Summer Photo Contest
Summer has arrived and with it our plans to travel, to look for places that surprise us, relax us, or entertain us. We want to give you a project to work on if you consider yourself an observant and sensitive person, and have a camera. iWith.org’s 2010 Summer Photo Contest is open and from now until September 20th you can send us your photographs.
16/06/2010 - Teaming, a support project promoting team work
Some ideas are at least fantastic; sometimes we believe everything has been invented, but when it comes to solidarity, human beings can always be more and more supportive. Take Teaming for instance: This project was created with the idea that team work is the way to achieve much, much more.
22/04/2010 - Internet for the Balkans' organizations
Last Thursday, the WWF Mediterranean Program, convened several organizations like the Red Cross, Greenpeace, XCT and iWith.org to strengthen the networking of its operations in the Balkans.
06/04/2010 - Iwith.org interviewing our beneficiaries on their use of the Internet
For our conference at the United Nations, we made a video interviewing our beneficiaries on their relationship with the Internet and their approach to communicate effectively on the web with simple tools.
18/03/2010 - Iwith.org at the United Nations in Geneva
On Thursday, March 11, 2010, the team of Iwith.org visited the United Nations of Geneva to give a speech over web communication tools for NGOs in the context of an event for the Human Rights Council session.
04/03/2010 - Doing Good and Doing Well: Iwith.org at IESE
Last Friday Iwith.org attended the Doing Good and Doing Well event at the IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain. The event, run jointly with Net Impact, is the leading student run event on Responsible Business, Development and Sustainability in Europe. We had the pleasure of meeting many new interesting people and students interested in activism and sustainable development.
01/03/2010 - A success for the first Environmental Communication Congress!
The 26 and February 27 were two days highlighting the possibility of establishing a convention respecting the environment, minimal budget and whose message is transmitted through small gestures of participants.
17/02/2010 - Agroecology, a fair and responsible alternative
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.
14/01/2010 - Discover our greetings' cards contest winners!
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".
21/12/2009 - Iwith.org volunteers
As the end of the year approaches it is a good moment to look back on what has happened during the year.
The Iwith.org team would like to record its thanks for the work of all those volunteers who have given so generously of their time in helping out the organisation. Below, some of them give a brief glimpse of who they are.
The Iwith.org team would like to record its thanks for the work of all those volunteers who have given so generously of their time in helping out the organisation. Below, some of them give a brief glimpse of who they are.
14/12/2009 - Now, You Can Send Your Solidarity Xmas Cards using Iwith.org
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.
30/11/2009 - MicroNGOs’ Forum
We were in the FORUM DE MicroONGs (MicroNGOs’ Forum)
The forum was held in the Juan Carlos I Hotel in Barcelona, the 27th, 28th and 29th of November. 50 people assisted full of heart, projects and realities.
Wikihappiness, a non-profit organization dedicated to promote solidary attitudes, was in charge of coordinating and organizing the event, and they did so with the discretion and prudence characteristic in them. The First MicroNGOs’ Forum was a success, and we, in iWith.org, are very happy to be a part of the birth of this initiative.
The forum was held in the Juan Carlos I Hotel in Barcelona, the 27th, 28th and 29th of November. 50 people assisted full of heart, projects and realities.
Wikihappiness, a non-profit organization dedicated to promote solidary attitudes, was in charge of coordinating and organizing the event, and they did so with the discretion and prudence characteristic in them. The First MicroNGOs’ Forum was a success, and we, in iWith.org, are very happy to be a part of the birth of this initiative.
29/11/2009 - Asia and our green future
Many european and asian countries are moving forward to new energy models which allow the sustainable development of their economies.
This process is nor eary neither immediate and means high expenditures. However, these expenditures are even less than the price we would have to pay if we didn’t act on time. This was basically the message of the VI Forum Asia. The importance of renewable energies, organized by Casa Asia (Asian House in Barcelona)
After the last month’s Global Eco Forum direct broadcast, this time Iwith.org invites you to watch our report on Forum Asia and think about what we could do for a green and better future for all of us.
This process is nor eary neither immediate and means high expenditures. However, these expenditures are even less than the price we would have to pay if we didn’t act on time. This was basically the message of the VI Forum Asia. The importance of renewable energies, organized by Casa Asia (Asian House in Barcelona)
After the last month’s Global Eco Forum direct broadcast, this time Iwith.org invites you to watch our report on Forum Asia and think about what we could do for a green and better future for all of us.
26/11/2009 - Violence Against Children
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.
Now the final report has been published, which will be an interesting resource for organizations working in the area.
24/11/2009 - Who’s a pirate now?
For the last few weeks it has been impossible to watch the TV without finding out about the “Spanish victory” over the evil Somali pirates.
But have you asked yourself who the Somali pirates really are?
Are they members of an armed gang?
Fishermen protecting their waters?
Perhaps a mixture of the two?
But have you asked yourself who the Somali pirates really are?
Are they members of an armed gang?
Fishermen protecting their waters?
Perhaps a mixture of the two?
19/11/2009 - Iwith.org greetings cards competition: opening!
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.
16/11/2009 - iWith.org 2009: A collection of short stories
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.
The authors are friends and stakeholders of Iwith.org that wants to share this book with all of you.
03/11/2009 - Less talk, more action
What should we do? What can we expect from the Copenhagen Conference? What will our world be like in 20 years' time? These are some of the questions asked in the Global Eco Forum. We have selected some responses from iWith.org for our readers and for those who were unable to follow the event live.
02/11/2009 - Day of Prayer and Action for Children
Presentation of Arigatou International's new project: the website 'Day of Prayer and Action for Children.'
31/10/2009 - A year growing and accumulating visitors
Since october 2008 Iwith.org has increased the number of visitors on all of its webpages.
28/10/2009 - Global Eco Forum - Sustaining Together
Late last night, with the sounds of Burruezo and Bohemia Camerata, we participated in the closing of the Global Eco-Forum in Barcelona.
Under the slogan The Transition Towards Sustainability, the Forum has united the great names of European environmental protection such as Cristina Narbona, Spanish ambassador of OCDE, Dominique Voynet, one of the founders of the Green Party in France, and Dimitri Zenghelis from the Office of Climatic Change in the United Kingdom.
27/10/2009 - Iwith.org invited by the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute
The 23rd of October, Iwith.org was invited for a conference ondevelopment and Information technologies, mobiles phones and Internet in Latin America and Africa: what benefits for the most disadvantaged? It was organized by the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) and the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) in Castelldefels.
26/10/2009 - Live Barcelona Eco forum with Iwith.org!
Today, the 26th and tomorrow the 27th of October, with Iwith.org follow in live the Global Eco Forum that takes place in Barcelona.
Iwith.org will be there and offers you to watch either in streaming or pre-recorded. Furthemore, participe activily, sending Twitter's posts adding the hashtag #ecoforum.
Meet us:
26/10 from 4:15pm to 5:30pm and from 7:15pm to 8:30pm
27/10 from 9:15am to 10:30am and from 6:30pm to 7:45pm
See you online!
Iwith.org will be there and offers you to watch either in streaming or pre-recorded. Furthemore, participe activily, sending Twitter's posts adding the hashtag #ecoforum.
Meet us:
26/10 from 4:15pm to 5:30pm and from 7:15pm to 8:30pm
27/10 from 9:15am to 10:30am and from 6:30pm to 7:45pm
See you online!
19/10/2009 - Mobile Phone Recycling Campaign to Protect the Environment
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.
07/10/2009 - Xarxanet.org, the catalan volunteer and entity webpage is starting a new phase
From 7 october 2009 on, after six years of existence the catalan xarxanet.org project is starting a new phase. The new xarxanet.org was reborn with a brand new technologic platform, as well as a new design and the incorporation of tools 2.0 to guarantee the user's participation.
22/09/2009 - Now you can see the photographs from iwith.org's summer photo contest 2009
Right on schedule, on the 20th of September, the time was up to submit photos to iwith.org's 2009 contest. From different parts of the world and with very different viewpoints, dozens of people sent us their own personal portraits of the digital divide, and these are the pictures selected by the jury. Our thanks go to all who supported the initiative in this way.
07/09/2009 - Iwith.org present in the UN GAID Global Alliance for ICT and Development
This first week of September we were in Monterrey, Mexico for the UNGAID Global Forum 2009 where, under the title of ICT and Innovation for Education, we gave continuity to the presentation first offered a year ago in the GAID meeting in New York.
01/09/2009 - Only 3 days left for Iwith.org’s participation at the GAID Forum in Mexico
21/08/2009 - Potters for Peace, an easy and cheap way to make water safe to drink
Water is essential for life. But it has to be in very good condition, otherwise it can transmit diseases. Indeed, in the Aims for the Millennium, approved in 2000, one of the targets to reach by 2015 was to 'reduce by half the number of people lacking access to safe drinking water'. Fortunately, an American NGO called 'Potters for Peace' has found an easy way to reach it: the 'Ceramic Water Filter', a device that makes water safe to drink, a system which filters contaminated water, for very little cost, and which can be made with very simple technology.
06/08/2009 - We present the experience of Iwith.org in the Global Forum UN-GAID
Iwith.org was invited to Monterrey (Mexico) to the “Global Forum 2009: ICT & Innovation for Education”, where we will present our experience under the name of: “Involving young people in Innovative Educational ICT Initiatives”.
23/07/2009 - Iwith.org and the ACPG favour the Dissemination of Third Sector Contents in Communications Media
Iwith.org, the foundation specialised in Internet communication for non-profit/non-governmental organizations and the Associació Catalana de la Premsa Gratuïta (ACPG) signed an agreement to join efforts to have news from Third Sector organisations appear in communications media.
21/07/2009 - Iwith.org supports socially responsible tourism in Guatemala
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”.
28/05/2009 - Aid came to Morocco!
Last October we told you how thanks to REURSA, one of our beneficiaries, we managed to bring a dozen computers to Morocco via a solidarity caravan called Caravana Solidaria (organized by Barcelona Acción Solidaria).
28/05/2009 - GOOD NEWS: Yasuní Gets Approval from the Ecuadorian Government
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.
23/04/2009 - Lebiscuno, the winner of our Literary Contest
Lebiscuno, the book of Colombian Katheryn Garcia Johana Pacheco from Bolivar in Cartagena, was the most downloaded in this edition of Iwith.org Contest. Jury also awarded an honorable mention to Yuna by Inma Llavería. We thank the participants and congratulate readers who believed in the importance of our initiative that the internet is also a vehicle of culture.
21/04/2009 - Iwith.org Literary Contest: Technology breaks barriers
That’s the conclusión we have drawn from our 2009 Literary Contest. Among the authors, there is a girl from Tarragona, Spain, who suffers from muscular dystrophy and who has worked hard to present her story, entirely written through Xarxa Òmnia.
01/04/2009 - You Can Now Vote for the Best Work for the 2009 International Book Day Contest
As you very well know, in iwith.org, we depend on the internet for cultural awareness and the possibilities that it offers new writers to distribute their work. Since February we have been receiving short stories as part of the Iwith.org International Book Day Contest: Starting today it will be you, via your downloads, who will decide the winner of the contest. Take advantage of this opportunity to broaden your world, on-line.
04/03/2009 - Iwith.org takes part in an NGO administration course at ESADE Madrid
The participation forms part of the Leadership and Management of Non-Governmental Organisations offered by the Catalan Business School in Madrid.
12/02/2009 - Iwith.org ended its particiaption in the TIC and Cooperation of Gijón event with News
The II International Encounter of the TIC for Development Cooperation, Cooperation 2.0, ended this afternoon in Gijon with the shared challenge of pushing a "Development 2.0" where all of the agents (Administration, business and third sector) will actively participate in a coordinated manner, starting with the people destined for help. This was one of the main conclusions that ended the event organized by the CTIC Foundation which united more than a hundred technology agents as well as ones from the Cooperation in Asturias during a span of three days.
09/02/2009 - Iwith.org Opens its 2009 Literature Contest for “International Day of the Book”
22/01/2009 - Sistema Conceptual present at Search Congress
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.
19/01/2009 - Iwith.org attends an important event about ICT and Development
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.
29/12/2008 - Iwith.org signs a major collaboration agreement with the Netherlands Development Organisation
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.
23/12/2008 - Singing Children, winner of the Iwith.org Christmas Postcards contest
Christmas for La Moskitia, sent by Foundation Sid Moskitia, resulted winner in the category of most sent postcard by the internet users.
01/12/2008 - Internet users: send solidarity action greetings this Christmas!
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.
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.
30/10/2008 - “The Digital Divide in Education", is the focus of the 5th International Seminar of the UNESCO-UOC Chair
The 5th International Seminar of the UNESCO E-Learning Chair at the UOC Fighting the Digital Divide through Education, will take place between November 12th and 14th in Barcelona with the presence of international speakers.
22/10/2008 - II Conflictology Congress in Barcelona: Iwith.org attending
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.
22/10/2008 - Iwith.org promotes the ICT among universitaries.
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.
20/10/2008 - Why ICT's can be a development tool?
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!.
15/10/2008 - Successful conferences on development organised by ANUE with many beneficiaries of iwith.org present
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.
13/10/2008 - Courses on new communication tools for organisations
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.
16/09/2008 - Iwith.org and Alternative Channel present the Video Award on the Global Eco Forum of Barcelona
This autumn Eco-union organizes , the 1st Global Eco-Forum: Responsibility, sustainability and eco-innovation an international meeting where will be discuss the reflection, the interrelations and the generation of new ideas for a more sustainable and responsible society. At this appointment will be presented by Iwith.org and Alternative Channel the Award for the Best Video in Spanish after the only in-person act of the event that will take place on October 7th in Barcelona.
15/09/2008 - Warning bloggers: this October 15 you have a commitment!
This 15th October 2008 is the Blog Action Day!. This year the topic for all podcasters, videoscasters y blogers can speak at length is Poverty. Organizers hope that for one day all of them, could leave their regular work to raise from different perspectives, a debate on this issue.
04/09/2008 - Iwith.org to Attend Leeds Convention on the Digital Divide
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.
15/07/2008 - Felicidades Xarxanet, el portal de información internacional para el tercer sector catalánHappy Birthday Xarxanet, the international information portal for the Third Sector Catalan.
Xarxanet.org provides international information of Catalans NGOs on activities and best practices of associations, through their Castilian, English and French versions. Iwith.org manages subportales Xarxanet.org of Civil Society, a site created by and for civil society, the most visited sections of Xarxanet in June. The number of visits they received shows the interest that exists in the world of associations, to know best practices and opportunities for international presence in the world.
15/07/2008 - Iwith Signs a Collaborative Agreement with ICV
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.
19/06/2008 - Problems with Firefox while opening some websites
Despites the many advantages of new Firefox 3.0, some difficulties may occur when you try to open some web pages. We show how to resolve this problem quickly. Let's read...
10/06/2008 - Reveal the Digital Divide in Your Vacation Photos
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.
27/05/2008 - Iwith.org & the Forum Alternative Channel in the Solidaria TV show in Vilafranca
Vilafranca TV was one of the means that provided an ample coverage of the Forum Alternative Channel. We invite you to see the transmitted report in the Solidaria TV show where the Forum's activities are widely detailed (speaker's corners, workshops & conferences), additionally an interview with Ramón Bartomeus is included, resource chief of Iwith.org.
23/05/2008 - New site for supportive young people
The NGO Intermón Oxfam has launched a web aimed at supportive young people implicated in this institution, just like other initiatives such as la Mediatek, by Grec. www.dalelavueltaalmundo.org looks for volunteers for summer music festivals, suggests an ideas-to-change-the-world contest and offers the possibility of winning a trip to visit a cooperation project -among many other different proposals.
06/05/2008 - Forum Alternative Channel: An international success
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.
28/04/2008 - May 17th is Internet Day: Iwith.org's Bocatics are Candidates!
Bocatics, those small capsules of simple and practical knowledge available via the Internet serve as our introduction at the next celebration of Internet Day. We invite all of our Iwith.org friends to vote for this tool before May 17th!
22/04/2008 - "El Príncipe Esquivo" winner of the Iwith.org International Book Day contest 2008
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.
11/04/2008 - First Statistics on Saint George’s books download figures
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.
08/04/2008 - The Internet to the Rescue of Yasuni, in Ecuador
A Spanish NGO, and Iwith.org partner, has decided to offer, via photographs and other medium available on the Internet and the Ab·core platform, to raise awareness about oil and timber interest on the Amazon region in Ecuador.
03/04/2008 - You can now download books from the Iwith.org Certamen
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.
11/03/2008 - Travel responsibly using the Radio
This is the idea that conocemundo.org, the webradio from Turisme Responsable proclaims, a COMSOC project that counts with Iwith.org’s technological support and has just launch a website.
27/02/2008 - Great response to Iwith.org E-learning courses
There are no longer any places available on the course starting on March 28, the web as a communications tool for donors, volunteers, beneficiaries and other interest groups but bear in mind that there are 3 other courses available.
08/02/2008 - Iwith.org launches its International Book Day Contest
If you have written a novel, a compilation of receipes, an essay, a compilation of stories, and you dream of seeing your work published then this is your chance. Have you thought of displaying your work virtually? At Iwith.org we want to help you.
29/01/2008 - BCN 30/4: A date you can not miss
On the 30th of April, the FORUM ALTERNATIVE CHANNEL, social networks and responsible media, will be held in Barcelona, organized by Iwith.org and Alternative Channel. Our hope is that this forum will be a meeting place for experts in social networks, TIC and web 2.0; professionals of social and responsible communications; and third sector actors like International Groups, NGO’s and entities.
28/01/2008 - Don't lose idealism: visit our MEETING POINT
Don't forget that every Tuesday from 18 to 20 hours, on Iwith.org Barcelona headquarters, the meeting point is working. A place which objective is to link Organizations of the Third Sector from all around the world and people wanting to connect with them.
23/01/2008 - Iwith.org announces its courses for 2008: 100% grant for Not for Profit Organisations
Once again Iwith.org invites you to its on-line courses designed to bring the Internet and the new technologies into organisations so as to make work in easier in all kinds of different set-ups. Find out about the topics and facilities for NPO's!
18/01/2008 - Meet the artist behind the Most Sent Postcard of 2007
His name is Luis Burrel and, although of Spanish nationality, he lives in Germany. He is the creator of “Colourful Tents”, the most sent postcard through Iwith.org during the festive period.
17/01/2008 - Noble Peace Prize laureate Rigoberta Menchú sues High Court justices for discrimination
Nobel Peace Prize laureate has filed two discrimination lawsuits against Guatemalan Constitutional Court (CC) Justices that threw out international warrants for the arrest of former military officials accused of genocide. Meanwhile, Santiago Pedraz has called the media worldwide (newspapers, radio, television, and digital media) to invite victims of Human Right abuses and people interested in this case to cooperate in the investigation, since the Court has decided not to.
15/01/2008 - The most popular postcard on Christmas 2007
Not long ago we informed you of the winner of our Postcards Contest 2007 but we still had to show you, as it was one of the contest’s guidelines, the most popular postcard. It was, ‘Colorful tents’ , by Luis Buruel, from Germany, who by the postcard wrote: ‘send some colour and happiness to your friends with this postcard’.
04/01/2008 - We already have a winner of our Christmas Card Contest.
After hard deliberations, the jury of the IV Iwith.org Christmas Card Contest decided that the 2007 Winner is Christmas with humour, by Luis Eduardo León, from Colombia.
20/12/2007 - Mescladis, partner of Iwith.org, awarded for their initiative against unemployment.
The restaurant, shop, and gastronomy workshop Mescladíshave been awarded with the 2007 award for their innovative initiative on the fight against unemployment, granted by Fundació Acció Solidaria contra l´Atur and Fundació Un Sol Mon.
19/12/2007 - Successful Idealist Event
Iwith.org´s headquarters in Barcelona received more than 70 people interested in the operation of the Meeting Point of Idealists.org located in the dependences of our NGO.
11/12/2007 - Now, You Can Send Your Solidarity Xmas Cards using Iwith.org
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.
05/12/2007 - Are you an Idealist? Are you looking for Idealists?
If the answer is yes, then you have a commitment with Iwith.org next December 18th.
We want to let you know, in an entertaining way and with some snacks, what the NGO idealistas.org does in Internet, but face to face, in our office in Barcelona. We want you to know our Meeting Point.
We want to let you know, in an entertaining way and with some snacks, what the NGO idealistas.org does in Internet, but face to face, in our office in Barcelona. We want you to know our Meeting Point.
30/11/2007 - 1st December, World AIDS Day
While UN calls for leadership in combating AIDS, in Catalonia an organization assumes the challenge and therefore, it is awarded an Ab·core program for 2007 Web Projects and it is nominated to Volunteering Awards 2007.
21/11/2007 - International Volunteer Day is approaching: Acknowledge the People that Work with your Organisation.
The 5th of December is International Volunteer Day. We’d like to tell you about the history of the day, some of the events taking place to celebrate the day and, most importantly, we’d like to give a mention to the Iwith.org volunteers.
12/11/2007 - Iwith.org was mentioned in the Social Responsibility yearbook
The second edition of Responsible ICT´s dossier has been published, edited by MediaResponsable. The dossier analyzes the situation of Social Corporate Responsibility in companies of the TIC sector and includes a survey of the ONL´s that work with ICT´s, in which Iwith.org was included.
12/11/2007 - NGO's, are you weighed down with all the Christmas cards you have to send? Send them via the Internet.
Do you want to send your NGO's Christmas cards digitally? Join in Iwith.org's contest of greeting card designs!
12/11/2007 - Put your creativity to the test. Take part in the Iwith.org Christmas Card contest
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.
12/11/2007 - During this month iwith.org is receiving some important visits from Latinoamérica.
November is visits’ month in Iwith.org, all coming from Lationomaerica.
09/11/2007 - Iwith.org was present at Humanizar 2007
The first Conference on Cooperative Social Responsibility Humanizar 2007 was held in Zaragoza on the 17th and 18th of October, promoted by the Industry and Commerce Department of the government of Aragón. Iwith.org organized the round table “Internet for NGO’s”.
12/10/2007 - Facebook: Organizations gain a space.
Facebook is a web with social utility. It was created by the Harvard University and anybody can participate in one or more than one network to be in contact with friends, class mates, collegues and, of course, the NGO you participate with, association or interest group.
03/10/2007 - The 2007 Web Projects Grants is Closed
During the last few months we have received a list of candidates from Catalonian organizations for the 2007 Web Projects Grants carried out conjointly with the International Ashekor Foundation. We should inform you all of the closing as of today of this competition because the number of proposals presented over the last few weeks exceeds that of available scholarships, and therefore, we can not accept new projects.
26/09/2007 - Companies and the Third Sector shake hands in Zaragoza
HUMANIZAR 2007, the first Conference on Coorporative Social Responsibility promoted by the Industry and Commerce Department of the government in Aragón will take place Next 17th and 18th of October. Iwith.org will participate with the round table ‘Internet for NGOs’, come with us!!
13/08/2007 - RSS All what you need to know about these initials and its popular icon as you have never been told before
What does RSS mean?
At this stage you should be able to recognise this universal icon which is or appears on your favourite websites, blogs and podcasts. It means that that site has content (text, audio or video) that you can subscribe to and read, listen to, or view using only FeedReader.
The development of online publishing technology has made it a simple matter for content providers to broadcast regularly-updated information across the web, and has made it possible for subscribers to receive up-to-the-minute news lists from their favourite websites or blog sites without having to check manually or get an inbox full of unread emails.
More information at:
http://www.bocatics.org/news/es_ES/2007/07/26/01
23/07/2007 - SMEs as part of an interesting debate in the Ab•core platform
Once more, the Ab•core Platform will host a European campus, this time under the leadership of the Fundació Ciutat de Viladecans. We are referring to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs for short), which act as main drivers of the European community today, both in Eastern and Western countries, but which must redefine themselves to face the challenges of international competition.
09/07/2007 - Iwith.org features in register of Catalonian International Organisations
The Office of the Secretary for Foreign Affairs of the Catalonian Autonomous Government has drawn up the first register of Catalonian organizations that are members of international organizations and Iwith.org is one of these highlighted organisations.
09/07/2007 - The program for the 7th Fundraising Congress in which Iwith.org is participating is now ready
We want to remind you that on the 17th and 18th of September we will be celebrating the 7th annual Fundraising Congress in Madrid's ICAI-ICADE facilities. Iwith.org will be in charge of the workshop: "Internet and transparency, tools for fundraising”. The general theme of this year’s Congress will be TRANSPARENCY.
29/06/2007 - The Catalan Association of the Blind and Partially Sighted (ACCDV): one of the First Beneficiaries of the Ashekor-Iwith.org grants
In this article we give you the example of the Catalan Association of the Blind and Partially Sighted (ACCDV), one of the first beneficiaries of the Ashkenor-Iwith.org “ Grant Fund for Web Projects 2007”. From now on, thanks to the Ab-Core Platform, you can have an up to date website fit for your needs and objectives.
14/06/2007 - The Iwith.org Showroom presented at the 7th Fundraising Conference
On 17 and 18 September Madrid’s ICAI-ICADE will host the Seventh Edition of the Fundraising Conference. Iwith.org will be running the workshop: “Internet and openness, tools for fundraising”.
