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- Bridges.org - International NGO aiming to help people in developing countries use ICT to improve their lives. Has online newsletter.
www.bridges.org
- Committee to Democratize Information Technology - Based in Brazil, this organization's slogan is "Say No to the Digital Apartheid." The organization works with and seeks partnerships with industry in provide equal access in all the school. In English and Portuguese.
www.cdi.org.br
- Computers for Africa - bridging the digital divide - Computers for Africa refurbishes and ships used computers to organizations in East Africa. We work to bridge the digital divide, focusing on women and youth groups and organizations working for social development.
www.computers4africa.org
- Digital Divide and ICTs Network - This network provides an opportunity for people to meet each other, collaborate, and share advice to improve their ICT-related activities.
ict.takingitglobal.org
- Digital Dividend - Explores sustainable business models for bridging the global digital divide. Its Project Clearinghouse is a database of nearly 700 digitally-enabled social enterprises in developing countries.
www.digitaldividend.org
- Global Knowledge for Development Discussion Database - Archive of the Global Knowledge Discusssion list. This is the major list dealing with ICTs in Development
notes.edc.org/GLG/GKD/repo.nsf/search
- Grameen Telecom's Village Phone Programme - This is a detailed case study of extending telecommunications to rural Bangladesh.
www.telecommons.com/villagephone/contents.html
- International Community Telecentre Resources Website - Aimed at facilitating networking among community telecentres worldwide, through the sharing of information, experiences and resources related to practical telecentre implementation and management.
www.unesco.org/webworld/build_info/gct/index.shtml
- KITE, Inc. - Non-profit organization seeking to narrow the digital divide on a global scale by giving grants of hardware, software, and technical training to organizations in the Third World.
www.kiteinc.org
- M.S. Swaminath Research Foundation - This is a research Foundation working in India on the issues of access to communications for poor village communities. They are particularly interested in supporting content generation at a local level, to ensure that localy relevant information is available on the web for these communities, in a language they can understand.
www.mssrf.org
- OneWorld.net Digital Divide Campaign - Latest news, background on the issues, links and action on the global digital divide from the OneWorld Network of NGOs working worldwide in sustainable development and human rights.
www.oneworld.net/campaigns/digitaldivide
- Solve Poverty - You Can Help Solve Poverty - Two organizations, Opportunity International and Hyperstudy.com Pty Ltd, working to provide small loans, on-line education and other resources to the economically disadvantaged. Lots of on-site links to other poverty related issues and services. Click and give site.
www.solvepoverty.com
- The Communications Initiative - This is one of quite a few major Portals aimed at this type of "Digital Divide" issue. It is supported by major research organisations in this field such as the Canadian Development Agency, and by large content providers such as the BBC.
www.comminit.com/index.html
- The Internet and Rural Development - This FAO report outlines the elements of a communication for development approach applied to the problems of rural development.
www.fao.org/waicent/faoinfo/sustdev/CDdirect/CDDO/contents.htm
- VERCON Communications for Agriculture - VERCON is the virtual extension work project run by the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation) This is a full description of the project.
www.fao.org/sd/2001/KN1007_en.htm
- World Computer Literacy - December 2, 2001, marks the first World Computer Literacy Day. Over 27 countries are participating in this event to bring technology to those who do not have it. Based in India.
www.worldcomputerliteracy.net
- World e_inclusion - Hewlett Packard's site to assist the rural poor in bridging the digital divide.
www.hp.com/e-inclusion
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