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SayNow “Broadcast audio messages to your fans and friends by recording from your phone or sending an mp3 from the web. Fans and friends can listen to messages, reply, forward, and participate in polls from any U.S. phone or their computer. Everyone’s number is kept totally private and it’s free.” Pretty neat technology and something I’d like to see laterally transferred to the world of Big Medicine – what about encouraging residents to subscribe for the local EMS Shout Out?
Thinkature Thinkature brings the richness of in-person, visual communication to the web by placing instant messaging inside a visual workspace. Use it as a collaboration environment, a meeting room, a personal web-based whiteboard, or something entirely new. With Thinkature, you can create a collaborative workspace and invite coworkers, friends, and colleagues to join you in just seconds. Once inside your workspace, you can communicate by chatting, drawing, creating cards, and adding content from around the Internet. It’s all synchronous, too – no need to hit reload or get an editing lock.
ActiveCollab–activeCollab is an easy to use, web based, open source collaboration and project management tool. Set up an environment where you, your team and your clients can collaborate on active projects using a set of simple, functional tools.
BlogTalkRadio–Your BlogShow lets you host your own talk show online. Receive live callers, interview guests, and broadcast to an unlimited number of listeners. All you need is any type of phone, an internet connection, and something to say. All your listeners need is streaming audio or any type of phone should they choose to call in.
Digital Links Digital Links is a not-for-profit organisation that provides low cost refurbished computers to governments, schools, NGOs, community groups, small enterprises in developing countries and to international organisations working in developing countries. We typically set up distribution partners who can receive bulk shipments of computers and distribute them onwards to smaller users. We can also provide training in hardware configuration and maintenance to our partners. Digital Links actively seeks collaboration with other organisations to increase access to ICT to improve people’s lives. Most of our computers are Pentium I and II and are provided for just £40 each for a complete working unit plus shipping costs. We endeavour to meet the specific hardware needs of our clients and to ensure that failure rates are kept to an absolute minimum.
Earthroamer Now this is one very cool RV – not even sure you could call it an RV. If ever we win the lottery, my neighbours will be looking at a brand-new EarthRoamer sitting in our driveway. But not for long, because this is the kind of vehicle that really does answer the call of the wild. Travel year-round on remote trails and camp in secluded locations for extended periods of timeThis four-wheel drive, all-weather expedition camper is specially designed for stand-alone operation.
Fundacion Chasquinet –The main aim of Fundacion Chasquinet in Quito, Ecuador is to promote the strategic use and development of the Internet in the social sectors of developing countries through research, education, and enhanced communication. Typical projects Chasquinet has undertaken or is undertaking are the creation and coordination of the Somos@Telecentros, the regional network of telecentres in Latin America and the Caribbean, BarrioNet, and Street Children projects, to name only a few. Chasquinet is fully committed to promoting the non-commercial use of the Internet and is very much involved in policy discussions regarding information technologies in Latin America and the Caribbean and worldwide. It is Chasquinet’s goal to further develop, in cooperation with other relevant organizations and individuals, the policies, strategies, and tools that are very much needed in order to use the available information technologies as an effective means for just development.
Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) — The Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) is a worldwide network committed to harnessing the potential of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for sustainable and equitable development. GKP’s vision is a world of equal opportunities where all people can access and use knowledge and information to improve their lives. The network enables the sharing of information, experiences and resources to help reduce poverty and empower people. Within the GKP framework, governments, civil society groups, donor agencies, private sector companies and inter-governmental organisations come together as equals to apply ICTs for development (ICT4D). Founded in 1997, GKP now comprises 93 members from 40 countries covering all continents. It is governed by an elected Executive Committee and serviced by a Secretariat based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Intermediate Technology Development Group — Is small still beautiful? We think it is. In an increasingly divided and fragile world, ITDG – the Intermediate Technology Development Group –Practical Action aims to demonstrate and advocate the sustainable use of technology to reduce poverty in developing countries. It was founded in 1966 by the radical economist Dr EF Schumacher to prove that his philosophy of ‘Small is Beautiful’ could bring real and sustainable improvements to people’s lives. With our commitment to poverty reduction, environmental conservation and technology choice we think ITDGPractical Action is uniquely placed to contribute to a world free of poverty. ITDGPractical Action has a unique approach to development – we don’t start with technology, but with people. The tools may be simple or sophisticated – but to provide long-term, appropriate and practical answers, they must be firmly in the hands of local people: people who shape technology and control it for themselves.
Loki Location-Based Search and ‘Virtual GPS’ — Loki pinpoints your exact physical location and then uses that location to make the web revolve around you, wherever you are. With Loki you’ll always know where you are, make sure that others know where you are too, never get lost and always be able to find stuff nearby.
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology — On April 1, 2001, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (the new AIST) began operations. AIST is a newly formed research organization that is the result of an amalgamation of the 15 research institutes previously under the former Agency of Industrial Science and Technology (the former AIST) in the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Table 1 below) and the Weights and Measures Training Institute. The new AIST is Japan’s largest public research organization with many research facilities and around 3,200 employees in all. Advanced Research by exploring broad spectra of research fields and integrating multidisciplinary subjects to promote innovation in versatile fields that strengthen the competitiveness of Japanese industries in the world market and create new industries. Interdisciplinary and Cross-Disciplinary Research that enables planning long-range governmental policies by exploiting the current and future needs of society. Basic Research that maintains and strengthens competitiveness of national science and technology by developing and maintaining high standards of scientific and engineering research under the sole responsibility of AIST.
QuikMaps — Draw pictures and label things on a google map using simple clicks and drags. Easily move the map to anywhere in the world. Quikmaps is perfect for: drawing a map to your house, sketching out a cycling or hiking route, or telling everyone where you saw the grizzly bear.
SATELLIFE — For the past 13 years, SATELLIFE has been engaged in using ICT for health in countries in Africa. Pioneering the use of appropriate technologies on the continent, SATELLIFE has connected health professionals with each other and to life-saving medical and public health information. SATELLIFE created HealthNet, a global electronic information and communication network that provides knowledge resources on today’s most urgent health issues, affordable email, computer literacy training, and opportunities for dialogue and information exchange among health professionals in the world’s poorest nations. As a leader in promoting better health care through the innovative use of information technologies, SATELLIFE has been testing the efficacy of the handheld computer or personal digital assistant (PDA) as a tool for data collection and information dissemination in Africa. SATELLIFE’s efforts were recently recognized as a winner of the 2002 Stockholm Challenge for Pioneering IT Projects; Finalist, 2002 Digital Partners Social Enterprise Laboratory Award; and Finalist, 2002 ICT Stories Competition sponsored by infoDev and IICD.
Youth Creating Digital Opportunities (YCDO) — Youth Creating Digital Opportunities (YCDO) was created in 2002 as a strategic framework for supporting youth involvement in ICT for development (ICT4D) policy and practice. The YCDO vision and mission are given life through the individual and joint activities of the 1700+ members of the YCDO Community and supported by the members of the Global Knowledge Partnership youth taskforce.
Youth for Technology — Youth for Technology Foundation (YTF) is an international non-profit organization registered in Nigeria and the United States. The mission of Youth for Technology Foundation is to bridge the digital canyon in Nigeria through the establishment of digital villages in rural communities. The focus is on training and providing technology resources to youth (in particular girl children), rural women and their communities in an effort to reduce poverty, improve standards of living and empower people. The mission is based on the belief than Nigerian youth are a valuable resource for the economic development of Nigeria and the eradication of poverty. A realization of YTF’s vision is the Owerri Digital Village, a community technology and learning center in Eastern Nigeria. Youth for Technology Foundation is a member of Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP), Word Bank Foundations Group, Community Technology Network (CTCNet) and One World Africa. YTF’s efforts were recognized in 2002 as a finalist in the Digital Partners Social Enterprise Laboratory and World Bank/InfoDev Core Grant program
