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Nova, Centre per a la Innovació Social
Nova promotes social innovation with popular participation and intercultural dialogue to help to generate alternative socioeconomic models to globalisation, a culture based on peace and a more sustainable society.
It collaborates with organisations and institutions interested in starting projects that promote social innovation and provides participative tools and services that allow citizens to become actively involved in these processes, including dialogue between cultures wherever possible.
The Nova association was born in the year 2000, but the team behind it has the experience of having taken active part in the Centre d'Estudis Joan Bardina (1983 - 1991) and in EcoConcern (1992-1999), from which it organised the Catalan Forum for Rethinking Society (1996 - 2001) within the framework of the Alliance for a responsible, plural and united world (1995 - 2001).
Nova, Centre per a la Innovació Social
Parc del Coneixement Flor de Maig. P.O.Box 145 / 08290 Cerdanyola del Vallès Barcelona / Catalunya / Spain
Phone (0034) 934 020 721 / Fax (0034) 934 020 704
E-mail: novacis@novacis.org
RITS
RITS (Information Network for the Third Sector) is a private, autonomous, non-profit organization founded in 1997, whose mission is to serve as a virtual network of information focused on strengthening civil society organizations and the social movement. Fostering and supporting the exchange of information, knowledge and technical resources amongst organizations and social movements is the key to accomplishing this mission. Furthermore, RITS seeks to promote the interaction of initiatives and projects through effective use of information and communication technologies (ICTs), particularly the Internet.
Effective use of ICTs is essential to promote human and social development. RITS produces and disseminates information as well as develops strategies strengthening civil society networks, providing them with technical support, Internet services and ICT skills. Furthermore, RITS is involved not only with critically monitoring public policies related to ICTs and to democratizing their resources for the purposes of human development but also with developing and implementing them.
Contacts
Graciela Selaimen(graciela@rits.org.br) and Carlos Antônio Silva(cantonio@rits.org.br)
Website: http://www.rits.org.br
VECAM
Created in 1995 VECAM has the goal of making Information and communication technologies available for the improvement of today societies. VECAM main aims are the contribution to the debate about the role of new technologies in the today's society, to give visibility to social and cultural initiatives making them available to all the citizens promoting their active involvement in all these initiatives.
Information, cultural products and knowledge are currently digitalized, networks mesh gradually territories; all forces structuring human society are or will be touched by these elements and there combination. It is, conscious of this perspective of development, that Vecam suggests to the citizens wondering, understanding, discussing and appropriating these alterations. More than a technical mastery of digital tools, VECAM tries to contribute to a political reading of the social mutation conveyed by these last ones.
So VECAM intends to participate in the debate on social stakes bounded to information technologies, to give visibility to the social, cultural, and democratic initiatives using them and to connect the social actors carrying these initiatives.
VECAM is a non for profit organization. It is an association of French law 1901 which dedicates its efforts to a social appropriation of the information and communication technologies. It was created with the support of the journal Transversal Sciences Culture, and of the Foundation Charles Leopold Mayer, reacting to G7 on the Information society of 1995, which polarized the debates on the economic, technological and financial stakes.
Contacts
Frédéric Sultan(fsultan@vecam.org) and Raul Montero(raul.montero@vecam.org)
Website: http://www.vecam.org
FUNREDES
Is a Non-Governmental Organization, dedicated to the social appropriation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) by developing countries, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean, with the objective of contributing to development and regional integration. Since the early 90's FUNREDES' position is that "ICT for Development" is NOT about plugging and playing, chatting and surfing, getting information abroad, converging to one language, one culture and one market. It's rather about empowering persons and communities, collaborating and social networking, producing local content, facilitating the diversity of languages, cultures and opinions. Communication above technology: towards participative democracy. Funredes is a research-action group creating and experimenting appropriate methodology thru process oriented projects.
FUNREDES is member of http://redistic.org.
Soluciones Practicas - ITDG
Is an organization of international technical cooperation that advocate the sustainable use of technology to reduce poverty in developing countries through research, enforcement and spreading of appropriated technologies. Soluciones Practicas - ITDG has offices in Bangladesh, Kenya, Great Britain, Sri Lanka, Peru, Sudan, Nepal and Zimbabwe and develops activities and projects in other countries around the world.
While starting with results from its own activities, Soluciones Practicas - ITDG takes advantages of other experiences to try and give practical and productive answers to rural and urban population with low resources through projects that include infrastructures development, information, technical advice, training and capacity building. The regional bureau headquarter for Latin America is located in Lima, Peru and has worked since 1986 through programs of systems of production and access to markets, energy, infrastructures and basic services; disaster prevention, and local governments as well as new technologies.
E-mail:info@solucionespracticas.org.pe
Websites: http://www.solucionespracticas.org.pe, http://www.practicalaction.org
Acceso
With its headquarters in San Jose, Costa Rica, this NGO focuses on training, technical assistance and services of development for national and international organizations that commit themselves to a society based on sustainable and fair development.
Acceso offers support for the planning and the development of projects, the strategical use of Internet and the conception and development of its organization on the World Wide Web. The two facilitators for the i-twining dynamic from Acceso are Kemly Camacho and Milagro González.
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