UNITeS compiles stories of ICT Volunteer contributions
to Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

The United Nations Information Technology Service (UNITeS), a global
volunteer initiative led by the UN Volunteers (UNV) programme,
promotes volunteering as a fundamental element of successful ICT4D
efforts, and also promotes ICT as a tool for volunteers to help
people and communities in developing countries. In conjunction with
the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), UNITeS is
gathering examples of such ICT volunteering, and posting these
stories at www.unites.org

These ICT Volunteer stories are presented as they correspond to
particular Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and MDG targets.
Stories are from a variety of organizations and programs, *not* only
those affiliated with the United Nations.

Other organizations are welcomed to submit stories as part of this
project. The goal is to have several examples of ICT volunteering for
each MDG and its targets. Stories should concern volunteers who are:

-- building the capacity of people in the developing world to use and
apply ICTs (computers, the Internet, handhelds/PDAs, cell phones,
radio, etc.)

-- using ICTs to help people in the developing world regarding
health, education, the environment, to prevent HIV/AIDS or to help
those affected by such, agriculture, human rights, gender, and other
areas of human development.

This includes stories about online volunteers helping people and
communities in the developing world through nongovernmental
organizations (NGOs) and nonprofit organizations (NPOs), such as
those participating through NetAid Online Volunteering
(www.netaid.org/ov), which is managed by UNV. In fact, many of the
initial stories for this project now posted to the UNITeS site were
gathered by online volunteers recruited through NetAid.

You can access these stories directly at:
http://www.unites.org/cfapps/WSIS/wsis.cfm

They are also linked from the UNITeS home page.

For more information about UNITeS and the WSIS:
http://www.unites.org/wsis

For more information about UN Volunteers:
http://www.unvolunteers.org



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Jayne Cravens [jayne.cravens@...]
Online Volunteering Specialist
United Nations Volunteers
www.unvolunteers.org
Bonn, Germany

UNITeS: www.unites.org
NetAid Online Volunteering: www.netaid.org/OV
Global portal to volunteering: www.iyv2001.org
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