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Comment by Dr. Barbara Fedock on July 30, 2009 at 11:51am

With the economic meltdown, is it possible for us to collaborate and write grants together? My area of expertise is online education for elementary through high school students. I have read many of the links posted by members of this forum and I believe my ideas would benefit many of the recently constructed telecentres.

Barbara Fedock

Comment by Mohamed Ag Acharom on March 6, 2009 at 4:42am

Hello friends,
Follow the links below to listen to expert talking about philantropy and economic crisis.
http://foundationcenter.org/focus/economy/commentary.html

Comment by Meddie Mayanja on February 19, 2009 at 10:10am

Hello friends,

I came across this paper that helps us to understand the financial meltdown and especially how it impacts telecentres, networks, NGO etc. We are talking about resource mobilisation - I thought its a must read for you. Attached full doc here.

It opens with a note "That the global financial crisis is already impacting philanthropy and nonprofits is clear to everyone who follows daily reports of cancellations of charity drives, closings of programs, and even bankruptcies, or learns about economic troubles at one philanthropic institutions or another. It is also clear that the crisis’ impact is going to spread and deepen for some time to come. Less clear is for how long the crisis and its fallout will last; and especially unclear is what the crisis ultimately means for nonprofit and philanthropic policy-makers, leaders and managers. How could they respond to growing uncertainty in the sector itself as well as in the various fields in which nonprofits and philanthropies operate?"

and concludes that - Responding to a crisis then means both: reducing uncertainties and capitalizing on opportunities. Yet above all, mastering the crisis requires a pro-active stance on behalf of philanthropic and nonprofit leadership – not by asking for old wine to be served in new bottles (as the American car giants or many have been doing), but by embracing what philanthropy stands for: making space for creativity and innovation and preserving past achievements for the benefit of all.

Econ downturn and NGO world.doc

Comment by AHMED SUDAN on February 10, 2009 at 9:47am

dear friends here is collection of links which provide you with many free tutorials ( HTML, java script, CSS, PHP, ASP, CGI) and tools to help you design or build your website. Also you can find special courses like dearmweaver, AutoCAD, ArchiCAD 12

http://openeducation.developmentgateway.org/Open-Educational-Resources.9506.0.html

UNU Open Courseware
United Nations University launches the UNU OpenCourseWare Portal, which offers open access to about a dozen courses developed by three of UNU's Research and Training Centres and Programmes (RTC/Ps) and the Tokyo-based UNU Media Studio. The intent of the UNU OpenCourseWare Portal is to make the course materials used by UNU RTC/Ps available on the web, free of charge, to any user anywhere in the world. The initiative is not meant to replace degree-granting higher education or for-credit courses, but rather to provide content that can be used by educators for curriculum development, by students to augment their current learning resources and by individuals for independent self-study. The topics currently covered include e-governance, economic development and innovation, mangrove biodiversity and integrated watershed management. More courses are in production and in 2008, additional UNU units will participate in this initiative which promotes open sharing and global benefits for self-learn


http://developmentgateway.org/

http://www.distancelearningnet.com/blog/2009/50-free-open-courseware-classes-for-web-designers-perfecting-their-craft/

http://www.smartteaching.org/blog/2008/09/60-open-courseware-collections-to-help-you-be-a-better-teacher/

http://opentraining.unesco-ci.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?d=1

http://www.freewebknowledge.com/html.php

http://opentraining.unesco-ci.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Categories%2FAgriculture%2FICT_for_agricultural_and_rural_development%2Findex.html;d=1

http://p31-dev.itcilo.org/delta/LLEL/LifeLongElearning/en/home/

http://www.apc.org/en/node/2733

http://alison.com/login/index.php

Comment by Dean Mulozi on February 3, 2009 at 1:38pm

Hi Christine and all,
The network communications guide earlier posted continue to be very helpful to us. I hope other networks are to benefit from this imprtant resource. As indicated be Meddie it is on http://telecentrecommunity.ning.com/profiles/blogs/network-communications-guide

Comment by Meddie Mayanja on February 3, 2009 at 11:58am

Colleagues

This is an interesting article: Internet Fundraising and the NGO Sector in South Africa

To highlight the growing impact and value of Internet fundraising, approximately 13 million Americans made donations online after hurricanes Katrina and Rita, while Barack Obama raised millions of dollars through the Internet during the US presidential campaign over the past two years.

Internet fundraising usually takes two forms. NGOs either install a “donate” button on their websites or NGOs are listed on a “charity” portal, providing potential funders with NGO choices or causes to donate to.

read more here: http://www.ngopulse.org/blogs/internet-fundraising-and-ngo-sector-south-africa

Comment by AHMED SUDAN on January 26, 2009 at 11:37pm

http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/01/22/internet-2008-in-numbers/
http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/01/22/internet-2008-in-numbers/

Internet 2008 in numbers Posted in Main on January 22nd, 2009 by Pingdom
What happened with the Internet in 2008?
How many websites were added? How many emails were sent? How many blog posts were published? This post will answer those questions and many others with more interesting statistics than you can shake a stick at.
We have used a wide variety of sources from around the Web. A full list of source references is available at the bottom of the post for those interested. In some of the cases we here at Pingdom also did some additional calculations to get even more numbers to play around with.
Email
• 1.3 billion – The number of email users worldwide.
• 210 billion – The number of emails sent per day in 2008.
• 70% – The percentage of emails that are spam.
• 53.8 trillion – The number of spam emails sent in 2008 (assuming 70% are spam).
Websites
• 186,727,854 – The number of websites on the Internet in December 2008.
• 31.5 million – The number of websites added during 2008.
Web servers
• 24.4% – The growth of Apache websites in 2008.
• 13.7% – The growth of IIS websites in 2008.
• 22.2% – The growth of Google GFE websites in 2008.
• 336.8% – The growth of Nginx websites in 2008.
• 100.3% – The growth of Lighttpd websites in 2008.

Domain names
• 77.5 million – .COM domain names at the end of 2008.
• 11.8 million – .NET domain names at the end of 2008.
• 7.2 million – .ORG domain names at the end of 2008.
• 174 million – The number of domain names across all top-level domains.
• 19% – The increase in the number of domain names in 2008.
Internet users
• 1,463,632,361 – The number of Internet users worldwide (June 2008).
• 578,538,257 – Internet users in Asia.
• 384,633,765 – Internet users in Europe.
• 248,241,969 – Internet users in North America.
• 139,009,209 – Internet users in Latin America/Caribbean.
• 51,065,630 – Internet users in Africa.
• 41,939,200 – Internet users in the Middle East.
• 20,204,331 – Internet users in Oceania/Australia.

Blogs
• 133 million – The number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked by Technorati).
• 900,000 – The number of new blog posts in a day.
• 329 million – The number of blog posts in 2008.
Images
• 10 billion – Photos hosted by Facebook (October 2008).
• 3 billion – Photos hosted by Flickr (November 2008).
• 6.2 billion – Photos hosted by Photobucket (October 2008).
Videos
• 12.7 billion – The number of online videos watched by American Internet users in a month (November 2008).
• 87 – The number of online videos viewed per month per Internet user in USA.
• 34% – The increase in viewing of online video in USA compared to 2007.
• 3.1 – The number of minutes of an average online video.
Web browsers

Malicious software
• 1 million – The number of computer viruses in April 2008.
• 468% – The increase in malicious code compared to 2007.
Data sources: Website and web server stats from Netcraft. Domain name stats from Verisign and Webhosting.info. Internet user stats from Internet World Stats. Web browser stats from Net Applications. Blog stats from Technorati. Email stats from Radicati Group via About.com. Spam stats from DCC. Virus stats from Symantec via Times Online. Online video stats from Comscore. Photo stats from CNET and Flickr.

Comment by Rooa Al Daman on January 11, 2009 at 9:49am

Hey all I agree with you Shipra and I hope we arrived to new horizon

Comment by Meddie Mayanja on January 7, 2009 at 4:41pm

Hey all,

I know some people on this space have highlighted the importance of effective communications in resource mobilisation. Elsewhere in this site, there is a good "Network Communication Guide" which can help with planning and implementing your communication plans. It has a couple of resources for further reading too.

See: http://telecentrecommunity.ning.com/profiles/blogs/network-communications-guide

Comment by Meddie Mayanja on January 6, 2009 at 12:42pm

hey all,

Check this website: http://www.malwarwick.com/

It has a great newsletter on fundraising. You need to subcribe at the website.

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