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OneWorld, CSDMS to collaborate on ICT event
OneWorld South Asia is partnering Indian NGO Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies (CSDMS) for its upcoming ICT4D event, eINDIA2007. The leading event will be held at The Taj Palace Hotel, New Delhi, India from July 30 - August 03, 2007.
OneWorld South Asia (OWSA) brings together people and groups from across the globe working for human rights and sustainable development. OWSA is the South Asian centre of OneWorld International Foundation, an network online that supports peoples media to help build a more just global society.
OWSAs synergy with CSDMS will help push its cause for a better equipped world. CSDMS is an Indian non-governmental organisation located at Noida, near the capital city of New Delhi. Its work focuses on advocacy and developing knowledge solutions for under-privileged societies through innovative and effective use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). These are carried out through field research, development projects and various training programmes.
The event eINDIA2007 promises to be the largest and only one of its kind in India a development forum that will promote and propagate the use of ICT4D through seven determining thematic conferences. These include e-governance, digital learning, telecentres, mobile technology, community radio, e-health and e-agriculture.
OWSA will showcase its lifelines grassroots projects at the event Soochna se Samadhan. This phone-based information service has proved to be popular among farmers in north India, where it has covered 450 villages in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. Farmers simply have to dial a mobile number to seek solutions to their problems.
eINDIA2007 will provide a platform for sharing similar other knowledge and building concerted and purposeful partnerships among practitioners of ICT4D. The overall vision is to contribute to creative ideas and processes that can bridge the digital divide and lead to relevant future agenda. New alliances and ideas strive to bring communities closer, and thus the forum will aim to be both inclusive and constructive.
OWSA as a media partner, shares this vision of an enlightened and equitable India using ICTs for development, which can become an example for other countries to follow in the region.
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