Digital Dividend Digest vol. 2 July 1, 2002
CONTENTS
1. New Projects in the Digital Dividend
Clearinghouse: Baatchit, India; Appropriate Technologies
in Conservation Science and Life Conditions in Tanzania
2. Make the Clearinghouse Work For You!
Personalizable Features
3. Discussion Spotlight: "ICT Help
Desk for the NFP Sector," led by Jo Cruickshank, Australian
National Office for the Information Economy
4. Funding Opportunity: Global Junior
Challenge - extended deadline!
1. New Projects in the DD
Clearinghouse: Baatchit, India; Appropriate Technologies in
Conservation Science and Life Conditions in Tanzania
40 new projects have been added to the Digital Dividend Clearinghouse
in the last two weeks. Here are two of the highlights!
Baatchit is a unique community software
system that uses an iconic interface supported by extensive
audio-visual representation of information. Self-explanatory
icons enable both literate and illiterate villagers in Tikawali,
India, to use the software as a resource for communication,
access to information, and entertainment. Read more 
Contrary to popular belief, scientists do not always work
in high-powered laboratories. Jane Goodall's laboratory is
the remote forests of Tanzania, where she has been researching
the lifestyle and habitat of chimpanzees for 40 years, and
where power lines do not reach. The Solar
Electric Light Fund (SELF) is helping her overcome
the obstacle by installing solar power and connectivity around
her research centre at the Gombe Stream Reserve. But SELF's
initiative does not end there - it is planning to power up
30 indigenous villages between Mahale and Gombe National Parks
as well. Read more
2. Make the Clearinghouse
Work For You! Personalizable Features
The Digital Dividend Project Clearinghouse is a powerful platform
that allows any visitor to search from among more than 600
projects around the world. Free registration gives you even
more options! As a registered user, you can participate in
discussions, receive custom notifications when new projects
are added, and use your own personal drop box and bookmarks
page to get easier access to the projects and discussion ideas
that interest you most. You can also submit projects and start
discussions of your own. Try it!
3. Discussion Spotlight:
"ICT Help Desk for the NFP Sector," led by Jo Cruickshank,
Australian National Office for the Information Economy
How does your project or organization fill its tech support
needs? Like so many out there, do you have trouble funding
your technology budget? Jo Cruickshank of Australia's NOIE
(www.noie.gov.au) would like your feedback on a new idea--a
new non-profit organization created expressly to provide free
or low-cost tech support to the non-profit sector. Would you
make use of such an organization? How should it be organized,
managed, and financed? Would you or your company be willing
to explore further?
Click here to share your thoughts
4. Funding Opportunity: Global
Junior Challenge - extended deadline!
The Global Junior Challenge is a worldwide competition focused
on projects that use information and communication technologies
for education and training of youngsters. This year's competition
is particularly focused on projects in developing countries.
The deadline has been recently extended to September 22! For
more information or to apply online, click here
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