From WorldComputerExchange@mediaone.net Sun Dec 17 15:41:03 2000
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 12:57:22 -0500
From: Timothy Anderson
Reply-To: gkd@phoenix.edc.org
To: gkd@phoenix.edc.org
Subject: [GKD] World Computer Exchange Update
Dear GKD Members,
I'd like to update you about the Computer Exchange work. We've added
another country to the program (making 34) and another 38 schools
(making 458). As you may recall, each school agrees to connect its
students with students in US schools and help its students develop
websites to share their rich history & culture.
This month, we learned that SDNP India (within the Ministry of
Environment and Forests of the Government of India) decided not to fund
the Exchange's shipment to SEWA planned for the middle of December. We
are now working to secure alternative funding and encouraging the
Exchange's NGO Partners and Allied Organisations in India to seek to
involve SDNP in all of their ICT planning. It looks like this may delay
this first shipment into January. Any advice would be most welcome!
We would like to extend special thanks to those organizations that have
made commitments of computers and monitors during November, including
Ford Motor Company, Fidelity Investments, Think Detroit, and the Riecken
Foundation. Alex Mbianda, our Programme Officer for Cameroon, has
secured computers, monitors, and printers from Keyspan Energy Delivery.
Thanks for help in recruiting computers to two of our Allied
Organisations: Asha for Education and Kabissa-A Space for Africa on the
Internet.
This month, the Exchange will enter into a standard agreement with the
Ministry of Technology of the Government of Pakistan to provide
computers for Internet access for schools in Pakistan. This agreement
is contingent on their providing $15,000 to cover the Exchange's costs
for this shipment and $5,000 for the shipping costs. The Exchange has
now approved fifteen partner agreements.
A completed Plan of Implementation and draft list of schools has been
received from the Agency for Sustainable Development Initiatives in
Uganda. It reflects their work in cooperation with several other NGOs to
recruit schools and funding to cover the Exchange's shipping costs. We
are also expecting a cooperative Plan of Implementation and draft list
of schools jointly from the Foundation for Economic Development and SDNP
in Bangladesh working with several other NGOs. It is wonderful that
these two efforts are fully cooperating! This shipment is contingent
upon the SDNP/UNDP directly paying the shipping costs.
We would greatly appreciate any and all help in building a flow of
donated computers for our NGO Partners and the schools that they have
recruited! Your suggestions and comments welcome.
Regards,
Timothy Anderson
President
World Computer Exchange, Inc.
936 Nantasket Avenue
Hull, Massachusetts 02045 USA
781.925.3078 FAX: 509.752.9186
www.WorldComputerExchange.org
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