Dear Friends,
ITfC (IT For Change) is a non-profit organisation located in India. ITfC envisions a society capable of, and comfortable with, innovative and effective use of information and communication technologies (ICT) as a tool, to further goals of progressive social change.
ITfC seeks to partner organizations working in the area of social change.
Don't you think its a good idea that FSUG should work with organisations like IRfc.
Please kindly post your comments.
On 6/16/05, Rakesh 'Arky' Ambati rakesh_ambati@yahoo.com wrote:
Don't you think its a good idea that FSUG should work with organisations like IRfc.
Sounds like a good idea. What is that IT for Change expects from partner organizations?
Regards, Sajith.
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 19:00 +0530, Sajith T S wrote:
On 6/16/05, Rakesh 'Arky' Ambati rakesh_ambati@yahoo.com wrote:
Don't you think its a good idea that FSUG should work with organisations like IRfc.
Sounds like a good idea. What is that IT for Change expects from partner organizations?
Hello Sajith,
Currently I do not have much idea about 'IT for Change' project.I had CC the original email to Ms.Anita(anita@ITforChange.net) of ITfc.org. Let hope we can hear more from her about this project soon.
FSUG had plans to work such organisations when we started, so am gather information and comments from the list members about the possible NGO 's and their goals.
FN, had this to say about this thread,(his post was lost, I guess)
Sure, I feel FLOSS groups need to build links with groups like this (ITfC), BytesForAll, South-Asia-IT@apnic.net etc since there's a lot of commonness involved. FN
Yes, Does anyone know someone from APNIC.net ? I tried to meet Mr.Sunil at FSF conference but I think he was not able to attend the conference.
cheers
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 19:30 +0530, Rakesh 'Arky' Ambati wrote:
Hello Sajith,
Currently I do not have much idea about 'IT for Change' project.I had CC the original email to Ms.Anita(anita@ITforChange.net) of ITfc.org. Let hope we can hear more from her about this project soon.
Here is quick response from Ms.Anita of ITfc.org
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dear Rakesh
Thanks for getting in touch.
My colleague will get in touch early next month.. He is travelling currently..
Regs and hope we can find areas of common interest
anita
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anita gurumurthy IT for Change Bridging Development Realities and Technological Possibilities www.ITforChange.net http://www.ITforChange.net Tel: 00-91-80-26654134 Mobile: 00-91-98455 46406 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Shall update the list about the further information from ITfc Project.
Moreover there are quite a few NGO working here in bangalore, Ms.Smitha Rao works for one such NGO who has very active interest in using LTSP solutions in School in remote rural hamlets in Karanataka.
Perhaps you can help by volunteering in deploying, developing or supporting Kannada localisation works.I request Smitha to tell us more about her work and how FSUG members can help her.
TIA
Hello Everyone, I do not know how much effort can we put through online messages like this one of mine. Can we meet up sometime on saturdays/Sundays and decide as to who will do what. best regards, Gururaj.
On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 12:17 +0530, Gururaj Avadhani wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I do not know how much effort can we put through online messages like this one of mine.
Perhaps, gathering information and ideas are first step in achieving something.
Can we meet up sometime on saturdays/Sundays and decide as to who will do what.
Why Not!, we used to have GNUs Grazing meets before but we still a nascent groups and the often the core members are busy bees.So we try to make much from the ML.
If couple of people can come together on weekend then we can meet.Why don't you call up for a hand count.
Count me in, as always.
Cheers
Morning Friends,
FN Writes ....
I think we need to be clear about what kind of collaboration we are talking about here. Personally, I see scope for great link-building between Free Software advocates, NGOs and ITforDevelopment campaigners -- provided all are open to the use of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (and are willing to go the extra mile it takes to implement such plans).
For the FLOSS side, we need to work out concrete cases were we can offer tech support maybe even if only to one or two NGOs to show how useful this process could be to them. Migration calls for a lot of support.
If things work well, then the NGOs would be able to support a workable alternative -- in the field of software. FLOSS campaigners could also get useful allies, and demo situations that work in real life. ITforDevelopment needs to build bridges with the wonderful world of Free Software. We're trying to do our bit at BytesForAll.org too (see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bytesforall_readers )
FN
On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 08:55 +0530, Rakesh 'Arky' Ambati wrote:
Morning Friends,
FN Writes ....
I think we need to be clear about what kind of collaboration we are talking about here. Personally, I see scope for great link-building between Free Software advocates, NGOs and ITforDevelopment campaigners -- provided all are open to the use of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (and are willing to go the extra mile it takes to implement such plans).
We are a small group of Free Software users,developers and advocates, so I believe we can help in very small yet useful contributions.There may be some areas where we can work like using GNU/Linux LTSP (GNU/Linux Terminal Server Project) for educational purposes.
There are few members who help with localisation of various software and course contents into Kannada and Telugu.
We can also help NGOs adopt GNU/Linux desktop for their administrative purposes (Abhas kindly tell us about your work).People like me can help the NGOs in training them in using the desktops and administer the systems.
Often some members have volunteered to maintain the such installations, for example Zabil helps out with Atma shree school whenever they is any hardware/software trouble comes in his spare time.
If things work well, then the NGOs would be able to support a workable alternative -- in the field of software. FLOSS campaigners could also get useful allies, and demo situations that work in real life. ITforDevelopment needs to build bridges with the wonderful world of Free Software. We're trying to do our bit at BytesForAll.org too (see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bytesforall_readers )
These whole series of emails is for starting a dialogue between the NGOs and FSUG to work the areas wherein we can work together.
As FN has said "workable alternative -- in the field of software" is what we aim to achieve, but all our Free software solutions will not that useful unless their is good interactions from the end users who know the ground realities of using the software on a day to day basis.
Have a great weekend
hi group, i personally feel that we have to collabrate with people from all cores of life not just NGO'S. if i'm not wrong that is what even the trivendrum declareation implicates to. at the same it is very much important to put a check on these organisations on, how much are they sincere to the cause of "free society"? (usually NGO'S and other organisations generally intend to adopt to free software. as its sucess story reveals how free society can be achieved.) what ever may be the co-opeartion they require from the free software community. that is all to take technology to the people.as part of there activity among people. here comes the important point what even FN mentioned " what kind of collabration are we going to make with them" ?. it should purely depend on the nature of organisation we are dealing with.
On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 17:43 +0530, naveen mudunuru wrote:
what ever may be the co-opeartion they require from the free software community. that is all to take technology to the people.as part of there activity among people. here comes the important point what even FN mentioned " what kind of collabration are we going to make with them" ?. it should purely depend on the nature of organisation we are dealing with.
Yes, I agree, few NGO am trying to bring into this discussion work in the fields of education for social empowerment. And I think we can help them in quite a few areas.
If you follow this list for few more days you find that perhaps some areas collabration will emerge immediately.And then I would be happy if volunteer come up to show their support.
Cheers
On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 17:43 +0530, naveen mudunuru wrote:
here comes the important point what even FN mentioned " what kind of collabration are we going to make with them" ?. it should purely depend on the nature of organisation we are dealing with.
Ms.Smitha Rao's NGO adopted the use of LTSP software for one of their schools.Mr.Zabil helped her with the installation and technical support.Mr.Herald from Hyderabad had developed course ware which is also being in some schools.
Smitha writes in to say ....
Dear All, I am Smitha Rao, I work for a non-profit Organisation- Shala Network in Bangalore. Our focus is 'IT in Education' and thus we support rural under-priviledged schools with computers and related infrastucture,making available the relevant educational content in the local language,Training of teachers,evaluation and monitoring of the programe...etc, we have partnered with another non-profit Organisation- S3IDF which concentrates on Rural Infrastructure Development. We have executed projects in rural parts of Chitradurga and Bellary.
We would be interested in developing good content for educational purposes using Open source softwares and LTSP solutions.
Thanks, Smitha
I think these few areas that FSUG members can help out Smitha's NGO by
1) Developing Course ware that be used in schools. 2) Localisation of course ware into Kannada. 3) Unidentifing new application that can be used for education and incorporating local content in these tools. 4) Providing help to install,maintain and train the use of LTSP based solutions.
Yesterday, I met Mr.Veena who's starting to work with another NGO in BR Hills near bangalore.If people can come forward to help, there is nothing like it.
Have a great day
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Gururaj Avadhani -
naveen mudunuru -
Rakesh 'Arky' Ambati -
Sajith T S