Notes from the II Encuentro Internacional TIC para la Cooperación al Desarrollo (Development Cooperation 2.0: II International Meeting on ICT for Development Cooperation) held in Gijón, Spain, on February 10-12th, 2009. More notes on this event: cooperacion2.0_2009. More notes on this series of events: cooperacion2.0.
Towards a World network for digital solidarity
Najet Teutit. Deputy Director of World Digital Solidarity Agency.
Digital solidarity is a grassroots initiative to bridge digital development.
The Digital Solidarity Agency provide expertise, monitoring and promote catalyst actions within the digital solidarity world.
The “1% digital solidarity” principle: a new tax on public ICT markets. Not widely implemented: european regulatory framework of ICTs difficult to change, recent initiative, etc.
Lyon Declaration for Digital Solidarity: call to federate joint action in the ICT sector, with two main outcomes:
- a world forum for digital solidarity, with a european digital solidarity key actors network (EDSKAN) and Web2solidarite
- build a virtual micro-finance platform to raise funds and loan money for digital solidarity projects
