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Net2 in Peru
I'm going to have an opportunity to go to Peru this fall (wahoo!) so I thought I'd do some research on how Peruvian related NGOs and nonprofits are using the social web.
Any search for international voices has to start with Global Voices Online so I read through the most recent posts from and about Peruvian bloggers and found an intriguing recipe for Tuna Causa (!) and a report that at the end of June, Creative Commons began offering licences in Peru. Creative Commons Peru is hosted by Computers Professionals for Social Responsibility - Peru.
On the Development Seed blog, Bonnie Bogle posted that the nonprofit, Practical Action, is teaching Peruvian farmers in northern Peru ways to better grow crops and raise livestock through podcasts that are broadcast on local radio stations.
Interplast used their blog to document a surgical team's trip to Cusco in March 2006, and Village Earth uses their Peru Project Blog to report back about their work in the Peruvian Amazon.
Finally, at the end of June, UNICEF did a vodcast about a, "community initiative helping indigenous children in Peru develop to their full potential"(screenshot above). You can watch it online here.
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Peruvian Causa
Many thanks for including my budding attempt at a Causa in your round up. I promise, it'll get better as I try it again. Really, it was my first one!
And nice round up in general, it lead me to some other interesting blogs worth checking out.
Wow
I never knew there was so much other stuff going on in Peru that was Web 2.0ish. That's a cool vodcast by UNICEF. Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that we also had blogs from Interplast surgical team trips in Cusco and Puno, both in 2005. The Cusco 2005 blog features Jefferson and Julito the Dragon, two of my favorite Interplast personalities.