We are organizing the start of Ecuador's first Net Tuesday, next week in Guayaquil. If you are in town and would like to meet and talk about how social web tools and services can benefit your organization and the people you are working with, please join us.

Date: Tuesday June 19, 2007
Time: 19h00
Where: Fundapi @ Calle Primera y Costanera, Guayaquil, Ecuador [Map]

We are also going to talk about how we will develop this initiative for the next months so your comments and feedback will be appreciated.

Details, suggestions, indications and confirmations? Write us to net2@fundapi.org!

Hi everyone!

Diario El Universo, which is one of Ecuador's most important newspapers, published today a note about our attendance at the NetSquared conference, including a picture of us with Daniel.

The note says:

Hi everyone! Introduction time: the one in the picture with his left foot on the northern hemisphere and his right foot on the southern hemisphere, is me, Eduardo Bejar. I´m the Executive Director of Fundapi, a non profit foundation from Ecuador. Our project Yankana is one of the 21 featured projects for this year's conference. I look forward to meet you all at San Jose next week.

Besides working at Fundapi, I´m also a professor of technology related topics at local universities and a web developer. On my free time I like to go trekking and read Digg.
See you there!

The digital divide that affects developing countries is more than just the lack of access to the internet. It also has to do with lack of, or minimal, content development as well as limited use of appropiate tools to get the best of the net. Taking these issues into account, how can most non profit organizations located in developing countries attempt to create content with local relevance while using appropiate tools if their technological skills are limited, usually they don't have the required hardware and sometimes not even speak english?
With our help!

Yankana is a project designed to help non profit organizations located in developing countries to utilize, adopt and benefit from social web tools in their fields of work, without requiring technological skills or financial resources for infrastructure, and with support in their native language. Yankana is a project created and promoted by Fundapi, a non profit organization based in Ecuador, South America, that has experience with ICT initiatives for development since 2001.

Find out more here.

The Netsquared Team decided to extend the deadline for casting your votes until this Monday 5 pm PDT!

Now you have more time to look at the proposals and also to check our project Social Web Tools for Developing Countries: Yankana.org.

You already voted? Don´t worry! You can login to your ballot and change your choices anytime before monday!

You selected less than 10 projects? Great! Consider our proposal to complete your ballot!

Many project proposals to review and only 10 to vote for. For 1 of your 10 choices take a look at our proposal Social Web Tools for Developing Countries: Yankana.org.

Promoted by Fundapi.org, a non profit foundation from Guayaquil, Ecuador, it´s a project created by an organization located in a developing country to help other organizations and groups located in developing countries too.

Make a difference and with your vote give our project the opportunity to join other great initiatives at the Netsquared conference.

Time's running up for new proposals for the Netsquared Innovation Award, and while the clock keeps ticking, many projects, many ideas and a lot of dreams are submitted to win a single, yet very important, prize: the chance to become a reality.