We're really excited about our first international Net Tuesday in Guayaquil, Ecuador headed by Eduardo Bejar of Yankana.org, one of the projects featured at the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2). 

You can see a few photos, like this one, from their first meeting on Flickr. 

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:

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.