I am a program officer in the Global Libraries initiative of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.  Global Libraries aims to improve lives by providing access to information through information technologies in public libraries.  I manage programs in Eastern Europe and Asia and focus on innovative services for library users as well as supporting advocacy for libraries. 

The Overbrook Foundation recently published, "Web 2.0 Assessment of The Overbrook Foundation's Human Rights Grantees" by Allison Fine, author of Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age,

The Foundation provides financial support to 55 human rights organizations with a range of budgets and staff size. Most of the organiations are based in New York City or Washington DC.

Hi, Evonne Heyning here liveblogging from the Tech Innovation room at N2Y2 for the last session of Tuesday's event.  During the break we had a great discussion on participation in these sessions; for those of us who are in the audience there have been many questions on the backchannel on how the audience can be more effective participants in this process.  Billy @ TechSoup and Jean ~NurtureGirl~ Russell had some great comments on ways that VCs, foundations, busiensses, nonprofits and technology gurus can come together to add value to these discussions.

Please note that we are liveblogging here; not every word is here but I'll get as much as possible along the way. 

Opportunities and using technology to power the network....where does the real power come from?

Mike Yutrzenka, Executive Director of Cisco Foundation, speaks on the level playing field, quoting Tom Freedman and others on the state of global networks and what we come together to do. He speaks on the move of "global knowledge work" away from silicon valley and out into the villages and communities of leaders in every corner of the world.

There's great potential for new collaborations here and some of that is happening on the N2Y2 backchannel on Meebo: http://www.meebo.com/room/netsquared/

Does your organizational structure support web innovation or inhibit it? Social Signal's first podcast will help you learn how to make the most of your own team's structure from the web strategists at two very different nonprofits: Corrie Frasier,  Online Communications Manager for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Jed Miller, Director of Internet programs for the American Civil Liberties Union. Corrie a

(from KMWorld.com - November 1, 2005)

The Awwa Research Foundation (www.awwarf.org) is a member-supported, international, nonprofit organization that sponsors research to enable water utilities, public health agencies and other professionals to provide safe and affordable drinking water to consumers.

The foundation initiated an in-house KM initiative to:

• establish an organizational culture to support knowledge management and improve sharing of information among staff and customers;