We're continuing our series of interviews with the Featured Projects that attended the NetSquared Conference with a transcript of a podcast interview I did with Eduardo Bejar of Yankana.org this summer. You can hear the audio recording of the interview here and Yankana.org's 5-minute pitch at the Conference here.

Eduardo Bejar: Hi everyone, my name is Eduardo Bejar, I am the Executive Director of Fundapi.org which is a nonprofit foundation based in Guayaquil, Ecuador that works with information and communication technology projects for development to help people around here to get used to, and adopt technology tools and the Internet.

Our project is called Yankana. Yankana is a project that aims to provide nonprofit organizations located also in developing countries with ready-to-use social web tools and services. This will allow them to empower their daily activities by adopting these tools without the need for technical knowledge or sacrificing their limited resources in technology infrastructure. In addition we are creating an online nonprofit community platform where organizations will be able to work together and develop their own campaigns, so they can use technology as an ally for their work.

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:

While at a pre-N2Y2 reception tonight I got to talking with the innovators of one of the Featured Projects, Eduardo and Jaime Bejar of Yankana. It's their first time in California and they are super psyched to be in Silicon Valley, or as they called it, the "Disneyland of Tech."

They are looking for someone to give them a driving tour of the area, in particular so they can take pix of themselves in front of companies like Google, HP, Intel, Yahoo!, etc.

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!