SPONSORS CYBER ƒ Institut francophone des nouvelles technologies de VOLUNTEERS l'information et de la formation (INTIF) ƒ Ministère des Affaires Etrangères de France (SCAC) A Program that connects ƒ Geneva International Academic Network (GIAN) grassroots projects & volunteers with information and PARTNERS CyberVolunteers communication technology skills CyberVolunteers is a Program implemented under the Win-win partnership: volunteers from patronage of UNESCO-Switzerland. It operates with both the North and the South make grassroots international and local partners: projects happen. A concrete contribution to United Nations and Intergovernmental Organizations an information society accessible to all CERN / Grid GRID; Digital Solidarity Fund; Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie; Programme d'Appui des Volontaires des Nations Unies á la Décentralisation PATRONAGE (PAVD); UNESCO; UNITAR / CIFAL Network; Agence Under the patronage of UNESCO-Switzerland Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) International Non-Governmental Organizations CONTACT ƒ CIVICUS; Informaticiens Sans Frontières (ISF); IAVE ICVolunteers / ICVolontaires National and Regional Partners 104, rue de Carouge, PO Box 755, 1211 Geneva 4, ƒ Brazil: Iko Poran Switzerland ƒ Cameroon: ANAIS Central Africa Phone: +41 22 800 14 36, Fax: +41 22 800 14 37 ƒ France: Association Bibio’Brousse Email: [email protected] ƒ Mali: Association des Municipalités du Mali; Haut Conseil des Collectivités Territoriales (HCCT); Web site: http://www.cybervolunteers.info PDHRE-Mali; CEPROCID; Volontaires Universitaires In country offices in Mali, Senegal and Canada du Mali, Campus Numérique Francophone de Bamako ƒ Republic of Congo (Brazzaville): AZUR Développement BECOME A CYBER-VOLUNTEER ƒ Senegal: CRESP-Senegal; Forut - Centre de If you would like to apply as a Cyber-Volunteer, please fill in multimédias; Observatoire sur les Systèmes our online registration form on our web site at d'Information, les Réseaux et les Inforoutes au www.icvolunteers.org/en/registration/ and send your CV to Sénégal (OSIRIS); Université Cheikh Anta Diop [email protected] with the mention “CyberVolunteers Dakar; CESAG; Primature du Gouvernement du Programme”. Sénégal ƒ South Africa: Cape Town Volunteer Center ƒ Uganda: ICT for Development, Conservation Through ASK FOR HELP FROM THE CYBER Public Health; WOUGNET VOLUNTEERS Private Sector If your organization or institution wishes to apply to work ƒ MCART Group, Softwares with a Cyber-Volunteer, please write to

[email protected]. ICVolunteers CONTEXT BENEFICIARIES PARTNERSHIPS Often little known and recognized, volunteerism has a ƒ Grassroots NGOs A range of partners and projects can benefit from the significant impact on development in general and on ƒ Populations CyberVolunteers who are selected and trained according to information and communication technologies (ICTs) in specific requests coming from the field. In the context of the particular. Be it for software development, the creation of ƒ Local authorities various exchanges, it is also possible to transfer knowledge web sites or capacity building programs, volunteers have about technology and science linked to the information played and continue to play a significant role in the PROJECTS society, thus favoring long-term cooperation and construction of the information society as we know it today. collaborations. Mali: The initiative "e-governance in Mali" is a capacity This contribution is highlighted in the report of the World building project aimed at local authorities in the field of the Summit on the Information Society Volunteer Family (phase 1) use and implementation of ICTs. COMMITTEES (www.worldwidevolunteer.org/wsis2003). The Plan of Republic of Congo (Brazzaville): The ICT training centers The CyberVolunteers Program is accompanied by an Action adopted by Heads of States at the Summit in offer training to young women active in associations/NGOs December 2003 highlights that "volunteering, if conducted Honorary Committee, composed of personalities actives in in Congo. The project is aimed at women living in both the field of ICTs and providing support and advice to the in harmony with national policies and local cultures, can be urban and rural areas. a valuable asset for raising human capacity to make Program. The Advisory Committee is composed of experts productive use of ICT tools and build a more inclusive South Africa: Cape Town Volunteer Center. who work in the field of new technologies and some have information society." projects working with cyber-volunteers. As to the Technical Uganda: Conservation Through Public Health Telecentre, Committee of the Program, it deals with its daily activities. Bwindi Impenetrable National Park Honorary Committee CYBER VOLUNTEERS PROGRAM India: training of trainers ƒ President: H.E. Adama Samassekou, former Minister The CyberVolunteers Program recruits, trains and Tanzania: Supporting AIDS Victims, specifically focusing of Education of Mali and President of the WSIS coordinates volunteers with information and communication on knowledge-sharing PrepComs, phase 1 skills, who participate in local, regional and international ƒ Amadou Top, Vice-President of Digital Solidarity Fund projects for a period of several weeks or months. They may Mali, Mozambique and Senegal: National ICT4D and President of OSIRIS (Senegal) offer their skills in areas such as web or software Resource Centers for the Community Multimedia Center ƒ Alain Modoux, former Deputy Director-General of development, system administration and content scale-up initiative launched by UNESCO UNESCO generation. Cameroon: Capacity building centers in Cameroon, aiming Advisory Committee The Program values in particular South-South exchanges, at the socio-economic reintegration of school dropouts ƒ Dr. Kumi Naidoo, Secretary-General of CIVICUS but also includes South-North and North-South living in poor neighborhoods, who need to be reintegrated into the active work force. ƒ Dr. Olivier Nana Nzepa, President of ANAIS AC cooperation. A young citizen from Burkina Faso can for (Cameroon) example become a cyber-volunteer in Mali, Switzerland or Europe: Africa@home at the European Center for Nuclear ƒ Sylvie Niombo, President of AZUR Développement Cameroon. International cyber-volunteers always work Research (CERN) and the African Grid to share the Central (Republic of Congo) together with local cyber-volunteers. The exchanges at Processing Unit (CPU) and the saving of resources among ƒ Henri Valot, UNVolunteers (Mali) CERN (European Center for Nuclear Research), through universities and research centers from around the world, ƒ Malick Ndiaye, Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Informaticiens Sans Frontières (ISF), make it possible for through the net. Senegal volunteers from the South to get involved in projects such ƒ Tracey Naughton, Focal Point of the WSIS Media as Africa@home. Burkina Faso: Biblio’Brousse, multimedia bus offering Caucus (South Africa) training. ƒ Silvano de Gennaro, Head of multimedia, CERN It is implemented by ICVolunteers (www.icvolunteers.org), an international volunteer organization working with Brazil: ICT and community projects for youth of poor Technical Committee volunteers from many countries around the world. neighborhoods in Rio de Janeiro. ƒ Victor Gabriel, Randy Schmieder, Jim Rudolf, Eric Adja