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 oneVillage
Foundation has become a Stockholm
Challenge Champion. The Challenge is open to everyone
however, our goal as a Challenge Champion is
to highlight the importance of ICT4D strategies that
promote local self-reliance and sustainability.
About the Challenge: The Stockholm
Challenge began as the Bangemann Challenge in 1995 (became
Stockholm Challenge in 1999). Through its work it has
won a world-wide reputation for finding and connecting
innovative information and communication technology
based projects in health, education, government, culture,
business and environment.
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Over its history 3.000 projects
have taken part and out of that some 500 have
been identified by the international expert
jury as finalists and winners since 1995.
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Challenge projects illustrate how skills
and efforts in applying ICTs - to create new
and better services and products - can counteract
the digital divide and solve previously intractable
problems.
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By stimulating contacts between participants
and partners of different expertise, the Challenge
has created a lively interaction among a large
number of people and organisations to build
networks of some of the best ICT groups and
cross competence teams in the world.
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Opportunities for Participants: Entering
a project in the Stockholm Challenge Award is not only
an opportunity to participate in a prestigious international
ICT competition - it is also a way to join networks
of some of the best ICT entrepreneurs and pioneers in
the world. Testimonials from many of the participating
projects say that it is the inspiration, the new ideas,
contacts and partners that are the greatest rewards
for a Challenger.
The Stockholm Challenge offers excellent marketing
opportunities through exposure to media, and to private
and public organizations that are involved in ICT work
and implementations. It gives promotional opportunities
for entrepreneurs, universities, cities, cities and
regions. The Stockholm Challenge Final Events include
a Best Practice Exhibition and a Conference. It is a
meeting place for some the world's most successful IT
entrepreneurs.
Winners and finalists of the Stockholm Challenge are
global role models for cities, companies, organisations,
schools and others who are involved in adapting and
spreading the use of ICT.
The Champions Opportunity for OVF: To
promote social enterprise oriented ICT4D projects that
seek to incorporate an integrated and multi-sectoral
approach to their projects, increasing collaboration,
transcending disciplinary and sectoral barriers and
effectively accessing information as well as harnessing
the potential of globally empowered networks, using
ICT as an augmenter. This includes promoting multipurpose,
human scale, community oriented projects that demonstrate
how communities can empower themselves economically
while reducing their ecological impacts.
The Vision: If invested in properly
multsectoral development strategies could lead to the
rapid scaling of more integrated and sustainable development
approaches increasing human productivity and potential
globally. Such approaches will ideally be augmented
by effective ICT4D strategies for providing information
access, analysis and knowledge collection and organization
towards tthe Integration Economy. The
term coined by by tech guru and strategist Pip Coburn
envisions the shift away from the age of information
and towards the age of integration.
What we are looking for: Community
oriented projects and programs that in some way or form
represent a "best practice" in Sustainable
or ICT4D development:
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ICT4D centers that are designed
to be self-sustaining economically, are moving
in that direction or most ideally are already
self-sustaining.
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A multi-sectoral approach that is highly
integrated in its core focus areas.
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Promotion of sustainable development in one
or ideally all of its core focus areas.
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Promotion of sustainable development in one
or ideally all of its core focus areas.
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Replication of best practices relating to
the above including the assistance of others
regionally nationally or internationally to
form similar centers.
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Process for proper disposal of e-waste generated
at the center.
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If you or your group have information about projects
that fit these criteria or would like to participate
in this effort in some way, please send info to us.
The Grand Plan: oneVillage Foundation
provides sustainable development services for underserved
communities. A key component of this service we are
offering to communities is to display a range of best
practices and to encourage research and development
in those areas that are relevant to the needs of each
region. The Challenge is a way to provide information
to the Stockholm Challenge about best practices in our
network while also encouraging the promotion of more
effective ICT4D strategies that promote a global sustainable
society.
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First step is
to simply facilitate an exchange of ideas that
enables people to see the rich diversity of
human innovation. |
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Second step is to actually
encourage the innovation at the grassroots level
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Third step is to successfully
harness that innovation to maximize the replication
of sustainable, human scale built environments
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We believe ICT has a key role in this process and in
helping us to better integrate knowledge leading to
the realization of human potential and in the process
addressing world urgent issues that on an aggregate
level to put into the question the fundamental ecological,
social and economic sustainable of present day global
society.
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