<$BlogRSDUrl$> Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker/Consultant
Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker/Consultant
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Thursday, October 02, 2003  

UNITeS WSIS
www.unites.org/wsis

The United Nations Information Technology Service (UNITeS), part of the UN Volunteers program, has updated its web site with news about its plans for participation at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), December 10 - 12 in Geneva, Switzerland. At the summit, UNV will showcase both UNITeS and its online volunteering service at NetAid (www.netaid.org/ov). As part of these activities, UNV will create a "mock" community telecenter at the ICT4D Platform exhibition area to demonstrate how community technology centers operate in the developing world. UN Volunteers from the field will help staff this center, along with local volunteers and staff from UNV headquarters, to help give visitors an idea of what helping people in the developing world is like and why collaborations among different groups is so important.

UNV is also planning to have onsite and online events during the summit. Plans include online chats with particular themes (such as online volunteering), special guests, onsite presentations, and a live web cast.

These pages on the UNITeS web site also include extensive information about why the involvement of volunteers is essential to the successful achievement of fair and inclusive information societies, and UNV's contributions to WSIS
prepatory meetings.

posted by Marcus Zillman | 10:29 AM
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