[chapter-delegates] South African outreach

[Rosa Delgado]

If would be wonderful to partner among different Internet Fiesta - the
one in Colombia is looking for sponsors and it is under organization
with the local chapter and Philippe Boland (philippe at tutytam.org) for
March. It intends to invite some Latin American ISOC chapters and other
chapters worlwide. I am supporting this effort and most probably will be
attending this Fiesta.  

Co-ordination among all the Internet Fiestas will be great and perhaps
to start to post this info on the ISOC web site. 

Thanks/Rosa    

-----Original Message-----
From: EJ Preston [mailto:ejpreston at salsa.net] 
Sent: Saturday, 15 January 2005 00:03
To: Dean McCall
Cc: 'Alan Levin'; 'Jennifer Husler'; chapter-delegates at lists.isoc.org
Subject: Re: [chapter-delegates] South African outreach

It really would be swell to schedule the Internet Fiesta with SA's 
Event.  This gathering is massive, one of the most prominent in the 
region and gets lots of network and daily coverage.

On Jan 14, 2005, at 4:56 PM, Dean McCall wrote:

> It was brought to my attention that the San Antonio Fiesta is in April
> not March...I apologize.  Even still I would like to see something
work 
> out on this front between all that are working on it :)
>
> dean
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dean McCall [mailto:dean.mccall at nvision2020.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 2:01 PM
> To: 'Alan Levin'
> Cc: chapter-delegates at lists.isoc.org; 'Jennifer Husler'
> Subject: RE: [chapter-delegates] South African outreach
>
> I know that Colombia is having an internet fiesta this year in March
> and we
> have been trying to partner with them in some regard...maybe this is
> something that we can all do together since our goals are really all 
> the
> same...we are trying to expose our community to the internet and the 
> world
> to our community...I think it would be a fantastic opportunity for
all.
>
> Colombia's Internet Fiesta page 
> http://www.expo4art.org/archivos/internet-fiesta/colombia/index.php
>
>
> I mentioned to the Colombia delegation that San Antonio has a local
> event
> that is very large and pulls in a lot of support from the local 
> community.
> It just happens that it corresponds perfectly with the internet fiesta

> that
> they have planed this year almost exactly. (14-27 of March) With that 
> being
> said I feel certain that I could garner quite a bit of local support 
> for a
> project of this caliber.
>
> San Antonio Fiesta Page
> http://www.fiesta-sa.org/
>
> Let me know what everyone thinks :)
>
>
> Dean McCall
> President/CEO
> South Central Chapter ICOC
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Levin [mailto:alan at futureperfect.co.za]
> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 10:23 AM
> To: chapter-delegates at lists.isoc.org
> Cc: Jennifer Husler
> Subject: [chapter-delegates] South African outreach
>
> Hi all,
>
> In South Africa, at least 80% of the population has never seen or used

> the Internet. Considering that at least 25% of the population use 
> mobile phones regularly, and I would estimate that 80% have used a 
> mobile phone I believe that we have much work to do and opportunities 
> to do real outreach.
>
> As such ISOC-ZA spent time over the course of last year trying to work

> out and pondering what to do. After a visit to Senegal we learned that

> the Internet Fiesta was a proven model and something that we could 
> easily replicate here. Over the past few months we've narrowed down 
> the potential locations for a pilot where we would reach >1000 
> individuals over a weekend. If this is successful we hope to chose 
> locations where we can exceed 5000 per weekend.
>
> We have put together the attached proposal and I share it with you as 
> we are seeking sponsors. I believe that we will obtain sponsorship for

> the technology - or part thereof - but we will still require support 
> for the administrative and cultural elements.
>
> I realise that many of you have been through a number of Fiestas and 
> there is much we can learn - and wish to learn - from you. I attach 
> our current proposal for any comments or feedback.
>
> Warm regards,
>
> aLan
> ISOC-ZA chair
>


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