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    33The Techie Congress Initiative is an unprecedented attempt to organize progressive-minded technologists (country by country) to agree on sets of principles and priorities. We are now entering our first full year after the two historic events in France and then at the US Social Forum in Detroit and we are seeking to solidify these gains and expand upon them.
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    5 Following the unprecedented success of the two Progressive Technologist Congresses, we are proposing to organize six more Congresses during the year between 2010 and 2011 in Palestine (at the Palestine Educational Social Forum); Brazil for the Pan-Amazonian Social Forum (Nov, 2010), Dakar, Senegal (at the upcoming World Social Forum in Jan, 2011); India; Venezuela; and Canada.
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     5Following the unprecedented success of the two Progressive Technologist Congresses, we are proposing to organize six more Congresses during the year between 2010 and 2011 in Palestine (at the Palestine Educational Social Forum); Brazil for the Pan-Amazonian Social Forum (Nov, 2010), Dakar, Senegal (at the upcoming World Social Forum in Jan, 2011) with three others Congresses (in India; Venezuela; and Canada) now being planed with locations and precise dates being developed.
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    87To accomplish this we have defined the following tasks:
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    1817== Overview: A Proposal ==
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    20 The converging crises in the major capitalist economies, the precarious state of the world environment, the political crisis in government in so many of the world's countries and the usurpation of government authority by international banks and committess have brought humanity to a point of urgency and increasing certainty that something must be done to save humanity.
     19The converging crises in the major capitalist economies, the precarious state of the world environment, the political crisis in government in so many of the world's countries and the usurpation of government authority by international banks and committees have brought humanity to a point of urgency and increasing certainty that something must be done to save humanity.
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    2221The Internet, a community of more than 1.4 billion people world-wide, is one of humanity's responses. When all else fails, human beings come together to communicate and figure out how to survive; that is our legacy as a species. That's what's happening today with the Internet.
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    2625The Internet is humanity's way of facilitating the communication necessary to make all this collaboration possible.
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    28 At the same time, the global crisis against which we're mobilibizing depletes the resources required to build gatherings of large numbers of people. They are too large to put on, too expensive to get to and not capable of broadening the number of poor people attending. If we are going to ensure the progressive movements' continued collaboration world-wide, we are going to have to use the Internet and that is one reason why humanity invented it.
     27At the same time, the global crisis against which we're mobilizing depletes the resources required to build gatherings of large numbers of people. They are too large to put on, too expensive to get to and not capable of broadening the number of poor people attending. If we are going to ensure the progressive movements' continued collaboration world-wide, we are going to have to use the Internet and that is one reason why humanity invented it.
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    3029In that context, the role of technologists becomes critically and centrally important. Techies are the leaders of the Internet because we run its technology and lead the work on its software.
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    8786=== Follow up with and expansion of "membership" after each Congress ===
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    89 1 -- Establish email list and pages on the Congress's website for each Local Congress
     88 * Establish email list and pages on the Congress's website for each Local Congress
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    91 2 -- Widely publicize the results of each Congress within that Congress's country and world-wide on our website and through organizations like the Association for Progressive Communications, World Social Forum and others.
     90 * Widely publicize the results of each Congress within that Congress's country and world-wide on our website and through organizations like the Association for Progressive Communications, World Social Forum and others.
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    93 3 -- Hold monthly on-line "follow up meetings" to survey members on their situations, discuss new issues coming up and how we can collaborate on dealing with them, discuss new tools, etc.
     92 * Hold monthly on-line "follow up meetings" to survey members on their situations, discuss new issues coming up and how we can collaborate on dealing with them, discuss new tools, etc.
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    95 4 -- Hold annual "Techie Conference" gathering at some major conference in each of the locations
     94 * Hold annual "Techie Conference" gathering at some major conference in each of the locations
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    9796=== Hold New Techie Congresses ===
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    119118We are planning a series of presentations and shared events among technologists world-wide. These would include
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    121 * "show and tell" presentations on new software via video
     120 * "show and tell" presentations on new software via video
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    123 * international tech "consultation"
     122 * international tech "consultation"
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    125 * joint international projects for software development
     124 * joint international projects for software development
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    127 * "sos line" to allow to support when techies in particular countries or areas are in trouble.
     126 * "sos line" to allow to support when techies in particular countries or areas are in trouble.
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    129128== Budget ==
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    133132We are requesting that NLnet support the software development component which must be developed as we start this year's project as well as travel and participation expenses (for our team of three) to the three Congresses. We also include a portion of the yearly staff salary needs although it is not anticipated that NLnet would assume even a significant part of that.
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    135 * Travel to Palestine (at the Palestine Educational Social Forum); Brazil for the Pan-Amazonian Social Forum (Nov, 2010); Dakar, Senegal (at the upcoming World Social Forum in Jan, 2011): three events, team of three people includes lodging, transportation and meals) -- $9,000
     134 * Travel to Palestine (at the Palestine Educational Social Forum); Brazil for the Pan-Amazonian Social Forum (Nov, 2010); Dakar, Senegal (at the upcoming World Social Forum in Jan, 2011): three events, team of three people includes lodging, transportation and meals) -- $9,000
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    137 * Coordination staff (two positions; one half-time, one full-time) -- $15,000
     136 * Coordination staff (two positions; one half-time, one full-time) -- $15,000
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    139138 * Contracted software development: includes website, collaborative democracy software, television and network conferencing software, server maintenance -- $10,000