Changes between Version 22 and Version 23 of proposals/international-tech-support

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Mar 21, 2011, 4:03:38 PM (14 years ago)

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Jamie McClelland

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proposals/international-tech-support

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 For the last several years, May First/People Link has been working on the "other foot" by sending teams of technologists to build bridges between global convergence attendees and the vast majority of people unable to attend in person, via live video and audio streaming, multi-media web sites, and our collaborative democracy tool. Through our work, we've prioritized building local capacity for supporting the technology and have contributed to a culture of inclusive participation into the very planning of international gatherings.
 
-May First/People Link seeks funding to continue and expand this work over the next year. There are four critical meetings in the next year - Cochabamba + 1 in Montreal, the Paris World Social Forum IC meeting, the COP17 convergence in Durban, South Africa, and Rio + 20 in Brazil. In addition, we seek funding beyond the convergences themselves, to provide follow up capacity building work for the lcoal anchor organizations. This follow up work is critical to ensuring the sustainability of the technology infrastructure developed during the convergences.
+May First/People Link seeks funding to continue and expand this work over the next year. There are four critical meetings in the next year - Cochabamba + 1 in Montreal, the Paris World Social Forum IC meeting, the COP17 convergence in Durban, South Africa, and Rio + 20 in Brazil. In addition, we seek funding beyond the convergences themselves, to provide follow up capacity building for the local anchor organizations. This follow up work is critical to ensuring the sustainability of the technology infrastructure developed during the convergences.
 
-May First/People Link is seeking: $51,420 to help build diverse international participation in these meetings.
+May First/People Link is seeking: $51,420 to help build diverse international participation and sustainable technology in these meetings.
 
 == About May First/People Link ==
 
-May First/People Link is a membership organization based in the United States. It is one of the oldest progressive providers of Internet to non-profits in the world. Our membership consists of over 500 members, most of which are organizations (the rest are individual members). By joining as a member and paying yearly dues, an organization receives free, unlimited website and email hosting. Our vision is to build a network that values an Open Internet by committing to the use of Free and Open Source Software and making principled decisions regarding policy and practices that affect online communication.
+May First/People Link is a membership organization based in the United States. It is one of the oldest progressive providers of Internet to non-profits in the world. Our membership consists of over 500 members, most of which are organizations (the rest are individual members). By joining as a member and paying yearly dues, a member receives free, unlimited website and email hosting. Our vision is to build a network that values an Open Internet by committing to the use of Free and Open Source Software and making principled decisions regarding policy and practices that affect online communication.
 
 We believe that the Internet is humanity's way of facilitating the communication necessary to build movements to save the human race and the world. 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 committees have brought humanity to a point of urgency and increasing certainty that something must be done to save itself. When all else fails, human beings come together to communicate and figure out how to survive; that is our legacy as a species.
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 == Our Work: Democratizing Global Convergences ==
 
-Our movement work with the social forum began with the US Social Forum in 2007, where we helped lead the technology sub-committee overseeing the first social forum with full online registration from beginning to end. In 2008, at Social Forum of the Americas in Guatemala, we held our first collaborative democracy workshop linking participants in Guatemala with participants in New York, in real time. We repeated this workshop at 2009 World Social Forum in Belem, Brazil (this time brining in Belem, Guatemala, Quebec and New York in French, Spanish, Portuguese, and English). In 2010 we were invited to support the Global Conference on Climate Change in Cochabamba, where we provided a free video stream of all major events using all free and open source software. In June 2010, May First/People Link was central to the organizing of the technology working group and media center. Our Social Forum work continued in October at the World Education Forum in Palestine. In December, the UN Bolivian Mission sponsored our tech support work during the COP16 meeting in Cancun. And, most recently, we provided support to both the World Social Forum in Dakar (where we were accepted onto the International Committee) as well as helped organize the Indymedia Africa center taking place during the forum.
+Our movement work with the Social Forum began with the US Social Forum in 2007, where we helped lead the technology sub-committee overseeing the first social forum with full online registration from beginning to end. In 2008, at Social Forum of the Americas in Guatemala, we held our first collaborative democracy workshop linking participants in Guatemala with participants in New York, in real time. We repeated this workshop at 2009 World Social Forum in Belem, Brazil (this time brining in Belem, Guatemala, Quebec and New York in French, Spanish, Portuguese, and English). In 2010 we were invited to support the Global Conference on Climate Change in Cochabamba, where we provided a free video stream of all major events using all free and open source software. In June 2010, May First/People Link was central to the organizing of the technology working group and media center. Our Social Forum work continued in October at the World Education Forum in Palestine. In December, the UN Bolivian Mission sponsored our tech support work during the COP16 meeting in Cancun. And, most recently, we provided support to both the World Social Forum in Dakar (where we were accepted onto the International Committee) as well as helped organize the Indymedia Africa center taking place during the forum.
 
-Through our work, we've developed important relationships with local organizers around the globe. Most notably in the Middle East through our work at the World Education Forum and in Africa through our work at the World Social Forum and the Indymedia Africa media house. In both regions we are in communication with coalitions of groups requesting additional support to build on the technology developed during the convergences. Rather than outsourcing technology work, these organization wish to create in-house expertise around their Internet use. 
+Through our work, we've developed important relationships with local organizers around the globe. Most notably in the Middle East through our work at the World Education Forum and in Africa through our work at the World Social Forum and the Indymedia Africa media house. In both regions we are in communication with coalitions of groups requesting additional support to build on the technology developed during the convergences. Rather than outsourcing technology work, these organization wish to create in-house expertise around their Internet use, yet lack access to training. 
 
 == Goals for Ongoing Work ==