VT news from Africa's rural areas is the missing link until a village is connected to Internet. VT is about people's ambitions, needs and achievements and tells a story not reported by mainstream media.
From our end we will make sure our message will be heard by NGO's and governments.
VT is about how people move mountains with minimal resources with a little help from motivated folks from around the globe.!!
We concentrate on eliminating the endless bureaucracy related to development initiatives. Once in the VT network, all projects by default meet all basic administrative demands, are connected to an on-line accounting system and have access to the international banking industry.
VT safeguards the transparency required and ends the need to write Western style business proposals.for people not familiar with this culture.
ToDoVT is a private initiative, based on the latest concept of surviving in the digital age, community value. The create a financial fundament for VT we are initiating the Bottleneck Fund
"Since 2003, kiwanja.net has been helping empower local, national and international non-profit organisations to make better use of information and communications technology in their work. Specialising in the application of mobile technology, it provides a wide range of ICT-related services drawing on over 22 years experience of its founder, Ken Banks. Non-profits in over forty countries have so far benefited from a range of kiwanja initiatives, including FrontlineSMS and nGOmobile"
"Good governance has improved in Cameroon according to the recent Mo Ibrahim Index released on Monday. The Western Africa country scored 55.5 out of 100 and progressed to a position of 25 out of the 48 classified sub-Saharan African countries."
"Fifteen-year-old Taboni’s parents are in a bind. Their daughter has been raped by the commandant of the squalid internally-displaced persons camp they call home, and they do not know what to do. The implications of reporting the camp commandant, M R Otim, to the police could be grave. Like the 1.4 million other internally displaced persons, Taboni’s parents have been impoverished, displaced, and disempowered by 20 years of conflict in northern Uganda. The camp commandant wields enormous power over their lives."
“agreement of Schokland” to revitalise public awareness. In this idea Schokland becomes the symbol of dutch commitment to development cooperation and this event will take place every two years on june 30. This means that we have about 9 months to organise this event; fortunately this period happens to be the period in which we will meet eachother very often.
"Tanzania will officially be the second host of Travelers Philanthrophy Conference, which is scheduled to take place in Northern tourist town of Arusha early December this year. The Tanzania Tourist Board (TTB) has announced its acceptance to sponsor part of the conference and participate in the conference that will take place from December 3 - 5 this year with high expectations to attract over 300 participants, most from tourism business and environmental partnerships."
"Afesis-corplan is a non-governmental organisation that has contributed to community-driven development and good local governance in the Border-Kei (Amathole) region of the Eastern Cape since 1992. Registered as a not-for-profit Section 21 Company, Afesis-corplan operates under the governance of a Board of Directors comprised of prominent members of the public and private sector."
"Gaat het de wereld lukken om in 2015 de armoede te halveren en alle kinderen naar school te sturen? Wereldleiders bespreken vandaag in New York, in een sfeer van algehele crisis, of de zaken een beetje op schema liggen."
"Neville Isdell, chairman of the Coca-Cola Company, agreed. He told the gathering that while America is at risk for a second Great Depression without quick aid from the federal government, his business will not end its efforts to support clean-water programs and other charitable work"
"Gridlock in the streets as well as the markets here. Yellow cab drivers red in the face as they honk their horns at the diplomatic motorcades hovering around the east side. I think I saw Prime Minister Wen walking in Central Park early morning, unless it was a decoy. The guns of the US secret service a few feet behind looked real enough. Maybe the premier was fed up of waiting at the lights."
Thousands of people around the world who’ve never met chip in to create the 10-million-entry Wikipedia. In South Korea, the citizen-journalism site OhmyNews becomes one of the most influential media outlets. More than 1,000 people work to produce two feature films together over the Internet under the name A Swarm of Angels.
In this connected age, we’re doing and making unprecedented things with people we’ve never met. We’re in the middle of a creative revolution. The only question seems to be: How deeply will it shake the structures of society? Picknick
Tuesday, September 23rd 2008 10:54pm
"Our Voice - a newspaper for people who have not been in school before and do not understand literacy - has been established in Malawi. It is a project of the Development Media Africa Group with an investment of K12 million an equivalent of 84,181 USD."
