Bridging the Global Digital Divide: Capacity Through Partnership

Speaker: TIMOTHY ANDERSON, President and Founder, World Computer Exchange (WCE)

Program: World Computer Exchange (www.worldcomputerexchange.org) is an international educational nonprofit focused on helping the world’s poorest youth to bridge the disturbing global divides in information, technology and understanding. WCE keeps donated computers out of landfills and gives them new life connecting youth to the Internet in developing countries. WCE leverages the resources of businesses, strategic allies, volunteers and schools to build the capacity of WCE’s partners to prepare local schools, teachers, and students to use the Internet as a bridge to new resources, opportunities, and understanding.

Join colleagues from SLA and WCE to learn how:

• A small group of people took an idea and built it into a successful venture
• WCE facilitates these partnerships
• Ways that DCSLA (and you and your organization) might contribute to bridging the digital divide, by becoming a tech volunteer; coordinate computer donation events; inventory, test, and pack the donated computers for shipment abroad; raise funds; provide online support to WCE partners in developing countries; and more.

Journal Donations: The DCSLA International Relations Committee continues to collect library and information science and computer journals for our international partner library schools overseas. We will have a collection box at this event. Please bring your donations.

COST AND REGISTRATION:  Members (SLA and WCE) - $10.00; Students/Retirees - $5.00; Non-Members  - $15.00.  

Payment can be either by PayPal or check.  Make checks payable to DC/SLA and send, along with the registration form, to Salvador Velez at the address below . When paying by check, please also send an e-mail registration to ensure a space.  RSVP by Monday, April 11, 2005.