L’Association des Femmes Chefs d’Entreprises de Monaco, présidée par Antonia Ivaldi, a lancé son projet de Micro Entrepreneuriat féminin et de Solidarité Numérique le 24 novembre à Lyon lors de la Conférence internationale pour la Solidarité Numérique.

Gathered in Lyon in the framework of the first World Conference for Digital Solidarity to share our experiences and state our commitment to a fairer, more inclusive global information society,

A l’occasion de la conférence de Lyon pour la solidarité numérique qui se tient à Lyon le 24 novembre 2008, Telemedia Group1 lance le programme Télémigrants avec le soutien du Ministère de l’immigration, de l’intégration, de l’identité nationale et du développement solidaire.

At the invitation of Mr Gérard Collomb, Mayor of Lyon and Chairman of the World Digital Solidarity Agency, the General Assembly Meeting of the Global Cities Dialogue on Information Society (GCD) will take place in the framework of the Lyon Conference on Digital Solidarity that will be held on Monday 24 and Tuesday 25 November 2008 in Lyon, France.

The delegations of the second United Nations Commission which held a debate on information technology and communication (ICT) for development, recalled, Thursday 23 October, the urgency of bridging the digital divide between industrialized nations and developing countries.

Supported by the Orange Mali Foundation and Alcatel-Lucent, the Pesinet project (Pèse Infantile sur le Net or “Weighing children on the Net”) aims at deploying a medical prevention service amongst children, of 0 to 5 years old, who come from low-income families, using a “diagnosis at a distance” system based on monitoring and controlling children’s weight curves. The service consists of having children weighed in their homes once a week – twice a week for children under one year old – by trained persons living in the community concerned.

Alcatel-Lucent’s Digital Bridge initiative relies on the active commitment of local actors for creating high added-value services and applications that meet the requirements of rural populations in developing countries. This initiative aims at finding solutions for innovative uses of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).

A programme for equipping schools on the African continent in interactive whiteboards (IWB).
The Digital Solidarity Fund wants to promote and distribute IWBs by mobilising every possible financing system for equipping the African continent using development and equipment contracts negotiated with each country and with direct support for local projects.

Telemedicine projects, interactive whiteboards for African schools: a conference on digital solidarity will take place in Lyon on November 24th, in an endeavour to find the way of reducing the digital gap between north and south.