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 Upgrading in slums and low income neighborhoods is effective when
the communities themselves are central to, and instrumental in the
process. To participate fully, and make informed decisions on what
will be done to improve their neighborhood, communities need good
information, and useful knowledge. Upgrading, particularly when
done to scale, is about mobilizing the energies of residents.
Giving and getting information to and from a community needs
facilitation. The population involved in upgrading and their
supporting program staff, intermediary NGOs etc., need to
understand the difficulties and the opportunities of upgrading.
Information technology, when appropriately applied can help. It
can link the population to other communities that have been
upgraded, networks can be created. Information technology can help
visualize options, it can record and forecast changes,
possibilities, trade-offs, etc.
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Acceso
(English
and Spanish) - is a private, not-for-profit technical assistance
organization active throughout Latin America, and based in San
Jose, Costa Rica. Acceso provides training, technical
assistance and institution-building services for local,
national, regional and international organizations that share
a commitment to equitable, participatory and sustainable
development practices.
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Ayudaurbana
(Spanish)
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Inter-municipal network.
A knowledge sharing and capacity building tool that allows a cross participation process through live (workshops) and virtual (ayudaUrbana.com) thematic groups.
The objective is to continuously improve the technicians abilities of the capital cities of the Central American, Mexico and Caribbean capital cities to contribute to the overall municipal efficiency.
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ChasquiNet
(Spanish)
- (Fundación
ChasquiNet) is a non-profit organisation commited to providing
Internet solutions to individuals, organisations and
communities working for the social change in Ecuador and the
region.
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Development
Gateway - The Development Gateway is an interactive portal for information and knowledge sharing on sustainable development and poverty reduction.
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Global
Knowledge Partnership
- (GKP) is an evolving, informal partnership of public,
private and not-for-profit organizations. Partner
organizations are committed to sharing information,
experiences and resources to promote broad access to, and
effective use of, knowledge and information as tools of
sustainable, equitable development. The GKP emerged from the
cooperation of several dozen organizations in sponsoring the
Global Knowledge 97 conference, "Knowledge for
Development in the Information Age" in Toronto, Canada in
June 1997.
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infoCity
- Responding to the enthusiastic demands of local governments, the Urban Sector Unit of the East Asia and Pacific Region (EASUR) has been conducting an innovative package program, named infoCity, focusing on capacity building and follow-up knowledge-operation linkage for local governments. This package provides three dynamic, interrelated and sequential instruments: i) City Development Strategy (CDS), ii) City-to-City (C2C) Knowledge Networking and iii) Bank's Service & Product Promotion Portal.
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Intermediate
Technology Development Group (ITDG) - is an international non-governmental organisation (NGO) which specialises
in helping people to use technology for practical answers to poverty.
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Proyecto
BarrioNet (Spanish)
- The BarrioNet project jointly
with three urban slums of Ecuador is leading a pilot project
that aims to begin a communitarian, social and personal
development, and urban upgrading process.
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