Dear Air-1 List Members, Greetings from Manila! Our organization, the Foundation for Media Alternatives (Philippines), is doing a quick mapping of innovative Knowledge Networking/ICT4Dev/Community Networking projects/stories in Southeast Asia prior to designing a regional workshop in Manila in January 2003. Our project springs from the basic idea that Knowledge Networking, through both traditional methods as well as via the critical appropriation of the new ICTs, must be examined as an important component of popular empowerment. In particular, it also assumes that it is in multi-stakeholder arrangements that Knowledge Networking can be maximized as an enabler of development. The project seeks to initiate a strategic discussion on Knowledge Networking for CSOs in Asia, by providing venues for dialogue and the exchange of ideas by CSOs and different development stakeholders from the Philippines and other Asian countries. The focus will be on clarifying the key concepts, evolving a common paradigm, and presenting working models of how Knowledge Networking can engender development. It will particularly examine how CSOs are engaging and interfacing traditional information and communication systems as well as the new ICTs. This will be done through a regional workshop by practitioners to be held in the Philippines, with Asian CSO innovators and resource persons providing additional inputs to the process. This will be supported by a preliminary research initiative to map existing efforts, and will be sustained via continuing online dialogue and discussion. To be embedded in the project will be a clear learning agenda in Knowledge Networking that can hopefully be relevant both to Asians and non-Asians alike. We would really appreciate it if the List Members could share possible leads on other ICT4Dev initiatives in Southeast Asia (contact persons, URLs, etc.). Thank you and more power! Cheers. Anne Marie Lim Foundation for Media Alternatives Philippines __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com