The document discusses the dual potential of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to improve livelihoods and pose challenges, emphasizing the need for a positive relationship with technology. It outlines ICT's applications in humanitarian relief, education, knowledge management, and environmental issues. Additionally, it highlights the importance of leveraging ICT for effective networking, fundraising, and operational efficiency within NGOs.

1. NGORC What ICT can do for development ?

2. Technology can improve livelihood

3. Technology can destroy

4. What ICT can do ? It is up to us to actually use technology in a positive way However ICT seems to be seen as a fatality no one can change. Therefore we have two things to change : a) our relation to technology b) technology itself* *personal statement I can't prove

5. ICT for humanitarian relief One cannot feed on electron however it can help manage ressources in case of disasters http://www.sahana.lk/ Sahana Disaster Management system

6. Sahana

7. ICT for human rights Blogs, pictures, videos, email, encryption, mailing lists, flickr, youtube, facebook etc. Everything is there for you to do it but how can you leverage it

8. ICT for networking and fundraising NGOs are like many organisation they need to contact people, to follow up with them. NGOs have revenues from donors and other organization NGOs have activities with people and organisation Some times it gets very complicated to remember everything or to make report from those informations

9. ICT to support education Managing school and classes Teaching programmation vs Maths Creating educational content Multimedia and interactivity Spreading the news Remote education

10. ICT for knowledge management Enterprise content Management GIS Semantic web Social Networks Enterprise ressource planning Arranging data and reporting

11. ICT for environmental issues Better and cheaper science Information spreading and collecting Mobilization and advocacy Video conference « paperless office « Reduction of Carbon footprint

12. ICT for your operations Desktop publishing, spreadsheets, word processing, VoIP, imaging technology, file sharing, networking, printing, web publication, email, Instant Messaging etc etc

13. The future (W . O . M . G) WEB OPEN MOBILE GREEN