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Agenda of the Conference |
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VIII Infopoverty World Conference : Low Cost - Smart Technologies to Fight Poverty and Save the Planet |
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II INFOPOVERTY EXHIBITION New scenarios for a possible World
Triennale Bovisa (Milan) – April 16th-21st 2008
Ideated by: Pierpaolo Saporito Curator: Arch. Cesare Casati
It is every day more evident, according to international top level researches, that development models which brought a widespread well-being in Europe and North America in the last century, if used at global level, will result into the destruction of our Planet and unpredictable environmental disasters.
With the consciousness that each person in the first world uses about 32 times more resources than a person living in the third world, if the same development model would be generalized to everyone, looking to recent studies, this would be like if our Planet was inhabited by 72 billions people and we would need other two Earths to satisfy their needs.
Considering this reality, it is essential to find new settings of global sustainability that will allow the general eradication of poverty, with the simultaneous spreading of wellbeing in the respect of habits and cultures. We need a great effort of creativity in order to imagine new scenarios, that will be able to find a right compromise between economic development index used by the culture of growth and the human development index used by UN, in a final attempt to include into the same matrix happiness and environmental harmony as well.
In this frontline, the digital revolution can and must find solutions to the threats created by a compulsive post-industrial development and this can be done only through a concrete evaluation of costs/benefits that takes into account without preconception the solutions formulated in a millenary evolution process from pre-industrial communities.
With these purposes, in collaboration with Opensign, Totally Unnecessary Productions, Robinson Channel and Panasonic, the exhibition will show a preview of selected videos extracted from the new Infopoverty webtv (www.infopoverty.tv), a project that aims to the creation of a global video-database. A multimedia library to receive, peddle and support with documentary evidence the everyday work of hundreds of reality in their efforts to promote sustainable development and socio-economic dignity of persons and communities.
The event, organized during the annual “Salone del mobile” in order to underline a common necessity to be creative and innovative, will be the concrete demonstration of the feasibility of ideas that will be discussed at the VIII Infopoverty World Conference to be held on 16-17-18 April 2008 at the UN Headquarters in New York and in parallel sessions connected by videoconference. The title of the 2008 edition is: “Low Cost – Smart Technologies to Fight Poverty and Save the Planet”.
Thanks to : Caimi Brevetti, Opensign, Totally Unnecessary Productions, Robinson Channel, Panasonic, Ponteggi Proietti |
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INFOPOVERTY TV IS COMING
Milan, April 15th 2008 – Thanks to the collaboration with Opensign, in these days, Infopoverty Tv is born (www.infopoverty.tv), as a space on the web entirely dedicated to the Infopoverty Program issues.
INFOPOVERTY is an UN program born in order to fight poverty with an innovative use of information and communication technologies (known also as ICT4D).
The program, which includes more than one-hundred national and international institutions, is coordinated by OCCAM ( Observatory for Cultural and Audiovisual Communication in the Mediterranean and in the World), institution associated to the UN with its headquarters in Milan.
INFOPOVERTY.TV is a project that aims to the creation of one global video-database. A multimedia library to receive, peddle and support with documentary evidence the everyday work of hundreds of reality in their efforts to promote sustainable development and socio-economic dignity of persons and communities.
INFOPOVERTY.TV has three main functions: 1 Divulgate – by creating a web tv available for all the audiences. This section will include media products manufactured by NGOs and other institutions in order to promote their activities. 2 Learning – a database of all e-learning broadcast (modular, interactive, exhaustive and inter-operative) created by organization involved into educational issues. 3 Telemedicine – Section supporting to health activities conducted by medical organizations.
The first demo will be showed during the II Infopoverty Exhibition, scheduled for April 16th-21st at the Triennale Bovisa Buildings in Milan.
Thanks to : Opensign, Totally Unnecessary Productions, Robinson Channel
In order to add videos, please contact: Marco de Pascale, Robinson Channel info@robinsontv.it |
