'Proday' is promoting north-south school-partnerships as an example for global cooperation between schools and young people on the topic of sustainable development. This internet-project platform offers diverse services for building and inspirite school-partnerships: There is a linking-platform, where schools can find their future linking partner and some advice on how to organize and grow a school-partnership. Furthermore You find material on teaching of sustainability issues and project examples.

Every year, Proday is focusing on the topic of the ongoing UN-World Summit - Proday 2003 is therefore oriented towards the "World Summit on Information Society", that is taking place in December 2003 in Geneva, Switzerland.

The use of ICTs holds enormous potentials for education and sustainable development. The "Digital Divide" that is opening up between today's "haves" and "have nots" has to been overcome in order to make the Information Society a fair and sustainable one and enable contributions from all people. Proday uses the information and communication technologies in its school-partnerships to overcome the digital divide. All interested students, teachers and schools are invited to participate and shape their future.

get involved: http://www.proday.net

This gives much hope:

In a recent paper, Berkman Fellow Jim Moore argues that the Internet has facilitated the growth of a "Second Superpower" constituted by the citizenry of the world who are concerned with issues of "social development, environmentalism, health, and human rights."

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/jmoore/secondsuperpower.html

It´s also very interesting to know who this guy is:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/moore.html

HP Notebook model for 19,500 Baht (US$458).

Belta Desktop model for 10,900 Baht (US$256).

All types with Thai LINUX version.

http://asia.cnet.com/newstech/systems/0,39001153,39129420,00.htm

This platform, “Information Society: Voices from the South”, is run from the South, by Southern organizations. It is open to anyone (also from the North) who is interested on ICTs and Information Society issues in the developing countries.

It will focus on these three topics (at the beginning):

- Knowledge societies
- Access/barriers
- Gender issues

Check out the homepage of the forum - and JOIN!

http://www.dgroups.org/groups/IS