CDI Network Annual Meeting
Posted by admin on January 23rd, 2012
Luisa Gockel reviews her last trip to Brazil, for the CDI Network Annual Meeting.
The 13th CDI Network Annual meeting took place in November 2011 at Itaipava, Rio de Janeiro. Sixty leaders from various CDI regional and international offices discussed pressing issues such as electronic waste, the role of mobile technology in our programmes, social media, cloud computing and changes to our methodology. For the first time in 13 years, the agenda was 100% built by their participants using Facebook. Tim Berners-Lee bless the social media!
Two task forces were created; one to look at e-waste and the other one at the revision of CDI’s methodology. The network unanimously decided that we need a unified plan led by the headquarters to tackle the e-waste issue. CDI Brasilia is leading the advocacy efforts to pressure the Brazilian government for more regulation on who should be responsible for discarding electronic waste such as computers and mobile handsets.
CDI Campinas is leading the efforts to publish an updated version of our renowned 5-step methodology. The idea is to bring ICT training and community action to the 21st century trough the use of social media, blogs, mobile, tablets and video. The work is very advanced and CDI Campinas’ presentation was one of the highlights of the Annual Meeting.
All leaders left Itaipava with the commitment to improve the information flow between all CDI offices and to make a better use of the different expertises present at CDI network. Because we are stronger together!
CDI was recently selected as one of the Top 100 Best NGOs in the world by The Global Journal, once again showing the strength of the CDI as leading NGO.