TANGOLab

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Perché un nuovo laboratorio?
TANGOlab@DISCO
Technology Assistance to Non-Governmental Organization Laboratory
Roberto Polillo
Workshop on DISCO research– 3 June 2010
First year: goals
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Understand NGO web needs and experiment
solutions
Develop partnerships
Resources:
- RP & students
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First year: main activities
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1. Project TANGO4WEB
2. Focus on Center-America
3. Cooperation with ISF
1. Project Tango4Web
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Methods and tools for effective, low-cost,
sustainable ONG web presence
- Thesis (TTC & LM Informatics)
- Projects of Course Internet Lab
ONG Web presence assessment
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240 Italian ONG
Evaluation:
0 …….. 4
min max
Tango4Web: the model
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CASE
STUDIES
THE
WEB
ASSESSMENT
QUALITY
MODEL
PROFILES
& BEST
PRACTICES
SHARING
EVALUATION
WEB PRESENCE
IMPLEMENTATION
DESIGN
PATTERNS
TOOLS
SELECTION
TEMPLATES
BUILD-UP
5 thesis completed +
7 web projects (Internet Lab)
Results on www.labtango.wordpress.org
Center-America: on-going activities
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Computer network of Children Hospital La Mascota (Managua, Nicaragua)
- Twinning Policlinico di Milano – La Mascota, funded by Regione Lombardia
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Cooperation UNIMIB/UNAN (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Nicaragua)
- ProjProject: Experimentation Universitaria para la Salud Integral
Comunitaria y la Calidad de vida
(UNIMIB: Sociology, Statistics, Medicine, DISCO)
- Exchange Bilateral Agreement
Cooperation with Universidad de Sancti Spiritus (Cuba)
- Proposals of two TTC thesis in loco submitted for Extra Plus support
- Exchange Bilateral Agreement
Proposal for an ALFA project (EU)
With Universities of CUBA, MANAGUA, BUENOS AIRES, BELEM, BERLIN and
UNIMIB/Sociology, Statistics, Medicine, DISCO
La Mascota Hospital,
Managua
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3. Cooperation with ISF
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Informatici Senza Frontiere Onlus
(www.informaticisenzafrontiere.org)
ISF 14 server Linux in the Lab premises
Next steps
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Permanent observatory on ICT4D, in cooperation
with ISF and other orgs: first conference in Bicocca
(22 nov 2010)
Information portal on ICT4D: www.tangonet.it