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PHILANTHROPY NEWS DIGEST
Vol. 6,
Issue 31
July 25, 2000
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Site:
Digital Partners
URL:
http://www.digitaldivide.org/
Mission:
Digital partners aims to encourage "collaborations between digital entrepreneurs and nonprofit leaders in the forefront of efforts to help the poor achieve self-sufficiency."
Purpose of Site:
To disseminate information on the organization's mission, goals and projects.
Main Office:
Digital Partners Institute
World Trade Center
2200 Alaskan Way
Suite 455
Seattle, WA 98121
Tel: 206-782-1252
E-mail: info@digitalpartners.org
President:
Craig Smith
Foundation Description:
Digital Partners, a Seattle-based nonprofit research institute, grew out of a November 1999 conference that brought together the world's technology and philanthropic leaders and intergovernmental organizations to discuss strategies to help bridge the Digital Divide. As a result of the conference, Craig Smith, an expert in philanthropy and corporate citizenship who also worked for Microsoft researching the social impacts of technology, founded Digital Partners.
Digital Partners is currently working on a five-year initiative, with support from the Kellogg Foundation, to bring together leaders from Latin America, Africa, Eastern and Central Europe, and Asia to collaborate on digital divide related projects. The initial effort on this project is being focused on India. With a grant from the Ford Foundation, Digital Partners is working on a publication "The Digital War on Poverty" to be finished in the summer or fall of 2000. Additional projects include a four-year Solutions Laboratory based in Washington. The Laboratory's first project, planned jointly with the American Cultural Exchange, will examine how the next generation of software could invigorate efforts to achieve breakthroughs in adult illiteracy.
Home Page:
This striking home page utilizes a simple, elegant layout that easily serves its purposes. Information about the organization, its founder, projects, and other interesting and relevant information relating to the mission of Digital Partners is all accessible from the home page.
Outstanding Feature:
The Ideas and Data section of the site reveals interesting research and ideas compiled by Digital Partners on all issues of the Digital Divide. It includes Model Initiatives, which outlines five criteria for initiatives working to combat the digital divide and includes successful working models.
Honorable Mentions:
While still under construction, the Players section of the site lists corporations, intergovernmental organizations, international foundations, and nonprofit intermediary organizations that are participating in digital divide initiatives.
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