ISOC Israel

Nava Gilad and Rimon Levy are the coordinators.

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OneWebDay Celebrations in Israel
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The second annual OneWebDay global event will be celebrated in Israel on Monday, October 22, 2007, and during the following week. Internet organizations from around the world and association members of ISOC Chapters have begun the preparations for the OneWebDay event which is celebrated on September 22, 2007 (Unfortunately in Israel it is Saturday and Yom Kippur).

The purpose of OneWebDay is to celebrate the human collaborations and connections the internet makes possible, and to express the positive aspects of the web. This is a day in which every one on the physical globe can take part and share on the personal, organizational and national levels the wealth of opportunities that the web creates.

How will OneWebDay be celebrated in Israel?

The Israel Internet Association (ISOC-IL) and the Lehava National project (14 Community Technology Centers around Israel ) have  initiated  collaborated  activities. The local community members are invited to Lehava’s instruction centers, to take part in OneWebDay events through activities that advance the internet, such as:

1.Workshops in which children and youth teach grandparents or parents to surf the web, open e-mail accounts, use instant messaging, start blogs, and other ideas that will be described later on.

2.Information Quest contest – for  fast and efficient retrieval of information from the web.

3.Participation in a pilot project of building a shared photo database for the occasion of “60 Years of Israel” in a shared online WIKI album   – a joint initiative of the Israel Wikimedia Foundation and the Israel Internet Association.

4.Instructing people in the use of technology and peripheral equipment (such as digital camera, scanner etc.), and raising awareness of copyright issues.

5.Lehava computer trustees volunteering to build web sites for NGO’s, communities and municipal services (e.g., the municipality of Be’er Sheva enjoys .a web site that was built by a 13-year old boy who was trained at Lehava).

Other planned events:

6.A conference in collaboration with Bar-Ilan University at the Science Museum in Jerusalem on OneWebDay.

7.Workshop for teachers and teaching trainees on the collaborative web, Web 2.0, by the Israel Association for Information Technologies in Education.

Further collaborations are possible through the OneWebDay Wiki global web site.

The events in Israel will be listed on the Israel web site (in Hebrew). Also see the ISOC Israel web site in English.

We welcome any suggestions, ideas and initiatives. Please contact: nava@isoc.org.il.