OCCAM
With Special Consultative Status

The Observatory for Cultural and Audiovisual Communication

Created by UNESCO in 1997; Acting Agency of the INFOPOVERTY PROGRAMME

Formally Associated

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Infopoverty Exhibition

 Presenta

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OCCAM, the organization affiliated to UNO, responsible of Infopoverty program for fighting against poverty through new technologies, present, at the time of Build Up Expo, the panorama of

actions of the United Nations for achieving the Millennium Goals (G@ID, UNESCO, the World Bank, WHO)
actions of the countries (Madagascar, Morocco, Mexico, Dominican Republic) •
actions the civil society (DIGITAL Solidarity Fund; SOCI del Comune di Milano, Casa della Carità);
actions carried out in the scientific research applied domain of the Italian and American universities (Politecnico di Milano, Università Statale Bicocca, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Oklahoma University) •
actions of the most advanced broadband satellite technological sectors to guarantee services for development such as telemedicine, e-learning, e-governance in the villages of Africa, the Latin America and Asia (ESA, EUTELSAT Patologi oltre Frontiera, Ospedale S.Donato);
actions of the alternative and renewable energy sector. (PIANETA) Infopoverty Exhibition “News Technologies for Development” is an exposure laboratory where will be presented the demonstrations and the innovating practices in experimentation in some poor communities of the world like that of Sambaina in Madagascar and Costanza in Dominican Republic.