2008年10月2日 星期四

2008 Summer in Mumbai



Taiwan volunteers in India

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Beautiful Taiwan Foundation

The Beautiful Taiwan Foundation (BTF) was established in 1987. The Foundation not only cares for the environment and the conservation of the island of Taiwan, but it also fights for Taiwan‘s rights on the international stage. It continually challenges itself to promote activities that meet current social trends and take concrete activities to make environmental and conservation issues part of everyone’s lives by using new concepts and popular appeals.
Beautiful Taiwan Foundation’s mission is: (1.) To promote education and publicity on various environmental protection and conservation issues. (2.) To continue the work of promoting education about resource recycling and waste minimization, so that people take a responsible attitude and create a clean, natural, and beautiful environment for themselves and generations to come; (3.) To follow up investigations into the pollution of rivers and coasts by medical waste. To call on the government to build medical waste incinerators and stamp out hospitals that illegally dump waste so that the public can safely enjoy Taiwan’s beaches; (4.) To take part in international environmental protection and conservation activities. In addition, to promulgate global conservation ideas and trends to let people understand the natural ecology and actively participate in conserving it.




Beautiful Taiwan Foundation
as a NGO/NPO had worked together with the residents for many years, and had tried hardly to get some help from the difference resources to promote community activities. Recently we start to improve the living standards and to build up an eco-environmental village. This is just a staged report about a successful case to setting up a wireless internet center in the village. Because there are more than five hundreds tribes in Taiwan that are all in the similar situation, and they need to face more difficulties than the people in the urban areas.
the IT tool could be more useful in the village by set up a friendly environment, such as wireless internet access environment. Bridging the divide in these areas need more understanding and bottom up thinking to meet the truly need of the community. Make information and make knowledge by the village people is the basic empowerment. May be we should share with the aborigines and facing the era of Information Society by more understanding.