Ong 2.0

Qui sommes-nous

Ong 2.0 is a network of non profit and ICT professionals, to improve the use of digital technologies for Social Good. Ong 2.0 was founded in 2013 by CISV of Turin in a consortium with 12 Italian NGOs. Today it is a mixed network between ngos, IT companies and training organizations.

What about our vision?
Cooperation is the true-to-form peer-to-peer collaboration. It involves people, governmental and non-governmental organizations, and businesses who freely elect to exchange experiences and skills through the Internet, in order to find new solutions to social issues within their local communities.

Four keywords firmly stand behind the cooperation we advocate
• open: all international cooperation project data must be released on the web in an open format so to ease the sharing, reusing and capitalizing on previously acquired skills and experiences
• sustainable: all the ICT tools used within said projects needs to be open source, self-produced, low-cost, and built on top of both the recycling of accessible materials and the use of renewable energies
• social: all projects need to be geared on participative decision-making. They progress through prompt discussion within an online (and offline) community – before, during and after their implementation
• widespread: cooperation for development belongs to everybody. If done right, both the web and the ICT tools can help bridging physical gaps among stakeholders so that they can all play an active role in the project they are involved to regardless to their location

Nowadays, Ong 2.0 is a community and an online training center for and about advancing the use of ICT and the web to further international cooperation for development.

It aims to evolve constantly along with available technologies building on the ideas of anybody wanting to partake in it.

Its activity is divided into three main strands: information, training and application experimentation.
• In the field of information, it has consolidated a newspaper and online documentation center on ICT for development that contains more than 400 articles and 4 ebooks
• But his most consolidated activity is training, specifically online, in which he has developed an original methodology articulated in interactive live webinars and weblabs, online digital labs, accompanied by the creation of private communities of the courses in which the exchange between the participants is further developed. exercises and in-depth materials are provided.
• As part of the experimentation, projects have been carried out in several countries.

Projects:
• ICT for Social Good is a Grant for local innovators in low-income countries offered within the Program “Innovation for Development”
• ONG 2.0 Training Opportunities: Master ICT for Development and Social Good (Free Informational Webinar); Mentoring sessions for International Aid workers; mHealth for International Cooperation (E-learning course); GIS Open Tools for Humanitarian Mapping (E-learning course); Communicating development and international aid through digital innovation (Free Webinar), etc
• Consulting

Silvia Pochettino is the Founder and CEO of Ong2.0.

For other net participants we can offer an expert guidance through trained staff, give an expert opinion, procure expert information and establish new contacts in the field of our work.