Archived Exercises

Web pages upon which these online exercises were based are no longer available. If source pages become available again, affected exercises may be reposted in their original location.

Web-to-Email

(Chapter 2 Exercise | Archived December 16, 2005)

Many Internet users, particularly those living in the poorer countries of the world, don't have ready or affordable access to the World Wide Web. Visit Bellanet's Web-to-Email page [http://www.bellanet.org/email.htm] and read about this innovative service.

Questions

• What is Web-to-Email? Why was it developed?
• Who would use this service? Who would not? Why?
• Does Web-to-Email effectively address the (underlying) issues that prompted its development? Explain your answer.

JustAct: Global Meeting of the Generations

(Chapter 4 Exercise | Archived September 7, 2002)

JustAct is one of about twenty partner organizations involved in the Global Meeting of the Generations (GMG), an effort to promote intergenerational communication and collaboration on sustainable development issues. Browse the GMG website [http://www.idc.org/gmg/], then answer the following questions:

Questions

• What does the GMG do that JustAct cannot accomplish by itself? Given your answer, why do you think JustAct decided to become a GMG partner?
• Does participating in the GMG broaden JustAct's organizational focus? How so, or why not?

Womankind Worldwide: Partner NGO

(Chapter 4 Exercise | Archived January 8, 2003)

Visit the home page for Aurora Vivar [http://www.siperu.org/aurora/aurora_v.htm], a Peruvian partner of Womankind Worldwide. (If you don't read Spanish, use Babel Fish to get a rough translation into English.)

Questions

• How does Aurora Vivar's work support (or facilitate the accomplishment of) Womankind's "four literacies"?
• What are the most important activities in which Aurora Vivar is engaged? Explain your answer.