ICT for Global Education & e-Inclusion

The <www.e-inclusionsite.org> website was born out of an ambition to contribute to the development of a global e-inclusion movement – URL link. It contains a Declaration on the Digital Divide – URL link and a Clicking Mechanism to help raise funding for project from poor areas of the world while stimulating any person in the world to become a “donor.” The way it has worked so far is as follows:

(a)    an sponsoring organization provides funding in exchange for prominent visibility of its logo in the website (e.g., social responsibility branding). Other branding opportunities are also possible.

(b)   each €1 donated by an sponsor is valued at 20 clicks, that is, €5 cents per click. Or put in another way, every times a person clicks in the site, €5 cents of the sponsorship money are released for projects from poor areas of the world

having reached 1 million clicks for the GJC 2002 and 2004, the released funds were used, in 2002, to support the attendance of the leaders of winning project to a two-week course on entrepreneurship and innovation at Santa Clara University, California, and in 2004, to award €5000 to the winning projects along with support for their development plans. 

For the GJC 2007, the clicking mechanism has added a further 1 million clicks, while the available funding made a huge leap to €425,000. This has led to a revolution in the concept of fixed value per click (€0.05 per click), since at this value we would need over 8 million clicks to be able release the €425,000 to the 8 winning projects from poor areas of the world. The solution is simple. We have increased the value of every click from its €0.05 to a flexible amount that cover the €425,000. With the available 1 million clicks, this would be just over €0.42 per click. 

This solution underscores the importance of flexibility in the relationship between available funds and amount of clicks gathered. For this reason, from now onwards, the click will operate as a floating currency, that is, its value will be determined by the ratio between the available funding and the actual number of clicks gathered at a given point in time. Thus, sometimes the € value will be higher, some other times will be lower. Today, we are happy to say that the value of the click has risen eightfold from its original €0.05 to over €0.42.

For details on how the ‘clicking’ funds have been used to benefit projects from poor areas of the world, click here.