11/01/2005
Events within the Internet Fiesta

How to participate ?

Define one or several event projects that could be realised between the 14th and 27th of March 2005 and present them. Share your creativity, imagination, enthusiasm, energy and passion through the Fiesta's network on it's official web site. The goal is to seek support and to present the project. As soon as the event is defined, it should be registered in the Event Registration form.

When to participate?

The moderator is ready to receive projects as soon as possible. Send the as soon as possible so as to be able to be a part of the biggest gathering of ideas, intelligence, creativity, expertise and solidarity. The Internet Fiesta is your own, whoever you are.

Where to participate?

On the Internet of course, but also in the villages, in the street, shops or coffees. The services and solutions offered through Internet to the citizens, employees and administrations shall be put forward. Internet Fiesta is the sum of all the events taking place in every country, during the three days.

Projects:

Each event promoter is responsible for his own budget. The committee encourage them to turn to private or state sponsoring, either through financing, offer of free services or an equipment loan. The promoters are also keenly encouraged to organise exchanges with other promoters during and after the Internet Fiesta's week. Every project agreed by the moderator is presented on the official Internet Fiesta's web site.

Later...

The committee have studied the results of last years and wish to pinpoint certain weaknesses that the event presented and to suggest some directives in order to correct them and to make sure that the Internet Fiesta 2005 will be an even more successful than in the past.

• Therefore, the committee encourages all the contributors to get in contact with all possible expatriated web communities, every where, all around the world, and to inform them, or to propose to them to become our partners in every possible project being prepared. Furthermore, it appears that the most efficient way to work being if you keep forwarding information throughout your network. To insure the success of our Fiesta, we can never be too insistent on this point.



• The committee encourages you to engage in formal relations, as soon as possible, with institutions and officials in your town, region or nation in order to obtain official supports, grants, representations or accreditations for you project, your local committee or the International Fiesta Committee.



• The committee keenly advises you to get in contact equally with a maximum of local, regional or national media and to associate them to your initiatives in order to give to the internet Fiesta the largest possible public notoriety.



• We also invite you to look actively for sponsors and partners, not only for your own projects but also for your local committee or for the International Committee. Remember that the partners gain increased visibility, adapted to their very needs and only good partnerships will allow the Fiesta to keep existing. Please intensify your effort especially in the direction of IT and NTIC sectors. Weavers who would have found a sponsor or a partner for their local committee or for the International Committee will see their project entitled for a commission rewarding their action.



• The committee would like every one involved in the Internet Fiesta 2005 to contact every possible N.G.O. in order to make them participate in one way or an other in the Fiesta and to make them use their network for our mutual benefit.



• Finally, it appears to be particularly important that every weaver get in contact with schools and universities to inform them and to encourage them to participate in your project or to prepare their own but also in order to provide the entire Fiesta network with translation resources in a maximum of languages.