============================ The World Connectory Project ============================ .. contents:: PROGRESS MADE SO FAR **MISSION STATEMENT** ----- .. admonition:: **Our mission is to Make Poverty History, but bottom-up: we will** * **use the internet to link up rich and poor communities across the world via a Worldwide Connectory.** * **provide almost half the world's population with new virtual neighbours every five years.** * **create grassroots outreach on a global scale.** **We believe that by sharing out the world, we can bring it much closer together.** **LIST A: DEVELOPING COUNTRIES included in the Worldwide Connectory** ----- Each country is followed by the number of portions it has been divided into. Click on a country to see the sub-divisions into which it has been broken down .. line-block :: Afghanistan_ - 49 (Areas 1 to 49) Algeria_ (parts of) - 6 (Areas 50 to 55) Angola_ - 32 (Areas 56 to 87) Armenia_ (parts of) - 2 (Areas 88 & 89) Azerbaijan_ (parts of) - 3 (Areas 90 to 92) Bangladesh_ - 238 (Areas 93 to 330) Benin_ - 14 (Areas 331 to 344) Bhutan_ - 2 (Areas 345 & 346) Bolivia_ - 17 (Areas 347 to 363) Botswana_ 3 (Areas 364 to 366) `Burkina Faso`_ - 22 (Areas 367 to 388) Burundi_ - 14 (Areas 389 to 402) Cambodia_ - 26 (Areas 403 to 428) Cameroon_ - 26 (Areas 429 to 454) `Cape Verde`_ - 1 (Area 455) `Central African Republic`_ - 6 (Areas 456 to 461) Chad_ - 15 (Areas 462 to 476) Comoros_ - 1 (Area 477) Congo_ - 6 (Areas 478 to 483) `Cote d'Ivoire`_ - 30 (Areas 484 to 513) `Dem. Rep. Congo`_ - 95 (Areas 514 to 608) Djibouti_ - 2 (Areas 609 & 610) `East Timor`_ - 2 (Areas 611 & 612) Ecuador_ (parts of) - 6 (Areas 613 to 618) Egypt_ (parts of) - 6 (Areas 619 to 624) `El Salvador`_ (parts of) - 3 (Areas 625 to 627) `Equatorial Guinea`_ - 2 also includes Sao Tome and Principe (Areas 628 & 629) Eritrea_ - 7 (Areas 630 to 636) Ethiopia_ - 124 (Areas 637 to 760) Fiji_ 1 (Area 761) Gabon_ 2 (Areas 762 & 763) Gambia_ - 3 (Areas 764 to 766) Georgia_ (parts of) - 2 (Areas 767 & 768) Ghana_ - 35 (Areas 769 to 803) Guatemala_ (parts of) - 6 (Areas 804 to 809) Guinea_ - 13 (Areas 810 to 822) Guinea-Bissau_ - 3 (Areas 823 to 825) Guyana_ 1 (Area 826) Haiti_ - 13 (Areas 827 to 839) Honduras_ - 10 (Areas 840 to 849) India_ (parts of) - 250 (Areas 850 to 1099) Indonesia_ (parts of) - 6 (Areas 1100 to 1105) Iraq_ - 46 (Areas 1106 to 1151) Jamaica_ (parts of) - 2 (Areas 1152 & 1153) Jordan_ (parts of) - 3 (Areas 1154 to 1156) Kenya_ - 56 (Areas 1157 to 1212) `Kiribati et al.`_ - 1 also includes Tuvulu, Vanuatu, Tokelau and Tonga (Area 1213) Kyrgyzstan_ - 10 (Areas 1214 to 1223) `Lao People's Democratic Republic`_ - 9 (Areas 1224 to 1232) Lesotho_ - 4 (Areas 1233 to 1236) Liberia_ - 5 (Areas 1237 to 1241) Madagascar_ - 27 (Areas 1242 to 1268) Malawi_ - 17 (Areas 1269 to 1285) Maldives_ 1 (Area 1286) Mali_ - 20 (Areas 1287 to 1306) Mauritania_ - 5 (Areas 1307 to 1311) Moldova_ - 6 (Areas 1312 to 1317) Mongolia_ - 5 (Areas 1318 to 1322) Morocco_ (parts of) - 6 (Areas 1323 to 1328) Mozambique_ - 32 (Areas 1329 to 1360) Namibia_ - 3 (Areas 1361 to 1363) Nepal_ - 40 (Areas 1364 to 1403) Nicaragua_ - 9 (Areas 1404 to 1412) Niger_ - 16 (Areas 1413 to 1428) Nigeria_ - 248 (Areas 1429 to 1677) Pakistan_ - 280 (Areas 1678 to 1957) Palestine_ - 5 (Areas 1958 to 1962) `Papua New Guinea`_ - 9 (Areas 1963 to 1971) Paraguay_ (parts of) - 3 (Areas 1972 to 1974) Peru_ - 6 (Areas 1975 to 1980) Philippines_ (parts of) - 6 (Areas 1981 to 1986) Rwanda_ - 17 (Areas 1987 to 2003) Senegal_ - 16 (Areas 2004 to 2019) `Sierra Leone`_ - 9 (Areas 2020 to 2028) `Solomon Islands et al.`_ - 1 (1) also includes Marshall Islands and Micronesia (Area 2029) Somalia_ - 17 (Areas 2030 to 2046) Somaliland_ - 7 (Areas 2047 to 2053) `South Africa`_ (parts of) - 9 (Areas 2054 to 2062) `Sri Lanka`_ (parts of) - 6 (Areas 2063 to 2068) Sudan_ - 59 (Areas 2069 to 2127) Suriname_ 1 (Area 2128) Swaziland_ - 2 (Areas 2129 to 2130) Syria_ (parts of) - 6 (Areas 2131 to 2136) Tajikistan_ - 11 (Areas 2137 to 2147) Tanzania_ - 68 (Areas 2148 to 2215) Togo_ - 9 (Areas 2216 to 2224) Uganda_ - 48 (Areas 2225 to 2272) Uzbekistan_ - 44 (Areas 2273 to 2316) Vietnam_ - (parts of) - 6 (Areas 2317 to 2322) Yemen_ - 34 (Areas 2323 to 2356) Zambia_ - 21 (Areas 2357 to 2377) Zimbabwe_ - 23 (Areas 2378 to 2400) **Inclusion only of "representative" poor parts of countries** (India - 250 portions included this time; up to 1,478 might be included next time) Morocco - 6 this; 40 next Egypt - 6 this; 103 next Guatemala - 6 this; 14 next Vietnam - 6 this; 123 next Indonesia - 6 this; 336 next Syria - 6 this; 23 next Georgia - 2 this; 4 next El Salvador - 3 this; 8 next Azerbaijan - 3 this; 9 next Jamaica - 2 this; 3 next Sri Lanka - 6 this; 25 next South Africa - 6 this; 69 next Algeria - 6 this; 45 next Jordan - 3 this; 5 next Paraguay - 3 this; 6 next Armenia - 2 this; 3 next Ecuador - 6 this; 13 next Phillipines - 6 this; 126 next **LIST B: DEVELOPED COUNTRIES that will be included in the Worldwide Connectory (organised into 20 WORLD ZONES to assist in the allocation process)** ------- 20 WORLD ZONES ( population in millions) *World Zones contain only developed countries and each will be sub-divided into 120 partner areas* 1. BALTIC_ & `NORTH ATLANTIC`_ (45.9) - `United Kingdom (excluding England)`_, Sweden_, Denmark_, Finland_, Norway_, Ireland_, Lithuania_, Latvia_, Estonia_, Iceland_, `Channel Islands`_, `Isle of Man`_ and `Faroe Islands`_ 2. CANADA_ & `USA BORDER`_ (56.6) - Canada, USA (Michigan_, Wisconsin_, Minnesota_, Idaho_, Montana_, `North Dakota`_ and Alaska_) 3. CARIBBEAN_ & `USA SOUTH-EAST`_ (56.1) - USA (Florida_, `Georgia (state in USA)`_, `North Carolina`_, Tennessee_, Alabama_, `South Carolina`_), `Costa Rica`_, `Puerto Rico`_, `Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda and Cayman Islands`_ 4. `EASTERN EUROPE`_ (65.8) - `Czech Republic`_, Hungary_, Poland_, Slovakia_ and Slovenia_ 5. ENGLAND_ (50.5) 6. FRANCE_ (61.0) 7. `GERMANIC NORTH`_ (50.2) - Germany_ (9 northernmost states, plus Thuringen and Saxony) 8. `GERMANIC SOUTH`_ (55.5) - Austria_, Germany_ (Baden-Wurttemberg, Bavaria, Hassia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland), Liechtenstein_ & Switzerland_ 9. ITALY_ (59.1) 10. `JAPAN NORTH`_ (65.0) - Japan_: Nigata, Nagano & Shizuoka and 15 other prefectures to the north-east 11. `JAPAN SOUTH`_ (63.4) - Japan_: Toyama, Gifu & Aichi and 26 other prefectures to the south-west 12. MEDITERRANEAN_ (57.3) Spain_, Greece_, Cyprus_, Malta_, Andorra_, Gibraltar_ and Monaco_ 13. `OCEANIA & TAIWAN`_ (52.0) - Australia_, Taiwan_, `French Polynesia`_, Guam_, `New Caledonia`_, `New Zealand`_ and `USA (Hawaii)`_ 14. `REST OF ASIA`_ (53.8) - `South Korea`_, Singapore_ and Brunei_ 15. `REST OF EUROPE & MIDDLE EAST`_ (52.9) - Netherlands_, Belgium_, Portugal_, Israel_, `United Arab Emirates`_, Kuwait_, Qatar_, Bahrain_ and Luxembourg_ 16. `SOUTH AMERICA`_ (56.5) - Argentina_, Chile_, Uruguay_ and `Falkland Islands`_ 17. `USA EASTERN`_ (57.0) - `New York`_, `New Jersey`_, Virginia_, Massachussetts_, Maryland_, Connecticut_, Maine_, `New Hampshire`_, `Rhode Island`_, Delaware_, Vermont_ and `District of Columbia`_ 18. `USA NORTHERN`_ (55.1) - Illinois_, Pennsylvania_, Ohio_, Indiana_, Kentucky_, Iowa_, Nebraska_, `West Virginia`_, `South Dakota`_ and Wyoming_ 19. `USA SOUTHERN`_ (54.8 ) - Texas_, Missouri_, Colorado_, Louisiana_, Oklahoma_, Mississippi_, Arkansas_, Kansas_, Utah_ and `New Mexico`_ 20. `USA WESTERN`_ (55.3) - California_, Washington_, Arizona_, Oregon_ and Nevada_ Help required in compiling the **nonprofitslist** & the rest of this Worldwide Connectory Manual ---- **The** nonprofitslist_ **aims to say exactly where non profits are working** * Please add your favourite organisations to the nonprofitslist_. Many international development non-profits (or charities) are local to individual List B countries, although they may be doing invaluable work in a number of List A countries around the world. Usually they operate in partnership with CBOs (Community Based Organisations) in these List A countries. Our nonprofitslist_ should ideally contain as many of these non profits and CBOs as possible, cross-indexed so they can be located: * by organisation (alphabetically) * by country * by partner area * Please edit the nonprofitslist_ to cross-reference organisations, countries & places Help with translations of WCP information ---- **Many WWC Documents need to be translated** * Please offer help with translations_ Join in the discussion on Ned.com about how best to spread the word about the Worldwide Connectory ---- **Everyone's views count** * Check out the `Kindling enthusiasm for the Worldwide Connectory`_, `Plan B`_ and `First allocation of WCP partnerships (to last until 2015)`_ discussion threads and add your thoughts there and in the associated Kindling_ workspace Pilot Partnerships ---- **The first pilot partnership is between Area 2227 (parts of Kampala, Uganda) and Area 8192 (parts of Houston, Texas)** See `Plan B`_ for discussions about how to develop this pilot and use the `Plan B Workspace`_ for gathering data, jotting down ideas and commenting on them & making plans and designing campaigns For further info. ---- * For further information about any of these activities, please send message to Jon Alexander or David Bale .. _`developing country`: http://www.ned.com/group/wwc/ws/in_which_zone_are_you_living_/ .. _`World Zone`: http://www.ned.com/group/wwc/ws/index/#list-of-the-20-world-zones .. _`List A`: http://www.ned.com/group/wwc/ws/index/#list-of-all-the-developing-countries-that-will-be-included-in-the-worldwide-connectory .. _here: http://www.ned.com/group/wwc/ws/index/#list-of-the-20-world-zones .. _translations: http://www.ned.com/group/wwc/ws/wcp_information_in_translation/?searchterm=wcp .. _`Kindling enthusiasm for the Worldwide Connectory`: http://www.ned.com/group/wwc/news/2/ .. _`Plan B`: http://www.ned.com/group/wwc/news/12/ .. _`First allocation of WCP partnerships (to last until 2015)`: http://www.ned.com/group/wwc/news/10/