On Saturday 28 May 2016 at 17.00-17.10 in the conference "Social Policy and Social Innovation in Health" Dr. Christos Klissiaris, Assistant Professor of Primary Nursing and Home Health Care, Department of Nursing, TEI of Crete will have a presentation entitled: "Benefits and Prospects of Using Wireless Community Networks in Community Health: The case of Sarantaporo.gr".
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We are pleased to invite you to the screening of the documentary "Building Community of Commons in Greece. A Documentary about The Sarantaporo.gr Community Network", which will take place on Friday, May 6, 2016 at 6 pm in the Cultural Center of Sarantaporo village.
The documentary has been shot over the last 3 years in the Greater Sarantaporo area by Personal Cinema with the support of Sarantaporo.gr and crowd funding through a crowdfunding campaign on the Goteo platform involving 88 people from Greece and abroad.
Ashoka is implementing for the first time in Greece the Impact program, a social impact strengthening program of selected Greek initiatives. The non-profit organization Ashoka has been in the field of social entrepreneurship for 35 years. Today it is the world's largest network of social entrepreneurs - men and women who put their innovative ideas into practice to systematically solve social problems.
Having supported over 102 initiatives in Europe through the Impact program, Ashoka aims to identify the most promising social initiatives in Greece, help them at an organizational level and support them to grow so as to multiply their positive impact in the society. More information about the program can be found here.
The selection criteria of the participants were, inter alia, their innovative character, their positive social impact and their dynamics. The organizations selected are SciCo, Paths of Greece, Alma, Bloode, Recycle at Source, Sarantaporo.gr and StartUp Boat.
Postgraduate Thesis: "The Exploitation of Digital Technology as a Growth Factor in Remote and Rural Areas - The Case of the Sarantaporo Nonprofit Organisation"
The purpose of this postgraduate thesis is to investigate how a nonprofit organization, in this case the Sarantaporo.gr NPO, has undertaken the installation, operation and expansion of a Community Wireless Network in the greater Sarantaporo area, Elassona Municipality, in collaboration with residents and stakeholders of the region, can benefit the socio-economic development of a rural and remote area.
On Saturday, April 16, 2016, as part of the FOSSCOMM 2016 event that will take place at the University of Piraeus, the documentary "Building Community of Commons in Greece. A Documentary about The Sarantaporo.gr Community Network" will be shown for the first time publicly at the Amphitheater 002.
The documentary has been shot over the last 3 years in the Greater Sarantaporo area by Personal Cinema with the support of Sarantaporo.gr and crowd funding through a crowdfunding campaign on the Goteo platform involving 88 people from Greece and abroad.
