Quito, Ecuador: Japanese UN Volunteer Daizen Oda has been formally recognized for his role in a working group that has chosen winners of the Betinho Prize, an award given out annually in Ecuador by the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) in the field of information and communication technologies for development. Read

Bonn, Germany: The World Wide Web is a collaborative venture and a "creation of volunteers", said Tim Berners-Lee, the British scientist credited for inventing the Web in 1989. Read

Bonn, Germany: The United Nations Information Technology Service (UNITeS) has been nominated as a finalist for the Stockholm Challenge Award for its efforts to support rehabilitation efforts in the wake of a devastating super cyclone in Orissa, India. Read

Bonn, Germany: In June 1973, a young Ecuadorian student attracted through the activity report of the new United Nations Volunteers (UNV), set off in January 1974 as the second UN Volunteer to ever serve in Sudan. Read

UNV plays an increasingly pivotal role in mobilizing volunteers and promoting volunteerism. The 5,090 UN Volunteers who served in 2001 throughout the developing world and in countries in economic transition represent development cooperation at its finest. Read

Bonn, Germany: By the end of 2000, 11,000 individual volunteers and organizations supporting the objectives of the International Year of Volunteers had registered on a UNV-managed database. Read

Bonn, Germany: United Nations Information Technology Service (UNITeS), a global volunteering effort to help bridge the international digital divide, has launched a new, expanded web site that includes a list of volunteering opportunities, activities already underway, and a resource center of applications of information and communications technologies (ICT) to human development. Read

Fairfax, USA/Bonn, Germany: George Mason University and the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) late Monday signed an agreement establishing the university as the first institution of higher learning in the world to form a volunteer-sending partnership with the United Nations Information Technology Service (UNITeS). Read

Bonn, Germany: Volunteers are increasingly going online to help fight poverty and meet the needs of development organizations around the world. In its first seven months, the United Nations Volunteers online volunteering service provided through Netaid.org attracted close to 2,000 applicants. Read

Bonn, Germany: Gearing up for the International Year of Volunteers 2001, UNV is not only expanding its network of partnerships, but also exploring innovative areas of volunteer service. Read