PITCHWORLD

PITCH, the Association 'For the Promotion of International Technological Co-operation for Humanistic ends' has the support of world-renowned scientists, policy-makers, and industrialists from all continents. 

Through its cooperation with influent international organizations, PITCH relays and amplifies the well-informed opinions that scientists and technologists express on issues of societal and global interest. PITCH is a philanthropic association. It builds upon two main ideas: Firstly, the scientific community can be very effective at promoting a more humanistic knowledge society. Secondly, to be widely accessible, technologies in the knowledge society must be defined and be developed with the involvement of communities of researchers from all around the world.

The activities of PITCH are directed mainly towards the dissemination and the promotion of knowledge, education and training in connection with its "raison d’être". PITCH endeavors to animate an Internet information page and an Internet forum open to its members and, partly, to the public. PITCH also regularly invites one or more lecturers to develop ideas and concepts in agreement with the object of PITCH at the occasion of private gatherings of its members or in public events. PITCH informs its members about the latest developments of international cooperation programs that run in many places around the world. PITCH edits comments, articles, reports, and recommendations on international and technological cooperation activities, as well as a newsletter available to its members.

• An achievement for PITCH: the efforts of the "Grupo de la Piazza" have successfully delivered.
  The "Agenda Nacional de la Sociedad de la Informacion y el Conocimiento de Guatemala" was presented to the press and to the decision makers of Guatemala on November 30, 2007.

• PITCH provides inputs and gets "sponsor statute" for its intellectual contribution to the Thematic Meeting on "Economic and Social Implications of ICT" of the World Summit on the Information Society.

• With the help of PITCH, Guatemala is catching up with the most advanced Latin American countries on their way to the Information Society. Provide your comments!

• The "Grupo de la Piazza" established by PITCH in Guatemala makes recommendations to the Vice-President and the government. Its work is praised publicly by Ministers and the World Bank.

• The Commissioner for Science and Technologies of Guatemala, who is advised closely by PITCH members, establishes a network of the S&T Guatemalan Diaspora abroad.

URL: http://www.pitchworld.org

Email:  

pitchworld@skynet.be