How much is Switzerland donating for the Tsunami humanitarian crisis? The government is paying CHF 27M, ie. about **USD 23M**.
||||*Finanzielle Beiträge des Bundes*:|| ||||:--:|| ||Für Nothilfe gesprochen:||27 000 000 CHF|| ||Davon bereits verpflichtete finanzielle Mittel:||10 000 000 CHF|| ||Multilaterale Beiträge:||9 000 000 CHF||
For some VisualLanguage explanation of how and where the money is used, see the PDF files linked from the DEZA Tsunami Dossier.
Swiss donations by ordinary people are collected via the “Glückskette”. The DEZA (Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, SDC) says:
Wir empfehlen stattdessen eine Spende an die Glückskette auf Konto 10-15000-6 Vermerk: “Seebeben Asien” oder online unter http://www.glueckskette.ch/.
On that website, you’ll see that until today, they collected CHF 44.5M, ie. about **USD 39M**.
Today is a “special collection day”; we’ll see how it turns out. Right now the server seems to be hopelessly overloaded.
While browsing, I also found the CIRC’s FamilyLinks page:
The aim of the ICRC’s familylinks website is to help those separated by conflict or disaster to find information about their loved ones in order to restore contact. ¹
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BTW, the DEZA also published a book “ICT4D – connecting people for a better world.” (ICT4D is Information and Communication Technology for Development) The book is available online:
The ICT4D Platform was held in conjunction with the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), December 2003 in Geneva.
This book aims to make the outstanding wealth of knowledge compiled during the ICT4D Forum available to a wider audience. It is also intended to stimulate interest and awareness beyond the core ICT circles, and especially to reach those development organisations which are still sceptical about ICT4D because of its perceived technical focus. ²
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