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See our video Titicaco Imagine made with Rektorsakademien or check the India project.

November 17:th
Beta testing Planet Institute.com first partner Red Cross and SIDA.

november 2008
Mr Ivan Daza just went through a 3 day intense writing course with the legendary Mr Robert McFee and learned what was necessary in order to be able to complete the saga - Titicaco King of the Sea - after six years from the start. Learn about the legendary Robert McFee here His former students have written: WALL•E, A Beautiful Mind, Lord of the Rings I, II, III, "The Simpsons" Movie, The Daily Show, Grey's Anatomy, The DaVinci Code, Shrek, I Am Legend, Ratatouille, Finding Nemo, Scrubs, Pirates of the Caribbean, Dead Man's Chest

august 2008

Producing and soon launching the online educational game: Save the World!
- Now renamed to www.planetinstitute.com It will be integrated in Google Earth and Facebook. The goal is to create a generation of climate fighters.

april 2008

Meeting with nobel peace price awarded Mr Muhamad Yunus in Stockholm. Ivan Daza and Malin Speace briefly presented a concept named "End of Poverty sustainable development microloan bank".

Malin Speace and Bengt Westerberg at the panel debate with Mr Muhamad Yunus in Stockholm.

Muhamad Yunus and Ivan Daza

Recommendation, become a CO2 warrior.
Students all over the world can be part of the Titicaco Challenge and become a CO2 warrior. Everyone should also see the Al Gore Bali speech.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNHnbBp8sSw  

10-24 september 2007
Walking el Camino de Santiago to prepare myself for the launch of the saga, the chronicles of Titicaco - King of the sea. Launchdate 22:nd of december 2007.

13th of august 2007

Immediate need for global emergency response training. read here.

24th of may 2007
The founder of Titicaco, Ivan Daza was elected into the board of directors of Hand in Hand that have handed out microloans to 186 000 women in India, taken out 6500 children from child labour and given them access to school education, set up 135 citizen centers and with the aim to set up 1000 more during the next 12 months.

Ivan will mainly focus in implementing the Titicaco Communicaring School into Hand in Hand. 

9th of february 2007

"- What happened with Titicaco, have the dream died?
- No, it is my life mission, my purpose. Thats why I exist
- Ok Titicaco, I believe you."

Small conversation between Titicaco and Boli, from Titicaco King of the sea.

For some time now we have focused in a project named Blatteförmedlingen, which resulted into a company that is generating some income. So now we have our own financial resources to make reality of the dream that Titicaco carried for so long now.  A new web is being constructed, a new infrastructure, ready to meet the demands of a global internetschool. Ready to unleash the power of education and communication.

As soon as we launch it, you will all hear about it.

 Call Titicaco for free with Skype

2:nd of May 2006
Titicaco will at Rektorsakademien event at Berns Salonger present Titicaco Communicaring School to headmasters in Sweden and to the head of education at Apple.

20:th of April 2006 - Titicaco was invited to the best event of the year.
Titicaco was invited to and attended the awards for the World´s Children´s Prize for the Rights of the Child presented by Her Majesty Queen Silvia of Sweden in Rikssalen at Gripsholm Castle in Mariefred. This fantastic yearly event is founded by Magnus Bergmar, that Titicaco had a meeting with some months ago. We were very proud to be invited to this event.

Ivan and Magnus Bergmar, the founder of The World´s Childrens Price for the Rights of the Child. In our meaning he should also receive a price for his enourmous efforts to create this event.

Ayesha Quraishi (Titicaco partner) and Craig Kielburger from Free the Children. This years winner of the Worlds Children Price, who started at the age of 12 to free children in child labour, who already at the age of 22 built more than 400 schools. A true hero.

Jetsun Pema from Tibet (sister of Dalai Lama) - Winner of the World´s Childrens Honorary Award and Ivan from Titicaco.


Voters of the World Children Price

Adeba Adebe, 16 years old and the moderator of the World Children Price Awards and one of the smaller guests.

Sisters and volunteers at the World Children Price

18:th of April
Hanna and Annette are safely back from working at Phi Phi Island as volunteers for a very long time. Annette started working for Titicaco ome year ago, but switched over to work with the Swedish Micro Credit Institute and Malin Speace, since there was so much to do in that project.



20th of february 2006
An article Titicaco wrote at Forbes on the subject: The solution through global education, still accurate >>

20th of January 2006
Titicaco Sustainable Entrepreneurship Awards winner Mr. Axel Gordh-Humlesjö is now in Dindigul, India to make reality of his winning business concept of a global online web-magazine. Follow the journey >>

18th of January 2006
Mr. Bengt Norman came to Thailand and met with Jan Yanjiman, to support the Titicaco internet school in the Nong Kok Camp outside Krabi. Through his support the music teacher – Mr. Amnat, the internet school teachers Ms. Tuk and Ms. Amy Lackgren can teach for two more months.

20:th of december 2005
Titicaco is together with Indiska sending our first student and winner of the Sustainable Entrepreneurship Awards, Mr Axel Humlesjö, to Dindigul and India to set up the his business concept of a global webmagazine published in Hindi and English.

Titicaco have several interesting projects just waiting to get launched through partners. We seek volunteers that want to make a difference!

19:th of december 2005
Joining in partnership with Ayesha Quraishi to launch a new Swedish recruiting site, Titicaco initiative launched through our closest partner Dobase. The project is named Blatteformedlingen, and will give online coaching to foreigners who seek job in Sweden, by forreigners who already succeded in getting a job and being integrated in the Swedish society. If you are interested in becoming a coach or seeking a job, or employing people register your email now.

Reminder from Rome, where Titicaco held seminar last year:

”There are two main strategies for economic growth to choose between for large companies. Hostile take over or growth by pushing social economic development forward through education. One will lead to destruction of the planet, the other will lead to sustainable development and possibly even peace.”

Learn more about Corporate Social Responsibility  strategy and how your company can benefit from sustainability.

Ivan Davor Daza,
Founder Titicaco Communicaring School

1:st november
New record! 5200 visitors at Titicaco.com

30:th of september
Pressrelease of the book: Phi Phi Island a Paradise Lost, at the Koh Panjang Restaurant in Stockholm. Magnus Rehn, Malin Speace, Johan Staël von Holstein and Ivan Daza made speeches about our post-tsunami work in Thailand. The Titicaco Communicaring School set up in the Nong Kok Camp outside Krabi i Thailand was presented.

6th september
Record! 4 500 visitors on titicaco.com last month!

5th september 2005

Word from Titicaco students in Thailand, Nong Kok Camp:

Solemn Promise of Human Rights

"The Human Right promise talked about The Rights which people can do without anyone forcing them to. Which made me know about the laws and Human Rights. If I didn’t read it , I wouldn’t have known any thing- And If everyone acts accordingly to the Human Rights promise , people in that place will be able to live together in peace."

From Teepakorn

2:nd of August

Today the Titicaco students in the Titicaco Communicaring School in the Nong Kok Refugee Camp in Thailand chatted, using the webcam and microphone when communicating with the headmaster in Stockholm, Sweden.

Examples of what the Titicaco students have done during the first two weeks online.

• Students recorded a tourist guide tour in the Nong Kok camp
• Students wrote down their dreams, goals and visions
• Students will write about their greatest Tsunami hero
• Students composed and sang their own Titicaco song over the internet
• Students studied the human body, muscles and bones on BBC

11th of July

Children in the Nong Kok Refugee Camp in Krabi, Thailand are online. They have their own email adresses. They have made music videos with the webcam already. Learning about the human body from BBC. Playing learning games at Discovery. Signing up in Thai communities. Playing anf practising guitar and keyboard. Practising Thaiboxing and much much more. A six month program is being set up, with an everyday schedlue that we are coordinating together with the local teachers employed by the Thailand Islands Foundation.

Cecilia, Tuk, Sandy and Jan in the Nong Kok Refugee Camp outside Krabi.

7th of July 2002

Internet School launched in Thailand, Krabi, Nong Kok Camp through close cooperation with the Thailand Island Foundation and the french Phi Phi Releve Toi. The activity center and the internet school is funded by the Thailand Island Foundation and the internet school will be managed by the Titicaco Communicaring School.

Thailand Island Foundation, Johan and Jessica Staël von Holstein and Ivan Daza from Titicaco officially thanked by the Governor of Krabi Mr. Promnart, in Thailand:

Latest update - 10:th of May 2005

1. The winner will be announced very soon in the Titicaco Communicaring School course in Sustainable Entrepreneurship! The winner student from Jensen Gymnasium will travel to India to make the winning business idea come true, together with an entrepreneurship school in south India. Sponsored by Indiska Kompaniet.
   
2. Röllingby Gymnasium has collected 65 computers for Mission Titicaco!
   
3. Mission Titicaco have helped the Thailand Island Foundation to establish the foundation for two internet schools in Krabi, Thailand. This internet school will be available for the evacuated children of Phi Phi Island and will be used for increased educational possibilities, communication projects with children in Swedish Schools and also for adult job-training and job-creation.
   All according to the recommendations of Titicaco Communicaring School and in coordination with the School Minister and the Governor of the Krabi Province.
   
   The opening ceremony of the Thailand Island Foundation Activity Center and Internet School will be in the beginning of June 2005.
   

Article about Phi Phi Island, By Amy Kazmin at Financial Times after an interview with Mission Titicaco, the Thailand Island Foundation and others.. 

3rd of April

Short brief of what have been done, when Ivan assisted the Thailands Islands Foundation as head of operations for the Thailand Islands Foundation in Thailand. See photos here!

A thorough pre-study have been performed. Relations have been established at several levels of the Phi Phi Island society, both with local Europeans, local Phi Phi Islanders, Landowners, Phi Phi Islanders living near the Mosque and in the Nong Kok camp in Krabi. Relations have also been established towards local authorities, the Governor Mr. Promnart, the School minister Mr Paiboon and towards her Royal Highness the Princess of Thailand. Good contact and provisioning of primary information have been made to several media channels such as BBC, Financial Times, MTV News, Irish International News and others.

Deep investigations and understanding of the local customs, people situations and needs have been performed. 110 interviews have been made with people in need of micro credits; more than 70 of those have been interviewed two times. A full scale payout of micro credit will affect approximately 600 individual lives. The data from the micro credit interviews have been double checked through conversations with other individuals and is at the moment being coordinated with other organizations that will deliver micro credits too. 12 micro credits have been paid out, that made 12 business operations able to restart, they are now up and running. An internet resource Center have been set up, an office for the Thailand Islands Foundation is secured and shared with HiPhiPhi International.

An early Tsunami Warning (sirens) have been set up (and used when the earthquake south of Sumatra hit). Medical Equipment have been provided at Phi Phi Island and used by voluntary nurses that helped out in more than 600 accidents, mostly caused by exhausted volunteers wearing flip flops. Coordination with Hiphiphi and other organizations resources have been done regarding the aim of what each organisation goals are.

Advice on communicative strategies has been given to landowners, regarding the situation with the government that wants to buy the land. Individuals from the press have been set in direct contact with spokesmen of the landowners. Hundreds of photos have been taken, documenting all kind of situations. The Thailand Islands Foundation has also been at psychological help for people who suffer from horrible memories from the 26th of December.

2 April

Back in Stockholm. Sweden. Reporting to the foundation. New telephone number +46 701 48 45 48.  

21 February - 7 March - Operating on the behalf of the Thailand Islands Foundation in Thailand. Other organizations operating on Phi Phi Island: Hiphiphi  and Phi Phi Releve Toi. Contact the Thailand Island Foundation in Thailand at: ivan_daza@yahoo.com or +6641924202

• Meeting with Mr. Arnont Promnart. Governor of Krabi. He signed an agreement of implementing the Thailand Islands Foundation Activity Center and Internet School Center.
• 109 Micro Credit Applications filled in after several rounds of interviews.
• Several more micro credits delivered.
• BBC News, Kate Mc Geown, published an article: Rebuilding Thailand's Dream Island, mentioning micro credits and the Thailand Islands Foundation.
• Longtailboat Micro Credit delivered.
• Longtailboat Micro Credit delivered.
• Pharmacy Micro Credit delivered
• Intrenetcafe Micro Credit delivered
• 79 Micro Credit applications made in big interview sessions in the Moske in Krabi and in the Nong Kok Camp.
  
• Mr. Paiboon Pongtasana, Director of Krabi Educational Service Area signed a special request for an Activity Center and Internet School Center that all schools in the Krabi Educational Area could use in a rotating scheme.
  
  The purpose is to set up an creative environment where children will be able to activate themselves in sports, arts and culture and be given access to an internet school, in accordance with the human rights article 26, for friendship, understanding and respect among all nations. The center will provide an environment that will make children able to recover faster from the horrible experiences of the Tsunami.
  
• Irish National News Televison came to Phi Phi and performed several interviews. Much focus was given to the re-opened shops, bars, restaurants, diving centers, etc and to the work all volunteers are participating in every day. We also managed to mention how micro credits work and the need for relief in schools.
  
• Goal accomplished: Internet Resource Center now set up on Phi Phi Island.
  
• Goal accomplished: The first Micro Credit has been approved, paid out and the local entrepreneur is now opening her business again. Several people is at present applying and will soon being approved.
  
  
• Meeting with Jumbo and Garn, chief operators of a foundation run by her Royal Highness the Princess of Thailand. The foundation is focused in giving relief to schools and children of families that were directly or indirectly affected by the Tsunami.

• Goal accomplished: Medical equipment now sent to the Phi Phi island in cooperation and coordination with Michael Coyet, Red Cross. They have on our request sent medical equipment to Phi Phi Island used mainly for immediate treatment of people who was injured when cleaning up on the island. Many volunteers are wounded every day, mostly because of exhaustion or wearing the wrong type of shoes when working with the “clean out” operation.
  
  
• MTV News made an interview with Carl, me and Emiel from Hiphiphi, focused in all the positive volunteer work being done on the Island and inviting the world to a party at Carlitos bar on Phi Phi Island the 26 of March. It will be broadcasted the 1:st and 4:th of april.
  
  
• Much effort for the time being is also put into searching for passports, identifications, bones, scalps and other things that may be used for identification. After we guided Raddningsverket, The Swedish Ministry of Forreign Affaires,  the Swedish Red Cross and others on Phi Phi Island. The general consul of Sweden, Krister Asp personally thanked the Thailand Island Foundation on the behalf of the Swedish ID Commission, for collecting approximately 270 items for identification.

First three days

On the behalf of the Thailand Island Foundation I am coordinating the operations here together with Carl Steiner. Approximately fourty volunteers, involving teachers, headmasters, lawyers, project managers and other professionals, working voluntarily for the Thailand Island Foundation in Sweden and another twenty or so here on Phi Phi Island. The purpose is to be at service where it is most needed, naturally this acquires a lot of coordination not only with the local population and the Governor of Krabi, but also with the other foundations that are operating here.

This island is crowded by regular heroes, obviously Martin Luther King Jr. was right when he said – “It is not until it is dark enough that you can see the stars”. Most of the individuals I meet, both foreigners and Thai people, are working from early morning to late evening voluntarily in different kind of operations. Several of them are at the same time suffering from horrible memories that can be seen in their eyes and heard only by listening to their voices.

Others who came here after the Tsunami are giving not only a helping hand, but dedicating their vacations, honeymoons, last savings or for those that are well of, spending a lot of time, effort and money to be at service. And it is obvious the help is needed, help to clean out stores and handing out micro credits to jumpstart whatever business they were operating before is something that creates income opportunities.

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Thanks to Rollingby Gymnasium who collected and delivered ten computers for delivery to asia. Special thanks to Johanna Jonsson who worked as an effective project manager and made things happend.

21:th of February

Going to Thailand to assist the Thailand Island Foundation, check the link  Tsunami Response to the left to know more about the mission.

Below: Eva Parry and Jessica Staël von Holstein at the Thailand Island Foundation.

10:th of February.

A project cooperation with Junior Chamber International have been started. The goal of the project is to:

1. Collect computers, test and pack (max 450 pc in one container).
2. Ship them to Sri Lanka.
3. Set up Resource Centers that will be used for coordination, project management and Titicaco Communicaring School.

Titicaco Communicaring School will focus in education and dialogue for cooperation, problem solving, project management, sustainability, long term relations, mental healing, entrepreneurship and leadership. 

4th of february

KTH (Swedish Royal Institute of Technology) held a workshop on the theme "What can we do" regarding the Tsunami Disaster and different immediate actions that are taking place. Representatives from the Sri Lanka Embassy, the Indonesian Embassy, SIDA, Ericsson Response, SEI and others where there. Mission Titicaco held a short presentation and an Open Space Workshop regarding a Tsunami Response project.

Below: Hasanthi Dissanayaka from the Sri Lanka Embassy and Bhavik, an experienced social entrepreneur.

Below: Ingmarie Silvén, Röllingby Gymnasium and Dag Nielsen, director of Ericsson Response.

Below: Mission Titicaco presenting the project.

Meetings:

• Meeting with ten trade students at Röllingby Gymnasium together with their teacher Ingmarie Silvén regarding their action to collect computers and other hardware for the Titicaco Communicaring School project named “Internet school on Phi Phi Island.”
  
  A special hardware collection will take place on Wednesday the 9:th of February at
  
  - 13.00 at the parking lot of Rollingby Gymnasium
  - 14.00 the same day at IQube, Norrlandsgatan 31
  

• Economy meeting with Olof Nilsson, coach at IQube with large experience from fundraising, shaping up the economic calcules of Titicaco Communicaring School for investors.
  
• Gösta Sundberg founder of Mobila Gymnasiet, regarding the possible use of a highly developed eLearning platform.
  
• Elisabet Melin, teacher in rhetoric, English and Swedish has joined the Titicaco team and is refining the Martin Luther King Jr. International English course.
  
• Telephone meeting with Claes Cronstedt, distinguished lawyer giving advice on how to write agreements with large organizations on project proposals.

Words of wisdom from a school at Fidji.
"Positive thinking. Every morning and evening. Look at yourself in the mirror and repeat several times with conviction. Every day in every way, I am getting better and better, I feel wonderful, I feel happier than yesterday, I have never felt so good, it is marvellous to be alive and so healthy. "

According to the Schölander Family Tour, the children and people at Fidji lived up to these beautiful words of wisdom.

Our deepest sympathies with the families that have lost relatives and friends by the brutal forces of Tsunami in Asia.

We recommend: Immediate action is taking place right now to help those in need. Please support the StaelVonHolstein Team - now.

Attending the Workshop on Development of the Global e-Inclusion Movement(GeM) in Rome.

Meanwhile students at Jensen Gymansium are dedicating their studies to sustainable entrepreneurship.

Tuesday the 9:th of November 2004!

Mission Titicaco is very proud to announce that the Titicaco Communicaring School initiated and launched its first course in Sustainable Entrepreneurship at Jensen Gymnasium with approximately 60 keen pilot students heavily engaged in international development and sustainable entrepreneurship!

The students will be attending the Titicaco theme studies for two weeks after which we and their teachers will evaluate their essays of doable sustainable entrepreneurship concepts for a developing country!

Mission Titicaco shall also listen carefully to their evaluations of the concept as well as doing interviews and inviting some students to be more involved in development of the concept.

Jensen Pilots; Anna, Axel, Manja, Emelie, Johanna & Lina


All together the Jensen Titicaco Pilot Students will:
1. Do the online course in Sustainable Entrepreneurship. Do the test. Receive Diplomas. The creative Jensen Students will also; evaluate, critic and develop both the content and the pedagogical structure of the course.

2. After the course has been attended, the big task begins; to write an essay including a doable sustainable entrepreneurship concept for a developing country. The students will be able to use their essay in the Titicaco Essay Contest where the winner will go on a trip to India and try to make the sustainable entrepreneurship concept real together with students from an entrepreneurship class in India!

3. Some of the pilot students at Jensen will also be involved in the Jury evaluating other contestant’s essays during the spring when 100 Swedish secondary high schools are invited to participate in the sustainable entrepreneurship course and contest.

1:st of November 2004
We have been keeping a low profile for a month now, but let me assure you that we are working continously and that there are great things happening right now that we for several reasons cannot tell you about yet.

60 students at Jensen Gymnasium will perform and evaluate the Titicaco Communicaring School course in Sustainable Entrepreneurship. By the end of next week we will let all of you that want to do the simple course to test it right here!

30 October
Meeting with Erica Dalle at Indiska regarding their sponsorship of the Titicaco Communicaring School course in Sustainable Entrepreneruship.

28:th of September
Meeting with several Latin American companies involved in e-learning development in Latin America at EuroLatina in Älvsjö.

26:th of September
Meeting in Uppsala with several countries representatives involved in global ICT development, meaning Information Communication Technology in battle against the global digital divide.

25:th of september
Meeting in Brussels with Mayor Alain Deluc, considering a projectproposal involving 8 schools on Brussels and 8 schools in Bolivia all taking part in Titicaco Communicaring School. We will have an answer regarding this possibility before the end of 2004.

2:nd of September
The first school that applied for participation in Titicaco Communicaring School was Unidad Educativa Paz Nery Nava in La Paz, Bolivia. After that schools in twelve countries have expressed a desire for participation.

Mission Titicaco received a very empowering and impressive letter from the students in Unidad Educativa Paz Nery Nava. The have published a newspaper where there are several articles about Mission Titicaco. If you know Spanish – check out these impressive drafts from the students own newspaper.

• Editorial >> First page
  The School Eccho was created by a team of creative students in the purpose to find and mark the true characteristics and identity of our School and integrate it into the community of students at Paz Nery Nava School. Through this media we shall illustrate information of importance and opportunity on different activities of our school. Creating an atmosphere of participation and creative engagement among all students.
• Brief on Titicaco>> Second page
• Living in a democracy >> Third page
• Poems >> Fourth page

25 of August
The team at Mission Titicaco are at this moment focusing in creating the Sustainable Entrepreneurship course for The Titicaco Communicaring School (Light version) that is to be launched and offered to 100 Swedish secondary high schools within a month.

12:th of August
Meeting with Iván Salazar and Carlos Luksic in Brussels.

Piraja Sustainable Entrepreneurship Awards soon to be launched. Seeking knowledgeproviders to give their opinion on what Sustainable Development really is.

10:th of August
Participate as a sponsor in the Titicaco Piraja

- Sustainable Entrepreneurship Awards!

Download presentation here: right click

3:rd of August
Mireille Aszenfarb made a donation of 1 000 Euro from France!

27:th of July
A short update on coming events:

• Titicaco Communicaring School is starting up with a light version in Swedish secondary schools. This is done in cooperation with Piraja, the largest secondary high school magazine in Sweden. Together we shall offer an education and a contest within Sustainable Entrepreneurship to the 100 largest secondary schools in Sweden.
  
• The Schölander World Tour will begin the 12:th of August. The family will meet with headmasters and teachers globally and interview them regarding important educational matters as well as spread the word of Titicaco Communicaring School. Each school that will be visited shall have the opportunity to participate in Titicaco Communicaring School.
  
• SIDA shall give an answer regarding the application we wrote upon their request regarding starting up and activating Titicaco Communicaring School in Bolivia together with Peter McFarren.

25:th  of July 2004
Mission Titicaco received a large financial donation from an anonymous donator. This donation will make us able to focus harder in the mission.

24:th of July 2004
An very interersting article on Fast Company written by George Kell, head of Global Compact and Madeleine Albright read it!:
Business has become the most powerful institution on the planet. Given that, we wonder: What are its responsibilities to the rest of the world? And how do companies act on those responsibilities?

Also read Mission Titicacos answer to the article:Education to all – the only solution for global sustainable development.

7:th of July 2004

Uniting the world.

Article published on Taking it Global  by Ivan Daza.

29:th of June 2004

Become a Titicaco Knowledge Provider ™
During August to December 2004 Mission Titicaco are inviting a large number of secondary schools to create educational content for a global school. This is something all teachers and students we have spoken too have shown great interest in.

A special concept has been developed for companies and NGOs to become a Titicaco Knowledge Provider ™ .

Friday 18:th of June 2004
Read the Mission Titicaco review on:

Teachers and machines
The classroom uses technology since 1920.
New York: Teachers College Press.

The review is written by Anna Lengstrand, projectmanager at Titicaco. Reading it will help you understand our special choice of teaching method.

News:

• Dobase - Alexander Holmberg, CEO and Jonathan Ahlbom, founder decided to sponsor Mission Titicaco with a light version of Titicaco Communicaring School! This will be made available during the summer.
• Founders Alliance - Niclas Carlsson and Malin Engman decided to sponsor Mission Titicaco with meeting rooms at their office centraly located in Stockholm at Sturegatan 46.

Meetings this week:

• MSD - Ulf Janzon, Director External Affaires
• Piraja - Svante Randlert, salesmanager and Caroline Fischer, Chief editor. Piraja is the largest magazine in Sweden targeted at secondary high schools (gymnasiums). Piraja has a distribution of 106 000 copies per issue at the 100 largest schools.
• Jensen Gymnasium - Staffan Mörner and all the teachers!
  

15 June 2004
Finally we have put together the complete report from the seminar held the 11:th of March 2004 at Radisson SAS Royal Viking Hotel - South Paviljon. Main sponsor for the seminar:

We decided to share some comments from the audience about some of the speakers that made appearances at the seminar. Click this link if you want to read it. The full report can be sent to you at special request.

Some comments from the audience on why it was good that Radisson SAS Royal Viking Hotel supported Mission Titicaco during the seminar:

• Through this initiative Radisson SAS Royal Viking Hotel touch peoples inside. People who in their turn can affect many others.
• Radisson SAS Royal Viking Hotel is making a clear standpoint.
• Radisson SAS Royal Viking Hotel are showing what you believe in.
• Engagement of value!
• Good to live like you learn.
• Good support is needed, not just words! Well done.
• A global company that cares, gives good signal to see that you support a project like Mission Titicaco.
• Good signal to do important things.
•  Like it when the heart is there.

The speakers were:

• Anders Wijkman. EU Parliament 
• Claes Cronstedt. Amnesty International Business Group
• Dag Nielsen. Ericsson Response
• Hélena Nybacka. Abrakadabra
• Ivan Daza. Mission Titicaco
• Ingo Wikman & Tua Gandré. Titicaco Cycling Tour
• Jill Nilsson. Lidingö Stad
• Johan Holmberg. ICT4Africa
• Pia Heidenmark. Radisson SAS Hotels
• Pia Jertfelt. Plan International
• Pia Watkinson. SOS Barnbyar
• Robert Eriksson. Info Pool
• Stina Dabrowski. Stina Lundberg Production
• Örjan Granqvist. IBM

10 June 2004
Dragon rowing with the Dobase team, doing 250 meters at 1 minute and 33 seconds.
Our team: Dobase, Founders Alliance, Mission Titicaco and Fittja.nu

Recent meetings with:

• Jensens Gymnasium - Staffan Mörner, headmaster fo the secondary upper school. Next week meeting with the teachers.
• Piraja and Studentmedia - Teddy Hallin and Conny Hallin, publishers of the largest magazine in Sweden for the upper secondary school. Piraja have an edition of over 100 000 copies per issue.
• Microsoft, Eva Petrus regarding partnership possibility with the Microsoft social initiative named Innovative Teacher Web.
• Founders Alliance, strategy coaching by Niklas Edler at Elements

28 May 2004
SIDA - Swedish International Development Fund has asked us to write and deliver a project description of Mission Titicaco - Bolivia. This 46 pages project description is now delivered.

25 May
Meeting with Lars Glimbert and Rodolfo Candia at the Department of Computer and System Sciences at Stockholm University and Kungl. Tekniska Högskolan. They have performed several projects with universities in developing countries and have expressed an interest to present Mission Titicaco to the doctor students of the department.

Rodolfo & Lars;

13:th of May
This last week has been a small revolution according to the development of Mission Titicaco. Six country mananagers of large ICT development projects has expressed a desire to let schools in their countries participate in Titicaco Communicaring School. All of them in Africa! Now Titicaco is wanted by schools in twelve countries!

Some pictures from last week sessions;

Ivan, Astrid Dufborg, minister at the GeSCI (United Nations Information Technology Taskforce, Global E-school and Community Initiative), Peter McFarren, president of Fundetic in Bolivia, Peter Nolan, programme director at GeSCi and Dag Nielsen, director of Ericsson Response. 

Peter McFarren, Ivan, Vegard Munthe at Fair, Timothy Anderson, President of World Computer Exchange, Pam Anderson and Lourdes Daza Gillman, manager of Latin American relations at Mission Titicaco.

Rounding up after a long day in meetings with international partners; Peter McFarren (Quipus Foundation, Bolivia), Pam Anderson ( World Computer Exchange), Valeria McFarren (daughter of Peter), Tim Anderson (World Computer Exchange, USA), Anna Lengstrand and Ivan ( Mission Titicaco).

Peter McFarren on stage at the Wide Open Access meeting, presenting the general idea of a joint venture between Mission Titicaco and Fundetic to bring Titicaco Communicaring School and a Bolivian Portal in Spanish, Aymara, Guarani and Quechua to Bolivia. During next week this idea will be presented to Torsten Wetterblad and Rebecca Borda in La Paz.

Meeting with David K. Kanamugire from Rwanda.

12:th of May
Founders Alliance gave a Entrepreneurship Seminar at Sheraton Hotel where Mission Titicaco made an appearance and participated as a speaker among other entrepreneurs such as; Nina Hahn at Simple World,  Martin Svensson at Pocketklubben, Michael Treschow at Ericsson,  Henrik Sundberg at Four Elements and Thomas Petersohn at Affärsvärlden.

Mission Titicaco managed to get a high interest from Per Bill from the Swedish Parliament regaring our intention to add entreprenerial training to the Swedish shool curriculum.  Read more about the event, speakers and participants here >>

Feel free to download the speech that presented the newly founded company built to support Mission Titicaco with a technical platform. SPEECH

Some pictures from the event;
Ivan, Niclas Carlsson, founder and president of Founders Alliance, Alexander Holmberg, president of Dobase and also co-founder of the newly founded company Communicaring System AB whos purpose is to back up Mission Titicaco with the best system possible for our global educational purpose.

29:th of April 2004
Important meetings this week;

• Anders Granlund, Head of the ICT for Development Secretariat och Afzal Sher, Senior ICT advisor at SIDA, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
• Telephone meeting with Peter McFarren, President of Fundetic and the Quipus Foundation in Bolivia
• Meeting with Alexander Holmberg, CEO and Jonathan Ahlbom, COO at Dobase
• Meeting with Björn Pehrsson at IT University regarding theWide Open Access meeting and the choice of technical platforms

Other important updates;
Mrs. Agneta Wixell, member of the board at Mission Titicaco presented Mission Titicaco to Mr. Jonathan Majiyagbe, world president of Rotary International the 19:th of April. Next planned meeting with Rotary International will be held by her initiative in Zurich.

Agneta is a member of Rotary International herself. She has founded a school and worked as a headmistress. Furthermore Agneta is active in the "schoolclass granddaddy project" and actively working with integration of newly arrived foreign families into the Swedish society. Her efforts and actions for the development of Mission Titicaco are greatly appreciated.

23:rd of April 2004
There are many ways to contribute to global development. One of the most important missions of Titicaco Communicaring School is to actually meet with schools, headmasters, teachers and students globally to tell the word and give schools the opportunity to participate in Titicaco Communicaring School. Ingo & Tua has done it, now the Schölander Family is going to do it. 

Titicaco Cycling Tour - Patagonia Stockholm

Finalized. Next team taking over:

The Schölander Family World Tour

From left; Bengt Schölander, Katarina Schölander, Julia Schölander (in pink), Anna Lengstrand with Sara Schölander in her arms, Ivan, Tua (with Liv in the stomach) and Ingo.

Titicaco Cycling Tour – Patagonia Stockholm was just finalized by Ingo Wikman and Tua Gandre.

These two heroes has spread the word of Mission Titicaco to headmasters, teachers and students in schools in Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador. During that incredible journey they also gathered valuable information for the development of Titicaco Communicaring School.

Another happy surprise is that they became pregnant in La Paz, Bolivia and in March, 8 months later when arriving in Sweden they came to our very successful seminar about Corporate Social Responsibility called “Let the saga come true” and gave a highly appreciated speech to the audience.

Shortly after these events The Shölander Family contacted Ingo and Tua, they to will be going on a world tour and want to spread the word of Mission Titicaco and our global vision!

Imagine the surprise and joy we at Mission Titicaco felt by receiving these happy news.

The Shölanders Family World Tour will be performed by; Bengt, father and sales manager at a large pharmaceutical company and a former physical education teacher. Katarina, mother and teacher for 9: th grade students in a Swedish school. Sara, 8 years old and making a very intelligent impression and Julia only 5 years old and ready to go on her first global road show.

Katarina Schölanders occupation as a teacher and her personal interest in meeting up with schools and studying schools and their curriculums can bring much new valuables to the development of Mission Titicaco.

The Schölanders are planning to leave in August 2004 and together with Mission Titicaco we are now seeking a sponsor who whish to follow up on these important and incredible journeys.

• Dag Nielsen at Ericsson Response, meeting regarding startup possibilities. The 12:th of May we shall be meeting up with a possible maker of the Mission working at Ericsson in Nicaragua.
• Fredrik Jonsteg at Öhrlings PricewaterhouseCoopers meeting regarding sponsor and partnership possibilities.
• Alexander Holmberg at  Dobase- our technical partner who recently won a large new client The Sultan of Oman, the competitors who lost where WM Data and Framfab. We are proud to announce this since Dobase will be finalizing the Titicaco Communicaring School platform.
• Peter McFarren at Quipus Foundation in Bolivia is comming to Sweden. We will meet and present joint venture possibilities to some possible partners.
• Peder Sandahl at Myndigheten för Skolutveckling in developing dicussions. We are looking at possibilities to make Titicaco Communicaring School a part of the "Global School" project.

Mission Titicaco is finding its way to be realized one way or another. We have wandered this road for more than 2 years now, and very soon we shall reach the launch point that we have been working so hard to reach. More and more schools from different countries are continuously mailing us to let us understand they want and need access to Titicaco Communicaring School.

16:th of April
Mission Titicaco is working intensely to be involved in the UN ICT Taskforce Ge SCI Project. We are writing to all our partners in Bolivia, US, Sweden and to possible future partners. Such as Astrid Dufborg at the UN ICT Taskforce in Geneva, Ulla Skidén and Björn Pehrsson at Wide Open Access, Anders Granlund at SIDA, Rodolfo Castillo Lopez, Ivan Guzman de Rojas and Peter McFarren in Bolivia, Joris Komen in Namibia, Timothy Anderson at World Computer Exchange in US and others.

3:rd of April
Mission Titicaco talked to Astrid Dufborg in Geneva at the UN ICT Taskforce (United Nations Information Communication Technology Taskforce) who is deeply involved in the Ge SCI project- Global E-School and Community Project involving E-democracy on the agenda. Mission Titicaco share the exact same agenda as the mission of Ge SCI. Astrid Dufborg also pronounced that she will be ready to back up Mission Titicaco and is very interested to follow our development - for this we are grateful!

Mission Titicaco was nominated in the UN WSIS Awards in September 2003. The Ge SCI project is to be started up in Bolivia as well as in Namibia, two countries where also Mission Titicaco is going to be started up. We share the exact same agenda as the UN ICT Taskforce.

Tuesday 23:rd of March
Highly positive response from the seminar - the interest for joining Mission Titicaco has never been this high. We are now in an intense following up period from the seminar going to meetings with possible rollout partners.

We apologize for not yet have presented the reports from the seminar, on how the whole event was received - but at this moment we have to prioritize the main partnership seeking process.

Thursday 11:th of March
Mission Titicaco held a seminar about Corporate Social Responsibility and how to make the saga "Titicaco King of the Sea" come true. Approximately 100 dedicated individuals showed up at Radisson SAS Royal Viking Hotel - Södra Paviljongen!

A detailed report of all attendants´reflections and spin off effects from the seminar will very soon be presented here. Power Point Presentations, speeches and videos are also soon to be published here!

Tuesday 9:th of March
Meeting with Lars Benon, founder of Globala Gymnasiet. He gave Mission Titicaco some very interesting feedback on how the need for Titicaco Communicaring School actually has been pronounced by several institutions and organizations. It is my strong belief that Titicaco Communicaring School is coming closer and closer to be realised and activated together with Swedish schools - we are needed!

Thinking of the United Nations recommendation for education for international understanding and the Swedish curriculum plan goals of understanding and friendship among all people, Titicaco Communicaring School is not wanted – it is a must! Titicaco Communicaring School or a similar infrastructure is needed to be able to obtain the goals of understanding among different people from different cultures.

Monday
Our new brochure presenting Mission Titicaco (in swedish) is ready.
Feel free to download it here: PDF Front  PDF Back The brochure is made for printing on A4 on both sides and then to be folded in three parts.

Friday 5:th of March
Öhrlings PricewaterhouseCoopers - signed a partnership agreement with Mission Titicaco.

Purpose of the partnership;

• Öhrlings PricewaterhouseCoopers will assist Mission Titicaco as accountant, mainly approving/confirming incomes and costs of Mission Titicaco.
• Öhrlings PricewaterhouseCoopers will also assist Mission Titicaco as an advisor in the purpose to contribute to a sustainable and successful development of Mission Titicaco and Titicaco Communicaring School.

Tuesday 2:nd of March
Mission Titicaco received notice of approved grants of financing for participating in the Founders Alliance Development program through the Swedish ESF Council.

The development program aims to shape the activity successfully and create good conditions to reach the 2004 goals of Mission Titicaco and the aim of Titicaco Communicaring School to work in close cooperation with schools and companies active in Sweden and abroad.

Monday 1:st of March
Emil Paulsson, CEO at StartaEget.se published an article "The ideal entrepreneurship" about Mission Titicaco. Feel free to read it in Swedish >>

Meeting with the Swedish government authority of school development, Peder Sandahl at Den Globala Skolan regarding how Titicaco Communicaring School can work as a complement and important tool to reach goals of the Swedish school curriculum

Thursday the 5:th of February
Meeting with Anders Thambert and Kicki Baines at Indiska. They have together with a local NGO built a school in India. Checking possibilities to make Titicaco Communicaring School available for those students.

Tuesday 27:th - Friday 30:th of January 2004

• Great meeting with Peter Kangas & Claes Göran Rapp at Price Waterhouse Coopers the worlds largest accountant bureau. We are going into a partnership that will be closely presented next week.
• Teno Cabrera at Gringo Film, who will support Mission Titicaco with shooting (filming) two speeches for the upcoming seminar, and also preparations of filming the whole seminar.
• Meeting with Caroline Williams & Helena Eriksson who will sing at the seminar “Let the saga come true” the 11:th of Mars. We will have the honour of listening to the release of a new powerful song – A reason - written and composed by Caroline Williams
• Athanasia Fourla, a new volunteer who will translate this web into Greek!

Mission Titicaco

Nominated in the United Nations World Summit Awards 2003