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Cuchie Echeverria Philippine telecentre academy approves accreditation and certification policies

The telecentre.org-Philippine Community eCenter Academy (tPCA), together with the Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP), has finalized and approved the policies and procedures for the accreditation of [telecentre] courses and certi… Continue

Added by Cuchie Echeverria on November 10, 2009 at 11:00pm — No Comments

Marta Mans A meeting in Singapur: Global Curriculum Development Workshop (June 2009).

From 2 to 5th of June, the Global Curriculum Development Workshop was held in Singapore, and was attended by representatives of different world organizations participating in the Global telecentre.org Academy (GTA). GTA is a project lead by Telecentre.org and created to provide support and training to people working in ICT centers around the world.

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Added by Marta Mans on July 7, 2009 at 6:54am — No Comments

telecentre.org telecentre.org Academy gets ready to train 10.000 telecentre workers

During 2010 and 2011 more than 10,000 telecentre workers will be able to gain knowledge and professional training through an eLearning system with standardized curricula developed by the telecentre.org Academy and endorsed by a number of open universities around the world. In the first step towards this effort, a "write-shop" is being organized in Singapore from 2-5 June 2009, where ten subject matter specialists from eight countries are expected to gather and, together, create a global certifi… Continue

Added by telecentre.org on May 28, 2009 at 2:13pm — No Comments

Seuwandi Yapa A Workshop for Academic Committee of Telecentre.org Academy of Sri Lanka

Telecentre.org Academy is a global initiative to provide telecentre managers and operators with ongoing training, capacity building, and professional development opportunities. Structured as a consortium of national academies and partners with a small global support unit, the Academy supports and coordinates training programs, promotes the collaborative development and sharing of resources, and maintains accreditation and certification standards. At the global level, the telecentre.org Academy w… Continue

Added by Seuwandi Yapa on May 21, 2009 at 6:11am — No Comments

Cuchie Echeverria Philippine academy rolls out 4 pilot courses for telecentre managers

The telecentre.org-Philippine Community eCenter Academy (tPCA) is now ready for the pilot run of the following courses for telecentre managers: 1 - Development Perspectives for CeC Managers; 2 - Practical Research for CeC Managers; 3 – CeC Management Level 1; and 4 – CeC Management Level 2. (Check out course description) The courses are geared towards the profes… Continue

Added by Cuchie Echeverria on May 18, 2009 at 10:22pm — No Comments

Catalina Cruz Cuellar Colombia: Online the first training cycle of the National Academy of Telecentres 2009.

The Ministry of Communications through the Access and Social Development, Colnodo, Telecentre.org and Esplai Foundation currently trains about 450 managers and monitors of telecenters, organized into 9 virtual courses offered the first training cycle of 2009 the National Academy of Telec… Continue

Added by Catalina Cruz Cuellar on March 31, 2009 at 4:37pm — No Comments

Cuchie Echeverria Philippine telecentre academy releases competency standards for knowledge workers

The telecentre.org-Philippine Community eCenter Academy (tPCA) has finally released the National Competency Standards for CeC Knowledge Workers or NCS-CeC, a comprehensive document that defines the fundamental set of kno… Continue

Added by Cuchie Echeverria on March 12, 2009 at 2:30am — No Comments

S Gavashkar President's far-sightedness created Nenasalas instead of internet-cafes: Tissa Vitharana

At a time when world funding bodies proposed the setting of internet-cafés in cities of Sri Lanka in a manner that would cater only to the rich elite President Mahinda Rajapaksa decided that Nenasalas or Wisdom Outlets should be set up instead island-wide to cater to the poor rural folk. The Minister made this statement while participating in the first National Nenasala Convention held at the Western Province Aesthetic Resort in Colombo recently. Although today the world's economy has deteriora… Continue

Added by S Gavashkar on February 18, 2009 at 9:31am — No Comments

Chandita Mukherjee TALKING TO THE EXPERTS ― updates from Mumbai

Hello again! You’ve got to admit― if you happen to like technology and soc-tech issues, then working for a project like this one has its perks, because you get to meet with people that you wouldn’t ordinarily come across. Where else would you find the chance to get an overview on the telecentre sector in India? Where else would you get the telecentre professionals, the government and the legal experts in one huge sweep? Now, for us as researchers, the main side-attraction in this project was a… Continue

Added by Chandita Mukherjee on January 15, 2009 at 12:01am — No Comments

Chandita Mukherjee WHO COULD HOLD THE OPERATOR'S HAND? ― updates from Mumbai

Guess how many telecentre operators that we met knew about botnets and spyware? Three out of ten. And guess how many operators knew about Creative Commons and Free/Open Source Software? Zero. Guess how met knew about and used Mozilla Firefox web browser because it's fast, stable and secure? 6 out of 10. Who gives information to the telecentre operator? In most cases, the IT engineer who maintains their hardware and software or the salesman who sold it to them. In short, telecentre operators d… Continue

Added by Chandita Mukherjee on January 13, 2009 at 11:47pm — No Comments

Chandita Mukherjee HELPING THE CUSTOMER ― updates from Mum

At the start: we swear we did not make this up. We really saw it. If you don't believe us, go to the small town of Palghar, Thane district in Maharashtra and see for yourself. We visited two out of its four telecentres and saw something really interesting there. One telecentre was a large setup with 10 machines, the other had five. The larger one, was totally full and two customers were even awaiting their turn outside the place. The smaller one, about 500 metres away, was as empty as a discard… Continue

Added by Chandita Mukherjee on January 13, 2009 at 4:52am — No Comments

Chandita Mukherjee WOMEN OPERATORS AND WOMEN CUSTOMERS ― updates from Mumbai

Many of the telecentres we visited while researching for the manual (8 out 10 in fact, in urban and small town settings both) had more men as customers than women. This is something we've all seen. Stands to reason, doesn't it, that women will prefer to buy services or products from women providers? Sure. But mostly it's woman-specific products and services that you think of in this paradigm. We're no business gurus, but we thought so too. Then one interesting incident set us thinking about app… Continue

Added by Chandita Mukherjee on January 12, 2009 at 5:05am — 1 Comment

Chandita Mukherjee INTERNET REACH AND SOCIAL NETWORKING ― updates from Mumbai

As we wrote before, we conducted a mini-survey in and out of Mumbai to get ideas for our tracks. As part of the survey, we spoke to the users of cyber cafes as telecentres are popularly known in our area, as well as to the operators. Just as we started this work, we hit upon an interesting lead that might be the indicator of a rising trend. It is this: social networking is responsible for creating many new Internet users, especially in smaller towns. We in the cities always knew and took the O… Continue

Added by Chandita Mukherjee on January 9, 2009 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Chandita Mukherjee WHAT, MANUALS? OH NO! ― updates from Mumbai

As we wrote in the previous post, the telecentre operators were very helpful and encouraging about the idea of a manual of best practices for their profession. Many of them were fully awake to their paucity of knowledge and wanted to overcome it. But, there's a big BUT here. The impression we got was that the telecentre operators considered themselves to be people of action who wanted no truck with theory or texts. It was strange. Though they would say 'A manual is a good idea', they typically… Continue

Added by Chandita Mukherjee on January 9, 2009 at 12:00am — 2 Comments

Chandita Mukherjee Plugging the gaps - updates from Mumbai on the manual for telecentre operators

Greetings to everyone at the telecentre.org Academy thread! Fellow curriculum developers, we're writing in at almost the end of our assignment “Practices for safe telecentre operations: rights and responsibilities” This blog is to communicate our research experiences and anecdotes to the others working on the Curriculum Commons project of telecentre.org. Considering the time-frame we had, it's been a Q-hnDOS sort of assignment for us, to put it in coding terms: a Quick but hopefully not Dirty Op… Continue

Added by Chandita Mukherjee on January 8, 2009 at 2:35am — No Comments

Cuchie Echeverria Philippine telecentre academy ends 2008 on a high note

Last December 11, institutional partners of the telecenter.org-Philippine Community eCenter Academy or tPCA met one last time before closing a very fruitful and successful year. Said meeting held at the Philippine Commission of Information and Communications Technology (CICT) in Quezon City was followed by a victory cum yuletide celebration at the same venue. The year has seen the development and adoption of the academy’s charter and t… Continue

Added by Cuchie Echeverria on December 17, 2008 at 10:33pm — No Comments

Cuchie Echeverria Diploma course for telecentre managers in the offing

With the telecentre.org-Philippine Community eCenter Academy's (tPCA) adoption of the national competency standards for telecentre (locally branded as Comunity eCenter or CeC) knowledge workers last December 11, 2008, a curriculum development workshop was held at the Philippine Commission on Information and Communications Techonology (CICT) building in Quezon City the very next day to come up with a curriculum for the tPCA’s first offic… Continue

Added by Cuchie Echeverria on December 17, 2008 at 10:30pm — No Comments

telecentre.org Telecentres work in Colombia reaches the streets

Two children pose for pictures with telecentre practitioners in a poor neighborhood in Medellín, Colombia. They laugh and make conversation with the visitors. After the pictures are taken they ask “Could you give us the address of the website where you will upload the pictures?” Silvia Caicedo, telecentre.org's Program Officer for Latin America and the Caribbean, explained that this anecdote shows how ICTs are now a part of Colombian society, even in the poorest districts of Medellín. This is, i… Continue

Added by telecentre.org on November 25, 2008 at 5:30am — No Comments

Marta Mans The documents of the telecentre.org Academy: second meeting of global stakeholde

The documents of the
telecentre.org Academy: second meeting of global stakeholder

Download the Agenda in PDF format
Download the List of participants PDF

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Added by Marta Mans on November 3, 2008 at 4:00am — No Comments

Marta Mans resume of Telecentre.org Academy: 2nd meeting of global stakeholders

Return to the event's main page Dear all, here you can find two documents: Summary The official summary of the GTA meeting that took place in Barcelona last from 22nd to 24th September 2008 and the first resume we did. This summary contains information about the objectives of the meeting and methodology, explanation of all the topics, outputs, business plan, and the future calendar and acti… Continue

Added by Marta Mans on October 15, 2008 at 6:30am — 2 Comments

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