In a desire to have a common identity for all
Community Facilitators in this website and in order to more efficiently cater to the needs of members, telecentre.org proudly introduces the new…
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Added by telecentre.org on November 9, 2009 at 9:30pm —
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Progress continues in the transfer of telecentre.org to its new home in the Philippines by the end of the year. The telecentre.org Foundation, a new, non-profit organization based in Manila, will soon be legally incorporated and ready to start hosting telecentre.org starting December 31st. Since telecentre.org’s creation in 2005, our funders – the International Development Research Centre, Microsoft and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation — planned for the start up of our program an…
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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…
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Added by telecentre.org on May 28, 2009 at 2:13pm —
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The ability of telecentres to promote development through public access to information and communications technologies in Latin America and the Caribbean recently got a major boost. At the Telecentre Leaders Forum (TLF) in Brasilia, Brazil, more than 50 participants, drawn from key organizations and institutions that represent over 6,000 telecentres and nearly 20 million users, agreed to begin work to form a regional organization to strengthen the impact of grassroots telecentres across Latin Am…
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Added by telecentre.org on May 28, 2009 at 2:10pm —
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The English-language community of telecentre.org has crossed the 1000 member mark in fewer than 6 months and it keeps on growing. The rapid rise in membership reflects both the community's commitment to the telecentre movement and the value of what telecentre.org provides: a place to share information on all things telecentre and to seek help through the various online features including blogs, forums, groups, online events, and photo and video sharing.
The younger Spanish-language site also hit…
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Added by telecentre.org on May 28, 2009 at 2:04pm —
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Over the past year, Lithuanian researchers have criss-crossed the country, taking the scientific pulse of public access centres to information and communication technologies (ICT) in the Eastern European nation. Together with researchers in Bangladesh and Chile, they have just completed the first phase of a groundbreaking research project aimed at assessing the impact of public access to ICT on development.
The Global Impact Study of Public Access to Information and Communication Technology is a…
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Added by telecentre.org on May 28, 2009 at 2:00pm —
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This issue features an interview with agriculture scientist and the father of the Green Revolution in India M S Swaminathan, an article about Networking the Latin American Telecentre Movement, a report from the First National Nenasala Convention in Sri Lanka: One Event, Multiple Outcomes, A Telecentre Debate: Are Telecentres Effective
Tools for Financial Inclusion?, among many other interesting articles which deal with telecentres around the globe.…
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Added by telecentre.org on May 28, 2009 at 2:00pm —
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As some of you will already have learned, telecentre.org has reached an understanding and is in the early planning phase with the Commission on Information and Communications Technology in the Philippines to devolve its Secretariat. Together, we are seeking to identify an institution that will become the Secretariat’s new host by 2010. It will likely be based in the Philippines.
telecentre.org is a 21-million dollar program that aims to improve the social and economic impact of grassroots telec…
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Added by telecentre.org on May 7, 2009 at 5:10pm —
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telecentre.org in collaboration with the
Association of Telecentres for Information and Business (ATN), of Brazil, and the United Nations
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) are organizing the Telecentre Leaders' Forum in Latin America & Caribbean (TLF–LAC) to take place in Brasilia from 11-13 May 2009.
The TLF–LAC is a dynamic opportunity for leaders in the region, pass…
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Added by telecentre.org on April 21, 2009 at 6:00pm —
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telecentre.org is closely collaborating with the Center for Information & Society (CIS) at the University of Washington (UW) in managing a large global project that aims to assess systematically the impact of publicly accessible venues to ICTs in developing and emerging countries. This project, co-funded by IDRC and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, recently completed its first phase in which the project generated an inventory and taxonomy of telecentre venues, as well as a series of…
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Added by telecentre.org on January 29, 2009 at 2:30pm —
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The Asia-Pacific Telecentre Network (APTN) a collaborative initiative of telecentre.org and the United Nations' Economic and Social Commission for the Asia-Pacific (UN-ESCAP) was officially launched at the United Nations Conference Center in Bangkok on 19 November 2008, during a side event of the First Session of the Committee on ICT of ESCAP.
The network will promote innovation and knowledge-sharing amongst Telecentre organizations in the Asia-Pacific region where Telecentres are growing expon…
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Added by telecentre.org on January 29, 2009 at 2:30pm —
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telecentre.org is getting some great press in the Dominican Republic, where we've supported a workshop on the sustainability of community access to ICT initiatives (Taller sobre la sostenibilidad de las iniciativas de acceso colectivo a las TIC en la República Dominicana), organised as part of the
Act!ivate project.
Yacine Khelladi, president of the
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Added by telecentre.org on December 1, 2008 at 9:51pm —
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The new telecentre.org website is now available in
Spanish. It will soon be followed by sites in French and Arabic.
telecentre.org's online communities highlight the people and organizations that make up the global telecentre movement, facilitate peer-to-peer support, and demonstrate the breadth and depth of public-access computing initiatives around the world.
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Added by telecentre.org on November 25, 2008 at 6:00am —
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The
Telecentre-Europe network keeps growing and pushing the movement forward and now is ready to have its official launch. The announcement will take place at the
e-Inclusion Ministerial Conference in Vienna, Austria, which will take place from November 30 to December 2. The 2008 e-Inclusion Ministerial Conference will showcase the best of e-Inclusion initiatives and shape t…
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Added by telecentre.org on November 25, 2008 at 6:00am —
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In a world that keeps changing by the minute, where ICTs are in the core of the changes, telecentres need to stay updated and be able to adapt and incorporate new products and services. With this in mind, telecentre.org will share its knowledge about innovative social enterprise models with professionals involved in corporate social and environmental responsibility from South America and the Caribbean.
telecentre.org will participate at the sixth
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Added by telecentre.org on November 25, 2008 at 5:30am —
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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…
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Added by telecentre.org on November 25, 2008 at 5:30am —
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telecentre.org has launched the English version of its new website, which will soon to be joined by sites in
Spanish,
French, and Arabic. Together, these sites will highlight the people and organizations that make up the global telecentre movement, facilitate peer-to-peer support, and demonstrate the breadth and depth of public-access comput…
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Added by telecentre.org on October 5, 2008 at 11:30pm —
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Delhi, India, October 3, 2008 — The
telecentre.org Academy was officially launched today at the
Grameen Gyan Abhiyan convention in Delhi, India.
The telecentre.org Academy launch is an important milestone in the history of the telecentre global movement. It is the beginning of a process that will train over one million telecentre operators acr…
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Added by telecentre.org on October 3, 2008 at 12:00pm —
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A new study, commissioned by International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) and conducted the Zambia Association for Advancement of Information and Communication Technology (ZAA-ICT), examines the range of issues linked to connectivity in rural and remote areas with a focus on Zambia. This resource will demystify technical issues and help rural development organizations make informed decisions about connectivity and Internet access. The report provides an inventory of connectiv…
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Added by telecentre.org on October 1, 2008 at 12:00pm —
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The
telecentre-europe network Steering Committee met from September 11-14 in Timisoara, Romania, to talk about membership, services, knowledge sharing, and how to promote connections and collaboration among members. The committee conducted a progress review and began the development of a new strategic plan to strengthen network-building efforts. What they've accomplished so far is amazing, so we'd like to share some of it with you
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Added by telecentre.org on September 30, 2008 at 5:30pm —
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