
The workshop was organized by telecentre-europe and when I came in I saw many known faces of people that are already member of telecentre-europe, but there were some new faces from Sweden, China, Israel, Croatia and Portugal.
Ian Clifford, co-chair of telecentre-europe was leading th…
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The big moment finally arrived! At 16:00 our booth in Vienna was literally overwhelmed with people that were curious to find out what telecentre-europe is about.
Ian Clifford, our hard working co-chair, o…
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Armed with portable pc's, digital cameras and tons of enthousiasm, 20 young
reporters from Poland, Romania, Spain and Turkey came to Vienna to webreport on the
e-Inclusion Ministerial Conference & Expo that is being held at Messezentrum Wien from November 30th to December 2nd.
They were invited by the European Co…
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Hi there everybody!
I am
Lize De Clercq y…
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Two of our community members are now among the
medal winners of the European eInclusion Awards initiative launched by the European Commission!
Shortlisted applications
"Association Langas i ateiti" from
Loreta Krizinauskiene and
Edvaldas Baltrunas is shortlisted as a finalist i…
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Added by Lize De Clercq on October 24, 2008 at 10:00am —
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Now that i told you about the meetings, speeches and sessions
[1] [2] I attended at the
Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society, I would like to tell you about the networking I did with some of the many interesting women present at the forum.
Widad El Hanafi (Mo…
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My second day at the
Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society was somehow more dedicated to ICT & telecentre-europe issues than to the gender issues that had been at the centre of my
first day at the forum.
Social entrepreneurship
In the morning, I followed the session "Assessing the impact of social entrepreneurship", and was enchanted by…
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Added by Lize De Clercq on October 17, 2008 at 11:30pm —
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Some weeks ago,
Una O’Sullivan invited
Gabi Barna,
Māra Jākobsone, Widad El Hanafi, Abeer Al-…
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Added by Lize De Clercq on October 16, 2008 at 10:30pm —
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Hello again!
As promised in my
former blogpost, let me tell you some more about the days I spent in Warsaw, talking & brainstorming with
Paweł Makowiecki.

Paweł Makowiecki is the founder of
Res…
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Hello everybody!
Last weeks, I have been so involved into
steering committee &
esplai activities that I simply didn’t find the time to write you earlier about my face-to-face visits to Poland, Belgium and The Netherlands. So be prepared now for a series of blogposts on these experiences...
First, let me rewind back to the latest city I traveled to: Warsaw. After the…
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Dear all,
Two weeks have passed since my last update, so there is a lot to tell here.
New members
The "email harassment campaign" we organized for getting all Riga participants on board of telecentreeurope.ning.com was a huge success.
Operation "Show up!" - as we called our computer game - succeeded in convincing 9 Riga participants to sign up on our community site:…
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I was invited by
Ravi Gupta to write an article for
www.telecentremagazine.net. They asked me to focus on an overview of telecentre-europe and the recently concluded Telecentres Leaders Forum in Riga, in about 2500 words.
So I grabbed different documents, reports and blogposts written on the telecentre-europe process and on Riga, and "puzzled to fit" the underneath text. Your comment…
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Added by Lize De Clercq on May 20, 2008 at 1:00pm —
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Dear community members,
We are 4 weeks away from Riga and the global telecentre community is impressed about the way we europeans succeed in "keeping up the momentum" through our virtual existence at telecentreeurope.ning.com.
So here comes like a kind of "resume" of why everybody is so excited about us :)
Community's member increase
We are going at a rythm of 9 new members a week now. 4 more Riga participants joined:
Joh…
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Added by Lize De Clercq on May 9, 2008 at 1:00pm —
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Hi again everybody,
As your weekly reporter, I am sending you this week’s update of our community’s activity.
Member count
Since my last update, 8 new members joined our online community on telecentreeurope.ning.com, which makes a total of 56 signed in members. Those that didn’t join yet and want to stay in touch with the community should sign up soon!
From the 56 members that joined our online space, 15 members were not at the Riga conference, these were:
•…
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Added by Lize De Clercq on May 2, 2008 at 11:30pm —
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Hello everybody,
As your communication facilitator, I will send you a weekly update of what's going on in our community!
Social network site
Our online community is definitely becoming a big success. Since my last update, 14 more members joined which makes a total of 48 people signed in now on "ning". Those that haven't joined yet: please do and be at the heart of what's going on!
The rythm was too fast to kindly welcome and present each member. Nevertheless, several members became "a…
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Added by Lize De Clercq on April 27, 2008 at 9:30pm —
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Hello all,
Let me introduce myself to all of you. I am Lize De Clercq, assigned by telecentre.org and Esplai Foundation to be your online communication facilitator. (Those that were at the Telecentre Leaders Forum in Riga will certainly remember me as lize-the-cameragirl.) This blogpost is a little report on the community’s activity of last week:
Back home from the Telecentre Leaders Forum in Riga, a lot of participants inmediately signed in as a member of www.telecentreeurope.ning.com, this on…
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Added by Lize De Clercq on April 17, 2008 at 10:00am —
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