There are a lot of answers and inputs from Telecentre.org members in the forum created for the consultation. If you want to read them, please visit their
discussions and comments.
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Added by telecentre-europe on November 23, 2009 at 3:48pm —
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Here you have information about the
Call for Proposals for the new eIFL.net program to stimulate innovate services in public libraries in developing and transition countries.
The Public Library Innovation Program (
http://plip.eifl.net) will encourage public libraries to reach out to their communities, partnering with local government, business and other organizations to assess local needs and develop new services. Technology has transformed public libra…
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Added by telecentre-europe on November 17, 2009 at 11:41am —
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Telecentre.org is launching an
online consultation and everyone is invited to participate.
As many of you know telecentre.org is moving to a new home base in the
Philippines by the end of the year. Starting November 12th, we ar…
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Added by telecentre-europe on November 10, 2009 at 11:00am —
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Yesterday was a very intensive day, with really good and inspiring sessions.
Akhtar Badshah (Senior director, Community affairs, Microsoft), Richard Fuchs (IDRC director) and Paul Timmers (Head of eInclusion EC) started with the welcome conferences, providing the audience with a really wide and experienced approach and vision of the whole telecentre world and ICT services.
Accessibility, Employability and Citizenship workstreams runned as planned, and we could collect valuable contributions an…
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Added by telecentre-europe on October 15, 2009 at 9:00am —
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The first stage of ACCESS-IT 2009 award competition that the charitable organisations
e-ISOTIS in collaboration with
AbilityNet organise for second consecutive year, has been completed.
Around…
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Added by telecentre-europe on September 14, 2009 at 2:01pm —
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The objective of the consultation is to help prepare a new EU strategy for the information society, as the current i2010 strategy is coming to a close this year. All citizens and organisations are welcome to contribute to this consultation. Closing date of the consultation is 9 October 2009. Please not…
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Added by telecentre-europe on September 7, 2009 at 10:52am —
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The Information Age has created a virtual tidal wave of electronic devices – including computers and monitors that become obsolete or wear out at an ever-increasing rate.
As a result, the question of what to do with obsolete electronics has become a global issue.
There is a…
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Added by telecentre-europe on July 17, 2009 at 12:00pm —
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As previously mentioned in our newsletters and articles, there are a lot of challenging activities in development to increase the impact of the network in different ways, always considering members’ needs and benefits.
Steering Committee members are currently involved in various activities such as improving our online presence developing the thematic
resources repository and the Telecentre-Europe
members directory. Governance and membership structure are also being constantly revi…
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Added by telecentre-europe on July 17, 2009 at 11:31am —
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Dear Telecentre-Europe member,
We are pleased to announce an exciting new project that will bring a range of benefits for telecentres and staff. We are creating a European Telecentre Resource Bank that will collect best practices, guides, tools and any other resources that can improve telecentres’ effectiveness and efficiency. The resources will be divided into five themes:
1.
Employability – for example, a telecentre trainers guide to online job hunting
2.
Sustainability – for…
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Added by telecentre-europe on June 25, 2009 at 9:47am —
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There is an interesting article about a conference done by
Abdul Waheed Khan named:
"Technology alone will not bridge knowledge divides" held in Maastricht.
Abdul Waheed Khan is the UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information, and in this event celebrated at the begining of this month, he expressed that knowledge societies should not be shaped and driven by technological forces but by societal choices, and told the audience how the educational process wil…
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Added by telecentre-europe on June 11, 2009 at 10:30am —
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Ken Robinson made an interesting conference about creativity and how to face the future.
In Telecentre's dynamics we often try to create thinks for "tomorrow", for the coming years, looking for tools that we may will be needing in a short term period and the impact those can generate.
Regarding it, the reflexion Ken Robinson provides in this video is an approach that can give us the right attitud to think about the future.
Please, visit the video link uploaded in the…
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Added by telecentre-europe on June 2, 2009 at 10:00am —
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Please, read the
information posted in Telecentre.org
... 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... Continue
Added by telecentre-europe on May 12, 2009 at 2:30pm —
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Why don't you write an article about your Telecentre projects? Do you have a good and interesting experience to publish?
The Guardian is promoting journalism and suggests 16 different…
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Added by telecentre-europe on April 30, 2009 at 11:30am —
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During the first week of April
Laurentiu Bunescu (Project Manager) and
Laia Fauró (Community Facilitator) met in the beautiful city of Timisoara to work on the Telecentre-europe general workplan: strategies, new activities, services for members, internal organisation...
The main objective of the meeting was to revise the
2009 Annual Work Plan (desig…
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Added by telecentre-europe on April 22, 2009 at 4:29pm —
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A blog contest is going to be hold in Telecentre.org in order to value member contributions and give visibility to those who create good and usefull information for the community.
Telecentre.org would like to highlight all these collaborative actions and celebrate it!
You can find all the information and guidelines in Telecentre.org site. There is also a
group created to share doubts or thoughts.
Why don't you participate? Let's do it!…
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Added by telecentre-europe on April 21, 2009 at 2:43pm —
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It was one of Telecentre.org commitments to
Arabic language communities and in the Middle Eastern-North African (MENA) region that a portal will be developed to facilitate knowledge sharing in the region. Telecentre.org in collaboration with the community facilitators at Egypt ICT Trust Fund is jointly managing this portal. The site is already full of content and activities. Please feel free to
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Added by telecentre-europe on March 24, 2009 at 9:51am —
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In April 2009, a panel will be held at Doha 2009 entitled
“ICTD Evaluation 20/20: Voices from Around the World.” This goal of this website is to create a global dialogue around
pivotal evaluation issues prior to and following Doha.
The discussion on this site is spurred by a moderated, spirited debate among experts representing practice, technology, academia, and funders, and with community participation via this website prior to and afte…
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Added by telecentre-europe on March 17, 2009 at 10:43am —
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There are some new interesting contributions in the site that we want to highlight:
- A multi-language available
Telecentre-europe Executive Summary (English, French, Polish, Romanian, Swedish, Turkish, Serbian, Dutch, Spanish)
- A
Grundtvig Application Overview, to keep you informed about…
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Added by telecentre-europe on March 16, 2009 at 1:11pm —
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Now more than ever, the work you do on e-inclusion is gaining urgency.
We need to ensure that as governments & others focus on moving forward that
e-skills support & training is on the agenda, and to do that we want to
create a Manifesto.
Your consolidated
input in the document (here) will be compiled in an overall
Manifesto on e-skills Training in E…
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Added by telecentre-europe on March 12, 2009 at 12:30pm —
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Telecentre-europe members,
We are proud to announce that
Telecentre-europe has been invited to take part in the survey on
European e-Inclusion Policy. The objective of this survey is to gather views on:
- The role of e-inclusion in the future European strategy on the information society that will succeed the 'i2010' initiative;
- Future priorities for European programmes and activities suppor…
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Added by telecentre-europe on March 4, 2009 at 10:39am —
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