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By-Monthly Newsletter | Issue 04- August 2010 |
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APTN Secretariat Congratulates the
Winner of Innovative Grassroot Telecentre Initiative of the Year 2010 APTN Secretariat sends their greetings to Murali Krishna for winning e-INDIA 2010 Award for best Telecentre initiative, for the project AraviKalanjam e-SDI project (Information Communication Technology Agency grant) that he managed to implemented. He is one of the youngest and successful Nenasala (telecentre) operator from
Haldummulla, a rural village in Badulla district in Sri Lanka. The project that he managed to implement involved more than 500 students who use Tamil language (one of the local languages used in Sri Lanka) as their primary language. The project involved training, content creation and hosting by students who had limited knowledge and some who had not used ICT before. APTN Secretariat wishes all the very best for Murali Krishna with his future endevour. |
News from Partners Telecentre.org
Academy held LMS Workshop from 25 to 27 August in Colombo, Sri Lanka The Telecentre.org Foundation and the University of Colombo, School of Computing (UCSC) are jointly organised an international workshop on "Learning Management System (LMS)" in Colombo, Sri Lanka from 25-27 August 2010. The main objectives of the workshop were to review and agree upon the site architecture for telecentre.org Academy platform; share and learn LMS design and development experience among Academy partners; and gain exposure to this Platform for authoring, directing and implementing the Foundation's curriculum in various languages. |
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Written By: AHM Bazlur Rahman As there is no appropriate power and opportunity to complain for marginalized population in the centered democratic society, one kind of opportunists, politicians and local administration take the chance to deprive them of their legal rights. These marginalized rural and poor people may get an opportunity to discuss regarding these actual rights through the programs of Community Radio. Side by side, these sort of radio plays a role of mirror in the society and accelerates pro people endeavor of local administration and the politicians and arouses their responsibilities to the society. Community Radio can play the role regarding the discussion program with community members and the personnel of different administrations reviewing the problems of community people and indicating the things to be done. |
Private sectors' Helping Hand to Nenasalas Written By: Seuwandi Yapa  Extending their helping hand to the need of the hour to empower rural mass with ICT, Sampath Bank, Digana branch, in Kandy district has donated 5 computers to a Nenasala. This far reaching donation to the Hurikaduwa Nenasala, one of the Nenasalas located in a remote village in Kandy district has heralded a new signs of hope for the Nenasala as well as the rural mass who regularly visit Nenasala for their IT services. The donation of computers officially presented to the Nenasala by the Sampath Bank- Digana branch manager, Niranjan Rathnasiri during the occasion of Hurikaduwa Nenasala's 2nd Certificate Awarding Ceremony held on 08th August 2010 at the Nenasala premises. |
Email with a Pen, a Peper and a Mobile phone?  Courtesy:FutureGov.asia Citizens in India will soon be able to send emails using a pen, paper and mobile phone camera. HP Labs based in Bangalore are in the final stages of developing new technology that would enable any mobile phone with a camera to become an emailing device.
Simply write out the email text on a piece of paper and include the email address of the recipient, photograph the text using the mobile phone camera and the HP application software will send the message to the addressee as an email.
If successful, this could be a major technological milestone for India - a country with the second largest population in the world, but with an internet penetration of only seven per cent. There are fewer than three PCs and only seven internet users for every 100 inhabitants in India, and these numbers are even lower in rural areas.
"Usually, six villages have to share one cyber cafe, which means that villagers have to travel five to six kilometres just to use the computer. With this new technology, they would be able to send emails from where they are with their mobile phones," said Jacob Victor, former Joint Director of e-governance, Information Technology and Communications in the Government of Andhra Pradesh. Each email will cost approximately 10 rupees (US$0.22). |
Phil Commission on ICTUunveils Online Courses for Telecentre Manager Writte By:Cuchie Echeverria
In an effort to bring the opportunity for capacity building within reach of every telecentre (locally branded as Community eCenter or CeC) knowledge worker across the country, the Commission on ICT (CICT), through its Philippine CeC Program, has developed four distance learning courses in partnership with the telecentre.org-Philippine CeC Academy (tPCA) and the University of the Philippines - Open University (UPOU).
These courses - namely 1) Development Perspectives for CeC Managers, 2) CeC Management Level I, 3) CeC Management Level II, and 4) Practical Research for CeC Managers - were originally piloted in 2009 as traditional classroom-based courses designed to support the startup activities of CeCs and the eventual sustainability of their operations.
The pilot run of the online courses will kick off with the first course, Development Perspectives for CeC Managers, which will be held from September 6-October 16, 2010. For this course, only the first twenty-five qualified applicants will be accommodated and only one slot is allotted per CeC.
CeC managers or alternate managers of different CeC initiatives nationwide (e.g. eLGU, FITS, eSkwela, etc) are invited to apply for a slot in the online courses' pilot run which will be conducted for free under the administration of UPOU and the tPCA. Succeeding batches will be charged a minimal training fee. |
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Telecentre News Beyond Asia Pacific |
Afro-Colombian Women Fight Prejudice by Embracing Technology  On an improvised stage "Bombón de chocolate" (Chocolate Candy) is being performed. The play, which narrates the story of an African-Colombian girl who feels rejected because of the colour of her skin, is one of the events at a special day on drug addiction and violence organised in the city of Villa Paz, in South-West Colombia. Villa Paz has a population of 4000 inhabitants, of which 54% are are women and most of whom are African descendants and whose agricultural activities are mainly related to the sugar cane.
The day's events attended by over a thousand people began with a peace march, followed by talks on violence and health, and the projection of videos filmed on cellphones at the local telecentre.
The idea for the day arose some months earlier at a telecentre where local people discussed the community's most pressing problems, motivated to do something about them and getting everyone involved.
But these were no ordinary discussions. For approximately eight months women and men of all ages had been getting together for workshops on gender and technology as part of piloted trials of the Gender Evaluation Methodology (GEM) in 24 government-sponsored1 telecentres throughout Colombia.
The aim was to investigate how to increase the use of telecentres by members of the community, especially women, and how these might be used to change the way both men and women saw themselves. The GEM process leads people to discuss the community's problems beyond those of the technology. It's all part of the "learning for change" ethos which is central to GEM.
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Telecentre-Europe Summit 2010 Courtesy: telecentre-Europe.org The third Telecentre-Europe Summit will take place in Budapest, Hungary during 13-14 October 2010, and will bring together an invited audience of over 100 telecentre network leaders from across Europe. Members of the network are drawn from more than 80 organisations, which represent 25,000 telecentres between them. Telecentres help disadvantaged people to benefit from technology, an estimated 12 million people each year.
The key theme of the event will focus on how telecentres can maximize their contribution towards a successful European digital agenda.
During the summit, participants will be able to explore exciting and challenging topics including:
· Achieving European eCitizenship
National networks of telecentres are catalysts of eInclusion across the European nations. Telecentres are facilitating eGovernment and eParticipation services for communities and people that need them. Closer relationships between Governments and telecentres will increase the understanding, the acceptance, and the reach of these services.
· eSkills for everyone
eSkills are important for all Europeans. Telecentres help the hard to reach day-by-day to improve their chances for a better quality of life, for employability, and for social inclusion. Telecentres' services rely on tools developed by IT companies. Amplified cooperation between companies and telecentres would result in diversified services and increased benefits for the digitally excluded.
· Building telecentre capacity
Telecentres need skilful and motivated operators to perform at their best. It is estimated that around 300,000 people currently work in different types of telecentres across Europe. Specific formal education opportunities could boost the chances to professionalize the telecentre/eInclusion workers.
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Handbook for 1,000 telecentres in Rwanda to be launched soon
Deumer from the Netherlands and Paul BARERA, Executive Director of Rwanda Telecentre Network (RTN), have just completed the handbook for 1,000 telecentres in Rwanda. This book, developed with the financial support of CTA (Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation), provides details of WHY and HOW 1,000 sustainable telecentres can be deployed in Rwanda.
More specifically, the handbook provides answers to the following questions:
· Why are 1.000 telecentres in Rwanda necessary?
· What should be done at national level to realize a network of 1.000 telecentres?
· What should be done at RTN level to realize a network of 1.000 telecentres?
· What should be done at telecentre level to realize a network of 1.000 telecentres?
This handbook is based on and includes numerous sources of input, such as:
· A national baseline study, which was conducted country wide with the aim of identifying access gap to ICTs and information need at community level
· Country visits to India and East African countries to learn from others' experiences;
· Firsthand experience in developing and running a telecentre in Rwanda;
· Input from key stakeholders from Rwanda and from the global telecentre movement; |
Contact Info: Asia-Pacific Telecentre Network Secretariat,
ICT Agency of Sri Lanka,
No. 160/24, Kirimandala Mawatha,
Colombo 05, Sri Lanka.
Tel: +94-11-23699099 Ext. 327
Fax: +94-11-2368387 |
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