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Telecentre.org Honoured at the International Congress of Telecentres in Spain |
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Telecentre.org was recognized for its important contribution to the global telecentre movement at the International Congress of Telecentres held in Seville, Spain from 24-25 January. Richard Fuchs, Chair of the Telecentre.org Foundation, gave an opening keynote speech in the congress and received the award on behalf of Telecentre.org.
This is the second time that Telecentre.org has been recognized for its work over the last five years. First, the CICT recognized Telecentre.org's contribution to the growth of PhilCeCNet and the Philippine telecentre movement; and now, the Spanish Association for Telecentre.org's role in the global movement at large.
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| IGNOU and Telecentre.org Foundation launches the Certificate in Telecentre Management |
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The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) in partnership with the Telecentre.org Foundation announces the launch of Certificate in Telecentre/ Village Knowledge Centre Management.
This programme is aimed at capacity building of telecentre managers/ operators in India. Through this unique programme, IGNOU and Telecentre.org Foundation desire to train 500,000 grassroots level knowledge workers and village level entrepreneurs spread across the entire country. This would empower them to become change agents and reap the benefits of the knowledge revolution. Read MORE |
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Greetings from APTN Secretariat!
Asia Pacific Telecentre Network (APTN) Secretariat warmly welcome you to our first newsletter edition for the year 2011. We want to take this opportunity to thank all APTN country partner networks, members, sponsors and all of you for your support during the year 2010. It was a great pleasure to be in touch with you all and APTN Secretatiat is hopefull that 2011 will be a great year for APTN where it could further expand their activities via Asia Pacific region.
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| In Philippines: 3rd online Telecentre course call for applications |
The telecentre.org - Philippine CeC Academy (tPCA), in coordination with the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) and the University of the Philippines - Open University (UPOU), is now accepting applications for the third online course for CeC managers, which will be held from January 31 - March 19.
The course, entitled CeC Management Level II, is the third of the four distance learning courses being piloted by the Philippine CeC program, through the tPCA, its capability building arm. The first two courses, Development Perspective for CeC Managers and CeC Management Level I were equally successful in their pilot runs, drawing 31 and 20 official attendees respectively. |
| In Sri Lanka:'Public service will be facilitated through e-Government programme' |
In Sri Lanka, public service will be made more people-friendly through e-Government programme says Telecommunications and Information Technology Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya. The Minister said that the Government had already been able to greatly facilitate public service through the Re-engineering Government Programme implemented by the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) under the e-Sri Lanka initiative. Speaking further on the occasion the Minister said that there would be a huge transformation in the country's information technology sector. 'A programme that ensures that the public receive public service more comfortably by increasing the people's IT knowledge will be prepared" , the Minister emphasised.
Participating in the occasion ICTA Chief Executive Officer Reshan Devapura thanked Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya for the initiative taken to bring the birth, marriage and death certificate automation project to the Kegalle District as a new year gift to the people of Kegalle. "This automation project has by now been successfully completed in the Colombo District and the 6 million people living in the Distrct were now able to obtain their birth certificate details in a few minutes by the use of IT", Devapura said. Placing the extension of the BMD automation project to the Kegalle District in its historical perspective ICTA CEO continued: "Under the guidance of the President we all work towards making the optimum benefits of IT accrue to the people in rural areas. Five years ago we began the e-Sri Lanka programme to uplift the standard of life of the people by making every citizen of Sri Lanka enjoy the optimum benefits of IT. For this purpose we have been able to provide optimum service to the people of this country through projects ranging from the rural 'nenasala' wisdom outlets to the Government Information Centre and from the automation of activities of the Divisional Secretariats to the village level e-Society projects ".
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| In Bangladesh: Knowledge Sharing Session on Telecentre/ ICT4D |
Bangladesh Institute of ICT in Development (BIID) has organized a Knowledge sharing session on Telecentre/ICT4D practices in Bangladesh on 15th January 2011 at BRAC Center Inn, Mohakhali, Dhaka. Leading organizations who are working on ICT4D like Grameen Phone, D.net, Grameen Communication, BTN, A2I/PMO, AIS, Katalyst, ARBAN IT, WIN Incorporate, BRAC Net, Dhaka Ahsania Mission and CISCO participated in this event. Dr. Roger Harris (Telecentre/ICT4D specialist) was present as the key discussant. Mr. Md.N.I.Khan (PS-1 to PM and NPD, A2I) and Md.Shahid Uddin Akbar (CEO of BIID) were also present among others. Mr. Anir Chowdhury, Policy Advisor, A2I/PMO moderated this session. Participants shared their expert experiences and knowledge on various aspects on Telecentre/ICT4D. "The more a telecentre is required to generate revenues, the less emphasis it will place on supporting development and the more it will place on revenue-generating services."- Dr. Roger Harris (Telecentre/ICT4D specialist) opined during the session. Mr. Md. N.I. Khan highlighted on to provide the proper services through telecentre to make these sustain.
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In Taiwan: Taiwan to invest in computer centres |
The Taiwan Ministry of Education will strengthen its IT infrastructure through establishing additional digital opportunity centres in rural Taiwan over the next three years.From the total annual budget of NT$6 billion (US$206 million), the MOE will invest NT$3.1 billion (US$107 million) to establish more DOCs and upgrade bandwidth at centres in remote areas from 2 megabytes to 10 megabytes between 2012 and 2015.
MOE Computer Center Chief, Chih-neng Hung, said the project aims to bridge the digital divide between urban and remote parts of the country.
"We build these centres to provide a very easy access to computers and the Internet for the people in remote areas. The MOE has provided computer hardware, software, electricity and Internet access so that residents and students can use those utilities," he said.
The MOE aims to increase Internet access for rural residents from 56.7 per cent in 2010 to 73 per cent by 2015.
The project also aims to increase Internet access among women in rural Taiwan from 69.2 per cent to 77 per cent, and of Aboriginals from 63.5 per cent to 80 per cent. |
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