April, 2011 Issue 09
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| | | | | | APTN supports Telecentre.org Women Digital Literacy Campaign |  Santiago, Chile, April 7, 2011 - On Behalf of Asia Pacific Telecentre network, Reshan Dewapura, Chief Operating Officer, ICT Agency of Sri Lanka pledge its true heated support to Telecentre.org Women Digital Literacy Campaign at the 3rd Global Forum on Telecentres in Santiago, Chile during the global launch of the campaign on April 7, 2011. The initiative aims to provide digital literacy and skills to underserved and underprivileged women worldwide. Read MORE |
| Enabling the island inhabitants through the Enrique Villanueva CeC in Philippines | | 
Enrique Villanueva is one of the six municipalities of the smallest province in Central Visayas, the Siquijor Island. With the establishment of its Community eCenter (CeC), Enrique Villanueva is now gaining popularity amongst its constituents and neighboring towns. The town considers the CeC an achievement for it has opened the municipality's doors to the world's largest and most widely used network which is the internet. The CeC's fast VSAT connection will empower the inhabitants and at the same time, continue to boost the government unit's growing potential for eco-cultural tourism. Read MORE |
| | | ICT brainstorming to find ways to drive ICT community learning centers in Thailand
|  Department of Information and Communication Technology in Thailand has recently held a brainstoming workshop in finding possible ways in which they can improve the performance of Community learning centres. During the meeting it was revealded that an evaluation is being carried out to assess the activities done by the ICT Learning Centers. It was further noted that people who use 279 centres operates successfully while less than 10% of centres needs to be upgraded. "Department of ICT has recognized the importance of providing support for community ICT learning centers, both successful as well and the center of the problem. ICT centres have being helpful to improve the lives of community members such as support for agriculture, to check crop prices, exchange traded products. (E-Agriculture) to support education in a manner both Online and Offline (e-Education) as well as various disaster alert (e-Warning), etc. The department will work collaborate with other agencies that are related in determining what type of projects needs to be proceed, "said Siri Art Rat Thani Cha I, Vice Minister of Information and Communication Technology. Read MORE |
| Tsunami-hit villa now centre for learning and earning thanks to ICTA initiated IT-BPO project in Sri Lanka |  A tsunami affected villa in Seenigama, Galle, Sri Lanka has become the centre of development with many sectors of empowerment including education and entrepreneurship. The most recent development has been an IT-BPO set up by the FARO with the support of the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA). Through IT-BPO projects initiated by ICT Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA). In the face of disaster some give into despondency while some rise up to be more successful than even the pre-disaster era. What then makes the difference? Kushil Gunasekera, the founder of the Foundation of Goodness (FoG) and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) Centre of Excellence at Temple Road, Seenigama explained the root cause of the villa becoming a community centre of prosperity: " It is compassion and desire to be good. I got my education from Ananda College, Colombo and I had access to modern facilities. I was moved by compassion and a desire to be good and to do something to make distressed people enjoy the blessings that were available to me but not to them. Read MORE |
| | | 3rd Global Forum on Telecentres staged in Chile
|  Telecentre leaders from close to 40 nations gathered last April 5-7, 2011 to attend the 3rd Global Forum on Telecentres at the Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistal-GAM in Santiago, Chile. The forum, which has been held in Tunisia and Malaysia in previous years, is a bi-annual event that aims to provide a platform for sharing knowledge among members of the global telecentre movement and various actors and organizations working towards the achievement of social development through the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). Read MORE |
Europe Get Online Week 2011
|  When the Telecentre Europe Get Online Week counter was stopped it stood at 112,074. More than one hundred thousand people had answered a few simple questions in a short survey to show they had been reached by the campaign. This simple figure however doesn't tell the whole story. Who were these people, why did they get involved, and why are they heroes? They had been supported to use the internet in about 5,000 telecentres in 30 countries across Europe - education venues, libraries and NGOs providing support to use computers and the internet. Of the 112,074 that were supported to use the internet, or a new online service for the first time, about one in ten were unemployed (9.6%), and one in seven were retired (14.5%), and just under a third were in employment (31%). About half were under 25, one third between 25-55, and just under a fifth, almost 20,000 people, over 55. There was a majority of women (56%) to men (44%). These demographics however still don't tell the whole story. Read MORE | APTN
| Asia-Pacific Telecentre Network (APTN) is a collaborative initiative of the United Nations' Economic and Social Commission for the Asia-Pacific (UN-ESCAP) and telecentre.org and APTN Secretariat presently being hosted at ICT Agency (ICTA) Sri Lanka. The network will promote innovation and knowledge-sharing amongst Telecentre organizations in the Asia-Pacific region and it will serve as the focal network or the knowledge hub for communication and information technology in the Asia Pacific region. | | |
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