In this issue:

News from Telecentre-Europe (TE):

GOW2013 initial results – TE recruits Communications Officer – Registrations open for #Spark13 – Call to become a Microsoft Technology Associate partner - CARERplus Digital Competence…

During March, 23 community members participated at the monthly Featured Community Contest at Telecentre-Europe’s community site. They blogged, published, shared, commented & flagged content, and 8 new persons joined the community.

3 featured members were awarded with a

Gold,…

Real accomplishment

As part of GOW, the Togliatti State University and Tvoy Kurs: IT for Youth Project organized the contest Digital Citizenship: You Learn, You teach. High school students designed training manuals based on online tools. Contest participants studied the ICT tools and created special websites with several wonderful online guides, such as …

The upcoming 4th Global Forum on Telecentres, also known as Spark, that will take place from May 28-29, 2013 in Granada, Spain.

Hosted by Telecentre.org Foundation, Telecentre-Europe,…

On the 21st of March, a group of the M.Čobotas Third Age University (MČTAU) students-seniors took part in the seminar “What should we know about social networks?” which is one of the many activities of Get Online Week 2013 in…

Thousands of Europeans were digitally empowered during the Get Online Week campaign of Telecentre-Europe. Between 18 and 24 March 2013, more than 10.000 ICT learning centres, libraries & schools in 26 countries supported over 100.000 people in their online journeys.

Telecentre-Europe is very pleased with the massive effort done by its partners during Get Online Week 2013 and its…

On April 2, World Pulse is launching the fourth annual year of…

This story goes back to 1953, a year of radical changes in the Soviet Union. Its roots are to be found in Aleksandrovka, a small Russian village lost in the forests of central Russia in Samara Region. The New Year was being celebrating at the 7-form school located in the homestead of a former Russian landowner. The holiday reached its peak when presents were handed to first-form pupils and I was among them. It should be said that it was the first festivity when we were handed presents after…

In the early afternoon today, the number of GOW 2013 survey participants reached 50.000 ! A good figure to extract some statistics and tell you more about the #GOW2013 participants and their internet and computer usage habits.

Demographics

From all participants, 57 % are female, so girls and women seem to be more interested in internet activities and learning digital…

On March 21 a free webinar took place on MS Office 2013. The webinar was organized by Connecting Up & TechSoup Asia and sponsored by Microsoft Citizenship. The …

Foundation "Education for Democracy" from Poland, RITA program in partnership with the Alliance of Access to Information and Training…

Today, Open the Windows held a round table on Digital Inclusion in Macedonia at the Porta hotel in Skopje.

The round table, organized within the…

Albania is one of the poorest, in transition countries in Europe, but internet has penetrated rapidly during recent years. The reason behind this is the Albanians’ desire to communicate as much as possible. Albania’s distinction is that internet is used not only by young people, but also by older age people and, sometimes, by the elderly and grandparents.…

Several partner primary schools from Macedonia: Ilinden from Kriva Palanka, Slavko Lumbarkovski from the village of Novaci, Somche Nastevski from the village of Vratnica, Vasil Glavinov from Veles, J.H. Pestalozzi from Skopje and others hold and will hold workshops on Internet safety every day…

One of the activities for young people for GOW 2013 was assessment of their digital skills for job market skills with a new version of Skillage tests. During only 2 days already more than 600 Skillage tests have been passed .

The results data base shows that…

Within the campaign Get Online 2013! We bring Moldova Online Together!, INFONET Alliance awarded a prize for openness and access to information to the mayoralty of the village Iordanovca for their ambition and courage.

Iordanovca is a small village in the southern Basarabeasca district with a population of only 950, of whom 17.68 per cent have left for abroad looking for a job.

After “scanning the environment” it was ascertained that over 90 per cent of Iordanovca residents had…

The Alliance of Access to Information and Training Community Centres  participate actively at the Get Online Week 2013.

In partnership with Hilfswerk Austria International launched the digital map…

Open the Windows from Macedonia will promote digital inclusion with cooperation with several schools, public institutions, civil organizations and media.

The digital inclusion and related concepts are briefly explained in the leaflet "Together in the digital world" available in Macedonian and Albanian.…

The Get Online Week 2013 campaign started on March 18th. More than 560 organizations from different regions in Russia were engaged to participate in the campaign. During the week, they will hold a series of open and free activities in their computer venues, such as training sessions and competitions for over 10.000…

The Communications Officer is responsible for communications towards Telecentre-Europe stakeholders and members, the mass media and general public. S/he will increase the visibility of telecentres mission, activities and contribution to the digital inclusion and empowerment of European citizens and to the achievement of social and economic goals.

S/he will…