This two-day study visit organised by IAN International Aid Network and EOS gathered eight representatives of local NGOs and Government of the Republic

of Serbia. The team

visited four telecentres in Temisoara and nearby towns. First, the team was

welcomed by Gabi Barna, EOS Romania director, Cornelia Popescu, eCentre network

Project Manager and Alina Zamfir,…

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The following is from the EC on the eGovernment Action Plan. We believe your telecentre networks can support it. Key to all of it, is the primary statement, where it aims to increase usage of online government services by citizens to 50% by 2015.

We will post more on this topic in coming weeks and months, but please comment below, and share what you are already doing as we are keen to show how crucial telecentre networks are in reaching citizens with online government…

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TakingITGlobal (TIG) is preparing to launch the second cycle of Adobe Youth Voices digital media project.

Adobe Youth Voices is the Adobe Foundation's signature philanthropy initiative empowering young people to Create with Purpose.

Selected organization, will…

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The Commission has launched a public consultation on possible future action to support the promotion and validation of non-formal and informal learning. The aim is to collect views on whether further action is needed, if so, what type of action is required and which policy priorities should be given attention.…

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Please see the summary reports from the European Congress on eInclusion (ECEI) 2010.

Executive summary

http://www.eventsforce.net/CIVIC/media/uploaded/EVCIVIC/event_39/ECEI10%20Executive%20Summary.pdf

and the full report…

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Excellent Telecentre Toolkit in Spanish and English from TechSoup

http://home.techsoup.org/pages/telecentre.aspx

The Digital Access Europe (DAE) initiative is now in full swing in

Europe with EU Commissioner Neelie Kroes targeting Telecentres in her

goal of getting another 18 million Europeans across the digital divide

over next 5 years ie. c.70,000 people per week. Seven Big Ideas were

selected in October 2010 from the 150 ideas shortlisted at DAE, one… Continue

Economic Impact of bringing people online

Please see attached a presentation containing channel shift impact calculations(the second part of the ppt). Our survey findings show that when people are brought online they save significant numbers of face to face visits and telephone calls with government, and this has an economic impact.…

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Following a year of rigorous research activities aimed to build upon the knowledge regarding public access to information and communication technologies (ICT), efforts of the Amy Mahan Research Fellows are beginning to bear fruit for the young scholars. Teams from Argentina, China, Malaysia, Peru,…

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