Telecentre-Europe Newsletter March 2013
In this issue: News from Telecentre-Europe (TE): GOW2013 initial results – TE recruits Communications Officer – Registrations open for #Spark13 – Call...
31 March, 2013
Now open: registrations for Spark13 – the 4th Global Forum on Telecentres
The upcoming 4th Global Forum on Telecentres, also known as Spark, that will take place from May 28-29, 2013 in...
29 March, 2013
Get Online Week 2013 – initial results
Thousands of Europeans were digitally empowered during the Get Online Week campaign of Telecentre-Europe. Between 18 and 24 March 2013,...
28 March, 2013
CARER+ Competence Framework to be presented at EDEN 2013 Annual Conference
The Carer+ Digital Competence Framework adopts the modern notion of digital competence understood both as a key competence for employability...
27 March, 2013
Sign up for the Voices of Our Future Training Program 2013
On April 2, World Pulse is launching the fourth annual year of Voices of Our Future, an online training program...
26 March, 2013
Telecentre-Europe AISBL recruits a Communications Officer
The Communications Officer is responsible for communications towards Telecentre-Europe stakeholders and members, the mass media and general public. S/he will...
26 March, 2013
Webinar on MS Office 2013: recording available!
On March 21 a free webinar took place on MS Office 2013. The webinar was organized by Connecting Up & TechSoup Asia...
21 March, 2013
New member from Slovakia: Aptech Europe
Aptech Worldwide – one of the leading global providers of IT education – opened its training center in Bratislava where...
18 March, 2013
UN Broadband Commission sets new gender target
On March 17, 2013 Commissioners gathered in Mexico City for the 7th meeting of the Broadband Commission for Digital Development....
18 March, 2013
Get Online Week 2013 has started!
On March 18th at 00:00 CET the Get Online Week 2013 (#GOW2013) campaign counter was set to zero. In a...
18 March, 2013
Become TE’s national Microsoft Technology Associate partner!
Telecentre-Europe invites its member organizations to become the national partner for distributing a total of 2.000 donated vouchers for young...
15 March, 2013
Global Telecentre Awards nomination closes with 254 entries in 6 categories
The response to Telecentre.org Foundation‘s call for entries to the 1st Global Telecentre Awards was overwhelming. As of the March 8 deadline,...
12 March, 2013
Global Telecentre Awards Update: 59 entries received, 2 more days to go till deadline
TCF is down to the last two days of acceptance of entries to the Global Telecentre Awards. To date, they...
26 February, 2013
Voting for the WSIS Project Prizes 2013 now open
It’s time to show your support once again for the outstanding players in the telecentre movement. Several telecentre projects have...
22 February, 2013
280.000 people trained by “Your Course: Digital Literacy” Project in Russia
The Your Course: Digital Literacy (Tvoy Kurs) project, conducted by our member PH International (Project Harmony, Inc.) and Microsoft, together with...
18 February, 2013
Video about the Novateca program in Moldova
Novateca is a program implemented in the Republic of Moldova with the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation....
17 February, 2013
Telecentre-Europe’s Associate Members DemNet (Hungary) and ICTD BG (Bulgaria) become Full Members
During TE’s Board meeting that preceded the General Assembly on 14-15 February 2013 in Paris it was decided that the...
16 February, 2013
4th General Assembly of Telecentre-Europe AISBL in Paris
During 14-15 February 2013, Telecentre-Europe AISBL held its fourth General Assembly in Paris, at the Microsoft headquarters. The reunion in Paris...
15 February, 2013
Digital literacy courses help Russian village people gain self-esteem & respect
A few days ago, the 3-year project Your Course: Improving Computer Literacy was completed in the Volgograd region of Russia. After completing...
14 February, 2013
Successful ready-to-use Get Online Week scenarios from Poland
To help Polish organizations, libraries & institutions organize successful events during the Get Online Week campaign, the polish partner organization the Information...
11 February, 2013
International Girls in ICT Day will take place on April 25
Next April 25th the International Girls in ICT Day will be celebrated. The initiative is backed by ITU Member States and wants to create...
07 February, 2013
Safer Internet Day in Lithuania
On February 5th and together with 100 countries all over Europe & the world, Lithuania has been commemorating the International...
07 February, 2013
Active preparation for Get Online Week 2013 going on in Latvia
With less than 40 days left till Get Online Week 2013 (18-24 March) will start all over Europe, in Latvia the...
06 February, 2013
How to disseminate the MIREIA survey? Best practices from Poland!
On February 5th, 2 weeks before the deadline to fill out the MIREIA survey, Poland has reached its minimum target...
05 February, 2013
Telecentre-Europe Newsletter January 2013
In this issue: News from Telecentre-Europe (TE): MIREIA survey to map EU27 eInclusion actors – Memorandum of Understanding with Microsoft’s Youthspark program...
31 January, 2013
Featured Member Contest at TE’s Community Site: results for January 2013
During January, 13 community members participated at the monthly Featured Community Contest at Telecentre-Europe’s community site. They blogged, published, shared,...
31 January, 2013
Carer+ Digital Competence Framework: mapping & developing carers’ skills
The Carer+ consortium is currently finalising research that will lead to the creation of the Carer+ Digital Competence Framework. But...
31 January, 2013
How to disseminate the MIREIA survey? Best practices from Romania!
In about 1 week time EOS Foundation managed to reach 1500 Romanian eInclusion actors and over 150 organizations have already filled...
30 January, 2013
1.000 organizations already on the EU map of eInclusion
During week 4 of the survey, the number of organizations that have filled the MIREIA survey has doubled: more than 1.00o...
30 January, 2013
TCF unveils new design of community site
After months of hard work, Telecentre.org Foundation’s English community site is completely redesigned and is sporting a new look and feel, similar to...
29 January, 2013
Over 500.000 women trained through TCF’s Telecentre Women program
A total of 567.411 women have been trained through the Telecentre Women: Digital Literacy Campaign as of end of December 2012. The milestone...
29 January, 2013
Telecentre-Europe at the e-Skills Quality conference
On 24 January 2013, more than 100 experts & officials from the industrial, academic & public sector gathered with Pan-European NGO...
25 January, 2013
New category in the Global Telecentre Awards: “Best Information Access Centre”
Telecentre.org Foundation (TCF) and the National Information Society Agency (NIA) of Korea have announced the inclusion of an additional category in the 1st Global...
24 January, 2013
Telecentre-Europe signs Memorandum of Understanding with Microsoft’s YouthSpark
In a joint effort to fight European youth unemployment, Telecentre-Europe’s Chair Mara Jakobsone and Microsoft’s Executive Vice-President Brad Smith have signed a ‘Memorandum...
23 January, 2013
How to disseminate the MIREIA survey? Best practices from France!
The MIREIA mapping exercise has established minimum targets for each EU27 country, based on the population. For a big country like France,...
23 January, 2013
Be among the first 2500 organizations on the EU27 eInclusion map!
The EU27 eInclusion mapping exercise MIREIA has been running for 3 weeks now and 452 organizations have now filled the survey....
22 January, 2013
Polish Library Development Program extended for one more year
The Library Development Program in Poland, managed by TE’s member organization the Information Society Development Foundation (FRSI) will be extended until...
21 January, 2013
Third Age University in Macedonia
In Macedonia, senior citizens are engaged through the Third Age University, an organization that relies on volunteers, filled with cooperation,...
17 January, 2013
How to disseminate the MIREIA survey? Best practices from Spain!
For the MIREIA survey, launched on January 2nd, Spain has reached in no time about 50% of the their target,...
15 January, 2013
210 European eInclusion actors already mapped by the MIREIA survey
On January 11th 2013, the first results of the EU27 eInclusion mapping exercise MIREIA were calculated. Spain, France, Poland, Hungary and...
14 January, 2013