Reblogged from the Microsoft Citizenship Team, 27 July 2011

Today we’re announcing updates to our nonprofit software donations program to enable more nonprofits…

Just south of Maracaibo, the capital of Venezuela’s oil-rich state of Zulia, lies the municipality of San Francisco. It is a sprawling labyrinth of suburban…

After a year long discussion and planning between the stakeholders in Malaysia, telecentre.org Academy has made its presence officially in Malaysia TODAY as it marks the first step in offering Certificate in Telecentre Management…

Source: ICT WORKS

Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) are widely seen as having the potential to contribute positively to economic growth and development and to improve the livelihoods and quality of…

A crosspost from : colombiadigital.net

While Andrés gets excited because he sold his laptop to a friend from college, and that will allow him, plus some extra savings, to get the new iPad 2 and…

Marginalized communities are communities in underserved areas, both urban and rural, that include the following target groups, among others: Women, Persons with Disabilities, Unemployed, Poor, Youth, Elderly, Immigrants and Micro-enterprises.



Marginalization can be defined as not…

http://drishtee.com/

  Mr. Stanley S. Litow the Vice President, Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs & President, IBM International Foundation informed Drishtee foundation that they are  been selected to receive an award of an IBM…

Eurasian Telecentre Network (ETN) supports Telecentre.org Women Digital Literacy Campaign since its launch that officially has been announced by ETN Regional Focal Point (RFP), Director of IREX program Tech Age Teens (TAT), and Chief of Party of IREX program Promotion of ICT in…

The Initial batch of 25 Master trainers three day training has begun at the Kenya Institute of Education through sponsorship of Intel on a digital literacy program…

the vice president of Sudan at the 1st conference November 2010

http://community.telecentre.org/photo/albums/sudan-information…

Introduction

We are living in "Information Society", where ICT lie at the core of socio-economic development, many  different  technologies  have  been  used  to  generate  and  share  information leading to enhanced marginalized communities and empowerment of people.

The…

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The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) Agency and the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA) have joined forces in celebrating NEPAD’s 10th Anniversary. It is…

NGO Civil Society Development Center (CSDC) that is one of the active partners of Eurasian Telecentre Network (ETN) with the financial support of Women Foundation in Georgia conducted project – We – Women for Peaceful Future. The target group for the project was Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), namely women IDPs from Gali, Region (Georgia) villages. Project has been realized through June-July 2011. Selection of the participants and their safe transportation has been ensured by the…

UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT is a new section where we share with you inspiring stories of Telecentre.org members and partners through brief interviews. In the second article under this series, we share the story of Makaia Asesoría Internacional, a non-profit organization committed to the social and economic…

MAKATO GAD FOCAL POINT AND

COMMUNITY eCENTER SUPPORT:

PHILIPPINE DIGITAL LITERACY FOR WOMEN CAMPAIGN

PROPOSED ACTIVITIES:

PDLWC INTEL EASY STEPS TRAINING (November, 2011in Makato, Aklan) for Grassroots women (from Barangay VAWC Desks, Barangay secreatries, SK, schools and offices...)…

I recently interacted with a social network at corporate level that has now geared their focus in promoting what they call Shared Services Organizations. The model of SSO seeks to make organizational management more efficient and effective by cutting off the operational fat that makes the organizations sluggish in responding to customer and market needs, thereby making them easy prey for the competition who would then reign in their realm.

As I participated in that forum, it…

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Gedaref digital city…

D.Net and Ministry of Science & ICT, Government of the Peoples’ Republic of Bangladesh jointly organised the Award giving ceremony of National Digital Innovation Award 2011. The Gala Event was held on July 07 at 6 pm at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Novo Theatre, Bijoy Shoroni, Tejgoan, Dhaka.

Honorable Finance Minister Mr. Abul Maal Abdul Muhith was present as the Chief Guest. The…

We are beginning to witness a paradigm shift in the tools and approaches that telecentres are using to reach out to their clientele. Rural and marginalized communities often crave for information to be food secure, healthy and educated hence improve their lives, telecentres to larger extent meet these needs. The advent of internet and computers has enabled telecentre to make a giant leap in…

Computers have become an almost indispensable tool for us children and increasingly becoming a part of our children's world as well.

From writing letters, games to finding information and exploring  knowledge on the Internet.

In beginning  of June, 2011, Salamieh Telecentre launched a new summer club for…