Socorro eCenter has finally upgraded its internet connection from satellite to wireless in just four (4) days dated December 23-26, 2011. The geographical location of the lone island-municipality was not able to hinder the possibility of the 31-km wi-fi link across the sea with almost no line of sight. This amazing development has made the ICT-recipient populace rejoiced especially the eCenter personnel and LGU as a whole due the following great advancement, viz:

• A prohibitive…

Agriculture and Livestock Minister EMMANUEL has called for increased utilization of Information Technology in enhancing agricultural development.

Mr CHENDA says information technology should be used to easy communication between farmers and agricultural stakeholders.

Mr CHENDA said this in Lusaka when he launched the National Agricultural Information Services (NAIS) Short Messaging System (SMS) platform supported by the International Institute for Communications Development…

ULAB MSJ and Bangladesh Institute of ICT in Development (BIID) jointly hosted the launching of the first issue of the ICT for Development Working Paper Series on December 15, 2011. The Working Paper Series aims to articulate, capture and document success stories, best practices, lessons learnt and shortcomings of ICT4D projects or researches in developing countries.

For its first issue, the journal contains six articles illustrating the potential of Information and Communication…

Farmer Registration is New Scheme under the Project Common Service Center (NICT) Under the supervision of MP Government (Government of India , Department of IT).

The Madhya Pradesh Government is going for online registration of farmers to further simplify the procedure of procurement of wheat,…

Anand Sharma is 12th pass and basically a shopkeeper who sales utensils of stainless and other metal products. His customer network is very strong. When he listened that NREGS payment and Kiosk Banking services is provided through CSC's (Common Service Centers) then he is motivated to start CSC (Common Service Center ) at Kesoori District (Dhar) for providing kiosk banking services and NREGS ( wages payment to needy one. He has started the services by…

Last December 2, 2011, an audience of policy-makers, industry leaders, academics, and other members of the private sector and telecentre community, gathered around a panel of seven telecentre experts at eAsia 2011 in Bangladesh, Asia’s premier ICT event.

Telecentre.org Foundation, a global leader in the growing telecentre movement, teamed up with the eAsia 2011 organizers, namely Bangladesh Computer Council, Support to Digital Bangladesh, Prime Minister's office and CSDMS in India, to…

Team ITA gathered to celebrate the spirit of equality under theme of ‘Equal opportunities for the disabled’ on the 22nd of November 2011 at the Waljat College auditorium.

Dr. Salim Al Ruzaiqi, CEO of ITA opened the forum by highlighting ITA’s firm belief in offering equal opportunities for all people to access information and improve their life using technology.…

THE Al Mar’a Excellence Awards, the first-of-its-kind in the Sultanate, honoured women achievers across different fields at a glittering event at The Amphitheatre, Shangri-La’s Barr Al Jissah Resort & Spa on December 5.

The event was held under the auspices of Her Highness Sayyida Dr Muna bint Fahd al…

An estimated 15 unemployed women from the municipality of Puente Alto in Chile, will be the protagonists and beneficiaries of the training course "Digital Literacy for Women in Puente Alto" to be implemented by the "Asociación de Telecentros Activos de Chile - ATACH".

The course is aimed at strengthening the…

On October 10, 2011, Telecentre.org Foundation launched the MyTelecentre@Work contest. After evaluating close to 100 entries, we are pleased to announce that we have finally selected the 6 winners for this competition:

1. Galina Kuzmina, Gorodishchenskoye Central Library, Russia - "…

A total of 21 CeC managers from Mindanao visited different CeCs in Visayas for the first batch of the Local Exchange and Study Visit, held from December 5-10.

The five-day program provided the CeC managers opportunities to learn from different CeCs and share their own experiences, with the aim of…

Krishi Gram Vikas Kendra, Rukka

A Social Enterprise for Inclusive Growth

(Supported by CSR of Usha Martin Ltd.)

(Registered under society Registration Act XXI of 1860)

Introduces

Open Vocational Education Programme

A Course Certified by National Institute of Open Schooling

Dear All ,

Nomination for 2012-13 Batch

In the fast growing world, learning new skills has become a necessity. In such an environment, vocational education has assumed…

Asia Pacific Telecentre Network (APTN) Secretariat in partnership with Telecentre.org Foundation (TCF) held a meeting on Strengthening the Asia Pacific Telecentre Network recently in Dhaka, Bangladesh. This meeting was held on December 3rd in parallel to eAsia 2011, Asia’s primer ICT event held in Dhaka Bangladesh.…

Akhilesh Jaiswal is a graduate person and earlier worked in a cloth shop. He was only focused on MPEB electricity bill collection and MP online service from his center. He started Kiosk banking service from 11-09-09 through his Common Service Center Dhar. Initially he has started weekly campaigning in his locality and increases the awareness among the villagers about this service. As he is educated person of his village, villagers get agreed…

Congratulation to Saiyud Phoonsawat (Nominee 5) for winning the Most Outstanding Telecentre Women Managers at Asia-Pacific. Thanks to Seuwandi Yapa for added her. Congratulations to all other our winners also.

After weeks of public voting and much deliberation by our judges, Telecentre.org Foundation is pleased to announce that we have the results from the Global Search competition to determine the Most Outstanding Telecentre Women Managers. Here are the winners for each region:

• Africa: Alima Traore (Mali)
• Asia-Pacific: Saiyud…

NICT Business Correspondent of State bank of India initiative in Common Service Center has been nominated for the Skoch Financial Inclusion Award 2011.…

Intel Corporation and the Network of Networks of Telecentres of Latin America and the Caribbean (Red de Redes de Telecentros de Latinoamérica y El Caribe) recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will allow for the implementation of the Intel® Easy Steps program in the Latin America region.

The agreement, which is expected to benefit hundreds of digital literacy learners in telecentres across Latin America, is the latest in Intel’s efforts to partner with telecentres in the…