World Pulse and Telecentre.org Foundation (TCF) have recently entered into a partnership agreement that intends to support the digital empowerment of grassroots women worldwide. The agreement, which was finalized last April 22, 2013, aims to equip women with digital literacy skills and enable…

It’s time to show your support once again for the outstanding players in the telecentre movement. Several telecentre projects have been nominated for the World Summit on Information Society Project Prizes 2013–including Telecentre.org Foundation’s own Telecentre Women: Digital Literacy Campaign–and we need your votes to win!…

A total of 567,411 women have been trained through the Telecentre Women: Digital Literacy Campaign as of end of December 2012. The milestone marks the halfway point for the campaign, which is organized by Telecentre.org Foundation and the International Telecommunication Union, and aims to provide 1 million women with digital…

Nine telecentre women managers from the Philippines have recently been selected to join the Mentoring Women in Business Program organized by the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women.

The selection of these telecentre women comes as a result of the partnership forged last August 2012 between…

Cherie Blair Foundation for Women (CBFW)is the latest organization to form an alliance with Telecentre.org Foundation (TCF) in its continuing efforts for women.

On August 10, 2012, TCF announced that it would be joining CBFW’s Mentoring…

Telecentre.org Foundation (TCF) is partnering with Intel Corporation and Ashoka Changemakers® to promote their global competition: She Will Innovate: Technology Solutions Enriching the Lives of Girls. More than $30,000 in cash and in-kind prizes will be awarded to the best and most innovative solutions that equip girls and women with new digital technologies—enabling them to live healthier, smarter and more meaningful lives.…

Telecentre.org Foundation celebrates
 World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) on
 May 17 with two separate workshops in Geneva and Bangkok, respectively.

In Switzerland, TCF Executive Director Miguel Ramilla will be hosting,…

What is International Girls in ICT Day?

International Girls’ in ICT Day is an initiative backed by ITU Member States in Plenipotentiary Resolution 70 (Guadalajara, 2010) to create a global environment that empowers and encourages girls and…

Telecentre Women Digital Literacy Campaign Contest: Help us achieve the goal of training 1 million women by the year-end 2012!

Calling all partners! Telecentre.org Foundation (TCF) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) are hosting a contest (“Contest”) to award ICT equipment to the telecentre that trains the most  number of women to become…

Puntic (ICT Network Point), the reference portal for ICT information in Catalonia, recently conducted an interview with Tess Camba, Director of Operations for Telecentre.org Foundation. The interview highlights the role of women as a dynamic global network of telecentres and touches on plans for the next Global Forum on Telecentres, which is set to take place next year in Europe.

Take during the …

March 5, 2012. Head of the Omnia Point of La Seu d'Urgell, Ester Collado, was formally presented with her award for the Most Outstanding Telecentre Woman Manager for the Europe region by Telecentre.org Foundation (TCF).

The award is part of the Telecentre Women: Digital Literacy Campaign, a joint program of TCF and the International Telecommunications Union, which seeks to provide at least 1 million with digital literacy training and recognizes the efforts of outstanding…

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…

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…

Telecentre.org Foundation is pleased to announce that the Global Search for 100 Outstanding Telecentre Women Managers is finally over! After weeks of tallying votes and reviewing submissions, we're introducing the Top 100 candidates selected under the competition as part of the Telecentre Women: Digital Literacy Campaign, a joint initiative from the ITU and Telecentre.org Foundation.

Candidates were nominated from 34 countries around the world and the top 100 were selected by esteemed…

A total of 102,461 women around the world have received training in digital literacy from partners of the Telecentre Women: Digital Literacy Campaign, the global initiative led by the ITU and Telecentre.org Foundation. Since the campaign’s launch in Chile last April 7, 2011, the campaign has garnered interest from various regions around the world, gathering support from partners in 65 countries, 6 regional telecentre networks, and the private sector such as Intel. Director of Operations Tess…

August 31, Mar del Plata, Argentina. The Telecentre Women: Digital Literacy Campaign received a resounding expression of support on August 31 as it was presented during the XIX Meeting of Organizations and/or Agencies to Promote Telecommunications/ICT Development. Telecentre.org Foundation Board Member Jose Avando Sales, who was in attendance at the meeting, presented the campaign to the audience. "For me it was a great honor to be a representative of the Telecentre.org Foundation in this…

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…

The Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MICT) of Thailand together with the Research Center of Communication and Development Knowledge Management (CCDKM), and Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University (STOU) working for Thaitelecentre.org, recently announced its intention to train 100,000 Thai women as part of its contribution to the Telecentre Women: Digital Literacy Campaign. The commitment is, thus far, the highest training pledge received under the…

On June 27, the Philippines commenced its Lead Training of Trainers at the CICT-NCC Building in Diliman, Quezon City. The training workshop, which is organized by the Philippine Commission on Information and Communication Technology (CICT) together with the Philippine Community eCenter Network…

Secretary General Dr. Hamadoun Toure of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) led the call for partners to the Telecentre Women Campaign yesterday, June 21, at the Opening Session of the Asia Pacific Regional Forum on Digital Inclusion For All held at the Suntec Convention Center in Singapore. The session was attended by around 100 ITU members from the government and the private sector, including 14 Ministers/Heads of Information and Communications…