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TCF Community Learning Program bags award at UN WSIS

Following its  recent win at the e-Asia Awards for the Telecentre Women: Digital Literacy campaign last December 2011, Telecentre.org Foundation has garnered yet another prized distinction, this time for its Community Learning Program which has been  declared a winner of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Project Prizes. The announcement, given by International Telecommunication Union Secretary-General Dr Hamadoun Touré, was made yesterday, May 15, at the Opening Ceremony of the WSIS Forum 2012 event, which is taking place this week (May 14-18) in Geneva, Switzerland.

The prizes, which are being awarded for the first time this year, recognize excellence in the implementation of projects and initiatives which further the goals of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in improving connectivity to information and communication technologies (ICTs) in line with the 11 Action Lines laid out in the  Tunis Agenda agreed at the  UN World Summit on the Information Society.

More than 170 projects from 50 countries were nominated and the Community Learning Program, which won under the category, "Cultural diversity and identity, linguistic diversity and local content," was not the only winner in the telecentre.org family. The  Network for Information & Computer Technology in India was also recognized under the category of "ICT applications - e-Government" for its Samadhan project, which aims to establish citizen service centers in various parts of the country to service citizens living long distances away from villages/service blocks.

For a complete list of winners, click  here.

Both Telecentre.org Foundation and NICT India will be formally presented with their awards later this week at the WSIS Summit so please keep visiting our site for more updates. Congratulations to our winners! And a big thank you in particular to the TCF Community Learning Coordinators and telecentre.org members for their continued efforts in helping this community grow and stay vibrant over the years. Well done, everyone!

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Comment by Vida Gabe on May 21, 2012 at 9:37am: Thanks for sharing your photos, Ahmed! I was able to catch a portion of the live webcast but for some reason the archived video file does not load in my laptop. :( Anyway, congratulations to you too on the successful workshop!

Comment by AHMED SUDAN on May 20, 2012 at 4:20am: http://www.flickr.com/photos/itupictures/sets/72157629768404682

Comment by AHMED SUDAN on May 20, 2012 at 4:10am: role of telecentre,,,, a thematic workshop at wsis 2012 to watch it click webcast
http://groups.itu.int/wsis-forum2012/Agenda/DraftAgenda.aspx?se=42155

Comment by Luzviminda M. Valdez on May 16, 2012 at 9:26am: Congratulations!!!

Comment by Vida Gabe on May 16, 2012 at 6:03am: Yes, definitely a big victory for all of us. Thanks everyone! I truly believe that our telecentre.org members are what keep this program going strong. Let's all keep supporting the telecentre.org community! :)

Comment by DR. SYED MD. ZAINUL ABEDIN on May 15, 2012 at 10:11pm: A great victory for us all!

Comment by Amparo Preethika M. De Asis on May 15, 2012 at 8:08pm: Congratulations to the Community Learning team of TCF --- you truly deserve this award! Special mention goes to CLCs Seuwandi Yapa, Eiko Kawamura, Nabil Eid, Ahmed Shaban, and of course their team lead, Vida Gabe. You make us all proud =)