Foundation Taiguey

In Section: Community Telecentre Guanaba.net

Carlos Miranda, a specialist international workshop on development starts with Web content and online social networks

Technological Guanaba.Net the center has a new ally: Carlos Miranda, a renowned specialist in the field of Information Technology and creator of dozens of successful regional portals (eg SOCINFO, Educar.org, america-us-all, Carnival Dominicano , Virtual Libraries. Com and Civila.com. A group of youths of the community, including our Infomedia, will be introduced to the world of publishing online social networks, development and content online, and much more, while learn how to make Web sites a handler of open source content such as homebrew.

Following are results of the first interactive session of the workshop, which took place on Thursday, August 14:

What do we do?
- Learning
- Create content
- Make the website of the cooperative
- Provide community services

Articulation and social appropriation?
- Learning process
- Familiarity

The Process?
- Make Web Cooperative Development of Cienaga
- Share + more learning experiences of others
- Knowledge
- Construction and maintenance sites
- Portal of the center and its tool
- Portal of the swamp

Page contents Webs?
- Trade
- Multimedia
- SEARCH ENGINE
- Communication
- Marketing and promotion
- Social networks
- Forums
- Volunteering
- Opportunities and needs
- Learning (capacity building)

Who are the actors in this workshop?
- Cooperative Development of Cienaga
- Guanaba.net
- Infomedia
- Local Users and global
- Member of the community in general
- Ecotourism Project
- Project Transagro
- Taiguey
- Carlos
- Volunteer
- Market
- In. Of the webs
- In. From the contents
- Developer, Developer
- Potential customers

Comment on August 30, 2008

In Section: Other

Hurricane Gustav came - and went without doing much damage (chronic)

Wednesday, 27, 9 a.m.: return to normal. Time remains cloudy and very humid, but finally, in this area, no human loss, very little damage, some Guineans lying ... ... Tuesday August 26 5 PM .... It was calm rain, and the light came reopen in downtown, some water inside, but little thing, the satellite antenna did not move, we signal ~! ~ Tuesday August 26 ... 9 a.m., bloguiando from Barahona since disconnect everything in the center Guanaba.net. Lots of rain, moderate breeze. The furious sea .... prepared to do that comes today .. 7:15 PM on Monday August 25 2008: AS POSSIBLE!! Here is a young civil defense We requested information on the latest storm, and said that the web ONAMET? and look ONAMET :!!!! http://onamet.gov.do/: Bandwidth Limit Exceeded The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his / her bandwidth limit. Please try again later. Apache/1.3.37 Server at www.onamet.gov.do Port 80 .. And do not think that that is in a state of emergency throughout the world connects to see your information ... lack of vision, foresight or not? amazing! it's like when your partner has an attack, fire and emergency turns out the recorder. ...

5:20 PM on Monday August 25 2008: You sit in the Cienaga breezes hurracandas of Gustav, there is still electricity (which rarely) and the satellite link service (even more rare)! The state Civil Defense to active from early on and we are following bulletins Guanaba.net COE and the NHC in Miami. Everything is waiting .... from passing the phenomenon know about what happened here in the community of Cienaga, Barahona province.

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  WTCA42 TJSJ 252,055 
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  BULLETIN 
  TROPICAL STORM GUSTAV WARNING NUMBER 3 
  NWS TPC / NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL072008 
  500 PM AST MONDAY 25 AUGUST 2008 

  GUSTAV is moving ... NORTHWEST TOWARD THE SPANISH ... 

  A HURRICANE WARNING FOR REMAINING IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTH COAST OF THE 
  DOMINICAN REPUBLIC FROM BARAHONA TO THE WEST TO THE BORDER 
  SOUTH OF HAITI ... AND FOR THE SOUTHWEST PENINSULA OF HAITI FROM THE 
  SOUTHERN BORDER WITH THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC AND PUERTO PRINCIPE TO WEST. 
  A HURRICANE WARNING MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE WAITING FOR HURRICANE 
  WITHIN THE WARNING AREA UNDER in the next 24 hours. 

  A HURRICANE FOR MONITORING OF HAITI FROM THE NORTH PORT 
  PRINCE TO THE NORTHERN BORDER OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC.  A 
  MONITORING OF MEANS THAT HURRICANE CONDITIONS ARE WAITING FOR 
  HURRICANE IN THE AREA UNDER SURVEILLANCE ... GENERALLY WITHIN THE 
  NEXT 36 HOURS. 

  At 5 PM EDT 2100UTC ... ... THE GOVERNMENT OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC HAS 
  CHANGED THE HURRICANE WARNING TO EAST BARAHONA TO A NOTICE 
  TROPICAL STORM.  A TROPICAL STORM WARNING IS NOW IN 
  EFFECT FOR THE SOUTH COAST OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC TO EAST 
  BAROHONA TO SANTO DOMINGO. 

  FOR INFORMATION SPECIFIC TO YOUR AREA ... INCLUDING POSSIBLE 
  SURVEILLANCE AND WARNINGS ... PLEASE MONITOR PRODUCTS ISSUED 
  BY YOUR LOCAL WEATHER OFFICE. 

  A LAS 500 PM EDT ... 2100Z ... THE CENTER OF TROPICAL STORM GUSTAV 
  LA WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 16.3 NORTH ... LONGITUDE 71.0 
  WEST OR AS TO 180 MILES ... 290 KM ... SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST OF PUERTO 
  PRINCE IN HAITI. 

  GUSTAV HE MOVES TOWARDS THE NORTHWEST TO NEAR 14 MPH ... 22 
  KM / HR ... AND IS EXPECTED A GRADUAL DECREASE IN THE NEXT DAY OR TWO. 
  PREDICTION IN THE BACKGROUND ... THE CENTER NEAR GASTAV will move 
  OR ON HAITI ON TUESDAY. 

  MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NEAR 60 MPH ... 95 
  ... Kilometers per hour with gusts stronger.  ARE ANY FORECAST 
  STRENGTHENING IN THE NEXT 24 HOURS AND COULD GUSTAV 
  BECOME A HURRICANE BEFORE TRAVELING TO EARTH. 

  WINDS TO TROPICAL STORM FORCE extends into 
  OUT TO 50 MILES ... 85 KM FROM THE CENTER. 

  ESTIMATED MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE IS 996 millibars 29.41 ... 
  INCHES.  

  HOPES THAT THE GUSTAV PRODUZCA AUMULACIONES RAIN OF 5 TO 7 
  ON THE SPANISH INCHES ... WITH ISOLATED MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF 15 
  25 INCHES.  Intense Rains THESE COULD PRODUCE FLOODING 
  Sudden and mudslides which jeopardize LIVES. 

  Repeat POSITION TO 500 PM AST ... 16.3 ... 71.0 NORTH WEST. 
  MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHWEST ... TO NEAR 14 MPH.  MAXIMUM WINDS 
  SUSTAINED ... 60 MPH.  MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE ... 996 millibars. 

  AN INTERMEDIATE WARNING WILL BE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR 
  HURRICANES TO 800 PM EDT FOLLOWED BY A WARNING TO COMPLETE 
  THE 1100 PM EDT. 

  $ $ 
  FORECAST PASCH 

Comment on August 25, 2008

In Section: Ecotourism Cienaga - Bahoruco, Community Projects, Corporate Community Network South West, Miscellaneous

We invite you to the Constituent Assembly of the Cooperative for the Development of La Cienaga (COODECI)

Receive a warm greeting from the Managing Committee of the Cooperative COODECI group. I hereby invite you to our Constituent Assembly that secelebrará with the aim is to stop acting as our Cooperative Development of La Cienaga (COODECI). The same will be held on Monday, Sept. 1 at 2:00 pm in El Manantial, in the C / Duarte (near the beach), La Cienaga, prov. Barahona.

The agenda of the Constituent Assembly will be as follows:

1. Welcoming remarks
2. Report of the Committee Manager
3. Reading and approval of the statutes
4. Creation of election commission
5. Holding of Elections
6. Delivery of the Managing Committee
7. Swearing in of the new Board of Directors
8. Remarks by the representation of IDECOOP
9. Signing of the Constitutive Act
10. Closure
We look forward to your participation.

Sincerely;

Danny Santana
Committee chairwoman Manager

Mildred Guevara
Committee secretary manager

Mayra Féliz
Treasurer Committee Manager

Comment on August 20, 2008

In Section: Ecotourism Cienaga - Bahoruco, Ecotourism Community Network South West

Luca Vasile arrives, a new intern with the foundation to support micro-credits of Ecotourism Community Cienaga and the Revolving Fund of the Red Enriquillo

On August 12 2008, arrived Luca Vasile, an intern Italian, to support us in the Community Ecotourism Project. Graduated Luca is in economics with experience in working with banks and formal mechanisms of credit. The just completed a master's degree in Development Economics and International Co-operation and will stay until the November 15 and will participate in the formulation of the basis for the regulation of the Fund of the Rotary Foundation and the Network Taiguey Enriquillo Ecotourism Community (REDEC) .

The Revolving Fund of the Red Enriquillo is donated by the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of the Dominican Republic and Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) with the "Project Araucaria XXI-Enriquillo." Taiguey Foundation is supporting the proposed REDEC with the work of this intern to develop the foundations of the mechanism to ensure that funds reach the community.

The micro-credit community is part of the ecotourism project of Cienaga, with which equates n ecotourism service providers of our project: to buy bedding, linens, etc. in the house of families, utensils and crockery to the person who cook , Equipment for guides and so on.

Luca in this picture is very thoughtful in full board meeting REDEC, Laura Perdomo (front Jaragua Group), Ferenando Urbaez (front SOEBA) and Vicky (aside Foundation Taiguey)

Comment on August 18, 2008

In Section: Networking & Events, Community Telecentre Guanaba.net, Telecentros Caribbean

Presenting the results of the monograph "The Centers for Collective Access (CACS or telecentres) to ICTs driven from the State Rep. Dominican "

This Thursday Aug. 7, 2008 in connection with the disclosure of a series of studies on access and use of Information Technology and Communication (part of the XII Inter-Agency Meeting on National Statistical System) presented the results of the monograph "The Collective Access Centers (CAC) to ICTs driven from the state "who carried out the Taiguey Foundation. This paper aims to conduct a quantitative and qualitative picture of the Cultural Access Group (CACS, telecentres) driven and / or supported by the state: coverage, performance, uses, performance, weaknesses and best practices and lessons learned. It aims to shed elements and indicators to monitor and trace patterns of public policies.

The lifting of the data was performed by:

• the implementation of a National Survey on-line and telephone lines to all of ACC country, during which he interviewed 300 of the 357 CACS identified in April 2007. These include the Community Technology Centers (CTC) - Office of the First Lady of the Republic, The Computer Training Center (ITC) - Instituto Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (INDOTEL), the Laboratory Schools Open to the Community (LAB) / CTC -- Secretary of State for Education, The Virtual Classroom (AVE) - Secretary of Education and Youth Information Center of the Ministry of Youth.
• Field visits and interviews with a sample of the ACC which operate outside the country representative of the average of the CACS in the country.
• The installation of electronic log, installed in a sample of sites selected (which collects data from all sexes users for one week)
• The visit to the websites of the various initiatives and consulting biographies concerning the issue.

The work also includes a proposal for an indicator for monitoring the coverage of demand (ideal) on the part of these institutions, which we define as the ratio between the hours available (supply) of access to ICTs and demand (a maximum ideal we define as 3 hours of use a week to 85% of poor people older than 5 years)

This is the presentation (powerpoint type but in PDF) of the results.

The final document is being revised for publication in the paper by the National Statistics Office and will be posted on this site when you are ready.

This has been a collaborative work made possible by the enthusiastic cooperation of staff of the Office for National Statistics-Jafmary Feliz, Benito Pilar, Luiscar Meregildo, Raul Ponce, Jose Luis Actis and Ramon Rodriguez, the staff of the Office of the First Lady -- Laura Encarnacion and Victor Alvarez, INDOTEL-Natacha Santos and Czech-Neil, and the Education Secretearía-Estanislao de la Cruz and Cristian Matias, and Amparo Arango of the National Commission on the Information Society. Equally grateful to / as hundreds of operators / ace of the centers that responded to our requests for information.

Comments on August 8, 2008

In Section: Networking & Events, Community Telecentre Guanaba.net

Transparency: report expenditures and revenues Guanaba.Net, March 07-July 08

The cost of operation of the telecentre Guanaba.Net able to be open 78 hours a week and provide community service is an average of 37,830 pesos a month. Since the beginning is levied on sales of services an average of 12,252 pesos a month. We offer many services for free (Internet access to students, all skills) and what they charge is well below the market price. It is obvious then that does not cover the running costs with revenues. If in 18 months we remain the only Internet access point to 20Km to the round, it is because the social reality of the rural economy of these communities can not afford those costs. But how is maintained if Guanaba.net spends more than it produces? . The costs are covered by: (a) the remainder of the fund that the company donated a Microsoft Taiguey for the project (b) what they pay the other projects of the Foundation for services (copying, Internet). And that .. we are not counting the 100% volunteer work (not charged, nor have costs covered) and several people (Vicky, Alexis and Yacine) and the effort of the entire Guan-team and community members. This is to maintain prices much cheaper than in the Cyber work and the development of skills for use with regard to the key stakeholders (teachers, organizations, etc.) and beyond chat and copy and paste ..

Anyway, and the fund available is coming to an end, and we must find solutions to keep Guanaba.net open. Better marketing, new projects and training content, improve the content and services offered, diversification of activities of the team, and seek new support ...

Download the financial report guanaba.net (March 2007-July 2008) in PDF

Entry-Exit relationship

Analysis of monthly income

Analysis of Fixed Expenses

VOLUNTEER WORK (this NOT PAY BUT if sehace - if they pay out so much:)
	Jan-08	Feb-08	Mar-08	Apr-08	May-08	Jun-08	Overall
Honoraria General Coordination (Vicky)	15000.0	15000.0	15000.0	15000.0	15000.0	15000.0	90000.0
Consultancy fees to Project (Yacine)	20000.0	20000.0	20000.0	20000.0	20000.0	20000.0	120000.0
Acomp fees. technical (Alexis)	10000.0	10000.0	10000.0	10000.0	10000.0	10000.0	60000.0
Electrical maintenance (Peje)	1000.0	1000.0	1000.0	1000.0	1000.0	1000.0	6000.0
Community Council (19 * 4 * 35)							0.0
Total	46000.0	46000.0	46000.0	46000.0	46000.0	46000.0	276000.0

Download the financial report guanaba.net (March 2007-July 2008) in PDF

Comment on August 4, 2008