Foundation Taiguey

On Wednesday, September 3 2008 the respective boards of COODECI gathered and distributed the charges, 2 days after the successful constituent assembly. Later people are elected to the Constituent Assembly and their respective positions within the cooperative. Now, to work to realize the productive projects!
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The program "Gender, Agriculture and Rural Development in the Information Society" GenARDIS pre-selected our proposed project among the 230 it received. Of the 20 selected, 15 will be funded with over 7000 euro each. Ours is proposing to develop multimedia materials for training in ICT for women who manage rural cooperatives. We expect October to a final decision. This is the text of the announcement of GenARDIS (in English but I can translate it by clicking on the banner above right ...)

The Cooperative Group for the Development of La Cienaga was formally established in the Cooperative Agricultural and Multiple Services for the Development of La Cienaga (COODECI) in the Constituent Assembly held the first of September in the local spring, the municipality La Cienaga. Coodeci will be based organization to manage the activities of the two income generating projects (processing of fruits and ecotourism community) but can perform many other activities (such as savings and loans). This is a result of hard work the team of the Foundation Taiguey carried out with financial support from the Social Fund of the Embassy of France, the Environment Fund of the United Nations (PPS) and the newly confirmed support of the Foundation Intermaricana ( FIA). A big applause to the group manager for his work and for laying the Cienaga 'Forward!

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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.

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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) . (Read more ...)

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. (Read more ...)

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 .. ( Read more ...)

[July 22 2008] In a crowded ceremony, which was supported by the Directorate General of Computer Education, with the presence of teachers from different schools in the community, social organizations (Plan International) and Representatives of the Regional Directorate of the Ministry of Education of the Dominican Republic, it was the act of delivering educational software. The corporate donors were represented by the President of Dominican RutaCaribe, Mr. Paulino Ogando, a specialist in e-learning and information technology for development. . (Read more ...)

The initial computer courses for teachers "Information for Teachers I-ABC" will be given in July and August in the Telecentro Guanaba.net. The training offer this course has been developed from a consultative process to identify the needs of the sector and the process of methodological training team of Infomedia Guanaba.net with advice from Dr. Paulino Ogando, an expert in the area of Information Technology Education. (Read more ...)

The Foundation Taiguey coordinate with the School of Agricultural Offices, the Center for Research and Improvement of Animal Production, CIMPA, Santiago and organize community groups to take courses in Horticulture and processing of milk ... (Read more ...)

Subject to final approval of the Congress of the United States, the Inter-American Foundation (FIA) approved a grant to Taiguey Foundation for the project TRANSAGRO, in particular to provide training and technical assistance of the group of women from the community of La Cienaga, in Barahona , Which has been organized in order to establish the Cooperative for the Development of La Cienaga (COODECI). This June 17 were visiting Jenny Petrow, in charge of the FIA for the region, his assistant Theresa Logan and Sandra Lafontaine, verifying data. (Read more ...)

Delnet is a program to support local development of the International Training Center of the International Labor Organization, a United Nations agency responsible for promoting social justice, as well as labor standards and internationally recognized human rights. One of the Fellowship of the Inter-American Foundation - IAF was awarded to Victoria Rodriguez for a diploma course on "Local Development with a Gender Perspective" (Read more ...)

Are approaching national tests! Building on that Secretary of Education offers via the Internet exercises that serve as preparation for the National Tests Guanaba.net has prepared a series of workshops to learn how to use the website of the clinics. They also reinforce the content in the classroom worked with the clinics. It does not matter if you do not know how to use computers (Read more ...)

The team of Infomedia Guanaba.net, led by Dr. Paulino Ogando, a specialist in pedagogy and educational computing, is developing the training supply of Guanaba.net based on the philosophy of constructivist learning. The new offer of Guanaba.net envisages the development of skills curriculum uses of information technologies and communication for teachers, grassroots organizations, students and young children. (Read more ...)