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'Regional Projects (Caribbean)'
In Section: Networking & Events, Community Telecentre Guanaba.net, Telecentres of the Caribbean (8 Aug'08)
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 ...)
In Section: Networking & Events, Telecentros Caribbean (31 Mar'08)
In March, we traveled to Lima, Peru, to participate in a workshop organized by the Peruvian Center for Social Studies - CEPES to discuss and review the planning and goals of the project "Help Telecentre Operators".. This project seeks to develop skills of those responsible for the telecentres, strengthen them as actors in development and to promote working in a network. After the workshop decided to establish a collaboration between the project "Help Telecentre Operators of CEPES and the draft ACT! IVATE support the creation of the Caribbean Alliance ACT! driven by Foundation Taiguey. (Read more ...)
In Section: CARISNET (Caribbean Networking ICT), Networks and Events (18 Mar'08)
With a workshop of the Consortium partners CARISNET in Jamaica (March 16-17) kicks off the project CARISNET 2, subtitled "Integrating and strengthening of the actors in the TICpD in the Caribbean, unleash the transformative potential of ICT in the region." The project's overall objective is to contribute to social and economic development in the Caribbean region, by strengthening the capacities of the sexes local players for the actions of regional cooperation initiatives in critical TICpD in the Caribbean. Before concluding, the project will succeed in establishing the foundation and develop a work plan for the consolidation of the Virtual Community of Caribbean players ICT (CIVIC) as a regional mechanism for promoting knowledge exchange, capacity building and collaboration among the actors Caribbean ICT .. The Foundation Taiguey assumes the coordination of project implementation. (Read more ...)
In Section: Telecentres Caribbean (13 Mar'08)
This day on March 13, Yacine Khelladi Executive Coordinator of the Foundation Taiguey, I present the draft of the Caribbean Alliance Telecentre ACT! Ivate to the participants of the first Conference of the network of telecentres in Jamaica (Jamaica Community Center Multimedia Conference) . The objective of the proposed Act! Ivate is to build and sustain the internal mechanisms of the Alliance of the Caribbean Community Telecentres (ACT!) That is seen as a regional framework for sharing and promoting collaboration between telecentres in the Caribbean. The project is scheduled to begin mid-2008 with financial support from telecentre.org (Read more ...)
In Section: CARISNET (Caribbean ICT Networking), Miscellaneous (7 Aug'06)
Dear Colleagues: (SPANISH-plus bas Francais / English below)
We are happy to announce the launch of the Resource Center TICpD Caribbean http://clearinghouse.carisnet.org, CARISNET a result of the project funded by the Institute for Connectivity in the Americas (ICA) (Read more ...)
In Section: Networking & Events, Telecentros Caribbean (21 May'06)
The Foundation Taiguey to get the support of several institutions to organize a workshop of the Regional Community Telecentres. The 3-day workshop held in Santo Domingo at 20-22 dated July 2006, about 30 actors of the Caribbean Community Telecenters, with the aim of structuring a regional framework for sharing, learning and collective action. But in www.taiguey.org / CTW. (Read more ...)
In Section: Bohio, Networks and Events (7 Apr'06)
The day on April 4 presented the draft Bohio at the fair binational Dajabon and invite binational networks and groups to be closer to users of the virtual platform for dialogue binational
In Section: CARISNET (Caribbean ICT Networking) (1 May'05)
Launching the Project / Projet du Lancement / Launch Project
CARISNET
