Foundation Taiguey

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 ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)

Barlin, informediador star Guanaba.net, participated last weekend in a workshop for young community leaders. Shares her story: "Here you have the report for the workshop jail. This workshop was sponsored by a project called "Build your dreams" of the peace corps and international plan. It had a duration of two days where he was working hard to transform a young individual of a facilitator The purpose of this is to train young people "community leaders" for having the ability to create a business plan and leave them with the ability to to serve as multipliers or other young people. One of the primary purposes of this project is to have facilitators who are in the ability to train young people to create business plan. (Read more ...)

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 ...)

At the invitation of the Peace Corps, which had about 40 volunteers gathered at a workshop, Vicky was to tell some of the lessons learned in this process Guanaba.Net began telling them: "Computers and the Internet alone does not make development, is not just about a problem of access to technology but of social engineering that allows the empowerment of the sexes actors / actresses for a process of meaningful transformation. (Read more ...)

Juan Carlos Rubio, the new coordinator for our community project "Ecotourism Cienega-Bahoruco" I participate in the workshop of the Dominican Network of Rural Tourism (REDOTUR) that are developing day 21 and June 22 2007 in The Pumpkin, Jarabacoa.

This is his report .... (Read more ...)

The ARAUCARIA project, an initiative of the Spanish Cooperation (AECI) and the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of the Dominican Republic, hired Taiguey Foundation to conduct a technical assistance of six months, in order to support the establishment of the RED Enriquillo ECOTOURISM COMMUNITY as a regional platform for consultation and coordination at the various initiatives ecotourism in the region. (Read more ...)

The Foundation Taiguey, who participates as a founding member in the regional process interesting, just created the mechanism for virtual link to / as members and sympathizers as the RED ON ECOTOURISM COMMUNITY Enriquillo. Currently, file exchanges, to support the process of building the network. We use the system in TakingITgloal http://groups.takingitglobal.org/red-enriquillo

Taiguey Foundation is part of the steering committee for the formation of a network of ecotourism in the region Erniquillo. (Read more ...)

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 ...)

The Foundation Taiguey brings to the Festival of Polo Organic Coffee with the realization of a web page (single) to support the event (3-4 June 2006) ...

Look www.festicafe.org.

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On April 21 we were participants of the constituent assembly to give birth to the Network of Non Governmental Organizations Region Enriquillo (REDONGRE). (Read more ...)

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