Taiguey Foundation

Ceci est une initiative of débat électronique expérimentale portant sur des Règles et procédures pour une participation efficace des communautés dans l'aménagement local du Parc National La Visite et de la Foret des Pins ainsi that the structuration of Haïtienne partie du Corridor Biologique Caribbean. Cette discussion en ligne du 11 mai au s'échelonne 31 Juillet 2009. Elle est par piloted a committee in May intégral des techniciens des Institutions de pilotage qui sont: le Ministère de l'Environnement, Fondation Seguin, Helvetas Haiti, the Fondation Groupe 73, Le Groupe et le Medialternatif UNDP. We support virtuel, web et Moderation sont Taiguey of Foundation (Read more ...)

On Thursday April 16 held the first meeting / workshop of Collective Access Centres to ICTs Enriquillo Region in South facilities Youth Foundation, in Barahona under the coordination of the Technical Unit of the C omission National Information Society (CNSIC) of the Dominican Republic and the Foundation Taiguey. The meeting is part of the establishment of the National Network and the Commonwealth of Dominican Cacts , which seeks to enhance the sustainability and social impact of technology centers through joint capacity building, exchange of experiences, tools and best practices the managers and operators of the technology centers. The same was attended by 80 operators / managers as and / as Community Technology Centers (Cacts) INDOTEL promoted by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Youth in the provinces of Pedernales, Bahoruco, Barahona and Independencia. (Read more ...)

On February 5th we were invited to present at the event CARIBBEAN WINDS UNIBE that university sponsorship. Here is the presentation: Perspectives on ICT research from a civil society organization

Atra mine! Is a funny play by an invitation to reflect on our role as citizens, and how to participate, "opening the eye" and supervising the public administration can achieve higher living standards. This search stage is a mirror of our reality, where all and all are part of the problem and the solution to corruption, cronyism, and socio-economic plight of our south-west.

The work is one result of the "Bringing Congress to the Southwest through art" which aims to raise awareness and promote reflection on the part as community, municipalities and municipal districts of the province of Barahona, in the leading role and pro-active citizenship in the monitoring and control of public management and the work of Congress. Taiguey Produced by the Foundation, under the direction of Miguel Ramirez, with performances by Vicente Santos, Victoria and Manuel Apolinario Raposo. Written by Carlos Castro and contributions from Vicky Apolinario and Miguel Ramirez, with a language and cultural references adapted to the target audience (rural and semi-urban areas of south west)

LAST SUBMISSION: FRIDAY, March 13, 2009, South Young, area Savic BARAHONA

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Taiguey Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of Project ACT! ivate. The project ACT! ivate aims to establish mechanisms and initially maintain bases and mechanisms of the Alliance of Caribbean Telecentres ((ACT!). The latter defined as a regional forum for exchange and OLLABORATION between telecentres in the Caribbean.'s project is launched thanks to the support of telecentre.org a joint initiative of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC-Canada), the Swiss Cooperation Department and Microsoft Corporation . For more information see page @ vite Act
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The "Gender, Agriculture and Rural Development in the Information Society" GenARDIS pre-selected our proposal for the project among the 230 it received. Of the 20 selected, 15 will be financed with about 7,000 euro each. Ours plans to develop multimedia materials for ICT training for women who run rural cooperatives. We look forward to October 1st final decision. This is the text of the announcement of GenARDIS (in English but can be translated by clicking on the banner at the top right ...)

This Thursday August 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 Centres (CAC) to ICT driven from the State "that made the Taiguey Foundation. This work aims to conduct a quantitative and qualitative picture of the Collective Access Centres (CACs, telecenters) driven and / or supported by the state: coverage, operational performance, use, operation, weaknesses, best practices and lessons learned. Aims to shed elements and indicators to monitor and trace patterns of public policy. (Read more ...)

The cost of operating the telecentre Guanaba.Net to be open 78 hours a week and provide community service is a monthly average of 37.830 pesos. From the beginning it collects from sales of services an average of 12.252 pesos per month. We offer many services free of charge (Internet access to students, all training) and what they charge is well below the market price. It is then obvious that income do not cover current expenditures. If in 18 months we are still 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 the cost. But how do you keep Guanaba.net if you spend more than it produces? . The costs are covered by: (a) what is the fund that the company won Microsoft to Taiguey for the project (b) that pay for other projects of the Foundation for services (copying, internet). And that .. that we are not counting the 100% volunteer work (not charged, nor have expenses covered) several people (Vicky, Alexis and Yacine) and the efforts of all the Guan-team and community members. This is what keeps prices far cheaper than in the Cyber and work skills development for a meaningful use led to key stakeholders (educators, 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 Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales - CEPES to discuss and review the planning and goals of the project "Assistance Service Call Centre Operators.. This project seeks to develop capabilities for call center managers, strengthening and development actors working to promote networking. After the workshop decided to establish a cooperation agreement between the project "Assistance Service Call Centre Operators" of CEPES and the draft ACT! IVATO support the creation of the Caribbean Alliance ACT! driven Taiguey Foundation. (Read more ...)

Barlin, informediador Guanaba.net star, took part last weekend in a workshop for young community leaders. He tells us his experience: "Here, I have the report for the workshop Cachote. This workshop was sponsored by a project called "Build your dreams" Peace Corps and international plan. Lasted two days where we worked hard to transform a young individual of a facilitator The purpose of this is to train young "community leaders" to have the ability to create a business plan and leave with the ability serve as multipliers or other youth. 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) CarISnet Start Project 2, subtitled "Integrating and strengthening the TICpD actors in the Caribbean, unleash the transformative potential of ICT in the Region." The project objective is to contribute to social and economic development in the Caribbean region by strengthening the capacities of the / as local players for the actions of regional cooperation initiatives TICpD criticism from the Caribbean. Before concluding, the project will achieve the bases and develop a work plan for the consolidation of the Virtual Community of Caribbean ICT stakeholders (CIVIC), as a regional mechanism to promote knowledge sharing, capacity building and collaboration among actors Caribbean ICT .. Taiguey Foundation 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 went to tell some of the lessons learned in this process Guanaba.Net began by saying, "Computers and the Internet alone do not do development, not is only a problem of access to technology, but social engineering that enables the empowerment of / as actors / actresses for a significant transformation process. (Read more ...)

Juan Carlos Rubio, the new community coordinator for our project "Eco-Bahoruco Cienega" participated in the workshop of the Dominican Network of Rural Tourism (REDOTUR) that development on 21 and June 22, 2007 in Los Calabazos, Jarabacoa.

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The Araucaria Project , an initiative of the Spanish Cooperation (AECI) and the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of Dominican Republic, hired Taiguey Foundation for a six-month technical assistance, to support the establishment of COMMUNITY ECOTOURISM NETWORK ENRIQUILLO as a regional platform for consultation and coordination at the various ecotourism initiatives in the region. (Read more ...)

Taiguey Foundation, who participated as a founding member in interesting regional process, just create the virtual mechanism for joint / as members, girls and supporters ENRIQUILLO ECOTOURISM NETWORK COMMUNITY. Documents, file exchange, support the process of building the network. We used the TakingITgloal in http://groups.takingitglobal.org/red-enriquillo