Section: Networking & Events , Caribbean Telecentres
Project launch ACT! Ivate to establish the Alliance of Caribbean Telecentres (ACT!)
October 20, 2008
Taigüey Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of the project ACT! ivate. The project ACT! ivate aims to establish mechanisms and initially maintain bases and mechanisms of the Alliance of Caribbean Telecentres ((ACT!). This latter defined as a regional forum for exchange and OLLABORATION among Caribbean telecentres.'s project is initiated 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
The concept was defined in a process after the first Caribbean Telecentres Workshop , held in the Dominican Republic in July 2006 (see). During the workshop, some 70 operators / as and telecentres and actors / actresses key 15 Caribbean countries, identified the main challenges faced by their community telecentres projects, and explored what solutions and / joint actions could be done. A summary is found in document " Summary of workshop results CTW "
For more information see
http://www.taiguey.org/activate/indexesp.html
