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Presenting the results of the monograph "The Centers for Collective Access (CACS or telecentres) to ICTs driven from the State Rep. Dominican"
8 August 2008
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.
The lifting of the data was performed by:
- the implementation of a National Survey on-line and telephone lines to all of ACC country, during which he interviewed 300 of the 357 CACS identified in April 2007. These include the Community Technology Centers (CTC) - Office of the First Lady of the Republic, The Computer Training Center (ITC) - Instituto Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (INDOTEL), the Laboratory Schools Open to the Community (LAB) / CTC -- Secretary of State for Education, The Virtual Classroom (AVE) - Secretary of Education and Youth Information Center of the Ministry of Youth.
- Field visits and interviews with a sample of the ACC which operate outside the country representative of the average of the CACS in the country.
- The installation of electronic log, installed in a sample of sites selected (which collects data from all sexes users for one week)
- The visit to the websites of the various initiatives and consulting biographies concerning the issue.
The work also includes a proposal for an indicator for monitoring the coverage of demand (ideal) on the part of these institutions, which we define as the ratio between the hours available (supply) of access to ICTs and demand (a maximum ideal we define as 3 hours of use a week to 85% of poor people older than 5 years)
This is the presentation (powerpoint type but in PDF) of the results.
The final document is being revised for publication in the paper by the National Statistics Office and will be posted on this site when you are ready.
This has been a collaborative work made possible by the enthusiastic cooperation of staff of the Office for National Statistics-Jafmary Feliz, Benito Pilar, Luiscar Meregildo, Raul Ponce, Jose Luis Actis and Ramon Rodriguez, the staff of the Office of the First Lady -- Laura Encarnacion and Victor Alvarez, INDOTEL-Natacha Santos and Czech-Neil, and the Education Secretearía-Estanislao de la Cruz and Cristian Matias, and Amparo Arango of the National Commission on the Information Society. Equally grateful to / as hundreds of operators / ace of the centers that responded to our requests for information.
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