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Presentation of the results of the monograph "The Collective Access Centres (CACs or telecentres) to ICT driven from the State in Dominican Republic"

August 8, 2008

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 the National Statistical System ) presented the results of the monograph "The Collective Access Centres (CAC) to ICT driven from the state "that made Taigüey Foundation. This work aims to perform a quantitative and qualitative picture of the Collective Access Centres (CACs, telecentres) 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.

Rise of the data using:

implementation of a National Survey online and telephone to all CAC in the 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) - National Telecommunications Institute (INDOTEL) Laboratories Open to the Community School (LAB) / CTC - Secretary of State for Education, Virtual Classrooms (AVE) - Secretary of Education and Youth Information Centres of the Ministry of Youth.
Field visits and interviews with a sample of the CAC of the country whose performance was representative of the average of the CACs in the country.
The installation of electronic log, installed in a selected sample of schools (which collects data from all / as users for a week)
The visit to the websites of the various initiatives and biographies consultation on the topic.

The work also includes a proposal for a monitoring indicator of demand coverage (ideal) by these centers, which we define as the ratio between the hours available (supply) of access to ICTs and demand (the highest ideal defined as 3 hours of use per week for 85% of the poor more than 5 years)

This is the presentation (powerpoint type but in PDF) of the results .

The final document is being revised for publication in part by the National Statistics Office and will be posted on this website when ready.

This has been a collaborative work made possible by the enthusiastic collaboration of staff from the Office for National Statistics-Jafmary Feliz, Benita Pilar, Luiscar Meregildo Raul Ponce, Jose Luis Actis and Ramon Rodriguez-staff of the Office of the First Lady - Laura Incarnation and Victor Alvarez-Santos INDOTEL-Natasha and Neil Czech-and-Education Secretearía Estanislao de la Cruz and Cristian Matias, and Amparo Arango of the National Commission on Information Society. Also thank the / as hundreds of operators / as centers that responded to our requests for information.