Telecentre Europe

Get Online Week 2012: become a national partner & participate in the grant scheme!

Get Online Week 2012 is a campaign organised by Telecentre-Europe supported by the European Commission and a number of international organisations, including Microsoft, Liberty Global, European Broadcasting Union and Telecentre.org.

The annual Europe wide campaign will run between 26th and 30th March 2012, aiming to bring and engage people online. The campaign will help new internet users, and encourage existing users to take full advantage of a series of online applications and services that enhance the quality of their lives. Campaign activities will be mainly targeted towards older people, youth, unemployed and SMEs.

To achieve the desired objectives, this year Telecentre-Europe is organizing a grant scheme available to all Get Online Week national partners, where partners can get 2,500 EUR for reaching the targets.

Guidelines for national partners & telecentres and other resources like visuals and the official logo can be downloaded from the campaign’s website.

» Read more about the grant scheme

Telecentre.org Foundation becomes a member of ITU

Telecentre.org Foundation gained another distinction this year when it received membership status to the International Telecommunication Union’s Telecommunication Development Sector (ITU-D).

As a member of the ITU, TCF joins a prestigious network of more than 700 ICT regulators, policy-makers, and industry and academic experts across the globe. Among the benefits TCF will receive as part of this membership are access to the latest trends and information through the Telecommunication Information Exchange Service and eligibility to participate in all activities of the ITU Development Sector.

» View a complete list of the ITU-D’s newest members.

ICT Development Bulgaria Association (ICTD BG)

ICT Development Bulgaria Association (ICTD BG) is a non-profit public benefit organization focusing on implementing research and initiatives in the field of improving citizen access to ICTs and competitive solutions, as well as raising the professional competencies of citizens through accumulation and dissemination of innovative applications and ICT-based educational content to different target groups.

The organizations employs the participation of professionals in the fields of program management, education, innovation and research and has significant experience and expertise in the elaboration, realization and distribution of digitally-enhanced training tools and programs that foster the adaptability of adult workers to the conditions of the market.

ICTD Bulgaria works closely with ECDL Bulgaria in providing testing and ECDL certifications in the area of ICT skills, operates a licensed testing centre and has established viable partnerships with the Laboratory of Telematics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the Bulgarian Library and Information Association (BLIA).

Telecentre-Europe’s Summit 2011 in “Diary of a Digital Activist”

UK based Digital Activist Inclusion Network (DAIN) made a documentary about their volunteers study trip to Belgium between 25th and 28th October 2011. In Brussels, they filmed their visit at Interface3 and their attendance at Telecentre-Europe’s Summit.

DAIN volunteer interviews about their experiences at the Telecentre-Europe Summit run from 7:15 to about 10:00 within the documentary and their visit to Telecentre-Europe’s member organization Interface3 runs from 1:20 to about 4:11.

» view the video at our community site

Members Only meeting for future strategic planning

Telecentre-Europe AISBL is organizing a strategy-planning meeting with the decision makers of all its member organizations on 23-24 February in Berlin.

The meeting will be a collaborative intense planning exercise for the next 5 years. Telecentre-Europe will cover travel and accommodation expenses for one person per member organization through travel grants of up to €600 if required.

» Become a member of Telecentre-Europe AISBL

Telecentre-Europe AISBL welcomes six new member organizations

2012 took a marvelous start with six new organizations signing up as formal member organizations of Telecentre-Europe AISBL.

Five organizations are located in countries that were not yet represented: Internet Saloon (Italy), Digidel 2013 (Sweden), ECP-EPN Foundation (The Netherlands), Open the Windows (Macedonia) and FIT Ltd. (Ireland). As for Denmark, we now also count with The Association of Danish Senior Citizens representing their country at Telecentre-Europe AISBL.

» Join us as a formal member organization
» Become a national partner in Gete Online Week 2012 and participate in our grants scheme

The Association of Danish Senior Citizens (Aeldremobiliseringen)

Aeldremobiliseringen – The Association of Danish Senior Citizens – is an umbrella organisation consisting of the four major senior citizens organisations in Denmark. They again, consist of more than 1250 local organisations, with more than 330,000 members – all over 60.

Aeldremobiliseringen operates CTI Network with over 170 Telecentres, we have approx. 1,000 voluntary instructors and approx. 7,000 students. All tuition is free – minimum requirement; students and instructors must be over 60 years old.