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 The Digital Agenda for Europe Engagement Platform is the online forum launched by Commissioner Neelie Kroes in contribution to the second Digital Agenda Assembly (DAA) that will take place in Brussels next 21-22 June .
The forum was launched on April 19th and contains 10 discussion groups on key Digital Agenda for Europe (DAE) topics, most of which correspond to workshops that will be held at the Digital Agenda Assembly: converged media; broadband; e-commerce; social media; cloud; data; security; innovation and entrepreneurship; digital public services and jobs & skills.
Telecentre-Europe was invited to especially contribute to the critical discussion about what ICT can do for jobs in Europe, as the commission is looking for good practices that can scale, challenges that are in the way, and solutions that can make a difference. Deputy Chair Ian Clifford contributed to the forum with a discussion on the ‘grey area’ between ICT and employability that is recognized in the pedagogy of the youth self-assessment tool Skillage.
The discussions on the forum will have an important impact as they will be taking to the physical Digital Agenda Assembly meeting, that in turn will feed in to the mid-term review of the Digital Agenda for Europe that he European Commission is currently preparing and plans to adopt in October 2012. For this reason, European officials responsible for the DAE will participate in the platform, interacting and actively following the online debate.
 Telecentre.org Foundation is seeking applications from bi-lingual and English Writers to contribute in the preparation of a book on telecentre women. It will be the responsibility of these Writers to draft brief and clear profiles of telecentre women managers for publication.
Applicants are asked to send in their resume and links to or copies of writing samples to recruitment@telecentre.org by Monday, May 28, 2012.
For more information on the position and details on how to apply, please download the full Terms of Reference for each specific position listed below:
- English-Portuguese Writer
- English-Spanish (Latin America) Writer
- English-Arabic Writer
- English-French Writer
- English-Sinhala Writer
- English- Thai Writer
- English-Spanish (Europe) Writer
- English-Russian Writer
- English only Writer
 Today, May 17th is World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) and Telecentre.org Foundation (TCF) is celebrating this day with two separate workshops in Geneva and Bangkok, respectively.
The World Telecommunication and Information Society Day – better known as “Internet Day” was established to help raise awareness of the possibilities that the use of the Internet and other information and communication technologies (ICT) can bring to societies and economies, as well as of ways to bridge the digital divide. The 2012 theme of ”Women and Girls in ICT” aims to ensure that females (i.e. half of the world’s population) will be empowered to be equals in the information or smart society for all.
In Switzerland, TCF Executive Director Miguel Ramilla will be hosting, together with Sudan Telecentre, a thematic workshop on the
“Role of telecentre.org and Sudan telecentres in community development” at the
World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). They will be joined by Susan Schorr of the ITU, who will present the
Telecentre Women: Digital Literacy Campaign. The workshop takes place in room V between 11:00 – 12:45 and can be followed live through remote participation.
In Thailand, TCF will participate in the
ITU Asia-Pacific Regional Development Forum to be held on May 16-18. TCF Director of Operations Tess Camba will serve as a discussant in the Panel Discussion focusing on this year’s WTISD theme of
“Women and Girls in ICT”.
 After gathering all national partner campaign reports, Telecentre-Europe has now published the general campaign report for Get Online Week 2012.
Apart from results and statistics about the 200.000 people reached by the campaign this year, the report also answers the question “Why a Get Online campaign? – Isn’t everybody online yet in Europe?”:
“The digital gap in Europe is closing slowly, but there are still more than 200 million people in Europe (120 million in the EU only) who are not using the internet. The ones that are still offline, are those who are either most isolated from access and knowledge, or most resistant to the new technologies and lifestyle. To understand this figure better, have a look at a brand new infographic of the state of digital inclusion in Europe developed by Liberty Global, WeAreWhatWeDo, and Telecentre- Europe.”
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 During the month of April, Telecentre-Europe launched a contest among the national partners of Get Online Week 2012 for the best report of the organized activities. PH International of Russia came out as the absolute winner and wins the award of 2000€, followed by the partners in Latvia & Lithuania on equal footing and by another ex aequo of Germany & Moldova. Congratulations to the winner, and to all the national partners that submitted reports!
 Participants could win numerous points by entering different elements (a general report, success stories, photos, videos and a media coverage report). View the report of the jury and the complete list of detailed scores per country. In total, 21 countries participated in the competition. It revealed that lots of smart, original and engaging activities were organized during Get Online Week 2012, for different target groups and around the themes of intergenerational learning, youth employability, active aging, civic participation, social engagement and women in ICT.
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 Telecentre.org Foundation’s Community Learning Program has been declared a winner of one of the 18 project prizes of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) taking place this week in Geneva, Switzerland (14-18 May). More than 170 projects from 50 countries were nominated.
 The prizes, which are being awarded for the first time this year, recognize excellence in the implementation of projects and initiatives which further the goals of WSIS in improving connectivity to information and communication technologies (ICTs) in line with the 11 Action Lines laid out in the
Tunis Agenda agreed at WSIS in 2005.
The Community Learning Program won under the category “Cultural diversity and identity, linguistic diversity and local content”. Telecentre.org Foundation (TCF) will be formally presented with the award later this week at the WSIS Summit.
Congratulations to the winners and a big thanks to the TCF Community Learning Coordinators and telecentre.org community members for their continued efforts in helping this community grow and stay vibrant over the years. Well done, everyone!
» Read the full article at Telecentre.org Foundation’s community site
 As a part of the European Institutions Open Day on May 12, the European Commission opened the doors of its headquarters at the Berlaymont building in Brussels, Belgium. Telecentre-Europe – represented by its Belgian member organization Interface3 – was invited to take part in the booth devoted to ICT & digital literacy organized by the Information Society and Media Directorate General (DG INFSO)
The special open doors day – just like every year for the past 20 years – attracted between 30.000 and 50.000 people, mainly families with children and young teenagers. 
This year, DG INFSO sent out the message that ICT skills are good for employability in various sectors, in ICT but also beyond. Telecentre-Europe contributed to this message by presenting Skillage – offering the public to test his or her (digital) skills to get hired in today’s labourmarket – and the Employment Toolkit – a set of great online resources that help people to choose, prepare for, and successfully get the job of their dreams. Continue reading »
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