 During April, 27 community members participated at the monthly Featured Community Contest at Telecentre-Europe’s community site. They blogged, published, shared, commented & flagged content, and 4 new persons joined the community.
3 featured members were awarded with a Gold, Silver and Bronze medal as WINNERS for February 2013:
- Gold Medal: Yakov Ostanin (Moscow, Russia) for publishing 3 stories, 2 videos and a photo album on GOW2013 that received comments and were widely visited
- Silver Medal: Magdalena Dimkova (Skopje, Macedonia) for publishing publishing 3 stories, 8 videos and a photo album on GOW2013 that received comments and were widely visited
- Bronze Medal: Karolina Jasvinaite (Vilnius, Lithuania) for publishing 4 stories, a video and a photo album on GOW2013 that received comments and were widely visited
» May’s Featured Member Contest is running: Contribute And You Will Be Featured!
» The Rules of the Game
 The response to Telecentre.org Foundation‘s call for entries to the 1st Global Telecentre Awards was overwhelming. As of the March 8 deadline, TCF received a total of 254 entries distributed in 6 different categories.
Of the total number of entries received, 48% are in Spanish, 37% in English, while the remaining 15% are a mixture of Arabic, Russian and French. Over the next few weeks, these entries will be subjected to an initial screening process by a special panel of evaluators to determine the top 3 semifinalists in each category.
Following this, an online voting will be held in April through TCF’s community websites to enable members to show their support for the nominated entries of their choice. Entries with the highest number of votes will be declared as the Global Community’s Choice awardees.
» Read more on our community site
 During February, 24 community members participated at the monthly Featured Community Contest at Telecentre-Europe’s community site. They blogged, published, shared, commented & flagged content, and 8 new persons joined the community.
3 featured members were awarded with a Gold, Silver and Bronze medal as WINNERS for February 2013:
- Gold Medal: Karolina Jasvinaite (Vilnius, Lithuania), who published the blogposts Safer internet day in LT: think twice, Buddy, before downloading! & “Safer internet” project in LT meets “Langas į ateitį” and the photo album Safer Internet trainings for children’s homes staff
- Silver Medal: Elzbieta Dydak (Warsaw, Poland), who published the blogposts How to disseminate the MIREIA survey? Best practices from Poland! and GOW scenarios – used in Poland in 2011 and 2012
- Bronze Medal: Mara Jakobsone (Riga, Latvia), who published the blogpost Active preparation for Get Online Week 2013 going on in Latvia and the photo album TE GA in Paris, 2013
» March Featured Member Contest is running: Contribute And You Will Be Featured!
» The Rules of the Game
TCF is down to the last two days of acceptance of entries to theGlobal Telecentre Awards. To date, they have received a total of 59 entries distributed among six categories namely: Telecentre,Telecentre Manager, Telecentre Network, Telecentre Initiative,Telecentre Innovation, and Information Access Center.
Entries to the awards should be made via a blog post in any of Telecentre.org Foundation’s online communities in English, Spanish, Arabic, Russian and French.
» For details, read the Awards guidelines.
Taking place for the first time this year, the Awards seek to recognize deserving individuals, networks and organizations in the global telecentre movement in a bid to push excellence in the delivery of ICT-based services to the communities in different parts of the world.
Major winners will get a chance to personally claim their award during the Spark event (also known as the 4th Global Forum on Telecentres) that will take place from May 28-29 in Granada, Spain.
» Read related announcement: TCF launches 1st Global Telecentre Awards
  It’s time to show your support once again for the outstanding players in the telecentre movement. Several telecentre projects have been nominated for the World Summit on Information Society Project Prizes 2013–including Telecentre.org Foundation’s own Telecentre Women: Digital Literacy Campaign – and they need your votes to win!
» To vote for the Telecentre Women: Digital Literacy Campaign in the category for Capacity Building (Category 4), click here.
» To read about and vote for projects from telecentre networks and partners, see the list on our community site
 During January, 13 community members participated at the monthly Featured Community Contest at Telecentre-Europe’s community site. They blogged, published, shared, commented & flagged content, and 6 new persons joined the community.
3 featured members were awarded with a Gold, Silver and Bronze medal as WINNERS for January 2013:
 Gold Medal: Elzbieta Dydak (Warsaw, Poland), who published the blogposts Why Poles need libraries?, MIREIA survey launched in Poland! and Library Development Program extended for one more year.- Silver Medal: Technical Secretary (Spain) who published the blogpost How to disseminate the MIREIA survey? Best practices from Spain!
- Bronze Medal: Jerôme Lamache (Caen, France), who published the blogpost How to disseminate the MIREIA survey? Best practices from France!
» February’s Featured Member Contest is running: Contribute And You Will Be Featured!
» The Rules of the Game
 Telecentre.org Foundation (TCF) and the National Information Society Agency (NIA) of Korea have announced the inclusion of an additional category in the 1st Global Telecentre Awards, a major initiative that seeks to recognize and celebrate the best players in the international telecentre arena.
Next to the already established categories of Best Global Telecentre, Telecentre Manager, Telecentre Network, Telecentre Initiative and Telecentre Innovation, the Best Information Access Center will be the sixth category in the Global Telecentre Awards sponsored by TCF, NIA and SPARK, in cooperation with the regional telecentre networks.
» Read more at our community site
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