 People, Innovation and Sustainability – these are the 3 major themes of Spark, the 4th Global Forum on Telecentres that will take place from May 28-29 in Granada, Spain.
During this 2-day event, you will get the chance to:
- learn from experts in ICT for development (ICT4D)
- build strategic partnerships
- explore new opportunities
- discover the latest technology and business models for telecentres
- develop new solutions and services
- showcase your work
Aside from plenary sessions, panels and workshops, Spark will also feature participatory activities and interactive spaces such as the Marketplace of Projects, the Telecentres of the World gallery, the Apps Lab exhibition space and The Hub which will be the main area of interaction. Take a peek at the program.
Hosted by Telecentre.org Foundation, Telecentre-Europe, Consorcio de los Rios -Red Guadalinfo, and the National Information Society Agency of Korea, Spark will bring together participants from the ICT4D sector as well as public and private agencies from all over the world.
» Registration is free, so come join us! To register, visit the Spark registration page.
» For more information and updates:
» For any questions or concerns, email spark@telecentre.org. See you at Spark!
 Coworking is growing in the Catalan Network of ICT Points. This new way of working has attracted the interest of some points of the Catalan network of telecentres and they are spreading the new model based on collaboration and synergies between workers.
One of them is an ICT point in the City of Girona “Emprèn Girona”. “Emprèn Girona” accompanies and advises entrepreneurs who have a business idea and want to implement it. They spawn on regular workshops and conferences related to team management, business presence on the Internet or legal issues. Within this cycle, a talk on coworking opportunities has been presented.
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 The upcoming 4th Global Forum on Telecentres, also known as Spark, that will take place from May 28-29, 2013 in Granada, Spain.
 Hosted by Telecentre.org Foundation, Telecentre-Europe, Comunidad de Redes de Telecentros, Red Guadalinfo, and the National Information Society Agency of Korea, Spark will bring together leading information and communication technology for development (ICT4D) and telecentre stakeholders to learn from each other, build strategic partnerships, explore opportunities, and develop solutions and services to extend the full benefits of ICT to underserved communities and individuals everywhere.
» Check out the Program
» Sign up at the registration page
» Find out more & flag your attendance at TE’s event page
 On wednesday February 27th the upcoming #Spark13 conference – also known as the 4th Global Forum on Telecentres - was presented at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.
The event, which was hosted by the Spanish journalist Paco Lobatón, was streamed live by the Spanish telecentre network Guadalinfo.
A first broadcast happened at 11h CET from the stand of Telefonica and a second broadcast took place at 13h30 CET from the stand of Vodafone.
A first intervention was done (in Spanish) by Vicente Fernández Guerrero, Secretary General of Innovation, Industry and Energy of the Ministry of Economy, Innovation, Science and Employment of the Government of Andalusia.
After, the heads of the Spark Organizing Committee each held a speech:
» Miguel Raimilla, Executive Director of Telecentre.org Foundation (TCF): The first part of his speech (in English) referred to the Spark conference and its characteristics. The second part of his speech (in Spanish) explained why Telecentre.org has chosen Andalusia to celebrate the global conference.
» Gabriel Rissola, Managing Director of Telecentre-Europe (TE). His speech (in English) explained what the European network is about and why the Spark conference is important for the strategic goals of the Digital Agenda for Europe.
» Juan Francisco Delgado, President of the Association of Community Telecentre Networks in Spain and Chief Executive Officer of the Guadalinfo Network.His speech (in Spanish) concluded the act and invited the audience to start living the Spark conference from now on, through the online channels and the twitter hashtag #Spark13.
» view pictures of the event (made by TEB Youth Association)
 In about 1 week time EOS Foundation managed to reach 1500 Romanian eInclusion actors and over 150 organizations have already filled the MIREIA survey. This was made possible through the use of mailing lists and an already established partners network.
According to the population figure for Romania, the MIREIA mapping exercise had established a minimum target of having 102 eInclusion actors to fill the survey. In no time, and with the help of national partners, the Romanian MIREIA branch EOS Foundation managed to supersede the minimum target with almost 50%!
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 The MIREIA mapping exercise has established minimum targets for each EU27 country, based on the population. For a big country like France, this results in trying to map a minimum of 325 French eInclusion actors.
At the end of week 3 and thanks to twitter, announcements on regional websites and through a private social network for their members, Créatif, our MIREIA partner in France, has already convinced 66 organizations to fill the survey, reaching 20% of the targeted challenge.
A good example of regional disseminations comes from the network of Lower-Normandy, where each manager was asked to publicly respond to the announcement, once they had completed the survey.
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 For the MIREIA survey, launched on January 2nd, Spain has reached in no time about 50% of the their target, as more then 100 Spanish eInclusion actors have already filled the survey. Their secret? A good organizational network structure of local & regional telecentres and an intensive use of social media.
TE’s member organization Community Association of Telecentre Networks (CATN) acts as the national MIREIA branch in Spain. It is a network of regional telecentre networks and groups of around 8.000 national telecentres. With this organizational structure already in place, Spain was able to use a two layer structure to disseminate the MIREIA survey: at first, the message was broadcasted by the Technical Secretariat of CATN and after, regional partners conducted their own outreach campaign among their network of contacts.
They also made an intensive use of social media, especially of Twitter, sending out 2 or 3 tweets a day about MIREIA, all with a different text or message.
» Read more at our community site
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