 On March 18th at 00:00 CET the Get Online Week 2013 (#GOW2013) campaign counter was set to zero. In a joined effort to empower people to use technology to find a job or get more out of life, thousands of Europeans will be reached during the Pan-European campaign that will end on March 24th, at 24h CET.
Together with public authorithies & ICT companies, national campaign partners from almost 30 countries are organizing a whole week of exciting events, training sessions and competitions, taking place in approximately 10.000 European ICT learning centres (also known as telecentres) at public libraries, schools & municipal organisations, located in both urban and rural areas. Continue reading »
With less than 40 days left till Get Online Week 2013 (18-24 March) will start all over Europe, in Latvia the preparation activities have reached their peak.
As in previous years, the GOW 2013 in Latvia is coordinated by the Latvian Information and communication Technology association (LIKTA), together with The Ministry of Environment Protection and regional development.
Already more than 100 partners from the public sector, the ICT industry and the NGO sector have signed up for the week activities, offering different e-Skills and e-services related trainings, competitions, workshops and online seminars.
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 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!
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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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 In Macedonia, senior citizens are engaged through the Third Age University, an organization that relies on volunteers, filled with cooperation, friendship, learning & exchange of experiences.
On January 11th, TE’s member Open the Windows participated in one of the regular educational meetings that are held every friday at the Faculty of Philosophy.
They held a lecture about Social Media and introduced the attendees to Skype and Facebook.
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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.
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 During November-December, 31 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 Top Members were awarded with a Gold, Silver and Bronze medal as WINNERS for November-December 2012:
 Gold Medal: Ion Braga (Razeni, Republic of Moldova), who published the blogposts The Global Libraries program goes very well in Moldova & Training for the digital inclusion of the rehabilitation centers for children and youth with SEN in Moldova and the photo album IT courses for librarians trainers of the regional training centers.- Silver Medal: Mara Jakobsone (Riga, Latvia) who published the blogpost Speed dating with the European Digital Champions in Brussels
- Bronze Medal: Karolina Jasvinaite (Vilnius, Lithuania), who published the blogpost The “IT for Your Tomorrow” event results see the daylight in Lithuania
» January’s Featured Member Contest is running: Contribute And You Will Be Featured!
» The Rules of the Game
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