Vision and aims

Across the wider European region, almost 300 million people live in digital exclusion. We all know someone who is not connected to our information society. Yet, without strong action, this situation is seemingly accepted, since it is not ‘life-threatening’ and doesn’t impact negatively on their life in any immediately noticeable way. Some may even be happy to be disconnected, and relish the freedom from the modern world that their disjuncture from technology provides for them. In today's knowledge based society however, digital technologies represent a gateway to economic and social development, and without it their future potential is limited.

Telecentre-Europe aspires to play a prominent role in the development of a Europe-wide movement for change that will help us bring digital opportunity and equity to all European citizens. The network exists to provide the next 292m Europeans with the information skills, motivation and access that they need to benefit from, and contribute to, the knowledge economy.

We intend to realize this vision by working with telecentre networks and development partners in every European country by 2010. Telecentre-Europe contributes explicitly to European Commission and global development agencies' goals, including the Lisbon agenda, i2010, the Riga declaration and the UN Millennium Development Goals.

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ATEL VZW - Belgium

Developing and organizing activities (training and job counselling in the broadest sense) which improve the knowledge of new technologies, languages and telemar-keting for specific target groups. ATEL is a non-profit organisation in the city of Antwerp.

Civitas Foundation for Civil Society - Romania

Civitas - Romania

Civitas Foundation was founded in October 1992 to enhance local government capacity and to stimulate citizens involvement in decision making and local govern-ance.

DoIT - Belgium

In response to the growing need to tackle social exclusion and long term unemployment in Belgium, the DO IT initiative brings together the expertise and resources of 11 NGOs in a network of community technology learning centres throughout Belgium.