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Silvia Caicedo's Blog
Telecentres are for sissies... we are told
Angelo Ramos, a key leader of the telecentre movement in the Philippines has prepared a short digital documentary/commentary giving us his personal perspective on who belongs and uses telecentres. It questions the gendered perception of how telecentres or public access points are used.
It is well done and very thoughtful, enjoy and spread the word... we are sissies and proud of it!
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It is well done and very thoughtful, enjoy and spread the word... we are sissies and proud of it!
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Posted on January 7, 2010 at 12:00am —
A new book looking at the experience of telecentres in Europe
A new book entitled "SUTURING THE DIGITAL GASH: A European transnational project" has been published and it is available for download on this site (telecentre.org) thanks to the kind contribution of Gabriel Rissola from the Fundació Ciutat de Viladecans. The link to the book is below.… Continue
Posted on March 19, 2009 at 11:30pm —
The book "Wireless Networking in the Developing World" is now available
Last October, 2008: The WNDW team announced the release of the third Spanish translation of Wireless Networking in the Developing World. This is the latest contribution to the growing collection of WNDW translations, which also include English, Arabic, French, and Italian.
In the developing world, one book can often be equivalent to a library. Access to books is difficult where there are few libraries or book stores, and there is often little money to pay for them. By releasing this book for fr… Continue
In the developing world, one book can often be equivalent to a library. Access to books is difficult where there are few libraries or book stores, and there is often little money to pay for them. By releasing this book for fr… Continue
Posted on January 14, 2009 at 1:04pm —
The Future of Google Book Search
Some of you may have already heard that Google finally reached an agreement with authors and publishers (settling in court for over $125 million) to be able to expand their Google Books service. Now they will start to offer their still in copyright scanned books for purchase (out-of-copyright books are free). For now this agreement is only binding in the US.
The implications of this agreement are important to people who cannot normally access prohibitively expensive books. Students, researchers… Continue
The implications of this agreement are important to people who cannot normally access prohibitively expensive books. Students, researchers… Continue
Posted on December 22, 2008 at 2:30pm —
Publication of practical guide to computer recycling
UNESCO is launching a free practical guide to computer recycling for entrepreneurs and project sponsors, on the occasion of a conference on Digital Solidarity being held in Lyon (France). UNESCO's partners in this project are the French Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME), French consultants Tic Ethic, non-governmental organizations, Emmaüs Solidarité Ouagadougou and Ateliers du Bocage, along with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).
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The publication of th… Continue
Posted on December 3, 2008 at 2:42pm —
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- Silvia Caicedo works as a Program Officer with telecentre.org. Her responsibilities include programming and project development for Latin America and the Caribbean in for telecentre.org.
telecentre.org is a global community of people and organizations committed to increasing the social and economic impact of grassroots telecentres. Learn more about telecentre.org in the “About” section of this website.
Silvia has worked in the international development field since 1997. Her knowledge and experience cover many areas: ICTs for development, online and F2F facilitation, organizational change, monitoring and evaluation, gender issues in ICTs, natural resources management, echohealth, and water quality monitoring.
She developed and implemented the AQUAtox project, an International School Network on Water Toxicity, which now is managed by the PanAmerican Health Organization. For more detailed information about the project visit: http://www.cepis.org.pe/aquatox/
Her academic training cuts across a number of disciplines at recognized universities in Canada and abroad (Ecuador). Fields include: Teacher’s Training, Education and Languages (B.Ed); International Development, Sociology and Gender Analysis (B.A & M.A). Master’s degree focused on the gender, cultural and relational changes taking place in Newfoundland in the wake of the cod crisis.
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- ICTs for development, online and F2F facilitation, organizational change, monitoring and evaluation, gender issues in ICTs, natural resources management, echohealth, and water quality monitoring.
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- english, spanish, portuguese, french, german,
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These are local champions from different countries, who, regardless of their educational status and personal circumstances, have dared to do something different to empower themselves, their organizations, and the communities around them.
It is interesting to learn how to make computer learning accessible to the poor especially those who only had a few years of primary education and are adults, especially the women.
Information and Communication Technology for for Development
A location managed by Ugabytes and supported by telecentre.org, where members can ask questions or provide responses to telecentre management, content & service development, training, technical, fundraising or evaluation issues.
Also, we might want to say that the position is based in Delhi (preferably)... if we fail to find a candidate from Delhi, we might look for one in Manila.
cheers
Shadrach
This group will bring notices/announcements of job and career opportunities in different ICT4D (and development) organizations around the World. Please feel free to post your notices here too.
This group would share information on awards or grant opportunities from different organizations across the World. Please feel free to upload/share information as a discussion topic.
Social media envoys to post and tweet for malaria control, UN official says
15th March 2010
The United Nations Special Envoy for Malaria is today launching a new group of high-profile Internet users to inspire and involve
social media audiences in…
A social network for promoting pro-poor Community Based Tourism in Asia with the help of telecentres.
It was a full moon day in month of June B.C 306; King Dewanampiyathissa & his crew or band of followers was enjoying hunting. The day was most remarkable day, in the annals of Buddhist civilization. The King was engrossed in the hunt when he heard h…
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Regards.
Best wishes,
Partha
We need to talk again.
Please send me an email message so that we can organize a call for next week.
Thanks, Valter
Gracias!!
Angélica Rojas
Chile
No sé si es un mensaje en clave, quizás tu y Agustín podéis ayudarme, yo sé que eran dos cosas las que tenía que responderme Agustín pero que tú también sabías...
:)
un beso!
Marta
PD este es el mensaje más raro que por ahora tienes en tus comentarios
Muchas gracias por invitarme a hacer parte de su red.
Usted estará en Barcelona para la reunión de Academia de Telecentros??
Saludos,
Avando.