[UgaBYTES] telecentre grant winners

[ahmed digital]

dear friends
today telecentre.org announce the Winners of the Curriculum Commons
Grant!!!!
29 August 2008

New Delhi, India: telecentre.org, a global community of people committed for
improving the capacity and sustainability of community telecentres around
the world, had announced a telecentre.org academy Curriculum Commons Grant
of Rs 50 lakh (USD 125,000) for improving the quality and standard of
grassroots knowledge workers, commonly referred to as telecentre managers.
The grant was announced last month at the inaugural address of the eINDIA
2008 conference by D Purandeswari, Minister of State for Higher Education,
Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.Announcing the
first set of winners today, Dr Basheerhamad Shadrach, the Lead Program
Officer for telecentre.org academy initiative mentioned that the grant
announcement made by the Honorable Minister D Purandeswari in July
was well received by telecentre organizations across the world. More than 30
proposals from four continents were shortlisted for final selection by an
expert committee. The expert committee members included Ms Karishma Kiri of
Microsoft, Ms Maria Teresa Camba of Commission on ICT, the Philippines, Mr
Kiringai Kamau of VACID Africa and Dr Basheerhamad Shadrach of
telecentre.org.


The following thirteen organizations have been chosen to receive 15 awards
in all:


1. 4C, Hungary (Current training modules - and converting the existing
material into interactive and self-learning curriculum)
2. Asian Institute Of Journalism And Communication, The Philippines
(Knowledge Management (KM) for Community Development)
3. Center for Communication Development and Knowledge management
(CCDKM): Thai Telecentre.org, Thailiand (Academy Curriculum
Development)
4. Centro de Informatica da Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (CIUEM),
Mozambique (Basic Preventive And Curative Maintenance Techniques
For Community Ict Activists)
5. Comet Media Foundation, India (Curriculum Development on Science
& information technology, Visual communication & design, Social
perspectives and Entrepreneurship)
6. Datamation Foundation, India (Re-packaging and converting the
existing material into interactive and self-learning curriculum)
7. Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa,
Moratuwa, Sri Lanka (Joomla Training Material in the Sinhala
Language)
8. Egypt ICT Trust Fund, Egypt (Building management capacity, enhance
skills and produce state0of-the-art content for telecenters'
management)
9. Faculty of Information and Communication Studies (FICS) & University
of the Philippines Open University (UPOU), the Philippines (Training of
Trainers on ICT-Based Extension Management and Delivery)
10. Friday Solutions Private Limited, India (Entrepreneurship for
grassroots; legal literacy for rural population; Leveraging the Internet
for employment)
11. Humaclin Healthcare Private Limited & SATHI, India (Telemedicine
services in telecentres)
12. Information Technology Agency of Sri Lanka and University of
Colombo School of Computing, Sri Lanka (Creating computer
awareness together with skills in Mathematics and English)
13. Rural Development Institute, India (Conversion of the Curriculum Kit
into interactive multimedia content in the form of text and sound)


For further information, please contact:
Ms Reema Singh
telecentre.org, International Development Research Centre
Tel: + 91 11 2461 9411
e-mail: rsingh at telecentre.org
Notes to the editors:


telecentre.org is a collaborative social investment program initiated by
Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Microsoft
Corporation Pvt Ltd and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
(SDC). The grant initiative also coincides with the silver jubilee
celebrations of
IDRC's Regional Office for South Asia and China (SARO) in New Delhi.
telecentre.org academy is one of the flagship initiatives of
telecentre.orgto address the growing capacity needs of telecentre
operators across the
world. The curriculum commons grant is a step towards developing appropriate
curriculum for use in various nations where telecentre.org academies have
been established.

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