[UgaBYTES] [telecentreacademy] telecentre.org launches the telecentre.org Academy

Fri Oct 3 17:20:05 GMT 2008

dear friends
eid mubarak .yesteday the workshop on strengthening telecentre mangers and
operators is over
http://telecentrecommunity.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2086278%3ABlogPost%3A5800

http://telecentrecommunity.ning.com/photo/album/show? id=2086278:Album:5784

today the 5th garameen convention started with  the official launching
of telecentre academy.

http://telecentrecommunity.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2086278%3ABlogPost%3A6009

http://telecentrecommunity.ning.com/

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From: Reema Singh <rsingh at idrc.org.in>
Date: 2008/10/3
Subject: [telecentreacademy] telecentre.org launches the telecentre.orgAcademy
To: Telecentre Academy <telecentreacademy at dgroups.org>

For Immediate Release

3 October 2008

telecentre.org launches the telecentre.org Academy

New Delhi, India: telecentre.org, today unveiled its flagship
initiative, the telecentre.org Academy during the Fifth Convention of
Grameen Gyan Abhiyan held at the National Agricultural Science
Complex, New Delhi in the presence of Professor M S Swaminathan, Shri
Jairam Ramesh, the Union Minister for Power and a number of
telecentre stakeholders from the private sector, academia and civil
society organizations.

The honorable Union Minister for Power, Shri Jairam Ramesh and
Professor M S Swaminathan welcomed the telecentre.org Academy
initiative that shall train over 1 million grassroots knowledge
professionals around the world by 2015. These professionals shall
staff telecentres and provide a range of affordable services to
underserved populace at the base of the pyramid.  Speaking at the
launch, Jairam Ramesh said, the telecentre.org academy will play a
major role in addressing the question of scale and sustainability of
the movement.

Dr Basheerhamad Shadrach who heads the telecentre.org Academy
initiative at the global level mentioned that the launch in India
marks the beginning of national academies being set up in Sri Lanka,
Nepal, Philippines, Thailand, Sudan, Mozambique, Egypt, Uganda,
Spain, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Brazil and Bolivia.

The telecentre.org Academy partners with a host of governments,
telecentre networks, and a number of institutions such as the Indira
Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), India; Universidad
Tecnológica Metropolitana (UTEM) in Chile, University of Brasilia and
the University of Philippines' Open University.

An initial investment of USD 1.5 million this year shall help to
develop global standards for curriculum, establishment of localized
training initiatives and the creation of certification schemes that
are linked to employability and skills enhancement program for the
trainees, Dr Shadrach added.

Announcing the launch, Richard Fuchs, the Chairperson of
telecentre.org spoke about the second generation of telecentres that
transform societies around the world.  Ever since the first
telecentre appeared in Sweden in 1986, Fuchs mentioned that
organizations have learnt various techniques to provide ICT-enabled
services to underserved and rural communities, especially in the
developing world. In India, the first telecentre established by IDRC
and M S Swaminathan Research Foundation has indeed resulted in
Grameen Gyan Abhiyan, a movement that advocates for the establishment
of telecentres in each of the 600,000 villages in India, he added.

Professor M S Swaminathan mentioned that the telecentre.org –
Jamsetji Tata Training School shall train personnel to manage each of
the 150,000 telecentres being established in India.  In partnership
with a number of NGOs, the government agencies and IGNOU, the Academy
shall develop a continuous learning program for the telecentre
operators through distance learning techniques. The Indian
telecentre.org Academy is managed by the M S Swaminathan Research
Foundation's Jamsetji Tata Training School, headed by Senthilkumaran.

Earlier, Dr Stephen McGurk of IDRC, Dr Francois Binder of SDC and
Latif Nathani of Microsoft lauded telecentre.org's efforts to address
the capacity building needs of telecentre operators.

The fifth convention of Grameen Gyan Abhiyan is aimed to align the
telecentre movement with the various national initiatives of the
government such as the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme,
the National Rural Health Mission, Sarva Sikhsa Abhiyan and the
Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission. A number of Union Ministers
including the Finance Minister, Shri P Chidhambaram, the Panchayati
Raj Minister, Shri Mani Shankar Aiyar, the Rural Development
Minister, Shri Raghuvansh Prasad Singh; and Chief Minister of Delhi
Shri Shiela Dixit are participating in the convention.  An exhibition
of telecentre.org-Microsoft funded Rural Innovation Fund Awardees is
also organized at the sidelines of the convention.

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.org to address the growing
capacity needs of telecentre operators across the world.

Contacts:
Ms Reema Singh
Program Assistant
telecentre.org, IDRC
208, Jorbagh, New Delhi 110003
rsingh at telecentre.org
Tel: +91 11 2461 9411; Extn: 7606

Ms Christine Prefontaine
Senior Communications Advisor,
telecentre.org, IDRC
Post Box 8500, Ottawa, Canada
cprefontaine at telecentre.org
Tel: +1-613-2366163

Mr Vignesh Sornamohan
CSDMS
vignesh at csdms.in
Tel: + 91 9999654458

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