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

[Dean Mulozi]

Dear Vignesh, 
I on behalf of my colleagues would like to send my congratulations for unveiling this important event in the history of the telecenter movement. 
We are motivated by this important event and think that the telecenter movement is growing and will add impetus to the social and economic development around the world. 

Congratulations,  


Dean Mulozi,   
ZAA-ICT/SATNET Regional Facilitator,   
Private Bag 195x Ridgeway,   
Lusaka,   
Zambia.

Contact Phone:   260 211 234 627 
Mobile:                  260 978 034196
 


--- On Sat, 10/4/08, kiringai at willpower.co.ke <kiringai at willpower.co.ke> wrote:

> From: kiringai at willpower.co.ke <kiringai at willpower.co.ke>
> Subject: Re: [UgaBYTES] telecentre.org launches the telecentre.org Academy
> To: ugabytes at lists.ugabytes.org
> Date: Saturday, October 4, 2008, 12:53 AM
> Vignesh,
> Wonderful is the only word that describes the strategic
> benefit of this effort!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Kiringai
> Sent from my BlackBerry®
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Vignesh" <vignesh at csdms.in>
> 
> Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 22:09:45 
> To: <PhilCeCNet at yahoogroups.com>;
> <ugabytes at lists.ugabytes.org>;
> <Bangladesh_Telecentre_Network at yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [UgaBYTES] telecentre.org launches the
> telecentre.org Academy
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> Cheers
> Vignesh
> Community Facilitator
> telecentre.org 
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