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

[NKURUNZIZA Jean Paul]

Vgnesh,

That's a really great news for the telecenter mouvement worlwide.
I am convinced this acaddemy will improved the quality of services
provided in different telecenters.
Sincerely
> 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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