Sudan Telecentres  

What is the 4^th global Telecentre forum?   

It is an ICT4D conference known as spark13 where many distinguished ICT4D speakers and Telecentres leaders will address the conference (agenda) and share their experiences, accumulated knowledge and best practices. It is expected to connect more than 1300 attendees to a network of organizations and individuals who share a common vision of the power of technology to create opportunities, generate sustainable growth, and enable partnerships. The conference is organized by Telecentre.org Foundation (TCF), Telecentre-Europe (TE), Comunidad de Redes de Telecentros,  Red Guadalinfo and the National Information Society Agency of Korea (NIA) and it will be held at Palacio de Exposiciones y Congresos . It will be…

The chairman of GDCO Sudan and President of GK3 Conference and a telecentre sword  gift

The Telecentre program was born under Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) in 2005 as an organization known as Telecentre.org and joined by Microsoft and Swiss development fund. The organization was developed as Telecentre.org Foundation which worked with hundreds of networks, partners and organizations all over the world to make grassroots Telecentres stronger and more sustainable. The turnover of Telecentres from the first phase in Canada (Telecentre.org) to the 2^nd phase as foundation took place in March 2010 as Philippine-based non-profit organization. During the first phase the global Telecentre academy was founded. The first Telecentre global forum (limited to founders) was held in Tunisia (2005) at the world summit on the information society (WSIS 2005). The second Telecentre global forum took place in Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia (2007) as part of the 3rd global knowledge conference (GK3) which was attended by 1766 participants. The third Telecentre global forum was held in Santiago - Chile (April 2011).   The 4th Global Forum on Telecentres will take place in Granada – Spain (May 28-29, 2013) known as Spark13 at…

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 Select Sudan telecentre in category 2 and click vote

  واضغط علي رقم المشروع للتصويتSudan إختار المجموعة 2 وابحث عن السودان   …

Information and communications technologies (ICTs) are playing an important role in the daily lives of people. Generally, ICT is not the basic human need like food, water or shelter but if used perfect, it can be. Information communications technologies (ICTs) bring fundamental changes to the way we work and strongly connected people with each other. There are large numbers of illiterate people in developing countries. Millions of children and young are out of school due to war, climate change, digital divide, marginalization and poverty. Millions of acres are grown with crops with low yield, lack of extension services and limited resources of technology. There are limited medical services and it is completely absent in many rural areas. People with disability are suffering from the ignorance. Sudanese Universities has a deficit in computers equipment and other practical equipment and this is why the students when they are graduated are very weak in practical and application of what they studied.  All these created a big digital and Telecentres are the best Information and communication technologies (ICTs) tools to empower marginalized, disadvantage and underserved communities to bridge this digital divide and support the government provide education, medical, agricultural and other fundamental services. Theses challenged forced GDCO with its partners to find ways to tackle them.  GDCO developed a win-win public private partnership (PPP) so they can work together sharing knowledge, experiences and best practices. GDCO has many partners including the Digital City of Eindhoven – DSE- Netherlands, which donated 750 computers to our community. GDCO developed many projects including e-agriculture,…

World Summit on the Information Society Forum 2013

Many participants from different part of the world participated physically and online (remotely) in the first physical meeting of the Open Consultation Process on the Thematic Aspects and New Innovative Format of the WSIS Forum 2013 which is held on 16 November 2012 at the ITU Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland.. www.wsis.org/forum  Participant discus the thematic focus and format of the event (see agenda attached).also include Action Line Facilitators (Action Line C1 to C11), WSIS Stocktaking, Partnership on Measuring ICTs, UNGIS, WTISD..  In addition they discuss the media outreach and partners which includes ImeetyouatWSIS www.wsis.org/imeet and Iwrite4WSIS www.wsis.org/iwrite  # WSIS Campaign.  For more information, click on  WSIS22.pdf  

http://www.itu.int/wsis/implementation/2013/forum/inc/doc/ocp/WF13_OCP_FirstPhysicalMeeting_DraftAgenda.pdf

http://www.itu.int/wsis/implementation/2013/forum/ocp/firstmeeting.html…

   How Telecentres and Telecentre networks can obtain funding for social innovation projects?   This question and others were answered on November 15th TIS TALKS webinar by Miguel Raimilla, the Executive Director of Telecentre.org Foundation. You can watch it and also you can read a summary by the blog posted by Cleopa Timon Otieno  from Kenya. Do not forget to download the attachment to see the power point of the presentation we copy and paste from the webinar CLICK  tistalkmiguel.pptx

 http://community.telecentre.org/profiles/blogs/november-15th-webinar-trends-mechanisms-and-investors-for-resourc

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The World Summit on the Information Society Forum 2013 represents the world’s largest annual gathering of the ‘ICT for development’ community. This forum will provide structured opportunities to network, learn and participate in multi-stakeholder discussions and consultations on WSIS implementation. This event builds upon the tradition of annual WSIS May meetings, and its format is the result of open consultations with all WSIS Stakeholders. The agenda and program of the WSIS Forum is built on the basis of official submissions received during the Open Consultation Process. The WSIS Forum 2013 Open Consultation Process on the Thematic Aspects and Innovations on the Format is structured in five phases and will begin on 8 October 2012.

 iwrite4WSISForum

Objectives

iwrite4WSISForum is a campaign that aims to empower stakeholders to write and report on all WSIS related events and activities, sharing their work and ideas with thousands of WSIS stakeholders online worldwide.

How to Participate

The twitter hash tag for the campaign is #WSIS. This hash tag will enable us to collect and include all your feeds into the campaign. All the latest feeds with reference to this campaign will be shared on this page.

Partners

The iwrite4WSISForum campaign invites institutions to participate in this campaign as Partners. The logos of all the partners of the campaign will be displayed on the campaign page. For more information please contact us at wsis-info@itu.int.…

The WSIS Forum 2013 will offer a diverse range of interactions, including high level dialogues, WSIS Action Line Facilitation meetings, interactive sessions, thematic workshops, country workshops, knowledge exchanges and exhibitions.

 High Level Dialogues

The high level dialogues provide a interesting blend of an expert panel and audience interaction on specific topics identified as relevant and crucial within the mandate of the WSIS.

Action Line Facilitators Meeting

On an annual basis the WSIS Action Line Facilitator's meeting provides a platform for all focal points facilitating action lines to report their success stories and challenges. Action line facilitators provide updates and report on the activities carried out by each action line during the year and provide a report on their respective Action Line Facilitation meetings during the WSIS Forum.

Action Line Facilitation Meetings

The Tunis Agenda for the Information Society states that the WSIS implementation mechanism at the international level should be organized taking into account the themes and action lines in the Geneva Plan of Action, and moderated or facilitated by UN agencies when appropriate. It also states that ITU, UNESCO and UNDP should play a leading facilitating role in the implementation of the Geneva Plan of Action.

Each year, during the WSIS Forums held in May, the WSIS Action Line Facilitators: Provide reports on the year's activities on their respective Action Lines Organize Interactive Action Line Facilitation Meetings on their respective Action Lines.

Interactive Sessions

Interactive sessions provide workshop style interaction amongst the participants and the panellists. The panellists provide an introduction to the framework of the session and act as moderators, while the participants are encouraged to drive the session discussion.

Country…

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The World Summit on the Information Society Forum 2013 represents the world’s largest annual gathering of the ‘ICT for development’ community. This forum will provide structured opportunities to network, learn and participate in multi-stakeholder discussions and consultations on WSIS implementation. This event builds upon the tradition of annual WSIS May meetings, and its format is the result of open consultations with all WSIS Stakeholders. The agenda and program of the WSIS Forum is built on the basis of official submissions received during the Open Consultation Process. The WSIS Forum 2013 Open Consultation Process on the Thematic Aspects and Innovations on the Format is structured in five phases and will begin on 8 October 2012.

The Open Consultation Process for the WSIS Forum 2013 is structured in five phases. It is an Invitation to contribute to the Open Consultation Process

The Open Consultation Process on the Thematic Aspects and Innovations on the Format of the WSIS Forum 2013 was opened on 8 October, the first phase invites all WSIS Stakeholders to make online contributions and participate in online dialogues.

All WSIS Stakeholders are invited to make official submissions to the WSIS Secretariat for the Open Consultation Process on the Thematic Aspects and New Innovative Format. The official…

http://euroafrica-ict.org/files/2012/07/Call_4_Papers.pdf

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http://euroafrica-ict.org/2012/09/04/gdco-new-associated-organisation-2012-africa-eu-cooperation-forum-on-ict/

       The ‘2012 Africa-EU Cooperation Forum on ICT’ is designed to anyone with an interest in Euro-African collaborative projects on ICT. The Forum will be held on November 28-29, 2012 Centro Cultural de Belem - Lisbon, Portugal. It is organized by the EuroAfrica-P8 EU/FP7 funded project in the framework of the Euro Africa-ICT Initiative and with the support of the National Science Foundation (FCT) of Portugal. The Forum will feature various session types:

1-     Plenary sessions (featuring officials from the European Commission, the African Union Commission, Governments, and  internationally acknowledged e-Infrastructures experts)

2-    Presentation sessions (organised around the main conference themes)

3-     Discussions and debates sessions (offering participants the opportunity to actively contribute to the Conference outputs)

4-     Networking sessions (aiming at facilitating additional and informal networking opportunities).

            The event objectives

1-    It is held under the aegis of the EC, the AUC and the Africa-EU Strategic Partnership, the Forum will be an event filled with discussions and debates, networking opportunities and knowledge sharing among key stakeholders in the…