Caribbean Community Telecenters
Regional Workshop
July 20-22, 2006
Santo Domingo - Dominican Republic
The project starts with a survey to identify and map the Caribbean Telecenters initiatives and key actors. Through a questionnaire it will also collect basic information on the challenges, issues and lessons from the existing initiatives. That information will be analysed and systematized. This survey will also be the key tool to identify participants and complete the draft agenda
Then workshop participants, and some other key actors, will the be invited to develop a short online discussion to comment and complete the findings of the survey, and to validate the content and issues to be discussed at the workshop.
· The workshop will be centred on the facilitated working-group discussions that are introduced by plenary presentations (as dynamic as possible, multimedia).
· Each day will have its own objectives:
§ Day 1: Identifying common needs and priorities of the Caribbean Community Telecenters,§ Day 2: What can be addressed collectively and regionally?§ Day 3: And how we organize. Follow up Commitments.· Facilitation team will be working permanently, with a professional leader, preparing next sessions from previous working groups outputs.
Will be organised, in parallel, a working session of with the members of the supporting agencies (donors as EU, UAISD, IRDC/ICA, CIDA, etc., multilateral banks as WB, IDB, and organisations, UNDP, ITU, Universal Funds and businesses) to exchange information on their current and projected support to telecentres initiatives.