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CAPS REPORT ON THE JAMAICA NETWORK (Jachan) NETWORKING WORKSHOP Kingston, Jamaica - July 30 2009. The workshop Gathered There Were 27 Participants from 17 local telecenters / CAP sites across the island. The Objective of the workshop WAS to Strengthen the networking activity among the the CAP OPERATORS / managers, Within the framework of the Jachan, in order to enable peer to peer support permanent, Dissemination of best practices, tools and resources, to Strengthen the sustainability and Social Impact of the CAPS in the communities. It was Organised by Jachan and ICT4DJamaica and Taigüey Foundation, in the framework of the ACT! ivate project This workshop WAS Organised thanks to the support of telecentre.org to Financial program is a joint venture of the International Development Research Centre (Canada) the Swiss Development Corporation and the Microsoft Corporation.

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On Thursday 16 April saw the first Meeting-Workshop on Collective Centres Access to ICTs in the Region Enriquillo in the South Foundation facilities Younger, in Barahona coordinated by the Technical Unit of the C omission National Information Society (CNSIC) of the Dominican Republic and Taigüey Foundation. The meeting is part of the establishment of the National Network and the Commonwealth of Dominican Cacts , which seeks to enhance the sustainability and social impact of technology centers, through joint capacity building, exchange of experiences, tools and best practices between managers and operators of the technology centers. The same counted with the participation of 80 operators / managers as and / as the Community Technology Centers (Cacts) promoted by INDOTEL, Secretary of Education and the Ministry of Youth in the provinces of Pedernales, Bahoruco, Barahona and Independencia. (Read more ...)

The "Center of Excellence for the sustainability and social impact of technology centers of the South West" look to capitalize, with training programs for operators / as technology centers and networks of mutual support, the large investment by public and private initiatives that have been installed in many centers throughout the region access to technology and contribute to sustainable development of communities in the southwest of the Dominican Republic. The project was defined from a recent study by the National Statistics Office and the Foundation Taigüey on the operation of collective access centers, which included a survey of 357 community centers established by the state, (more ...)

On February 5 we were invited to present at the event CARIBBEAN WINDS UNIBE that university sponsorship. Here is the presentation: Perspectives on research in ICT from a civil society organization

On Monday 17 November was held the workshop "Sustainability Initiatives Collective Access to ICTs in the Dominican Republic" with the objective to "analyze and share among the various governmental and nongovernmental organizations in the Dominican Republic to promote initiatives for access to ICTs lessons learned, best practices, work methods, resources used, the impact of such initiatives in communities and the challenges to ensure sustainability of these initiatives and increase their social impact in the development human communities and their inhabitants. " The workshop was sponsored by the National Commission for Information Society and Taigüey Foundation , and concluded with the proposal of creating a new virtual swap (Read more ...)

Taigüey Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of the project ACT! ivate. The project ACT! ivate aims to establish mechanisms and initially maintain bases and mechanisms of the Alliance of Caribbean Telecentres ((ACT!). This latter defined as a regional forum for exchange and OLLABORATION among Caribbean telecentres.'s project is initiated thanks to the support of telecentre.org a joint initiative of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC-Canada), the Swiss Cooperation Department and Microsoft Corporation . For more information see page @ vite Act
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Hello, my name is Yesenia Saud, I am the new coordinator of projects and Ecotourism Transagro-Swamp Swamp. My academic background is in Clinical Psychology degree. I have training in Planning and Management of Ecotourism in Tropical and Sub Areas. Tropical Social Marketing Management, Rural Development and Tourism, Strategic Management of Community Development, Development and Implementation Workshop, among others.

My experience in recent years has focused on the area of "Community Development" conducted mobilization processes in rural communities. (Read more ...)

This Thursday, August 7, 2008 in connection with the disclosure of a series of studies on Access and Use of Information Technology and Communication (part of the XII Inter-Agency Meeting the National Statistical System ) presented the results of the monograph "The Collective Access Centres (CAC) to ICT driven from the state "that made Taigüey Foundation. This work aims to perform a quantitative and qualitative picture of the Collective Access Centres (CACs, telecentres) driven and / or supported by the state: coverage, operational performance, use, operation, weaknesses, best practices and lessons learned. Aims to shed elements and indicators to monitor and trace patterns of public policy. (Read more ...)

In March we traveled to Lima, Peru to participate in a workshop organized by the Peruvian Center for Social Studies - CEPES to discuss and review the planning and goals of the project "Assistance Service Call Centre Operators" .. This project seeks to develop capacities of telecentre managers, strengthening them as development actors and to promote working in a network. After the workshop it was decided to establish a cooperation agreement between the project "Assistance Service Call Centre Operators" of the project CEPES and ACT! Ivate support the creation of the Caribbean Alliance ACT! driven Taigüey Foundation. (Read more ...)

This day March 13, Yacine Khelladi Executive Coordinator Taigüey Foundation, presented the project of the Alliance of Caribbean Telecentres ACT! To ivate / participants of the first Conference of the Telecentre Network of Jamaica (Jamaica Conference Community Multimedia Centre ) . The project's goal Act! Ivate is to build and sustain the inner workings of the Alliance of Caribbean Community Telecentres (ACT!) viewed as a regional framework to share and promote collaboration among Caribbean telecentres. The project is scheduled to begin mid 2008 with financial support from telecentre.org (Read more ...)

Participants ... are two times more than expected, about 60 http://www.taiguey.org/CTW/part-esp.php .. already started online exchanges http://taiguey.net/CTW/listarch-esp.php and friend Fernando started blogging in http://telecentre.org/es/node/18576

The Foundation Taiguey obtained support from various institutions to organize a regional workshop of community telecentres. The 3-day workshop meeting in Santo Domingo as of July 20 to 22, 2006, to around 30 players in the Caribbean Community Telecentres, in order to structure a regional framework for exchange, learning and collective action. But in www.taiguey.org / CTW . (Read more ...)