Taigüey Foundation

Ceci est une initiative discussion expérimentale électronique et portant sur des règles procédures pour une des communautés efficace local participation dans l'aménagement du Parc National La Visite et de la Foret des Pins ainsi the structuration of the partie du Corridor Biologique Haïtienne Caribbean. Cette discussion en ligne du 11 mai au s'échelonne 31 Juillet 2009. Elle est couple flew an integral committee techniciens des Institutions de pilotage des 5 qui sont: le Ministère de l'Environnement, the Fondation Seguin, Haiti Helvetas, the Fondation Groupe 73, you Medialternatif et le Groupe UNDP. We support virtuel, Web et Moderation sont Taigüey Foundation (Read more ...)

On Thursday, April 16 saw the first Meeting-Workshop of the Centers for collective access to ICTs in the Region Enriquillo in the facilities of the South Youth Foundation, in Barahona under the coordination of the Technical Unit of the C National omission Information Society (CNSIC) of the Dominican Republic and the Foundation Taigüey. The meeting is part of the establishment of the National Network and the Dominican Cacts Community , 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 was attended by 80 operators / managers as and / as 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 ...)

On February 5 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

What attracts me! Is a funny play by an invitation to reflect on our role as citizens, and how to participate, "eye opening" and supervising public administration can achieve better living standards. The search stage is a mirror of our reality, where everyone and we are all part of the problem and solution, corruption, cronyism, and socio-economic plight of our south-west.

The Work is one of the results of the project "Bringing Congress to the West through art," which aims to raise awareness and encourage reflection of the / as community, municipalities and municipal districts of the province of Barahona, in the leading role and pro-active citizens in the monitoring and control of public management and the work of Congress. Taigüey Produced by the Foundation under the direction of Miguel Ramirez, starring Vincent Santos, and Manuel Apolinario Raposo Victoria. Written by Carlos Castro and the contributions of Vicky Apolinario and Miguel Ramirez, with language and cultural references adapted to the target audience (rural and semi-urban areas of south west)

FINAL PRESENTATION: Friday March 13, 2009, in South Young neighborhood Savic, BARAHONA

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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!). The latter is defined as a regional forum for exchange between telecentres and OLLABORATION Caribbean.'s project is initiated with the support of the program 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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The "Gender, Agriculture and Rural Development in the Information Society" GenARDIS pre-selected our project proposal from the 230 it received. From 20 selected, 15 will be funded with about 7000 euro each. Our plans to develop multimedia materials for ICT training for women who run rural cooperatives. We hope to October 1 final decision. This is the text of the announcement of GenARDIS (in English but can be translated by clicking on the banner at the top right ...)

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 make 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. Seeks to shed elements and indicators to monitor and trace patterns of public policy. (Read more ...)

The cost of operating the telecentre Guanaba.Net to be open 78 hours per week and provide community service is an average of 37.830 pesos a month. From the beginning it raises by selling services an average of 12.252 pesos a month. We offer many free services (Internet access to students, all training) and what they charge is well below the market price. It is then obvious that income does not cover current expenditures. If in 18 months we are still the single point of Internet access to 20 km to the round, it is because the social reality of the rural economy of these communities can not afford the money. But how do you keep Guanaba.net if you spend more than it produces? . The costs are covered by: (a) the remainder of the fund donated by Microsoft to Taigüey company for the project (b) that pay for other projects of the Foundation for services (copies, Internet). And that .. that we are not counting the 100% volunteer work (not charged, nor have expenses covered) of several people (Vicky, Alexis and Yacine) and the efforts of all the Guan-team and community members. This is what keeps prices much cheaper than in the Cyber ​​and work development training for meaningful use, aimed at key stakeholders (teachers, organizations, etc.) and beyond chat and copy and paste .. ( 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 center operations.". This project seeks to develop capacities of telecentre managers, strengthening them as actors working to promote development and networking. After the workshop decided to establish a cooperation agreement between the project "Assistance Service call center operations" of the project CEPES and ACT! IVATO to support the creation of the Caribbean Alliance ACT! driven Taigüey Foundation. (Read more ...)

Barlin, informediador Guanaba.net star, took part last weekend in a workshop for young community leaders. He tells his experience: "I have Here we report for the workshop Cachote. This workshop was sponsored by a project called "Build Your Dreams" Peace Corps and international plan. It lasted two days where you work hard for the transformation of a young individual a facilitator The purpose of this is to train young "community leaders" to have the ability to create a business plan and leave with the ability to serve as multipliers or other youth. One of the primary purposes of this project is to have facilitators who are in the ability to train young people for creating business plan. (Read more ...)

With a workshop CarISnet Consortium partners in Jamaica (March 16-17) CarISnet Starts Project 2, subtitled "Integrating and Strengthening the TICpD actors in the Caribbean, unleash the transformative potential of ICTs in the region." The overall project objective is to contribute to social and economic development in the Caribbean region, by strengthening the capacities of the / as local stakeholders for regional collaborative action TICpD critical initiatives in the Caribbean. Before concluding, the project was able to establish bases and develop a work plan for the consolidation of the Caribbean Virtual Community ICT actors (CIVIC) as a regional mechanism to promote knowledge sharing, capacity building and collaboration among actors Caribbean ICT .. Taigüey Foundation assumes the coordination of project implementation. (Read more ...)

At the invitation of the Peace Corps, which had about 40 volunteers gathered at a workshop, Vicky was telling some of the lessons learned in this process Guanaba.Net started saying, "Computers and the Internet alone development do not This is only a problem of access to technology but of social engineering that enables empowerment / as actors / actresses for a significant transformation process. (Read more ...)

Juan Carlos Rubio, the new community coordinator for our project "Eco-Bahoruco Cienega" participated in the workshop of the Dominican Network of Rural Tourism (REDOTUR) that development on 21 and June 22, 2007 in Los Calabazos, Jarabacoa.

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The Araucaria Project , an initiative of the Spanish Cooperation (AECI) and the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of the Dominican Rep, Taigüey Foundation hired for a six-month technical assistance, to support the establishment of the RED ENRIQUILLO community ecotourism as a regional platform consultation and coordination of various ecotourism initiatives in the region. (Read more ...)

Taigüey Foundation, a founding member who participates in regional interesting process, you created the virtual mechanism for articulation for / as / members and supporters as ENRIQUILLO Community Ecotourism Network. Documents, file exchanges, support the process of building the network. We used the TakingITgloal in http://groups.takingitglobal.org/red-enriquillo