Telecentre Women: Digital Literacy Campaign

Today’s world runs on information and communications technology (ICT). ICT has given people the reach and power to achieve new levels of personal growth and the means to shape events, aspirations, relationships, and their futures in ways before unimaginable. For women specially, ICT has proven to be life-changing. It has broken traditions and social prejudices, expanded their roles in society and home, given many a new economic and social freedom that has redefined them as persons of stature and value in their communities. One need only look at ICT-empowered women such as the members of the eHomemakers grassroot community and the Mothers for Mothers network in Malaysia, successfully pursuing tele-exchange and teletrading careers from home, to see the...  Continue

Woman In Focus: Ines Copete

Ines Copete, ICT trainer from Makaia in Chocó, finalist in the “Prevention, gender and ICT” contest Ines Copete, Administrator of the CACI – Compatel of Nuqui Choco and ICT Trainer participated in the “Prevention, gender and ICT” contest with the proposal “Celebration and reenactment of the International Day of Non-violence Against Women and Girls, using ICT, in Nuqui – Choco”, with which she placed as a finalist. With the objective of preventing violence against women and girls and joining in the actions of the International Day of Non-violence Against Women and Girls (November 25th), the National Telecenter Network of Colombia and Colnodo, with the support of the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications – MINTIC –, held the...  Continue

Train the Most Women to Become Digitally Literate and win 15,000 Swiss Francs worth of ICT equipment!

Calling all partners! Telecentre.org Foundation (TCF) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) are hosting a contest ("Contest") to award ICT equipment to the telecentre that trains the most number of women to become digitally literate. Continue

Telecentre Women Digital Literacy Campaign Shines at the eAsia Awards Night 2011

The Telecentre Women: Digital Literacy Campaign, a joint initiative of Telecentre.org Foundation and the ITU (International Telecommunication Union) bagged an award at the e-Asia awards night today (02 December) in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Continue

Woman In Focus: Myrna Padilla

Myrna Padilla is the Campaign’s Ambassador in the Philippines.. here is her success story, in her own words (Transcript of Speech for 6th Mindanao ICT Congress and the 1st BIMP-EAGA ICT Conference). (Introductions omitted) I and my team were very honoured when we received the official invitation from MICT to share our story of success. However, in my heart there is some conflict. Because by nature I am a humble person… and that makes this particular speech a very hard one for me to give. Therefore, if I seem to be arrogant or boastful, please forgive me now. Reason… All I am trying to do is to accomplish the task set before me by MICT… to share the story of Mynd’s success. I have thought a lot about Mynd’s success over the last few days. And I have struggled...  Continue