if we know each other, it will be easier!
DESCRIPTION
Telecentre.org Academy Global Meeting Who is W ho. IF we know each other, it will be easier!. Who are we and where are we from. We are here. Country: India Leading organization: M S Swaminathan Research Foundation - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
We are here
Who are we and where are we from
Country: IndiaLeading organization: M S Swaminathan Research FoundationAgents involved in the NTA: Multi-stakeholder partnership (Major: GGA Secretariat, MSSRF, Telecentre.org,, IGNOU, ISRO, etc.)Working languages in the NTA: English
What do we do
M S Swaminathan Research Foundation
100 Coastal Systems Research
200 Biotechnology
300 Biodiversity
400 Ecotechnology
500 Food Security
600 Education, Communication, Training and Capacity
Building
Founded in 1988-89
A Not-for-profit Research and Development Foundation
>300,000Number of telecentres in your country
Which are the most outstanding telecentre networks or actions in your country? Grameen Gyan Abhiyan (Rural Knowledge Empowerment Movement – Mission 2007: Every Village a Knowledge Centre)
Does the NTA leading organization manage a telecentre network? If so, how many telecentres are in the network?More than 400 organizations; More than 200,000 telecentres
What are the most popular tasks and usages in the telecentre?Providing locale specific need based information / knowledge in different thematic areas such as agriculture, fisheries, microenterprises, government schemes, civic services, market prices and market linkages for locally produced commodities, weather, and weather crop related advisories, etc.
Which social groups use the telecentre most frequently? Under privileged groups who are also economically poor; most of them living below poverty line (i.e, an income of USD 1 or less than per day)
Telecentres in your country
What word do you use to refer to a motivator in your country? Knowledge Workers, CIC operators, sanchalaks, CSC managers, etc.
How is a telecentre motivator’s professional profile in your country? Technocrafts or Social Workers or Subject Matter Specialist
Facilitators
>10,000umber of potential motivators who could be reached in the future
What is your experience on motivator training up to now?
About motivator training
Needs of the
communities
Locale Specific Demand Driven Content
Awareness and Training Programmes
Linkages
Knowledge - Action
Extensive discussions – Policy makers, research institutions, panchayat leaders, community based organiztions, academics, etc.
Document – Village Profiles, Time Line Series
Using different participatory rural appraisal techniques - focus group meetings with different sections of the community, transect, time and trend analysis, social mapping, wealth ranking, resource mapping, venn diagram, seasonal diagram, problem matrix, house hold sample surveys, etc.
Trainings for KWs on General Management of VKCs
o Concept of VRC and VKCo Methodology of collection and dissemination of need-based contento Managing users and visitorso How to maintain the user register which contains name of the user,
age, education, occupation, the kind of services expected from VRC/VKC
o Bill books and other records pertaining to VKCo How to build rapport with users and community memberso Gender concernso Basic hardware and software trainingo Document frequently asked questions, collection of feed back in the
form of case studies, identifying their skills and aptitudes, etc. o VRCs also conduct quiz programmes for KWs based on the availability
of content in VKCso Some of the Knowledge Workers have developed a few training
materials related to VKC management based on their field experience and VRC trainings
Indian Telecentre Academy – Jamsetji Tata Training School
o Different kind of trainings – Knowledge workers / Telecenter Managers / Social Workers / Traditional Knowledge and innovative practitioners
o Documenting their expertise and expectations through Participatory knowledge management workshops
o Manuals, face-to-face meetings, outside experts, video conferencing and learning modules
o Using different ICT and non-ICT tools – VHF, WiFi, Internet, Satellite Based Video-conferencing, Community Newspaper, CDs, Publications, etc.
o Developing tool kits for different ICT-models
o Running a peer-peer help desk for Telecentres / VRCs / VKCs managers and operators
o Conducting studies for different telecenters models to assess the relative advantages and disadvantages of various rural connectivities, contents and business models
o Developing a certification and scaling-up program of telecentre training with support from the Indira Gandhi national Open University (Telecenter Managers Certificate Based Curriculum Course)
What are your expectations from the meeting? What is your motivation? What needs are you expecting to fulfill?
Learning from other telecenter networks; How Global Telecenter Academy will play a role in improving regional telecenter managers capacity; Knowing methodology of functioning of other telecentres
What could you contribute to the meeting? What are your organization’s strengths?
Sharing our experience; Involved in ICT-enabled development activities since 1992; our pilot experiment has become a national movement; addressing the sustainable rural development using different ICT and non-ICT tools
Motivation, needs, contributions