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Peruvian National Telecentre Academy Who is Who
in the telecentre.org global academy meeting
IF we know each other, it will be easier!
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Who are we and where are we from
Country Peru Leading organization Centro
Peruano de Estudios Sociales CEPES Agents
involved in the NTA ISF (Engineer without
borders), UPCH (Universidad Peruana Cayetano
Heredia), ITDG, Rural Telecom. Others FITEL
(government) Working languages in the NTA Spanish
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Telecentres in your country
hundreds
umber of telecentres in your country
Which are the most outstanding telecentre
networks or actions in your country? We dont
have a formal national network. But there is a
group of institutions and people working together
in actions that improve the telecenters like
training or implementing new technologies since
1998. All the organizations involved in the TC
academy in Peru are part of such group. What are
the most popular tasks and usages in the
telecentre? The most popular usages are those
related to communications like chat, email or
social networks. Telecenters are also used to
obtain information (education, agricultural,
health, etc.) and for entertainment. Which
social groups use the telecentre most frequently?
Mainly young people of communities around
telecentres (rural and/or deprived areas). There
are more men using telecenters, in rural places
it was reported that the ratio es 1 woman using a
telecenter for each 5 man.
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What do we do

• CEPES is an NGO founded 30 years ago. It aims to
  promote rural development through programs which
  emcompass research, discussion and political
  incidence. Since 2001it has been promoting the
  use of information and communication technologies
  for rural development.
• CEPES belong to different networks many of them
  related to the rural world, and is a member of
  APC, the Association for Progressive
  Communications.
• For the telecentre Academy in Peru, CEPES is one
  of the partners and not necessary the leader of
  the project. We promote the team work between the
  partners, where everyone has the similar rights.

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What do we do

• Members of peruvian NTA
• ISF - ApD (Engineer without borders. Association
  for development) Work with technology to improve
  needs of health, education, food and housing.
• UPCH (Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia) An
  academic institution with experience in
  telemedicine and design of distance education
  courses.
• Practical Solutions - ITDG
• Explores how ICT could be used to reduce poverty
  and improve people productivity
• Rural Telecom. Is a peruvian private
  telecomunications enterprise which is
  implementing around 1654 telecentres in rural
  zone en Peru.

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Facilitators

• What word do you use to refer to a motivator in
  your country?
• There are different words we use, operator,
  administrator, person in charge of, entrepreneur.

How is a telecentre motivators professional
profile in your country? Normally, young people
between 16 to 30 years old. Most of them only
with secondary school studies and with basic ICT
experience (starting with the use of computers
through applications or programs)
3000 until 2010
Number of potential motivators who could be
reached in the future
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About motivator training
What is your experience on motivator training up
to now?
Training
Training resources
E-learning training
All the organizations that participate in
Peruvian telecentre academy have trained around
2000 motivators since 1999. Most of the courses
were short and face to face, related to the use
of ICT, basic management, leadership, marketing,
technical support, networks maintenance. We
used different platforms like iliac, moodle. But
we dont have so much experience in e-learning
methodology. Resources manuals, technical
support, human resources such as field staff and
technicians.
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About our methodology
What are we doing now?
We are designing our peruvian national telecentre
academy with this methodology

• - Web site with 2 levels An information line
  with free access allowing managers and operators
  of ICT-Access points to obtain contents and a
  communication line to facilitate the creation of
  networks and social communities.
• QA Helpdesk, to attend specific needs about
  technical, managerial or other issues which
  managers and operators of ICT-Access points
  usually tend to have. Additionally, a follow-up
  programme to offer practical training. Finally, a
  resource centre which unifies the information
  gathered in the before mentioned units and from
  other on-line resources. This service is actually
  under development in the Helpedesk project.
• - Learning platform, a permanent training
  environment with distance courses with different
  levels of certification. This is the main
  component to be developed under the NTA in Peru.

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Motivation, needs, contributions
What are your expectations from the meeting? What
is your motivation? What needs are you expecting
to fulfill? Know more about other NTA
experiences Have some basic guidelines about the
academy standards to develop our own NTA
project. Share our NTA proposal and model.
What could you contribute to the meeting?
E-learning and training experiences for
adults Years of experience working in rural
areas for ICT development. The experience
working with different organizations in ICT
projects.
What are your organizations strengths? We
combine interdisciplinary multistakeholder
approach (NGO, academic, private sector)
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THANKS!
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