[Telecentres] requesting immediate feedback: telecentres/educationstatement

[Ardi Sutedja]

Andy, Elizabeth and other colleagues,

I am Copying this email to my Vice Chairman in Charge
of Mediation and Advocation, Prof. DR. Naswil Idris,
so he can also be involve in this discussion, as he is
also quite activelly involved in the telecenter
movement and WSIS program.

Best regards,
Ardi Sutedja K.
Chairman
Indonesia Telecommunication Users Group.

 --- "Elizabeth Carll, PhD" <ecarll at optonline.net>
wrote: 
> Andy and All,
> 
> Great idea.
> 
> A joint statement with the education caucus on areas
> of agreement regarding
> the role of schools, universities and telecentres in
> meeting the MDGs is a
> natural partnership which will strengthen the
> process to achieve mutual
> goals.
> 
> Elizabeth
> 
> Dr. Elizabeth Carll
> Focal Point to WSIS
> International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies;
> Chair, Media/ICT Working Group,
> UN NGO Committee on Mental Health, New York
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: telecentres-bounces at wsis-cs.org
> [mailto:telecentres-bounces at wsis-cs.org]On Behalf Of
> Andy Carvin
> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 7:36 AM
> To: telecentres at wsis-cs.org
> Subject: [Telecentres] requesting immediate
> feedback:
> telecentres/educationstatement
> 
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I've been working with Divina Frau-Meigs and Jane
> Johnson from the
> education caucus to craft language to be presented
> in tomorrow morning's
> plenary. As we wrote down our ideas, we realized
> that much of what we had
> to say was similar to some of the ideas we have
> discussed on the
> telecentres list.
> 
> So I would like to propose that we consider issuing
> a joint statement with
> the education caucus on areas of agreement regarding
> the role of schools,
> universities and telecentres in meeting the MDGs.
> Please give me feedback
> on the following ideas as soon as possible, because
> our telecentres meeting
> tomorrow afternoon will be too late in the process
> to impact the discussion
> on financing mechanisms. thanks! -ac
> 
> ICTs are a key tool in achieving universal
> education, while wired schools
> and non-formal learning institutions such
> telecenters can play a major role
> in promoting development.
> 
> 1. When considering financing mechanisms, do not
> neglect the role that
> schools, universities and informal educational
> institutions such as
> telecentres an play as a community hub for building
> knowledge and
> integrating marginalized communities into the
> information society.
> 
> Schools, libraries and other institutions are
> existing infrastructures that
> focus on the future -- the potential of our children
> and young people.
> Young people should be a priority for accessing
> these educational ICTs as
> they cannot afford to wait for policymakers; their
> longterm prosperity is
> at stake.
> 
> 2. It's not enough to finance infrastructure -
> professional development for
> educators and curriculum development must also be
> addressed - curriculum
> that is linguistically and culturally appropriate,
> including open
> courseware.
> 
> 3. Multi-purpose access points: schools should be
> able to serve as
> telecentres, while telecentres can serve as
> educational institutions in
> themselves
> 
> 4. Encouraging local/community vested interest in
> the success of these
> institutions. Community members must have a true
> stake in their
> technological and educational development.
> 
> 5. Promote the development of regional open
> courseware initiatives as a
> primary means for cultural and linguistic diversity,
> for pluralism of
> educational formats. These initiatives should be
> networked for worldwide
> capacity building.
> 
> 
> 
> -------------------------------------------------
> Andy Carvin
> Program Director
> EDC Center for Media & Community
> acarvin @ edc . org
> http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org
> http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/
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