Telecentre Europe Summit 2010 October 12, 2010

The third Telecentre-Europe Summit will take place in Budapest, Hungary during 13-14 October 2010, and will bring together an invited audience of over 100 telecentre network leaders from across Europe.

Members of the network are drawn from more than 80 organisations, which represent 25,000 telecentres between them. Telecentres help disadvantaged people to benefit from technology, an estimated 12 million people each year.

The key theme of the event will focus on how telecentres can maximize their contribution towards a successful European digital agenda.

During the summit, participants will be able to explore exciting and challenging topics including:

• Achieving European eCitizenship

National networks of telecentres are catalysts of eInclusion across the European nations. Telecentres are facilitating eGovernment and eParticipation services for communities and people that need them. Closer relationships between Governments and telecentres will increase the understanding, the acceptance, and the reach of these services.

• eSkills for everyone

eSkills are important for all Europeans. Telecentres help the hard to reach day-by-day to improve their chances for a better quality of life, for employability, and for social inclusion. Telecentres’ services rely on tools developed by IT companies. Amplified cooperation between companies and telecentres would result in diversified services and increased benefits for the digitally excluded.

• Building telecentre capacity

Telecentres need skilful and motivated operators to perform at their best. It is estimated that around 300,000 people currently work in different types of telecentres across Europe. Specific formal education opportunities could boost the chances to professionalize the telecentre/eInclusion workers.

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