In a Europe where the Internet is by far the easiest way to get hold of information, completely new demands are being placed on ordinary people, demands that an individual can sometimes find difficult to meet. Many Europeans do not have an Internet connection at home and must instead make use of public places with Internet access, sometimes known as ‘telecentres’. These centres are often libraries and schools and can also provide other technology as well as an internet connection in order to enable users to access information electronically.
Telecentre Europe is a network for telecentres and works actively to strengthen and develop these, in order to support and help those living in Europe with the digital development that is now very much underway in many countries. Currently around 25 000 telecentres in 35 countries are connected to Telecentre Europe. One of the network’s activities is organising exchanges between different centres in order to spread knowledge and experience across Europe.
Laurentiu Bunescu from Telecentre Europe thinks that their job is important for many reasons, but first and foremost sees the network as a tool to invite people to participate in the knowledge economy and thus prevent possible labour market exclusion. This week he and other representatives of Telecentre Europe will be at the conference on eGovernment in Malmö to develop and improve their efficiency.
“We want to learn more about the leaders’ solutions to these issues and to develop so that in the future we can become a link between governments and citizens”, says Laurentiu Bunescu.
Telecentre Europe is also sending internet reporters to the conference, whose task it will be to discuss, exchange experiences and take note of as much as possible of what is said, in order to get as much as possible out of the conference so that the network can develop and learn more.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Eric Tegnander
Quelle/Source: Swedish Presidency of the European Union, 16.11.2009
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