Click to Europe final conferenceBelgrade, 24 May 2011

About Telecentre-Europe

Telecentre-Europe is an inclusive and vibrant network that increases the impact and effectiveness of telecentres throughout Europe by providing advocacy, knowledge sharing and capacity building amongst its members.

Our aim

The main aim of Telecentre-Europe is to increase the impact, effectiveness and profile of its members, and thereby improve the quality of life, employability and social and civic participation ofthe citizens they serve.

We want to help create relevant and scalable approaches towards achieving e-Inclusion for the 290 million offline Europeans.•Digital economy needs supported citizens

– Employability, citizenship

•eGovernment channel shift savings unlocked •New skillset: social, collaborative web•Building trust: privacy and security

Telecentre-Europe and the Digital Agenda

Our international membership

Almost 400 members from over 100 organizations in 53 nations, from every continental area across the world. The 33 European nations are represented on the Telecentre-Europe online community by around 60 local, regional and national telecentre networks, which between them include more than 30,000 telecentres.

• Get online week • Telecentre Europe Summit• Telecentre impact assessment• Employment Toolkit

Plans and projects for 2011

Get online week 2011

More than one hundred thousand Europeans were reached by telecentres in 30 European countries in the 2011 Get Online Week campaign. Neelie Kroes, the Vice President of the European Commission thanked telecentre staff, and hailed them ‘European heroes’.

www.getonlineweek.eu

TE Summit

Telecentre Leaders Forum, Riga, Latvia 2008

Summit 201129-30 SeptemberBrussels, Belgium

Impact Assessment

Partnership with EC – Institute for Prospective Technological Studeis (IPTS) to benchmark the telecentre community across Europe

Demonstrate the potential and the role of telecentres in including those who are most hard to reach, as well as for deploying ehealth, egov, eskills, ecitizenship programmes.

Employment Toolkit

KC4ALLIMPROVING KEY COMPETENCIES OF CITIZENS AT RISK OF

EXCLUSION FROM THE LABOUR MARKET

WWW.KEYCOMPETENCES.EU

Telecentre-Europe online

www.telecentre-europe.org

info@telecentre-europe.org

www.facebook.com/TelecentreEurope twitter.com/telecentres