IV Congress of CiberSociety 2009. Analog crisis, digital future

Topic C - PoliTICs

Work Team C-59: ?New challenges of the nets of telecenters

Communications

Initial questions

The digital gap, is same breach that at the time of birth of telecenters, the same one that does 10 or 15 years?

The advance of new usefulnesses website (2.0, 3.0) increases or he reduces the breach?

Have been turned telecenters in real territorial referents? Are related with other devices to local level? That link keeps with learning centers, with promotion centers of the occupation?

He Is the staff of the telecenters ready enough to accompany to the town in the digital new society? He Is that his duty? Which is the professional profile that these centers, and functions that should act, requires?

We Can to declare that is a citizenship new way, a digital citizenship?
Which sectors are the most excluded in this new item? Which are the most suitable mechanisms to minimize this exclusion?
Which strategies are the most suitable?

Work Group description

This working group constitutes a dialog space, of work colaborativo, concentrating on the analysis propositive on telecenters, his functions and his usefulnesses nowadays. He Seems evident that today still is the digital gap, but also that the set-up of the breach has changed, aggravating in certain sectors and associations of the town.

Different governments have carried out a big effort when spreading a series of centers specialized in the accompaniment, in the formation and in the dynamization of technological tools as a prevention measure of the risks of the sociodigital exclusion. Should analyze, not already if these measures are enough, but if the duty that these centers develop is the suitable one.

New realities (and-governance, and-share, the digital responsibilities defined by the UNESCO, new ways of social communication, etc.) impose a checkup out of the first models of telecenter, that should adapt his operation to needs of the town and to look after the share of the citizenship fit to equality.