Hi, Salman: I have a release about it, which I pasted below. I also found some information in English on the Internet, you can have a look:
http://www.gjc.it/2004/en/mostra.asp?ID=296 This is Acessa's registration for the Global Junior Challenge http://www1.worldbank.org/publicsector/egov/nogueira_saopaulo.pdf Some not really recent information from the São Paulo State Government I hope this can help... We are planning on translating the research we conducted about the users profile to English and, as soon as it is avaible I'll let you know. If you have other questions, I would be pleased to answer. Regards, Dani Matielo *************************** Press Release about Acessa São Paulo: Acessa São Paulo (www.acessa.sp.gov.br) is an initiative by the State of São Paulo (www.saopaulo.sp.gov.br), conducted by the Official Press Office (www.imesp.com.br) to fight digital exclusion, bringing computer resources and Internet access to the low income population and stimulating human and social development in the communities. The Community InfoCenters are open from Monday to Saturday during eleven hours per day. Each center has two monitors – trained by the USP Escola do Futuro [School of the Future] (www.futuro.usp.br), 10 computers with Internet connections, printers, webcams and scanners. Any person over 11 years of age may use the computers to access the Internet, develop his/her résumé, do school research, use the electronic government services, send and receive emails etc. Currently, Acessa São Paulo has 200 InfoCenters spread across the city of São Paulo, the interior of the state, and the coast area. Since its creation in 2000, Acessa São Paulo has handled more than 10 million service requests and presently has more than 550 thousand registered users. The USP Escola do Futuro conducts research into InfoCenter user profiles. The results of the Pesquisa Online 2004 [2004 Online Survey - http://ponlines2004.futuro.usp.br/] conducted in the first half of this year, with 5873 respondents, brought some interesting results. For example: 76% consider the computer an advance that is improving people's lives and 16% think that it is a faster and more efficient mean of communication, as 80% of users access the Internet to send and receive emails. Further results of other researches conducted by Escola do Futuro can be found at www.ponlines.futuro.usp.br. Supporting the digital inclusion program, USP Escola do Futuro also develops free-access pedagogical content, such as MiniCursos [Mini Courses] (www.minicursos.futuro.usp.br) and Cadernos Eletrônicos [Electronic Notebooks] (www.cadernos.futuro.usp.br). The first are courses via Internet, with an average of four lessons. Each lesson provides a homework suggestion and indicates sites to complement the content. Upon completing a step, the user is evaluated with a multiple-choice test, which encourages him/her to study all material up to that point. The MiniCursos content is popular and has practical applications. Currently there are six MiniCursos online: How to make a résumé, How to tie a tie, Dengue, Personal security, Sugar-less sweets, and Internet etiquette. Reinforcing the intention to contribute to digital inclusion in the low-income communities, the Cadernos Eletrônicos develop various computer. There are currently 10 Cadernos Eletrônicos available, which can be printed out at the InfoCenters, including: How to create and manage emails, Website creation and publication etc. Also of note in Acessa São Paulo are the weekly Internet surveys. This project, called Fala São Paulo [Speak São Paulo] (www.falasp.futuro.usp.br) covers a variety of subjects including Culture and Leisure, Health, and Jobs. The data is tabulated by gender, age and access location. These surveys, with subjects relevant to the community, currently has the average of two thousand votes per week. In 2004 Acessa São Paulo had three post-graduate scholarships – two at PhD level and one at master level – to develop scientific research about the InfoCenters. The studies in Programa Conexões Científicas [Scientific Connections Program] (www.conexoes.futuro.usp.br) concern: How women relate with technology, InfoCenters and the working world, Digital inclusion strategies and InfoCenter daily operations. This work is part of the Scientific Connections Program created to intensify scientific work at the Escola do Futuro. The latest content project developed by the Escola do Futuro is PIM, Passaporte de Internet e Multimídia [Internet and Multimedia Passport] (www.pim.futuro.usp.br), which was launched in the beginning of October. PIM, following the passport analogy, is designed to be a support for user net-surfing. After passing a test on basic email skills, Internet navigation, and text editing, participants receive a physical passport, similar to a conventional passport, to track his/her learning with passport stamps. The stamps are records of specific content developed by the Escola do Futuro or partners, which can be accessed through the site. The first stamps offers are Blogs, Photologs and Site building. To receive a stamp, the user must follow detailed procedures on the site, which can vary in accord with the intended stamp. Another objective of PIM is to develop an on-line community that promotes greater interaction among users through a forum and messaging among participants. Acessa São Paulo is also concerned with involving the community where the InfoCenters are installed. This is done by stimulating development of projects and activities that use technological resources in a creative and educational way. Rede de Projetos [Project Network] (www.rededeprojetos.futuro.usp.br) has been developed to schedule specific times in the InfoCenters for these activities so that users can publish community content, which in turn promotes community awareness. On 5/2/05, Salman Ansari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is very interesting! Is there materials in English that one could read > more in detail about this? > > Salman Ansari > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dani Matielo > Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 10:45 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [DDN] Re: what are your favorite telecentre initiatives? > > Hello Andy and everybody, > > my name is Dani Matielo and I have been lurking in this list for a > while. The discussions here are very interesting and I hope I can > participate more in the future. > > For now, I would like to add a telecentre initiative to Andy's list, > called Acessa São Paulo, led by the State of São Paulo in Brazil > which, I believe, is a very sucessful Program and has a lot of > interesting experiences to share with other initiatives around the > world. > > Currently, Acessa São Paulo has 200 telecentres spread across the > state of São Paulo, which are open from Monday to Saturday during > eleven hours per day. Each center has two monitors – trained by the > USP Escola do Futuro [School of the Future] ( www.futuro.usp.br), 10 > computers with Internet connections, printers, webcams and scanners. > Any person over 11 years of age may use the computers to access the > Internet, develop his/her résumé, do school research, use the > electronic government services, send and receive emails etc. . Since > its creation in 2000, Acessa São Paulo has handled more than 10 > million service requests and presently has more than 500 thousand > registered users. > > In addition to computer and Internet access, Acessa São Paulo also > develops research into its telecentre's user profiles. The results of > the researches, which are conducted by Escola do Futuro, can be found > at www.ponlines.futuro.usp.br. > > Supporting the digital inclusion program, there's also development of > free-access pedagogical content, such as MiniCursos [Mini Courses] > (www.minicursos.futuro.usp.br) and Cadernos Eletrônicos [Electronic > Notebooks] ( www.cadernos.futuro.usp.br). > > The first are courses via Internet, with an average of four lessons. > Each lesson provides a homework suggestion and indicates sites to > complement the content. Upon completing a step, the user is evaluated > with a multiple-choice test, which encourages him/her to study all > material up to that point. The MiniCursos content is popular and has > practical applications. Currently there are six MiniCursos online: How > to make a resumé, How to tie a tie, Dengue, Personal security, > Sugar-less sweets, and Internet etiquette. > > Reinforcing the intention to contribute to digital inclusion in the > low-income communities, the Cadernos Eletrônicos develop various > computer. There are currently 10 Cadernos Eletrônicos available, which > can be printed out at the telecentres, including: How to create and > manage emails, Website creation and publication etc. > > Also of note in Acessa São Paulo are the weekly Internet surveys. This > project, called Fala São Paulo [Speak São Paulo] ( > www.falasp.futuro.usp.br) covers a variety of subjects including > Culture and Leisure, Health, and Jobs. The data is tabulated by > gender, age and access location. These surveys, with subjects relevant > to the community, currently has the average of one thousand votes per > week. > > The latest content project developed within Acessa São Paulos is > called PIM, Passaporte de Internet e Multimídia [Internet and > Multimedia Passport] ( www.pim.futuro.usp.br), which was launched in > the beginning of October 2004. PIM, following the passport analogy, is > designed to be a support for user net-surfing. After passing a test on > basic email skills, Internet navigation, and text editing, > participants receive a physical passport, similar to a conventional > passport, to track his/her learning with passport stamps. > > The stamps are records of specific content, which can be accessed > through the site. The first stamps offers are Blogs, Basic Hardware > and Graphic Design. To receive a stamp, the user must follow detailed > procedures on the site, which can vary in accord with the intended > stamp. > > Another objective of PIM is to develop an on-line community that > promotes greater interaction among users through a forum and messaging > among participants. > > Acessa São Paulo is also concerned with involving the community where > the telecentres are installed. This is done by stimulating > development of projects and activities that use technological > resources in a creative and educational way. Rede de Atividades > [Activities Network] has been developed to schedule specific times in > the telecentres for these activities so that users can publish > community content, which in turn promotes community awareness. > > If anyone is interested or has any doubt about the program, I would be > pleased to give more Information about it. > > Best regards, > > Dani Matielo > Escola do Futuro da USP > Projeto Acessa São Paulo > > ____________________________________________ > > Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 08:37:22 -0600 > From: Andy Carvin < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [DDN] what are your favorite telecentre initiatives? > To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group > < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID: < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Hi everyone, > > As part of my efforts to identify interesting telecentre initiatives for > the upcoming IDRC/EDC telecentres book, I'd like to ask a question for > general discussion on the list: What are your favorite telecentre > initiatives - particularly ones outside the US? > > Do you see it as a model for other telecentre initiatives? Is it > breaking new ground in some way? Is it successfully integrating > learning, public health programs, e-government, media production, > economic development activities, or other services into its mission? Or > did it start with a development mission of its own and simply embrace > telecentres as a strategy for accomplishing that mission? > > I'm very eager to engage list members in identifying interesting, > creative telecentres around the world. The EDC/IDRC book, to be released > at WSIS in November, will be an important opportunity for us to > demonstrate the role of telecentres in global development, and how > they're more than just simple public access points to the interest. So > please post your thoughts to the list; I'd love to hear what you think. > > thanks, > andy > > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. > > -- "The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say an uncommon-place thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles." ~ Jack Kerouac _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
