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Latvia@World Initiative

Latvia@World Initiative. Signe Bāliņa Board member of Latvian Information Technology and Telecommunications Association (LITTA), Managing director, JSC Datorzinību centrs, Latvia. LITTA.

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Latvia@World Initiative

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  1. Latvia@World Initiative Signe Bāliņa Board member of Latvian Information Technology and Telecommunications Association (LITTA), Managing director, JSC Datorzinību centrs, Latvia

  2. LITTA • The Latvian Information Technology and Telecommunications Association is a professional association that regroups • over 90 ITTE product and service providers and educational institutions • over 170 individual professional members of the ITTE industry sector in Latvia • LITTA members employ over 20 000 people

  3. The Principal Objectives of LITTA • To popularise and promote the development of InformationSociety in Latvia, in order to ensure that every resident in the country can benefit from the Internet technologies and thoroughly participate in the new knowledge-basedeconomy

  4. The Main Objective of Initiative Latvia@World • To prepare inhabitants of Latvia for information society services • To provide free of charge computer skills training for 180 000 inhabitants of Latvia • Duration: 3 years

  5. Latvia@World Initiative • The initiative Latvia@World is a tool for achieving the objectives of LITTA: • Attaining that all inhabitants of Latvia haveopportunity to acquire skills for using computer and Internet - to decrease the digitalgap • Popularizing the existing content of Internet in Latvia and facilitating the formation of new, useful content • Achieving that for each inhabitant of Latvia there is access to Internet

  6. Target Audience • Inhabitants of Latvia who: • Do not have experience to work with computer and Internet • Possess some IT usage knowledge and skills, but do not have the experience in using the Internet Inhabitants of Latvia which are difficulttoinvolve in the usage of ICT services

  7. Prerequisites of Information Society Infrastructure Computers, Internet Training Computer skills, opportunities Content e-services Motivation

  8. Training Guidelines • To concentrate on practicalusage of Internet services • To pay special attention to securityaspects in the usage of Internet • To train inhabitants in usage of currently available and essential services • To promote computer skills and internet services

  9. Stages of Training • In order to train 10% of economically active inhabitants of Latvia, the training process is divided in stages as follows: • Preparation • Adaptation of training program • Pilot training • Training • The duration and scope of project depends on financing

  10. EQUAL project “Training in Computer and Internet Usage of Unemployed in Latvia” • Initiated in January, 2005 • Objectives • To collect information about computerskills’ level, interests and needs of unemployedpersons • Development of studymethodology that will allow to acquire basic skills of computer and Internet usage within a short time • Preparation of methodology and practical training of newtrainers • To gather information about publicInternetaccesspoints

  11. Microsoft Unlimited Potential project • The goal of Microsoft UP project is to improve lifelonglearning for underservedpeople by providing technology skills through community-based technology learning centres • The UP program provides: • Software licenses • Curriculum - quality content for the community learner that focuses on real-world skill development • Financial support – to cover training costs

  12. Project’s Sustainability Ensuring • Establishment of Internetaccesspoints simultaneously with training • Collaboration with other projects which are oriented to meet inhabitants needs   • Development of e-learning courses • Access via latvia@worldportal • Consultations via phone and Internet • Taxallowances

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