Association Mukanetti: Empowering Senior Citizens with Information Technology
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Association Mukanetti: Empowering Senior Citizens with Information Technology
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ATK Seniorit Mukanetti ry Is an association for senior citizens to master the new information technology.A member have to be more than 50 years of age
AssociationMukanetti • The assosiation promotes equality between different generations by training elderly people to master the new information technology in every field of life. • Learning new things adds to senior citizens activities, improves the quality of life as well as helps them manage everyday life more easily
A brief history • The activities began 1995 with courses in computing skills for elderly people • These students began to get together discussing problems according to computing • The association Mukanetti was founded in spring 2000
Projects • City of Tampere and eTampere project, enabled the continuation of activities since year 2000. • ”Tikapuut”, since 2001, the project for creating a network of organications who train computer skills. They work together to train elderly people. • RAY´s (Finland´s Slot Machine Assosiation) funding 2003 – 2005 to Tutor project, enable training, supervision and arrangement of peer tutor activities
Courses • Away with fears (32 h) • Refresher of basic skills (32 h ) • Internet (8-16 h ) • Word (16 h) • Excel (16) • Image Editing I and II • Windows, Genealogy, Camera, etc.
Peertutoring • Tutoring at different computer courses • Tutoring at several posts • Tutoring at homes (for members only) • Tutoring by telephone • Tutoring how to use mobile telephone
Eija-Riitta Kortesluoma,executive manager Sorinkatu 3 A, 33100 Tampere FINLAND tel: +358 3 223 5898 email: tikapuut@mukanetti.net