The Global Academy

The telecentre.org Academy — a global initiative that provides telecentre managers with ongoing training, capacity building, and professional development opportunities — will be launched in October 2008. Thanks to the hard work of nonprofit, academic, private sector, and government partners around the world, we are one step closer to achieving the goal of training one million people by 2010.

At the global level, the telecentre.org Academy will:

  • Establish national academies, in partnership with academic institutions, government, NGOs, and the private sector, and provide support for business and sustainability planning
  • Set standards to accredit national academies and develop a certification scheme that recognizes telecentre managers' training achievements and skills gained through work experience; promote accreditation and certification using a brand or seal that symbolizes high-quality training and skills
  • Support the development of open curricula and promote the creation, coordination, and improvement of common resources
  • Facilitate events, networking, and knowledge sharing activities, including engaging the community to contribute to a shared, multilingual repository based on UNESCO's Open Training Platform (to include curricula, certification standards, best practices, models, list of experts, etc.)
  • Develop a web-based learning management system
  • Develop partnerships to secure additional resources and support
  • Reach out to governments and donors supporting telecentres to help them incorporate continuous and sustainable capacity building into their program design.

Global Meetings