As a part of Training of ICT Trainers project, "Equal
Opportunities" is organizing module "PC Introduction" with the goal
to increase the IT literacy of various target groups. The project goals
are:
- Increasing the level of IT literacy,
- Creating the basis for the further professional improvement,
- Enabling access to various information in the area of education
and application in curriculum,
- Possibility of remote cooperation with collegues from other
schools,
- Possibility of continuous contact and information exchange
with Ministry of Education and Sport,
- Achievement of human rights through enabling the access
to information,
- Improvement of quality of life.
The first module of this project is organized in cooperation with
Republic Ministry of Education and Sport. Project started
in August 2003. The training is five days long, and is organized
for the primary schools teachers from rural areas in Serbia. The
teachers have the opportunity to get basic knowledge in MS Windows,
MS Office, as well as basic skills in internet usage.
The joint plan with the Ministry for Education and sport is to train ten groups of future trainers in 2003. Each group consists of sixteen teachers, and by the end of October 130 persons sucessfuly finished the course. Also, in September, training was organized for the two groups of children and teachers from the Orphan's Home in Belgrade.
Education is strategicaly important resource of every society. Teachers are representing the potential biggest group of future trainers, which can transfer information knowledge to their students (and also to the local population). Due to this facts, Center for Training of ICT Trainers in the first place was formed as the Training center for trainers, whose role will be the transfer of IT knowledge and inclusion in the curriculum.
Advanced School of Electrical Engineering and PTT College from Belgrade
joined the project realization by providing teachers, equipment and computer
laboratories. The project is supported by the companies in the ICT sector:
Telekom Srbija, Ericsson, Mobtel, Telegroup, Teri Engineering,
Eunet, CYPTT.
To become a part of new
society and economy based on knowledge
requires IT knowledge and access to computers and appropriate communication
network. ICT program will contribute to the country action plans in the
proces of entering in
Information Society. This year
in the whole world is marked by preparations of
World Summit on
Information Society which will take place in Geneva in December,
2003, and in Tunis in 2005. UN delegated the Summit preparation to the
International Telecommunication Union (ITU), under which is working Work
Group on Gender Issues (WGGI). ''Equal Opportunities '' has active cooperation
with WGGI, which in turn included into the action plan also NGO "Equal
Opportunities" program . Special atention is given to equal involment
of both women and men in IT knowledge programs, by creating the same opportunities
of their access to information and balanced gender representation in the
process of strategic decisions and planing of development of
Information
Society.