INTERNAUTA (Valencia - SPAIN)
Digital diagnose
Objectives
To reach the highest number of E-citizens. To reach this scope the Valencian region offers easy, friendly and free digital literacy courses addressed to all citizens. The main objective is to fight against the digital divide, the main aim is to achieve a technological and knowledge society.
Action plan / Activities
* Where: the programme started on 25th October 2005 throughout the geography of the Valencian region. * Levels: there are 3 levels of traineeship, these are: - UBI (Usuario Básico de Internet): Basic User of Internet - UMI (Usuario Medio de Internet): Medium User of Internet - UAI (Usuario Avanzado de Internet): Advanced User of Internetà * Structure of the courses: the UBI level is the unique one has already started. It has a duration of 12 hours. It is composed by 11 modules gave during 6 days, 2 hours per day. * Official recognition: at the end of the courses, the citizens receive a statement issued by the Generalitat Valenciana that certifies that the trainee has attended the course. * Financing facilities: Internauta offers to the citizens who finish the course, financing facilities to purchase a computer through the ayuda.net initiative. * Communication campaign: Internauta has count with a very famous Valencian actor as campaign image - Leaflet - Radio commercial breaks - Posters in the street - Television in the metropolitan busses - Announcement in newspapers - Hoarding * Registration procedure: the citizens can registered themselves through two very simple ways, or calling to the citizens telephone ?012- or by person in the citizens buildings (PROP).
Follow-up indicators
- Foreseen citizens trained at the end of the programme: 225.000 citizens. - Citizens registered on 25 October: 3.786 citizens. - Classrooms: 101 to initiate the programme - Trainers: 40 to initiate the programme - Technological Development Agent (ADT): 14 to initiate the programme - Computers: 865 to initiate the programme
Resources and budget
* Human resources: - Trainers - Generalitat Valenciana staff: - Collaborators organisms. Foundation Valencian Office for the Information Society (OVSI)4???? * Budget: over 8.000.000 ?
Financing
Valencian Region (Generalitat Valenciana) and 18 supporters, by one hand some sector stakeholders: Telefónica, HP, TPI, Intel, Jazztel, Microsoft, Oracle, Indra, El Corte Inglés, Siemens, Fujitsu, ONO, Azertia, Panda Software; and by other hand financial entities: Federación Valenciana de Cajas de Ahorros, Caja de Ahorro del Mediterráneo, Bancaja, Caixa Ontinyent
Development
Vice-Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society (Secretaría Autonómica de Telecomunicaciones y Sociedad de la Información- SATSI-)
Group
all citizens, with special attention to people most susceptible of digital divide (persons with handicap, woman, elderly, immigrants, citizens from rural areas, etc.)
Start date
11/01/2005
End date
01/01/2008
Additional information
* Internauta is one project developed in the framework of AVANTIC, the Valencian regional strategic plan for the advanced telecommunications and the knowledge and technological society 2004-2010 (www.avantic.gva.es). * Internauta website: www.internauta.gva.es