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Socio Economic Environment

• A region in the southwest of Spain.
• Low population density
• Formed by two different provinces Cáceres (in the
  North) and Badajoz (in the South).
• More than 400 city centres extend throughout the
  region.
• Development opportunities within the region
  depend very much on the development of the
  Information and Knowledge Tecnologies.

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Institutional Context
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Institutional Context

• Extremadura Regional Government commits
• itself with the development of the Information
  Society
• - 1998. Extremadura Regional Government Official
  Web Site www.juntaex.es
• - Decree 92/1999 on the creation of the
  Directorate General for the Information Society.
  - Decree 147/2000 on the regulation of the
  Regional Government Official web site.
• - Decree 177/2001 on the creation of the
  Education Technology Network (Red Tecnológica
  Educativa. RTE)

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Extremadura Regional Government
Information Society
A Commitment of the Regional Government
Three Basic Pillars
Strategic Framework Centre for the Promotion of
New Initiatives Technological Framework
Intranet Strategic Actions
- Technoliteracy Plan (NKC/ Integra-Red)
- e-Extremadura Innovative Actions Programme
- Open Source Software
- Vivernet Entrepreneurs and businesses
- Education Technology Network education and
e-learning
- Feval.com E-commerce
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It is a project of
Extremadura Regional Government Regional
Ministry for Education, Science and Technology.
ERDF. ESF.
Regional Association of Popular Universities
in Extremadura
Town Councils
Addressed to
Cultural Centres Neighbourhood Associations Women
Centres

• Extremadura Citizens
• People from 16 years old onwards.
• The project was born in 1999 as
• a pilot

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What is the TLP?

• - A Plan directed to the whole society in
  Extremadura through centres that provide free,
  democratic committed access to the Internet and
  ICT's in order to introduce Extremadura into the
  Information Society.
• - The NKC/Integrared are public spaces, placed in
  social and cultural centres, with computing
  equipment enough for every social sector to
  accede to the new opportunities the ICT offer
  through the Internet.
• - The NKC are placed in rural areas and
  IntegraRed centres in the lessfavoured areas of
  towns with more than 20.000 inhabitants.
• - There are 20 NKC and 13 IntegraRed centres.

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Centres Structure

• 7 computers
• 1 laser printer
• 1 digital camera
• 1 scanner
• 1 web cam, 1 mini disk y 1 digital microphone

• Computing Technician
• Socio-cultural monitor

• Videoconference equipment
• Projectors
• Laptop computers.
• CD Recorders

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Objectives

• To promote free, participative and democratic
  access to ICT's for every citizen.
• To spread out local and regional culture
  through the participation and commitment of every
  inhabitant in Extremadura.
• To develop abilities, such as the
  entrepreneurial capacity in order to build a new
  region and to be able to cope with the XXI
  century skills.
• To generate virtual and social spaces promoting
  the creation of collaboration networks among
  businesses, associations and users with similar
  interests.

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Objectives

• To create a social and virtual environment in
  order to build a commitment of our people with
  the transformation needed in our region.
• To create techno-literacy best practices
  guidelines that allow us to favour a transference
  of this knowledge to other communities and
  regions within Europe.
• To transfer the knowledge as a Plan, as a
  Project and as a mobile for social advance.
• To use and disseminate the Open Source Software
  in the region.

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• USERS participating in the TLP 56.586
• VISITS to the centres 554.000

Users distributed by occupation
Students
Unemployed
Employed
Businessmen
Retired
Housewives
Others
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• COMPUTERS CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET WITH ISDN OR
  ADSL TECHNOLOGY224 computers at centres and 18
  itinerant computers
• TECHNOLOGICAL RESOURCES AT THE DISPOSAL OF
  CITIZENS FROM EXTREMADURA32 scanner, 32 digital
  cameras, 32 webcams, video capturators, two
  videoconferences equipments, 3 multimedia
  projectors.
• WEB SITES MADE AT THE CENTRES1.500 pages
• E-MAIL ADDRESSES CREATED more than 21.000

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PRESENT EXTREMADURA
FUTURE EXTREMADURA
Practices Equipment Narrative Symbols Identities R
elationships State of Mind
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Activities Carried Out
They are grouped in the following way
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Actions carried out

• It becomes necessary to create itinerant
  centres in those villages and towns in which
  there is not a centre.

• To fasten the process of bringing ICT's nearer
  citizens

From later 2.000
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Actions carried out

• It provides a way to communicate at real time,
  in which the distance is not a difficulty, it
  disseminates the advantages and possibilities
  this technology offers for Education, Culture,
  Training, the exchanges of experiences and for
  the Development.

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Actions carried out
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Actions Carried out

• They are initiatives that have become the best
  tool to dinamise citizens and villages, since
  they satisfy interests and promote the approach
  to the net.
• They are projects that create individual and
  community values.
• Projects such as the portal for the Virtual
  School for Parents, Youth Network, Elder Meeting
  Point and the Portal for the Unemployed are some
  examples.

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Activities carried out
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Activities carried out

• We use the net in order to meet people
  interested in dealing with common subjects and
  are scattered across Extremadura.
• It promotes the birth of virtual communities.
• The Real and Virtual Community of the staff of
  Popular Universities is already a reality.

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Activities carried out

• Events that allow to bring ICT's nearer the
  citizens and to disseminate the posibilities
  ICT's have for specific groups.
• Specific subjects.
• Regional or Local more than 300 events.

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Activities carried out

• It compilates the acquired experience, expertise
  and methodology.
• It favours the knowledge transfer.
• THE SECOND GUIDELINE IS ALREADY PREPARED.

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linEX
OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
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Technoliteracy Plan New Knowledge
Centres/Integrared

• TO SUM UP
• Relevance to the key messages 1, 2, 4 and 6.
• Promotes ICTs and LLL in lessfavoured areas
  bridging the digital divide.
• Policy Awareness in the Region on the necessity
  of implementing LLL and eLearning initiatives.
• Innovation in
• Teaching and learning process.
• Social dimension.
• Institutional dimension.
• Organisational dimension.