Project Details


WSIS Prizes Contest 2019 Nominee

Digital Literacy Workshops for Children, Teenagers, People with disabilities and Seniors


Description

The Federal Telecommunications Institute as a regulator of telecommunications in Mexico, has the authority to design programs aimed at protecting and informing users of telecommunications services on their rights and how to guarantee these mechanisms and to promote access and use of these services.

This, in order to contribute to the advancement of information society and knowledge in our country, by digital literacy as well as improving the quality of life and development opportunities for all Mexicans.

In this regard and in order to benefit vulnerable groups, incorporating them into the world of technology and enabling them to access telecommunications services and ICT, the Institute has been given the task of imparting three times (2017 and 2018), workshops to children, adolescents, people with disabilities and seniors, allowing them to learn to use ICT (cell phones, computers, tablets, etc.) and telecommunications (Internet, mobile telephony) and know their rights and how to enforce them.

Project website

http://www.ift.org.mx/usuarios-y-audiencias/eventos-ift


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Action lines related to this project
  • AL C4. Capacity building 2019
  • AL C7. E-learning
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 4: Quality education
  • Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Coverage
  • Mexico

Status

Completed

Start date

June 2017

End date

15 November 2018


Target beneficiary group(s)
  • Youth
  • Older persons
  • People with disabilities

Replicability

This project is completely replicable because any institution that is interested in promoting the use of technologies in vulnerable groups and have the technical and economic capacity to do so, you can organize


Sustainability

This project requires a substantial budget allowing rent or purchase equipment and adequate facilities for its realization.


WSIS values promotion

Promotes digital literacy, empowering vulnerable groups who lack access to technology, it contributes to the advancement of information society and knowledge in our country as well as improving the quality of life and development opportunities for all Mexicans.


Entity name

Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT)

Entity country—type

Mexico Government

Entity website

http://www.ift.org.mx/