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THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

EDITION OF GET ONLINE WEEK 2013

NATIONAL REPORT By: Victor Koroli

Chisinau, 15.04.2013

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The Access to Information and Training Community Centres Alliance of Moldova

www.infonet.md

The Access to Information and Training Community Centres Alliance of Moldova (further on

INFONET Alliance) was officially registered in 2007, being founded by 47 centres. Its

assignment is to contribute to the consolidation of the information society and to the

sustainable development of civil society by reducing the digital divide phenomenon and by

involving citizens in the decision-making process.

The INFONET Alliance has started the campaign Get Online Week 2013 by spreading an

official press release. In the Republic of Moldova, the campaign developed under the

slogan "We bring Moldova online together!"

ACHIEVEMENTS: CROWD MAPPING

During the Get Online 2013 campaign, INFONET Alliance launched 5 Crowdsourced Maps:

DIASPORA MD – was launched within the project "Remittances developing communities in Moldova”

implemented by Hilfswerk Austria International in Moldova with the financial support of the European Union. The map includes the diplomatic missions of the Republic of Moldova,

associations of the Moldovan diaspora and financing opportunities for migrants who want to return home and

open their own business here.

The community of Moldovan migrants is rather large, with their number amounting to about 1 million, according to unofficial statistics. Nevertheless, communication between the diaspora and Moldovan residents is rather reduced. Taking this fact as a starting point,

we decided to develop the map in order to make communication more efficient, to encourage the migrants to keep in touch with one another, to efficiently communicate with

their native localities, to involve in the decision-making process and to invest their incomes in Moldova’s economy. As the associate partner of the project, the INFONET Alliance elaborated the map on the

basis of open data. It was worked out in less than 24 hours by 3 volunteers. The event was broadcast live on Privesc.EU on 19 March 2013. In the first 24 hours after the

launch, the map was visited by over 200,000 web users.

ALEGERI MD – is a platform for monitoring electoral

processes in the Republic of Moldova. It covers all polling stations in Moldova. The launch of the platform was broadcast live via Privesc.EU. Over 525.000 web

users accessed the launch of the event in the first

72 hours.

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JOB-4-DISABILITY – is a concept of platform comprising job offers for disabled people

and their employment demand. There are 175,000 people with disabilities in the Republic of Moldova. As many as 120,000 of them are able to work and many badly wish that. The

idea is still at the stage of project concept and we believe that it may be developed and implemented by many European telecentres at a time to contribute to the digital and social integration of people with disabilities.

REGIO MD – Crowdmapping of regional development projects.

BIBLIO + - is a croudsourced map of libraries from the Republic of

Moldova. The map is available online and was conceived as a tool allowing to gather information about the whole system of libraries in Moldova. Having access to this online croudsourced map,

Moldovan librarians will have the opportunity to include, change and update data about their libraries. The platform creates simple

mechanisms for managing a national database, comprising up-to-date information about various types of libraries: public, university, college, school libraries etc.

Thus, whoever wants, ordinary web users, financers, founders can access and find out the

results of the library they are interested in. The project was worked out in partnership with

the Association of Librarians from the Republic of Moldova (ABRM).

THE “SCHOOL OF

COMMUNITY

LEADER”

The “School of Community Leader” course was launched by the Polish Foundation

Education for Democracy in cooperation with the INFONET Alliance within the RITA

programme. The course is aimed at building the capacities of the local public authorities

and enhancing the level of professionalism of the local authorities via distance learning in

order to optimize the local government process. E-learning is an innovation for Moldova.

Opened for registration during the Get Online Week, the course will start on 15 April

2013 and is already enjoying huge success: over 125 people expressed their intention to

attend the training – village and town mayors, secretaries of local councils and local

councillors, lawmakers and journalists, public servants and representatives of the non-

governmental sector, etc.

ONLINE ORIGAMI MASTER CLASS FOR KIDS

The activity brought together pupils of the 1-4 forms at the Public Library in Crihana

Veche to familiarize them with Origami art via Internet and to teach them to usefully and

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pleasantly spend their spare time. The participants searched the Internet to find the most

useful origami tutorials. The activity managed to stimulate the children’s creative

capacities, helped them study by plying, ensured interaction and communication between

the members of the group.

THE DETAIL SAVING LIVES The day of 21 March 2013 was rather unusual for the third-form pupils of the secondary school

No.7 in Chisinau Municipality. Class teacher Lilia Turcanu familiarized them with an original

experience coming from Estonia. In December 2012, the spouses Viorica and Victor

Guzun launched the campaign of raising public awareness “The detail saving lives”. The initiators of the campaign analyzed the number of

accidents that took place in Moldova at night and in which pedestrians had been involved. As a

result, they launched a civic campaign of collecting reflective badges for a pilot project aimed at enhancing security on roads in Moldova.

The secondary school No. 7 welcomed the idea and subscribed to the campaign. The pupils

listened carefully to their teacher and at the end they received one reflective badge each – “a detail saving lives”. The reflective badges were granted by the INFONET Alliance within

Get Online Week 2013.

“CHILDREN’S SAFETY ON THE INTERNET” IN GRATIESTI The Community Centre for Children and Youth AMICUL in the village Gratiesti has

organized a seminar on the topic “Children’s safety on the Internet!” for parents of the pupils of the school No 93 in the village Hulboaca. The participants were informed about the possibilities offered by the Internet, how to search for various data, etc, as well as

about threats faced by children and adults when searching the Internet. Many parents said they did not use computers, which were actually set in their children’s bedroom and that

they were sure that their children were safe when using it. Many expressed interest in ways to supervise their children when operating the PC and how to restrict their access to certain websites. The topic “Safety on the Internet” came as an impetus for many parents

to get to know computer better. Soon, the parents will have the possibility of attending short-term computer courses.

ACCESS TO THE ONLINE AREA Infonet Alliance has already made a tradition of bringing somebody new online during the

Get Online Week campaign. This year, it was the Society of Ornithology of Moldova and the Public Association of Women “Initiative” in Straseni. INFONET Alliance created blogs for the two institutions and in the long run they will have an adviser to

develop and manage the blogs.

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WORLD WATER DAY IN CALARASI

World Water Day was marked at the theoretical lyceum “Mihai Sadoveanu” in Calarasi. Within the campaign Get

Online 2013! We bring Moldova Online Together!, lyceum pupils broadcast a radio programme dedicated to World Water Day. Their goal was to draw people’s attention to the

need to protect water both quantitatively and qualitatively and to emphasize the role, duties and responsibilities of

those in charge of preserving and doing their best to protect water sources.

PRIZE FOR COURAGE, PRIZE FOR OPENNESS AND ACCESS TO INFORMATION Within the campaign Get Online 2013! We bring Moldova Online Together!, INFONET

Alliance awarded a prize for openness and access to information to the mayoralty of the village Iordanovca for their ambition and courage.

Iordanovca is a small village in the southern Basarabeasca district with a population of only 950, of whom 17.68 per cent have left for abroad looking for a job. After “scanning the environment” it was ascertained that over 90 per cent of Iordanovca

residents had no access to official administrative information and the community’s diaspora was practically excluded from the decision-making process. The solution identified

by the community was to open the local government data, to ensure transparency and optimize the operation of the local public authorities by using ICT and by involving ordinary

people (including from diaspora) in the decision-making process. The public association Bastina in partnership with the Iordanovca mayoralty successfully implemented the project

Optimizing and Enhancing the Responsibility of the Local Public Administration by Opening Local

Government Data and Involving Citizens in the Decision-Making Process. The Iordanovca Local Council approved the plan of ensuring transparency in the local

administrative process and the involvement of citizens in the decision-making process. Thus a new

gateway appeared on the “map of information searchers” – www.iordanovca.md. INFONET Alliance backed the community’s effort and donated a computer to the

Iordanovca village mayoralty to stock and archive local administrative documents, thus ensuring everybody’s

access to them.

ADR HABITAT HAS LAUNCHED A NEW BOOK

The Regional Development Agency HABITAT in Rezina has made

one good tradition of editing a book every year. This year it

launched the book Medierea – soluţie eficientă a conflitelor

de munca, responsabilitate în prevenirea şi reducerea

şomajului within Get online Week 2013. The book offers efficient

solutions to labour conflicts and ways to enhance responsibility in

preventing and decreasing the unemployment rate.

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MEDIA PRODUCTS MADE BY AND WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF INFONET

ALLIANCE DURING GET ONLINE WEEK13 Video: Ion Balan - Demers pentru o societate incluziva; Andrei Gavriliță, formator

în domeniul Tehnologiilor Informaționale și de Comunicare; Promo E-learning

Scoala Liderului Comunitar, Dezbateri Publice la Cobusca Veche; Stefan Sandic -

un migrant optimist care investeste in tehnologie; Roman Juncu - despre TIC si

afacere sa; Victor Bragari, antreprenor din Orhei despre TIC; Diaspora MD, a

crowdsourced map for a pro-active communication with the Moldovan

communities abroad

Audio: The happy end of a tragic story that started back in 1953; Dimensiunea

europeană - Dialog despre E-learning ŞCOALA LIDERULUI COMUNITAR

Live: Lansarea "Hărții digitale DIASPORA MD"; Lansarea aplicațiilor digitale

ALEGERI MD și JOB-4-DISABILITY

On-line: Campania “Hai pe NET – 2013! - Întâlnire on-line cu cititorii HotNews.md

Power Point: Biblioteca publica - facilitator pentru incluziunea digitala; Cobusca

Veche - consultarea publică a părţilor interesate; Planul de asigurare a

transpararentei actului administrativ local si implicarea cetatenilor in procesul

decizional

CROSS-BORDER PARTNERSHIP MEMORANDUM IN THE AREA OF INFORMATION

SOCIETY

On 24 March 2013, the Pro Support Association from Romania in partnership with the

Access to Information and Training Community Centers Alliance of Moldova signed a Partnership Memorandum aimed at mobilizing logistic and financial means and joining efforts to use them at the level of the Moldovan-Romanian cross-border region. The goal is

to involve decision-makers and public and private stakeholders in joint actions so as to identify solutions to boost sustainable development of society by promoting:

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to develop an inclusive “information society” and reduce digital divide between various social groups and build eSkills; IT services for key sectors: eHealth, eMedicine, eTrade, eLearning, TeleMedicine, eTraining,

eAgriculture, Business Intelligence, eManagement; New forms of education and training, as well as eLearning, distance learning and blended learning; ICT products and services to

improve energy; efficiency. Digital solutions of preserving cultural property, both material and immaterial, characteristic of the geographic cross-border region.

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GET ONLINE WEEK 2013 IN MOLDOVA

Moldova Breakdown

Total Respondents in Moldova - 4304

The Alliance of Access to Information and Training Community Centres – Moldova

expresses sincere gratitude to all partners and those who backed and promoted

the campaign get Online Week in Moldova.

INSTEAD OF CONCLUSION

There is no financial crisis in the world, there is a crisis of ideas! Ideas are everywhere,

ideas fear no borders. Internet has no barriers. You may live in a Moldovan village and

concurrently work in Poland or the USA. In Moldova, there are already pre-requisites for

creating an Alliance for a Digital Moldova. It is paramount that we join our efforts. This

free community of personalities, non-governmental organizations, entrepreneurs, donor

communities, decision-makers would ensure an efficient communication framework meant

to consolidate an informational society in Moldova.

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small people who find it easier to

live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to

change it…

IMPOSSIBLE IS TEMPORARY!

GET ONLINE! WE BRING MOLDOVA ONLINE TOGETHER!