The document reports on the Get Online Week 2013 campaign in Moldova organized by the Access to Information and Training Community Centres Alliance of Moldova (INFONET Alliance). The campaign aimed to reduce the digital divide and involve citizens in decision making. Key activities included launching crowdsourced maps, an e-learning course for community leaders, workshops on internet safety and origami, and awarding a prize for transparency. The INFONET Alliance collaborated with various organizations and launched several media products to promote inclusion and development through information technology.

1. THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA
EDITION OF GET ONLINE WEEK 2013
NATIONAL REPORT
By: Victor Koroli
Chisinau, 15.04.2013
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2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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!
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