AlfaDigital program began in 2007  actions that aims to incorporate ICT in everyday life prison Projects integrated in AlfaDigital Program: :: Cyberaules  computer recycling and free software :: ICT / Omnia points  Internet access for inmates :: ACTIC  accreditation of ICT skills :: DigiTale  ICT skills development through the production of digital stories

1. AlfaDigital Program
Promote ICT Competences in prison
Europris, ICT Expert Meeting
Luxembourg, 9-10 december 2014
Julio Zino & Carlos Soler
Direction General of Penitentiary Services, Catalonia

2. Cyberaules
(computers
classrooms)
CIRE
Vocational
learning
Educational
Centres
(Formal
education)
Artistic
worshops
Libraries
Prison’s ICT Learning Actors
Punts TIC
(ITC Points)

3. AlfaDigital Program
AlfaDigital program began in 2007  actions that
aims to incorporate ICT in everyday life prison
Projects integrated in AlfaDigital Program:
:: Cyberaules  computer recycling and free
software
:: ICT / Omnia points  Internet access for
inmates
:: ACTIC  accreditation of ICT skills
:: DigiTale  ICT skills development through the
production of digital stories

4. Educational centres: computer classrooms in all prisons
Punts TIC: computer classrooms with Internet access
Cyberaules: computer classrooms without Internet access
CIRE: computer classrooms without Internet access
Libraries: computers available for library users, in same cases
Technical equipaments

5. CP TARRAGONA
CP DONES BARCELONA
CP PUIG DE LES BASSES
CP JOVES
CP BRIANS 1
CP QUATRE CAMINS
CP BRIANS 2
CP LLEDONERS
CP PONENT
CP HOMES BARCELONA
Educational centers with Internet connection
Punts TIC with Internet connection
Cyberaules (without Internet Connection)
9539 inmates
43,8 % Foreigners
56,2 % Nationals
93,3 % Men
6,7 % Women
13,31 % Youth (18-25)
Updated: 27.08.14
ITC equipments with Internet connection

6. Highlights
:: Access to ICT equipment
:: Practices with ICT in cultural activities =>
not (only) formal training
:: Active rol of the inmates => trainer-to-
trainers scheme => inmates trainers
:: Access to Internet for socioeducational
activities

7. *Digital literacy, cultural
dinamization and ICT competences
Digital Literacy

Accessibility hardware and software

Diversity of learning scenarios

Integration of ICT in daily life

(Acreditation of competences: ACTIC, COMPETIC, ECDL)
Cultural Dinamyzation

Promotes the connection person / community

It is based on the active participation of all actors

Holistic sense: individual, social, cultural, educational

Promotes social networks: exchange, knowledge construction,
common projects

It proposed changes: personal and social
ICT learning + (ICT) social practices  ICT competences

8. Cyberaules Technical scheme
LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project)  several
thin clients (not HD) connected to a server
enables the use of "obsolete” computers
Economic management network
Only the server to be updated
The user identification is valid for the entire network
Free software Ubuntu Server, software for
socioeducational activities, Moodle & Wikipedia

9. Cyberaules Technical scheme
LTSP

10. :: Official certificate of digital competence in Catalonia
:: ACTIC certifies 8 competences in 3 different levels
(beginner, basic and advanced)
:: COMPETIC official curriculum ICT in formal learning

11. Our experience in ICT in prison
You can see an overview video at:
http://dotsub.com/view/0722b082-5f03-43c5-bb0a-ca5795ec4e23
http://www.alfadigital.info/moodle/course/view.php?id=24
“The impact in prison of ICT and Internet”

12. Internet Filtering:
• User: individual identification
• Group: navigation policy
Internet
PC connected to
the Internet only
through proxy

13. The Lledoners Prison Case

Educational unit: school, library,
auditorium, Punt TIC (ICT Point)
• 8 residential units with “Cyberaules”
(Cyber-classrooms) and libraries: 10+5
computers internal network
• 1 professional monitor train-the-trainer in
ACTIC 14 inmates monitors
• Inmates monitors training other inmates in
Cyberaules
• Developing competences: learning,
practice and common uses of computers

14. CP Lledoners
Open in 2008-09
Men’s prison
780 inmates

15. Cyberaules and Punt TIC on the map

16. Cyberaula at Lledoners prison

17. DigiTale Project
Promotion of ICT skills through the
production of digital stories:
Audio Stories
Video Stories
Photo Stories
Video Posters
Digital Story Telling
dMagaZines

18. Punts TIC (ICT Points)
:: Computer rooms integrated in the "ICT Points net"
(Catalonia's network to promote access to ICT and
Internet)
:: Installed in all prisons in Catalonia progressively since
2001
:: 9 locally networked and Internet access computers
:: Hardware: new and actualized computers
:: Software: dual operating system and software
(Windows and Ubuntu)
:: Internet connection in all cases with firewall and web
filters

19. Educational centers
:: Computer class rooms in the Educational
centers
:: 10-20 locally networked computers
:: Hardware: news and recycled computers
:: Software: in same cases dual operating
system and software (Windows and
Linkat)
:: Uses: two types of computer rooms:
•
designed to self-training and exercises
•
educational programs activities related

20. Digital Literacy
Competences
Cultural Dinamization

21. Blog: AlfaDigital: TIC i Presó
Twitter: XarxaDigital
Facebook: ProjecteAlfaDigital
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YouTube: XarxaDigital
e-mail: nppct.dj@gencat.cat