Conference to Promote Social Internet 2011: Adapting to new social
Working to promote the employability and social integration of citizens as a challenge to adapt to the needs of citizens, was the theme of this year the Day of Encouragement Social Internet held on 28 October from 9am to 15pm at the Tower building Telefonica del Forum in Barcelona.
This conference has become a perfect setting to realize a meeting of people driving force of Omnia Network, as well as a space for reflection and presentation of experiences to go around as reaching and evolving challenges posed by the work Points to the Omnia, root needs prevailing in each of its territories and framing the social, economic and labor that we are experiencing today.
The Conference was inaugurated by the CEO of Civic Action and Community Department of Social Welfare and Family, Yolanda Cervera, and the Director General of Telecommunications and Information Society Department of Enterprise and Employment, Charles Flamerich, who emphasize the growth of the digital world to help people by giving them support through ICT Network Point-Omnia, areas that can provide resources to enhance the employability and social integration of people.
Since they wanted to show Omnia Network experiences and best practices that are taking place and which are specified in the work, acting in community network and leveraging available resources, are pursuing measures to facilitate intervention introduction or the return of the labor market.
On the one hand and the challenge of vital community work in network environment and the employability of people, Maria Tejada dynamic point of the Omnia AV Balcony at Manresa and Monica Holly, the Directorate General of Telecommunications, told us the actions being undertaken with the Program Online Employment Service of Catalonia (SOC) and the difficulties and potentialities in the results generated by the public, such as the example of Antonio, Omnia user's point and thanks to benefit from this joint work was to find work and explains through an interview they did on video.
We also were participants from the point of the Omnia Igualada-Montserrat cultural center, the coordination is underway with the Learning to Learn program in the neighborhood are located the two services. Working in a civic facility enables the Raja to Elias, the dynamic point Omnia, Sonia and Costa, Learning to Learn the technique, emphasizing its actions on two key issues: the overall vision of the people and that can generate cross and provides a more direct intervention in the social and labor insertion of citizenship. In this context we were told to prepare a complementary courses on digital literacy and acquisition of skills and competencies to job search.
From the Point Foundation Omnia Marianao Sant Boi de Llobregat, Josep Oliveras, the dynamics of the Omnia, we asked participants work with the youth group who are pursuing and which is a workshop TICBoi about the experience in vocational training from the community involvement of people through new information technologies and communication.
Three experiences in related work involving cross the territory once again an example of experiences that highlight the points Omnia as a reception area, to detect the needs of people and intervention through the Community network each of the points that are involved Omnia in its territory.
We finally mention the assistance of Omnia Network points, which represented 83% of the participation globalization, and that meant not only driving force in their lives but also those responsible for the management bodies of the points that In addition they wanted to enjoy this moment so important for the whole face of the Omnia Network.
From here all are challenges and opportunities in working for social and labor insertion of people for the Omnia, a social project, as Martha said Jove, service manager of Cooperation and Social Development, together with Ricard Faura, any service of Knowledge Society, made the closing of the conference, is the difficult task of receiving and working with groups at risk of social exclusion, ie, the base needs social people.
You can see some photos of the day here
Noemi Espinosa Garrido
ODC team Omnia
