06 Sep 2024
Posted by Ugne Lipeikaite, Public Library Innovation Programme Impact Manager
Public librarians are teaching children at schools across Ghana digital literacy, covering digital reading, coding, fake news, online safety and much more. Ugne Lipeikaite, EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme Impact Manager, reflects on the impact of the library outreach programmes.
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03 Jun 2024
Posted by Ugne Lipeikaite, Public Library Innovation Programme Impact Manager
Ugne Lipeikaite, EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP) Impact Manager, tells how training of public library trainers in Ghana is shifting library perspectives on how to conduct digital literacy skills training.
In March and April 2024, head librarians, and ICT coordinators from 15 (...)
14 Nov 2023
Posted by Ugne Lipeikaite, Public Library Innovation Programme Impact Manager
The 18th annual meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF 2023), with the theme ‘The Internet We want - Empowering All People’, took place in Kyoto, Japan, and online from 8 - 12 of October. The Forum attracted over 9,000 participants from 175 countries - the highest number of participants (...)
17 Aug 2023
Posted by Ugne Lipeikaite, Public Library Innovation Programme Impact Manager
The ‘Digital skills@your local library’ project, implemented by EIFL and partners in Uganda, has drawn to a close. We take pleasure in sharing results of a project impact survey which highlights multiple stories from participants, demonstrating how the training has changed their lives.
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08 Jun 2021
Posted by Ugne Lipeikaite, Public Library Innovation Programme Impact Manager
Ugne Lipeikaite, EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP) Impact Manager, discusses a remarkable Danish public library impact study and asks - can the evaluation approach be applied in developing countries?
Recently Roskilde Central Library in Denmark presented a remarkable study ‘The (...)
05 Jun 2018
Posted by Ugne Lipeikaite, Public Library Innovation Programme Impact Manager
EIFL has been working with public libraries in Africa since 2010, supporting introduction of new services that use computers and the internet. In the course of our work, we observed that public librarians were struggling to collect statistics about their new services. Statistics gathering was (...)
18 Jun 2015
Posted by Ugne Lipeikaite, Public Library Innovation Programme Impact Manager
“I am proud, because I am empowered and able to offer ICT training to other people, and I am able to change others through this training.”
This feedback from a public librarian in Kenya came at the end of an intensive capacity building programme for public librarians organized by the EIFL Public (...)