The www.telecentroscomunitarios.cl portal is one of the internet-based participatory spaces for content production that the programme offers to the 17 telecentres. This is done through a collaborative publishing platform where organisations find the tools to upload news, activities, product offers, local services and also resources for the creation of their own webpages.
In these cases, the content production has helped organisations realise that not only can they use internet by accessing content that others produce, but that they can foment and generate their own content. Therefore, it challenges them to define what and why they want to communicate, and what content they can produce that would be of interest.
Some organisations have developed their own websites because the organisation itself has had an oustanding degree of use and appropriation of thw internet, which is also the result of their own concern and search for knowledge.
> The youth association El Karro Cultural (from the San Rosendo commune) has a community radio that currently operates from the telecentre. The interest of this group of young people has been a website that among other things, revisits this project (radio Vía Libre, http://www.radiovialibre.ya.st/).
> The Communal Union Group of Small Producers Kom Kelluhayin (La Agrupación Unión Comunal de Pequeños Productores Kom Kelluhayin) from the Villarrica commune built its website emphasising its productive vocation (http://www.ze.cl/komkelluhayin).
> The Lomas de Colchagua telecentre from the Palmilla community has begun to explore the use of blogs: http://telecentropalmilla.blogspot.com/
Photo: Users of the Karro cultural (San Rosendo) telecentre. An average of 50 thousand people attend class annually as users of telecentres located between the Santiago Metropolitan Area and the tenth Region in the far Chilean south.
- Article translated from Spanish by APC.