Suturing the Digital Gash

This book is the result of two years’ of transnational work recently carried out within the framework of the project, co-funded by the European Commission (Grundtvig initiative of EC’s DG Education and Culture), the scope of which was to detect the best practices of the Public Internet Centers (PICs) in terms of Adult Education and Digital Literacy, Evaluation and Quality, Non-Discrimination and e-Inclusion, with cases identified in the Czech Republic, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. 

It is published in English as well as in the languages of the five participating countries. It includes three comparative studies (on the topics mentioned above) with concrete examples of best practices that are potentially transferrable to other contexts, and practical tools for PIC’s staff willing to improve the quality of their services or to enable the integration of people who are more at risk of social exclusion as regards the Information Society. 

This initiative is an attempt to provide some answers to key questions in this field, with a parallel reflective and practical approach. It intends to give an impulse to research in a field that was poorly explored at the European scale till now, and at the same time to promote the exchange of good practices among stakeholders from different regions and countries who usually are not informed (or are not sufficiently aware) what is going on in PIC networks from other areas. 

The book is accessible online in English, Spanish, French, Italian, German and Czech at the project’s website: http://www.pic-project.eu >> Resources section >> Book.