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The aim: digital literacy for 8000 citizens aged 60 and above in two years. From Scampia in suburbs of Naples to Giarre in the Etna foothills, elders can become IT experts and fight solitude with the help of 1500 student tutors from 37 schools.
The objective of the two-year Nonni SUD Internet Plan, promoted by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale in partnership with Auser and Anteasand support fromFondazione per il Sud,is to promote the inter-generational learning model of Grandparents on the Internet and bring digital literacy to the elders in southern Italy, who represent a category at social risk. Students from various schools, coordinated by technology teachers, will teach the elders to use PCs and surf the web in Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Puglia, Sardinia and Sicily.
The model, which has been successfully tested in seven Italian regions (Abruzzi, Emilia Romagna, Lazio, Lombardy, Marche, Piedmont e Umbria) and in four European Countries (Belgium, Ireland, Romania and Spain), arrives in southern Italy with various novelties. These include the new e-Med Manual, written in large characters and dedicated to on-line health, and the open Intergenerational Meetings on cross-media and digital terrestrial TV. The objectives for elders, students and teachers are very ambitious, but they will be supported by three organizations specialized in the digital inclusion of elders: FMD, Auser and Anteas.
After having attended the Master Nonni SUD Internet, the elderly volunteers will be able to train their peers in the Auser and Anteas offices and help them take care of tasks on-line. Moreover, a Recycling Workshop will be set up in each region to restore old offices PCs and donate them to elderly centres. The entire project experience will become part of the on-line learning environment and will be animated with stories, participant experiences, success cases, manuals and real-time evaluation methodology and research.
Schools and the 22 local offices of Auser and Anteas will coordinate the project. The offices will be equipped with multi-function workstations (3 networked PCs, printer, headphones, webcam and microphone) to manage, monitor and document the project.
The Nonni SUD Internet Project is financed by the Fondazione per il Sud as part of the Special and Innovative Projects action line.
