Eni Foundation promotes e-inclusion of the elderly in Rome
Eni Foundation and Fondazione Mondo Digitale (FMD) launch the project “Internet Corner” in Rome to help elderly people acquire ICT skills and promote their social inclusion. The initiative consists in setting up 50 online points in as many centers for the elderly, which were selected also in collaboration with Eni’s veterans employee association (APVE).
The project was presented on October 16 at the school Istituto tecnico industriale G. Armellini in Rome, in occasion of the launching of the 7th edition of “Nonni su Internet” (“Grandparents on Internet”), a program that FMD has been conducting since 2002. Over the years the program has involved more than 6,000 elderly people, 3,000 tutor students and 400 supervising teachers in well over 100 elderly centers and schools of the Capital.
Eni Foundation’s contribution to creating the 50 internet corners consists in donating 150 PCs (3 for each center) and in covering the costs for setting up the online points, the broadband lines (including the payment of 1 year subscription), as well as the training and information activities which FMD will be carrying out in the centers.
October 2008
Fondazione Mondo Digitale
Established in 2001 by the Municipality of Rome, the Foundation, which is also a partner of Eni and FEEM in the project “Studi@re è Sostenibile” (“Studying is sustainable”), constitutes the first real example of a public private collaboration platform aimed at promoting citizens’ access to ICT and their digital inclusion.
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Eni Foundation
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00144 Roma - ITALIA
Tel 06 59824108 - Fax 06 59822106
e-mail: enifoundation@eni.com
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