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Last updated by fmd - Mon, 11/06/2012 - 00:00
The Aula Giulio Cesare was packed full with volunteers when Mayor Gianni Alemanno began his address.
AdnKronos News Agency: The awards ceremony for the second edition of the “Knowledge Volunteers” Competition promoted by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale, was held this morning in the Rome City Hall, the Campidoglio. The competition is organized in collaboration with the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Youth Department, the patronage of the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy and the support of Intel Italy.
The ceremony was hosted by journalist Dario Celli and attended by Roberta Angelilli, Deputy President of the European Parliament; Sveva Belviso, Deputy Mayor of Rome; Gianluigi De Palo, Family, Education and Youth Rome City Councillor; Danilo Giovanni Festa, Director General, Third Sector and Social Training, Ministry of Labour and Social Policy; Mirta Michilli, Director General, Fondazione Mondo Digitale, along with Scientific Director Alfonso Molina and President Gennaro Sangiuliano; Carlo Parmeggiani, Regional Business Manager Intel Italy and Switzerland and the President of the Rome City Council Pomarici.
Maria Cristina Alcayaca (8) is the youngest award recipient for “best emerging tutor.” In total, 322 candidates participate in the formulas of Project “Grandparents on the Internet”. Awards included scholarships and Acer laptops.
“We face two challenges. Increasing digital infrastructures and fighting the digital divide, especially that amongst generations. We have to prepare our youth so that they become masters of these tools and help connect the elders to this reality. We must avoid the possibility that this resource could become a barrier amongst generations and help to transmit knowledge.” This is what Rome Mayor Gianni Alemanno declared at the awards ceremony.
Family, Education and Youth Rome City Councillor Gianluigi De Palo emphasized that the diffusion of knowledge concerning new means of communication “is a way of reducing the digital divide and can promote new minimum common multipliers around which grandparents and grandchildren, as well as the rest of the family, can come closer together.
“Morevoer,” De Palo added, “making the new generations feel responsible about teaching elders to use a computer infuses them with a sense of active citizenship and generosity.”
