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Hello, Let me introduce myself. I am Ante Šušnjar,

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manager of the Internet club, and from now on, also a lecturer.

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We are now in the classroom where the “PC and Internet Basics” course is taking place.

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The Centre of Technical Culture has joined the European campaign called “Get online Week”.

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The aim of the campaign “Get Online Week” is to reduce by half the number of people,

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i.e. the European citizens who so far have never used the Internet.

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We included the course takers in this initiative by registering them via the site “Get Online Week”.

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The campaign helps people in making the first step, i.e. breaking the logjam,

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allowing them to experience the feeling of using the Internet for the first time,

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and this centre, as well as, other centres in Europe, help them do it.

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In this way they will become more self-confident when using the Internet.

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At present, the campaign includes 70,000 people from across Europe.

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At the end of the campaign eighty people out of one hundred from Croatia

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will come from the Centre of Technical Culture who joined the campaign.

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Which are the other goals of the campaign “Get Online Week”?

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The goals are to raise the awareness of people about Internet use, through the media,

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get people online, meaning, so to say, that the focus is on the European citizens who are off-line,

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who have never used the Internet

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and on the promotion and more extensive use of telecentres across Europe.

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Who are the people present here today?

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The people present today are those who have joined our course.

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Among them there are pensioners, unemployed and employed persons,

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but until now they have never used the Internet, this is the first time that they use it.

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What is your experience with the initiative, is it well accepted in Rijeka, is the response to it good?

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At present this initiative is taking place at the Centre of technical culture in Rijeka,

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and I would like to take this occasion to invite all the other centres that also have the Internet

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or if they are in a position to help these people in another way to log on to the Internet for the first time, to actually do it.

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Well, I can say that I am delighted. I am only sorry that I didn’t start earlier.

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It was only recently that my children persuaded me and I realise that it is very positive.

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So how are you getting on with computers? Can you manage it?

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Well I can, I thought it would be much more difficult than it actually is. I can manage it.

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What do you like most about computers?

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Well, searching, browsing, playing cards.