The Cibervoluntarios Foundation and the AEB Foundation, of the Spanish Banking Association (AEB), have organised new workshops from their Expertclick digital school for seniors, to be held in December, January and February in rural areas of the Community of Madrid, Aragon, the Valencian Community, Castile and León, Andalusia, Murcia and the Canary Islands.
This free training programme on the use of new technologies for people aged 55 and over living in rural areas consists of three sessions lasting one and a half hours each, in which participants are taught how to use tools, applications, services and technological content related to administrative, healthcare, online banking or social matters.
In this edition of Expertclick, the training will be delivered exclusively online, following pandemic prevention protocols. Registration can be requested and the dates of the upcoming courses can be checked here.
30/11 – 2/12 / San Martín de La Vega (Madrid)
30/11 – 2/12 / Valdemorillo (Madrid)
30/11 – 3/12 / Sedavi (Valencia)
30/11 – 3/12 / Alcañiz (Teruel)
30/11 – 3/12 / Camarca de Exteruelas (Madrid)
30/11 – 4/12 / Nuevo Baztán (Madrid)
30/11 – 3/12 / Sedavi (Valencia)
1/12 – 3/12 / Carrión de los Céspedes (Seville)
1/12 – 4/12 / San Pedro del Pinatar (Murcia)
1/12 – 4/12 / Campo de San Pedro (Segovia)
14/12 – 16/12 / Santa María la Real de Nieva (Segovia)
14/12 – 16/12 / Herreros de Suso (Ávila)
In addition, three other workshops have been organised in December for seniors living in urban areas who wish to receive this free online training. They can register here.
15, 16 and 17 December from 10:00 to 11:30.
15, 16 and 17 December from 17:00 to 18:30.
José María Roldán, Chairman of AEB and its foundation, states that “with this initiative we aim to improve seniors’ quality of life by helping them use technology more easily and more frequently for everyday tasks, such as consulting a doctor, accessing financial services or carrying out any other online procedure”.
For Yolanda Rueda, President of the Cibervoluntarios Foundation, “thanks to these workshops we are promoting the use of technology among seniors to make their lives easier, while encouraging their active participation in social change”.
Through the website www.expertclick.org, any public or private institution—senior or neighbourhood associations, day centres, town councils or institutions representing seniors—can take part in this project.
According to the Survey on Equipment and Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Households by the National Statistics Institute (INE), 9 out of 10 people aged 16 to 74 have used the internet in the last three months, 99.6% of households have a telephone and 91.4% have internet access. However, among people over 74, only 23.4% have used the internet in the last three months and half (11.9%) use the internet daily.
