For strengthening the telecentre movement across the world, an institutional and strategic framework for human resources and skills development appears to be very critical. Telecentre.org Academy endeavours to provide skills training to telecentre managers and operators in order to keep them informed of new technologies and make them capable of serving poor and marginalised dwellers at the grassroots level of the society. The mission to provide one million knowledge workers by 2015 warrants a vision as well as a well-thought strategy and the Academy is advancing firmly to translate it into reality. In this issue of telecentre magazine, we intend to focus on telecentre.org Academy and it's transition from telecentre.org to telecentre.org 2.0. Thus, in the face2face section we interviewed Basheerhamad Shadrach and Secretary Chua to highlight issue and make people aware of recent development in the Academy and transition of telecentre.org. Since the Philippines will be the new host of academy, the Philippine success story also deserves proper attention. In addition, we need to ponder how telecentres can be instrumental in coping with the climate catastrophe, contribute to the values of human security and other unforeseen challenges. This issue also brings up the coverage of telecentre events from across the world. The Malay story enlightens us about the emerging dimensions of telecentre movement and Indian experiences of community information centres and emerging network of telecentre network shows strengthening and deepening of the movement in remote areas. Suffice it to say, telecentre movement is now breaching social and geographical boundaries, therefore the movement must be supported with skills and human resources development programmes so they can serve the humanity meaningfully and its transformative impact reach to masses. Last but not least, we would like to wish all success to the new host of telecentre.org Academy.

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