Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation’s (CTA) Internship Opportunity

The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), based in The Netherlands, has an opening for a 6 - month internship. The intern will work as a member of the CTA Communications  Services Team and will assist in supporting the ARDYIS (Agriculture, Rural Development and Youth in the Information Society) project and other ICT rural development activities for African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) countries.

Under the guidance and supervision of the relevant ICT4D programme coordinator, the intern will perform the following tasks:

1. “Agriculture, Rural Development and Youth in the Information Society” Project:
   a. Contribution to the organisation of contests;
   b. Animation of web 2.0 spaces (Facebook, Twitter, etc.);
   c. Animation of the website of the project (based on the Joomla content management system);
   d. Assistance for the production of publications and of organisations of meetings;
   e. Contribution to the facilitation of the youth network;
   f. Other tasks in relation to this project.

2. Contribution to other ICT for development tasks:
      a. Support for the implementation of activities on telecenters and ICT4D in the Caribbean;
      b. Assistance for the organisation of web2.0 training
      c. Other tasks as requested by the supervisor or the department manager.

Start date is October 2011 for 6 months (renewable once) in Wageningen, The Netherlands.  Medical coverage is provided for the duration of the internship.  International travel, if required, will not be  covered by CTA.