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Informajoven, Youth Information Center of Cartagena, has changed its image and has made modifications to suit the needs and demands of youth.

The director of the Institute of Youth in the Region of Murcia (IJRM), Veronica Lopez, accompanied by the Councillor for Youth of the City of Cartagena, María Collado Ruth, have visited the works to remodel the Informajoven service in the House of Youth walk Alfonso XIII, financed by the regional administration.

Veronica Lopez explained that the purpose IJRM is to get a new picture of space Informajoven Cartagena and visual integration with Youth Space thus securing improvements to facilitate the approach and isolation, as needed, the coordinator of services to employees, disabled access and increased self consulting positions.

Lopez stressed that this means better overall performance delInformajoven.

IJRM director noted that the total amount of the grant has been a hundred thousand euros and will boost the Informajoven as a place of search, processing and dissemination of pluralist information and quality to guide and advise young people.

Ruth María Collado reported that the City of Cartagena, with such changes, seeks to improve the appearance, the conditions and the distribution of Informajoven and try to catch up on other points and youth information centers.

FURNITURE

For furniture, the councilor explained that an office is designed to isolate acristaladopara and in turn closer to the coordinator of services to employees.

Also, have located the positions of freeing users to focus on what was a semi-step has now been turned into disabled access to the Youth Space Informajoven and by unascensor.

Also have increased self consulting positions, placing them in the center, allowing greater control and access of materials as thematic dossiers, folders calls, magazines and trade publications, by the users.

Furthermore, it has replaced the small store and private access corridor to the courtyard for a open office, which houses the cabinets for internal use.

With regard to advertising support, we have chosen a system of two acrylic plates that hang from steel cables creating compositions with different formats, giving adequate space to each of the information and avoiding the placement of posters indiscriminadaa and disorderly.

NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND FIGURES 2009

Regarding new technologies, the director explained IJRM seeking to decentralize the information through new technologies, making that information available to all parts of the region.

Lopez stressed that in order to spread through the network is to try to get all young people have the same opportunities and not have to travel to the headquarters for information.

In addition, Veronica Lopez has said that the website Informajoven works well and has received over 84,000 visits.

Lopez added that the last renovation, before that, there was around 1998, coinciding with the widespread use of ICT (new technologies applied to information and communication) that revolutionized and changed the working methods Information Centres.

In recent years it has detected an increase in queries in digital and data communication which confirms the increasing use of new technologies of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) by young people.

However in 2009, some 3000 users have come in person to Informajoven asking for information and services offered through the website have received a total of 84,132 visits.

In the month of February was put into operation a new application COMPARTEPISO with 1027 registered users as of today.

In addition, since April the Informajoven has a profile TUENTI Social Network and Facebook, which has now friends 350 and 380 respectively.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena