Remarks about FINLAND and the SOG competition

Explanation of why we did not arrange SOG:

1. We noticed in the very beginning of the project that the need was to organize short and extremely basic courses for seniors, who never before touched a computer. Our society provides the citizens with many types of ICT-training, but very old seniors do not attend them for two reasons: because of health they do not want to take longer obligations and because the speed of teaching is too fast for them. This is why we organized one day courses (4 hours). It was possible to proceed or take the same again.
Some of our participants only learned to use programs like Word, some came so many times that they were able to use internet.
2. Even the idea of competition was a little non-Finnish. You know that our excellent results in schools are based among other factors on non-competition. We encouraged our seniors to come to as many courses as possible by saying that everyone is "a winner" (because she/he has won the fear that she is not able to learn something new). Each time they got a lot and one of the winners had the lot which gave her the possibility to participate in the final seminar.