Telesis "...an ancient Greek word signifying the achievement of a steady progress towards an objective through careful planning & the intelligent use of resources"
As an institution centred almost entirely on applied research and development there were no allocations of resources to training or extension work during the first 20 years of SEEL's existence. This in fact helped sustain a successful AR&D effort. However, as applied spin-off from AR&D has occurred there is a need for a wider appreciation on the part of those using developed technologies and techniques to receive some form of orientation based upon extension work to disseminate information of new technologies, systems solutions and techniques to support effective applications.
ISEE
Therefore in 2006 we founded ISEE, the Institute for Systems Engineering Economics in collaboration with the George Boole Institute. The George Boole Institute has the role of promoting the dissemination on the benefits of digital technology to society and this will include, through ISEE, the dissemination of our findings and current best practice in systems design, implemetation and management in a didactic way.
TechneQuality
SEEL has an established experience in development economics in developing and transition economices and a practical experience working in poor communities in Central Europe. These two sources of experience have merged into an expertise in poverty economics.
The failure, in practice, to advance the interests of minority communities is a result of a combination of popular and misguided opinions which lead to discrimination and a failure of several Central and Eastern European Member States of the European Union to make adequate funds available to correct serious deficiencies in the education of minority children. Even more damaging is the implication that it is too late or too difficult to help the adults, that is the post-school generations, who remain condemned to menial tasks and, even these, on a part time and underpaid basis.
SEEL's project experience with the Roma in Hungary, for example, has demonstrated that these individuals are as capable of anyone in the mainstream but remain constrained by social and institutional discrimination. SEEL has many experiences of Roma demonstrating an advanced appreciation and capability, when allowed, in everything from management to technical design and implementation in information technology. The prevailing gap in provisions is a work environment which provides equality of treatment geared towards quality of work. In September 2007, SEEL formed TechneQuality as a distinct organization for the provision of direct access of such communities to work opportunities on a contract basis and supported by appropriate training provisions including that of foreign languages.
