Question 1: What new themes do you think telecentre.org Foundation (TCF) should be working in the future?

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Permalink Reply by Niranjan Meegammana on November 28, 2009 at 1:04pm

Richard Heeks in his paper argues that

ICT4D 2.0 designs around the specific resources, capacities and demands of the poor. Or, we can transform "the network is the platform" to argue that while ICT4D 1.0 saw ICTs as a tool for development, the second phase sees ICTs as the platform for development. .. and ICT4D 2.0 will be a tribird of computer science, information sysrtems and development studies

to represent 35000 Telecenters in the world , a good information system is a must!

Permalink Reply by AHMED SUDAN on November 29, 2009 at 1:53pm

The on-line consultations are very important to plan for the future of Telecentre.org….we first thanks and appreciate for IDRC, ,,, Telecentre.org and its partners their great support for this community movement. … we should think on the sustainability of our Telecentre and how we move them from community Telecentre to knowledge (development) Telecentre and what is the possibility of investing in these Telecentres to make them self dependent and sustainable..
I think we learn a lot from this great network we share experience and best practices with many Telecentres which help us to construct more than ten community development projects and they are really amazing specially if we consider the fact that we start from zero when we attended the first tc-mena forum in Cairo on December 2006 keeping in mind ICT is not part of our culture and not a priority in Sudan but the great support of digital city of Eindhoven and telecentre.org , ugabytes.org and Drishtee and other partners make the dream become true. ... Really sharing is something different…
In the next decade we should concentrate on e-education with a multilingual curriculum and knowledge … we should use the e-education to fight against poverty in our Telecentre and we have to eliminate it in our countries. … we have to establish many national Telecentre academy … we should utilize the partnerships between members in saving time and money to construct telemedicine units,, e-agriculture projects, ,,, tackle the problem of climate change … keeping in minds the 8th millennium development goals of the united nation to facilitate the life of our community and make it more comfortable..
If we look at Telecentre.org portal the idea is excellent but it has been distorted by too many groups than we need this make many of members to reply… thanks… it is a good idea… forward emails but I admit there are many brilliant members and they have a great contribution… these things guided me to an idea we should have maximum 10 to 12 groups which should include the e-services (e-education.. e-health ….etc.).. Telecentre.org should have a focal person in each country and there should be a regional group and they meet monthly online with a facilitator to report and there should annual meeting and small meeting in the big conferences like WSIS, e-India, e-Asia …
We should work very hard on partnership (PPP) and get the government and private sector involved in this movement because they will help a lot…. Keep in mind the disadvantage community specially the disabled (people with special needs),, prisoners ,, poor orphans and students,, women because working with is very essential and it is a humanitarian issue…Training.. Capacity building..Technical support is important issues.
Finally we hope that Telecentre.org will be the network that connect the whole world

Thank you
Ahmed eisa
GDCO Sudan

Permalink Reply by Md. Saiful Islam on November 30, 2009 at 1:07am

I would like to Thank Sulah and Partha Sarker for their generous idea of future Telecentre.org movement. Actually we have to think first what TCF can do within his small canopy. That day is not so far when TCF will take a major responsibility of global development initiatives. To reach that goal it is more important to think about our preparedness, the tools we needed, the strategy we have to made, the hurdles we have to face, the humanity and equity we can show and coordination we can have.

Sulah has proposed TCF movements in 3 distinct phases. I do support him, however 3rd phase wouldn’t be need. We can think now, the 1st phase (mainly concerned with awareness development) of TCF is just over and in transition to next phase. This phase would be most crucial. Setting up goals, implementation strategy, well equipped with software and hardware technologies, Capacity building (Both in-house and global members), financial back up and global leadership.

It is sure that there are over one billion hungry people in the world. They are simply interested in food or food security, employment/income generation and betterment of livelihood. Agriculture provides the livelihood for 70 percent of the world's poor. The current food crisis may be due to the result of under-investment in agriculture and neglecting this sector as an issue of few members of Developed World. So, if the thematic areas of Future TCF movement polarized for Developed world, I think we could not be able to expand our canopy and hold global leadership. If TCF pays attention to the needs of World’s billion hungry people or poor or developing countries, following working areas could be prioritized;

1. Global Citizen charter,
2. Social awareness development activities,
3. Production/Economic development and Income generation initiatives,
4. Skill development and healthcare initiatives for better efficiency,
5. Knowledge share/cooperation/liaison/global networking and active participation in global change
management (Partha’s Vertical Piller),,
6. To keep updated with latest technologies, be part with research partners, donors, and development
stakeholders (Partha’s Horizontal Piller),
7. Financial backbone might be developed for smooth running of TCF activities
8. Support services for total TCF architecture,
9. Global Leadership may be Regional basis or Sector basis.

All those thematic areas could be accounted for future TCF movement well equipped with all sorts of ICT interventions specific to location, specific to community, Specific to country, Specific to Nation as well as specific to Region in our diversified global position and interest.

Saiful

Permalink Reply by Nabil Eid on November 30, 2009 at 3:30am

Work on the telecentre.org Community Charter which was signed in Malaysia at GK3 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
We all know, the charter believe telecentres can play a catalytic role in helping poor, marginalized and underserved communities make use of ICTs to fulfill their full potential, and recognize the vital role of telecentre networks in helping the people who work in telecentres solve their challenges, share experiences and resources, and support each other.

Permalink Reply by Niranjan Meegammana on November 30, 2009 at 1:38pm

This I agree Nabil, Code of ethics is very important in Social innovation

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