Question 4: What significant changes did telecentre.org bring to your network over the past years?
What significant changes did telecentre.org bring to your network over the past years?
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Permalink Reply by Elizabeth Yumul-Manugue on -
A. Organization of the Network: In the Philippines, the organization of the network was actually triggered by a suggestion from Dr. Shadrach during the 3rd Knowledge Exchange Conference in 2007.
B. Network Development: Since then, primarily through the funding support extended by the telecentre.org, the network has organized itself through the development of its charter, the regular meetings its Executive Council holds in order to carry out its plans in support of the implementation of the Philippine CeC Roadmap and the conduct of annual Knowledge Exchange Conferences.
C. Activation of the Newtwork's Capacity Building Arm: The telecentre.org Philippine CeC Academy (tPCA) has been activated this year. Its milestones are: Development and Adoption of a National Competency Standards for CeC Knowledge Workers, development of a tPCA curriculum and the development and pilot of 4 foundation courses.
D. Capacity building. A number of officers of the network have also had the opportunity to participate in meetings and conferences on the telecentre movement. As a result, networking with others in the movement has been established.
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Permalink Reply by Mahmud Hasan on -
Assist forming Bangladesh Telecentre Network though capacity building and networking. More importantly engaging with each other like family.
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Permalink Reply by Niranjan Meegammana on -
A. A platform for higher learning
B. Networking of People and Organisations
C. Popularization of Telecenter concepts and ideas
D. Awareness Building and Promotion
Niranjan Meegammana
Shilpa Sayura Foundation
http://www.shilpasayura.org
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Permalink Reply by Francis Mwathi on -
Through facilitating knowledge exchange and support among telecentre networks in East and Central Africa, telecentre.org has helped the networks around this region better equip themselves in working with telecentres, which in effect has translated to better services to telecentres users.
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Permalink Reply by Jimmy L. Calata on -
It has inspired our CeC managers, knowledge workers and support institutions to immerse themselves more to the task of expanding and strengthening our local network and our member telecentres. Our exposure to the achievements and operations of telecentres in other countries made us more creative and resourceful in managing our very own network and telecentres.
Our efforts and outputs must have paved the way for our being chosen as host to telecentre.org. Indeed, this will take a toll on our time and resources. But we are confident that our international colleagues would always be there to work hand-in-hand and side-by-side with us. After all, telecentre.org is all about all of us.
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Permalink Reply by Polly Gaster on -
Gosh, Q4 and I'm feeling exhausted! And I see the number of contributions is falling off as we move along the questions.
Significant changes in Mozambique during the 3 years of our project with tc.org:
1. Consolidation of a national network of telecentres, community multimedia centres and community radios, with tremendous growth in horizontal communications, sharing of ideas and mutual help.
2. Qualitative and quantitative increase in the practical support available to the network, through the remote helpdesk, handholding, workshops, visits and on-the-job training.
3. More material and manuals available for telecentre managers and volunteers in Portuguese, use of CD-Roms for dissemination, eg the CAICC website offline, a basic course on computer maintenance and free software.
4. Benefits for the network from increased cooperation with other national and international actors in ICT4D in mozambique.
5. Benefits for the network leadership in particular, and through it for the network, from regular contacts and practical collaboration with other networks, most actively with Africa and Brazil but also with other contacts through tc.org forums, the web platform, etc.
All these components have been very positive for us, and we hope that this kind of cooperation and support will continue.
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Permalink Reply by Jimmy L. Calata on
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Many of the developments brought about by our network's connection with telecentre.org have not been planned and anticipated. I suppose the same is true to other networks around the world.
Prior to telecentre.org's transfer to its new home base in the Philippines, the PhilCeCNet has been revisiting it's roadmap including that of its its capacity-building arm - the tPCA (telecentre.org Philippine CeC Academy), as the change in the setup will surely have some effect on both global and local operations.
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Permalink Reply by Niranjan Meegammana on
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Jimmy
As I find uniqueness in each grass root telcenter in local context, the country models also change. There are many things we can share from each other. How ever we save tPCA made an early move introducing the Telecenter Management Training. One major challange tPCA will have is leading the global capacity building to reach grass roots, I wouldn't think a single arm can reach that far, one idea is for you to create innovative partnerships with TC leaders around the globe for localizing tPCA curriculum with local adaptation.
Niranjan Meegammana
Shilpa Sayura Foundation
http://www.shilpasayura.org
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Permalink Reply by Jimmy L. Calata on
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The Board of Trustees of the tPCA has taken cognizance long way ago about "localization", both as an issue and a strategy. At the country level, we have already come up with Accreditation Standards and Certification Protocols that set guidelines for PhilCeCNet and tPCA member institutions across the country seeking to deliver tPCA‐recognized capacity‐building courses for CeC knowledge workers.
Setting such standards and protocols at the international level is much more imperative, given the language and cultural diversities among our telecentre.org-member countries. This next step I think is already in the TCF pipeline of priorities.
This grass roots strategy is without prejudice to the need for an international-level exchange program for knowledge sharing which is an equally important capacity-building component pursuant to our shared desire to broaden and strengthen the global telecentre movement.
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Permalink Reply by Niranjan Meegammana on
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One important value brought to Sri Lanka Nenasala was to create a platform for sharing knowledge more openly, which created many opportunities for many. The photo, blogging contest created much enthusiasm among telecenter workers and created a platform for grass root participation, Like Lunama Nenasala, A grass root Telecenter winning the photo contest. TC org created a platform for open communication and help initiate many ning networks.
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Permalink Reply by Kiringai Kamau on -
Meeting people sharing personal views, at times shouting has made me learn and capture so much that has shaped my practice in consulting and working for communities. I have slowly started making the telecentre a tool of community development and expect that the work we have been doing for the last 4 years since I joined the network will start being visible to the rest in the world as it has been touching those that I work with. I have for instance discovered the need to contextualize the agricultural knowledge and promoted linkages with universities and communities one university has recently created a center for agricultural networking and information sharing which will be integrating research into what this network promotes.
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Permalink Reply by Cleopa Timon Otieno on -
African telecentre networking efforts have mainly been inspired and influenced by TC.org, From Tunis to Centre Songai (Benin) to Kampala among other places; there have been online/offline/face to face discussions/sharing on the need to have national and regional networks to help increase the social and economic impact of grassroots telecentres. Provision of tools telecentres need to be sustainable, assistance in development of locally relevant content and services, consideration of language as a challenge (French, Portuguese, Arabic and English platforms), facilitating virtual networking events, and availability of best research outcomes and case studies are some of the major TC.org highlights in the past.
Telecentre Leaders Froums should continue in the coming years but need to be extended to individual countries in order to reach and encourage participation of grassroots telecentres, this can be done through the telecentre networks.
In as much as various countries have different policies and regulations, there is need to harmonise the various telecentre network visions with TCF's, in order to have the same voice in addressing challenges such as lack of local content, lack of enabling policy in some areas, poor connectivity, product discounting for grassroot telecentres among other services that may be offered by the networks at country level.
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