open access-this sounds interesting. Ther should be a movement by the Goverments for this. No organisation working in ICT4D is equipped by itself to take up this. What about USO-Universal Service Obligation.Does not right to learn comes within its'…
FIDR is a not for profit organisation engaged in establishing telecenters, spreading computer literacy and job skills thorugh use of ICT, integrating ICT and health thorugh educating youth and rural populace on HIV AIDS, providing agro information, adult literacy through ICT, training and capacity building in managing telecenters as a business model.I am the acting Secretary of the organisation directly supervising the activities.FIDR is the state partner of NASSCOM Foundation.
Areas of interest/expertise and types of services provided:
ICT for development, telecenter establishment and management, developming business models for telecenters,content for telecenters and linking up with different programmes, creating employment oppertunities for computer literate rural youth through vocational training.
At 11:50am on December 22, 2008, Shipra Sharma said…
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Dear Catalina,
Thank you so much for this topic
Reality, the Software for persons with disabilities is very limited, but we are currently working to launch Academy Telecentre for PWDs for developing a toolkit to promote PwDs to use ICT.
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Dear Telecenter community,We are in the process of developing a toolkit for using in telecenters so we can guide the administrators on how to provide services for people with disabilities and to guide them on tools and software that they can use. An…
The world's Largest open University IGNOU holding it's first "Learner's Conference " on 28 March 2010 , Sunday at IGNOU Convention Center Madan Garhi ,New Delhi
This group will bring notices/announcements of job and career opportunities in different ICT4D (and development) organizations around the World. Please feel free to post your notices here too.
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يشارك عدد خمسون دارسا في دورة ادارة المكتبات في البئة الالكترونية والتي تنظمها الجمعية السودانية للمكتبات والمعلومات في جامعة الزعيم الازهري وقال رئيس الجمعية والمشاركين ان هذه الدورة تمثل واحدة من مجهودات الجمعية في النهوض بعمل المعلومات ورفع كفاءة…