It is great pleasure for me to join this community.
African telecenters will lead the way to bigger development, encourage government participation, and contribute to the literacy rate in Africa - For literacy rate, I means, once people get the ben…
Dear Odame,
Despite the limited participation in this forum, I believe there is a great admiration for all that there is a way forwards and the Africa is not left behind in ICT effort, though other conditions constraint the situation, yet, through…
Dear Karim,
Thanks for the attachment. it is very helpful. Thank you again. In case you have further information about the effect of awareness on sustainability and institution on sustainability, I would highly appreciate it you could share with me…
Dear Robert.
You project is good, but difficult to achieve sustainability for two reason, correct me if I am wrong. (1) The local community is poor - or at least you believe that; and (2)The project is not demand-driven, but kind of imposed to them…
Telecenter success can be measured, on how it achieves bridging the digital divide. - Since the main aim is to reduce the digital divide and the knowledge gap, when the information poor societies are empowered with ICT literacy, and the telecenter p…
Dear All,
African telecenters are affected by expensive connection, high income taxes, and regulations that might affect the proliferation of telecenters and ICT in the rural Africa.
What can be the role of the Advocacy group?
What the the key are…
Dear Ochieng,
Africa telecenters though in intitial phase, I believe it did not start badly, examples from Uganda, South Africa, etc. are encouraging, and lessons can be learnt from them. Howwever, in many aspect the government telecom regulations…
Dear Niranjan,
Its amazing how, one can send its contribution a years after the discussion was posted! Thanks to ICT, knowledge management and access is made easy.
If I come the point of telecenter sustainability and whether they will vanish all t…
Blending both, might be a good idea, but, the key to all answers will be the capacity builidng of the operators and the implementers. I take the issue of capacity building as the key to encouraging users to learn ICT so as to create a critical mass,…
Dear Masahudu,
I thinkprivatization of telecenters is a key to success. Nevertheless, government roles could be to encourage community business and capacity builiding by subsidizing, franchising or encouraging enterprising the telecenter instead of…
Dear Mr. Kumar,
The telecenters give new live to the development of rural and marginalized people as well as the urban poor, by offering equal access to information and knowledge to areas either neglected or not well targeted during the past develo…
Dear Suewandi,
Banning pornographic websites should be a global goal, since it affects the wellbeing, the normal growth and the future of our children. I say this, becuase, websites are accessible to all regardless of age, therefore, sacrificing so…
The telecentre.org Foundation based in Manila, Philippines is announcing a job vacancy for Capacity Building Program Manager (CBPM). Reporting to the Executive Director, the CBPM will oversee development, management and evaluation of telecentre.org’…
The telecentre.org Foundation based in Manila, Philippines is announcing a job vacancy for Capacity Building Program Manager (CBPM). Reporting to the Executive Director, the CBPM will oversee development, management and evaluation of telecentre.org’…
Fertilizer has made a tremendous contribution to the agriculture production.I think this is the best strategy to reduce the chemical fertilizer use rather than banning it immediately.They observe that they pose threats to environment and to some ext…
Agriculture is the source of food,feed,fibre and fuel for the mankind and domestic animals.Telecentres are becoming helpful for the human efforts to secure the necessary produces for the survival
of the peoples around the world.
The Asia-Pacific Telecentre Network (APTN) is an initiative to promote
innovation and knowledge-sharing among telecentres in Asia-Pacific
region. APTN is also a collaborative initiative of
telecentre.org and the United Nations' Economic and Social…
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.
Kindly find…