African telecentres

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Comment by Md.Minarul Islam on February 6, 2012 at 7:20pm

Very nice

Comment by AHMED SUDAN on July 10, 2011 at 4:34pm

 pls vote for GDCO and the Telecentre movement

http://gedaref.com/newone/index.php?option=com_content&view=art...

 

Gedaref digital city organization GDCO  and our beloved Telecentres were   nominated for the eWorld awards with two projects and i do appreciate your voting  and pls ask your friends to vote

 1-  project 1  GDCO Sudan a partnership for community development

http://www.eworldforum.net/Voting/project-details.aspx?RegNo=EWN/193

 2- project 2    Telecentres, are they really tools community development?

http://www.eworldforum.net/Voting/project-details.aspx?RegNo=EWN/192

 the link for the two projects is

http://www.gedaref.com/newone/index.php?option=com_content&view...

it will be better Pls read the instruction how to vote   

http://gedaref.com/newone/index.php?option=com_content&view=art...  

after you read it you can click the link below to vote

http://eworldforum.net/voting/Default.aspx

also GDCO is key speaker and supporting partner http://www.eworldforum.net/egov-speakers.aspx    addressing  Telecentres: Effective Approaches and Best Practices on the first of august 2011

Comment by Richard Close on April 14, 2011 at 4:41am

"I am Africa. This is my story.." YouTube story telling was launched last week with sponsorship from UNESCO Power of Peace Network 

There are complete training curriculum available, marketing program and easy certification program for African Telecentres.

Training is at the contest sitehttp://i-am-the-story.ning.com

For more information on CyberYouth Days to promote your telecentre and sign up Youth contact rclose@richardclose.info

 

Comment by Mahdi Doualeh BOBEH on November 26, 2010 at 9:03am

Fier d'appartenir à ce groupe au service de la mutualisations des connaissances dans l'Afrique .Pour dire que l'accès au TIC dans le continent africain est de plus en plus lié à la présence de télécentre .bref ,à mon humble avis c'est un groupe essentiel et très important pour la facilitation des échanges , des stratégies , des meilleurs pratiques et expériences .

Comment by Voices of Africa for Sustainable Development on March 4, 2010 at 3:31pm

First Solar Powered Rural Internet Kiosk installed in the South Coast of Kenya

The first Solar Powered Rural Internet Kiosk (RIK) is installed at the Ukunda Showground in Msambweni Constituency. The RIK is a 100% self contained solution for providing access to computer and the Internet to rural people throughout Sub Saharan Africa. The RIK has been donated to the community based organization, Voices of
Diani, and is being implemented by Voices of Africa for Sustainable Development, a Kenyan non-governmental organization.

Ukunda, Kenya, February 27, 2010 – For the first time, a Rural Internet Kiosk (RIK) has been installed for rural youth empowerment in Africa. Voices of Africa for Sustainable Development (VOA4SD) is building the capacity of local youth to empower themselves through the Internet and social enterprise. The community based organization, Voices of Diani will own and operate the Rural Internet Kiosk with training, support, and volunteers from VOA4SD. The Rural Internet Kiosk is a product of Intersat Africa, Ltd. who has generously provided the first year of bandwidth at no cost. The funding for this project has been provided by the Internet Society through their Community Grants initiative.

The Rural Internet Kiosk Launch held today was an occasion organized by the youth of Ukunda to share their excitement over being the first RIK location and to usher in a new age of information and communications in rural Sub Saharan Africa. The RIK will allow the Voices of Diani to train the local youth in ICT skills and Web 2.0 including local content generation at the rate of 1 Shilling per minute. The “duka” portion of the kiosk will sell products previously unavailable in the local market such as small solar powered lanterns and nutritional porridge. The project seeks to create local employment for youth and to provide solutions for community issues utilizing social enterprise models. Profits from the RIK will be continually reinvested into developing new social enterprises leading to local economic development. Previously many youth in the area were unable to use ICTs due to the high prices and rigid schedules of the few training centers in the area.

The opening event was attended by members of the local community and distinguished guests including Mr. Umuro Wario, CEO, Youth Enterprise Development Fund, Mr. Richard Atuti, Director, Kenyan National Library Service, and Louis Otieno, Associate Director for ICT and Small Business, US Peace Corps. Speakers included the distinguished guests as well as Gideon Mulandi of Voices of Diani, Crystal Kigoni of VOA4SD, and Jonathan McLean of the National Youth Service.

Images from the RIK Launch are available at http://picasaweb.google.com/voicesofafrica4SD/UkundaRIKLaunchImages#

For additional information about the Rural Internet Kiosk or groups associated with this project, please contact Crystal Kigoni or visit http://www.voicesofafrica.org/.

Comment by Mohamed Alasow on March 4, 2010 at 3:06pm

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 benefit of ICT, they will seek to learn basic literacy and numeracy to help them use the keyboard.

The way forward to is find ways to unify the different stakeholders, convince government, share ideas and enable people to use ICT for social development in the first stage. Second stage where applicable sustainability and economic development.

I believe the future for African telecenters is bright.
Mohamed

Comment by mwendabai sinyinda on December 21, 2009 at 6:04pm

hi
am excited to be part of this group - to learn and share in unity.
working together through regional bodies like SADC, COMESA, ECOWAS, etc. and UNECA we shall significally contribute to our people's social and economical development

Mwendabai Sinyinda
Lusaka Zambia

Comment by Tammy Solomon on December 17, 2009 at 12:30am

Please what measures have been put in place in order to have telecentres primarily for Agriculture in the rural areas?

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Comment by Donald Gray on June 8, 2009 at 9:05pm

Hello everyone. I am glad to be a part of this fine group. Please contact me with any questions you may have.

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