Setting the scene

Our common aspiration for communities separated by location rather than quality of life remains curtailed by failed attainment of telecentre sustainability. The present model gives a generic basis for planning, implementing, and appraising a self supporting telecentre ecosystem – telecentre, networks, support institutions and services offered. Its competitiveness basis is relative ‘product’ – utility and price, and process – costs, to competing…

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For the decade of 2000s, I was anxious that telecentres would become the way of life – linking rural people to their urban counterparts and the markets, than ever before. In each telecentre expedition I made; from India to Sri Lanka, Costa Rica to Canada, Hungary to Spain, and through Africa, the flames of this hope become more visible and strong. But at the same time, the hope for a self reliant telecentre was dimming by the time. This has made me wander through places; physical and…

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Mobile Meals – moMEALS, an m-Marketing system, using SMART SMS texting system, telecentres and web interface, to connect farmers directly to food vendors and consumers, has been finished and set for start.



The system is driven by the slogan - Let every hut smile.

moMEALS processes started with pondering the issue of hunger and poverty – MDG No.1. Realities of rural people were explored, as a starting point. The feelings of food vendors visited. And the…

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The past five years of telecentre.org have been eventful especially in creating telecentre networks; in Africa alone telecentre networks have grown from three to 20 plus.





telecentre.org Foundation now wants to help networks to focus energies to activities that impact livelihoods of telecentre users better. In order to formulate good strategies for this purpose, telecentre.org is organizing an African discussion on UgaBYTES mailing list to capture the opinions of telecentre and… Continue

Natural rules are key in Money raising work as in any other field. Mastering the rules is 50% finding the Money in any given hunt. Actions rooted in rules rock and roll; they are always cool. But most Money raisers owe their success to their appreciation of “Why givers give”. Making it rule No. 1; Recognize Why Givers Give. Members of Money Next Door are talking about this rule. It is topic Number One.

Early outputs indicate that givers tend to give;… Continue