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Changing the Rwandan market model: can it be done?
Source: www.share4dev.info
Deploying 1.000 Telecentres in a country like Rwanda, has the potential to do more than giving people access to ICT. With 1.000 Telecentres, there's one access point for every 11.000 Rwandans. Or, looking from another angle, on…
ContinueAdded by Seu Yapa on March 31, 2011 at 3:36pm — No Comments
Fieldwork in Chile begins for public access ICT in disaster research
TASCHA researchers, Maria Garrido and Beth Patin, visited Chile in February to participate in fieldwork for their study investigating the role of telecentres and public libraries in disaster management.
Through focus groups with…
Added by Global Impact Study on March 30, 2011 at 12:45am — No Comments
Themes and Issues in Telecentre Sustainability
Connectivity as the physical availability of information and communication technologies and access as the economic, sociological and psychological factors that influence persons’ opportunities to use the technologies...
Much of the attention regarding ICTs and telecentres deals with connectivity and claim that the sustainability of telecentres depends on recognizing the dimensions of access...
A telecentre as a public place where people can get a variety of…
ContinueAdded by Samjhana Bhandari on March 29, 2011 at 5:42pm — No Comments
Tsunami-hit villa turns learning and earning centre thanks to ICTA initiated IT BPO project
Source: www.icta.lk
(Photo Caption: Young school leavers who have learned computer applications free of charge at the Centre of Excellence evince keen interest in their income-generating IT-BPO assignments…
ContinueAdded by Seu Yapa on March 28, 2011 at 4:30pm — No Comments
WHO’S MISSING IN SOCIAL MEDIA
Added by Nahshon Omondi Owino on March 27, 2011 at 2:53am — No Comments
Join the iwrite4WSIS Forum Campaign
Overview of WSIS Forum
The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) is a unique two-phase United Nations (UN) summit that was initiated in order to create an evolving multi- stakeholder platform aimed at addressing the issues raised by information and communication technologies (ICTs) through a structured and inclusive approach at the national, regional and…
Added by Seu Yapa on March 22, 2011 at 2:27pm — No Comments
Team Delivers Development Aid Via Cell Phone Animations
A farmer in Niger learns how to protect his crops from insects. A resident of Port-au-Prince or a rural Haitian village learns how to avoid exposure to cholera. An entrepreneur in Mali gets step-by-step instructions on extracting the oil from shea seeds to make shea butter she can sell at a local market.
These people are benefiting from a new approach to sustainable…
Added by Francis Mwathi on March 18, 2011 at 10:27pm — No Comments
Intra-Regional Workshop on ICT and Community e-Centres Development for Poverty Reduction in Iran
Intra-Regional Workshop on ICT and Community e-Centres Development for Poverty Reduction and Business Services Promotion among the OIC countries and IOR- ARC region from 14-16 March 2011, Islamic Republic of Iran, Tehran.
The workshop opened on Monday 14 March and took place at Iranian Research…
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Telecentre.org English community has Crossed 3000 Member Mark
The Telecentre.org English community of has recently crossed over 3000 member mark and it keeps on growing. Congratulations to rest of the Language sites namely Spanish, French and Arabic as they have hit 1637, 372 and 1048 member marks respectively. Numbers together brings nearly 6000 heads from round the… Continue
Added by Seu Yapa on March 16, 2011 at 1:00pm — 3 Comments
Grandmothers are now solar engineers
Source:Daily Nation
Photo | Base camp foundation Two of the Maasai trainees and their teacher during practical classes on solar engineering in Tilonia India.
By Edith…
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WOMEN PARTICIPATION IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: CHALLENGES, OPPORTUNITIES AND WAY FORWARD
The President of the Tamale based Female ICT Teachers Association (FICTTA), Miss Angela Serwaa Boateng has called on all women in the field of Science and Technology to make themselves more visible to younger females who might want to look up to them for inspiration and as role models.
Miss Angela said…
ContinueAdded by Agbenyo John Stephen on March 15, 2011 at 7:45pm — 1 Comment
African Graduate Student Research Paper Competition 2011
TEEAL is pleased to announce the first research paper competition for post graduate students from African countries eligible to obtain TEEAL, The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library. TEEAL invites MSc and PhD students to submit research papers in food production, food security, agricultural and food policy, and rural development.
ContinueAbout TEEAL: The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library (TEEAL), produced by Albert R. Mann…
Added by Maureen Agena on March 14, 2011 at 2:29pm — No Comments
World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS implementation) part 2
Added by AHMED SUDAN on March 12, 2011 at 7:23pm — No Comments
World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS implementation) part 1
World Information Society Day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/. World Information Society Day was proclaimed to be on 17 May by a United Nations General Assembly resolution,…
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World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
Added by AHMED SUDAN on March 12, 2011 at 5:30am — No Comments
ICT4D – D for Dog
Even though it sounds funny, the negligence of the primary stakeholders or the beneficiaries has been a key factor for the failures of the Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) Projects.
Giving wrong tool for the right people as well as right tool for wrong people…
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Research team uses Global Impact Study inventory tools in Mozambique
A research project focusing on community multimedia centres in Mozambique, RE-ACT, has adopted the Global Impact Study’s inventory data collection tools to build a list of public access ICT venues in the country. The project is led by Isabella Rega, who spent some time with TASCHA in September 2010 as a visiting scholar.…
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Prof. Rajashekaran Pillai, Vice-Chancellor, IGNOU shares his vision for CTVM course
Prof V N Rajasekharan Pillai
01 March 2011
India
Prof V N Rajasekharan Pillai, Vice Chancellor, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), in conversation with Dr Rajeshree Dutta Kumar and Ankita Verma, speaks about the Telecentre initiative at…
Added by Vignesh Sornamohan on March 8, 2011 at 6:30pm — No Comments
The role of telecentre networks in addressing sustainability challenges
Since the individual telecentres are generally isolated, it is important to network them. The networks can play an important role in addressing the gaps & the challenges. The networks are mainly driven by the need to fill the gap that the individual telecentres cannot do on their own.
Networks can take up the responsibility of content generation since the individual telecentre manager is over- burdened by telecentre operational…
Added by Samjhana Bhandari on March 8, 2011 at 3:02pm — No Comments
PDLWC launch a success
We would like to thank everyone who joined and supported the activities leading up to the launch of the Philippine Digital Literacy for Women Campaign. The launch ceremonies was a success and well-attended by guests, members and representatives of different sectors - women, NGO, academe, private, civic society and government. Also joining the launch were the countless others who expressed their support on the campaign's Facebook page and online chat.…
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