Source: www.theborneopost.com

by Justin Yap justinyap@theborneopost.com. Posted on December 31, 2010, Friday



KUCHING: Tourism in Bario has grown from its accidental beginnings to being a mainstay of the local economy evolving along the way into various niche markets including ecotourism, adventure tourism, cultural tourism, research tourism and the latest manifestation of development…

Source: www.theborneopost.com

by Justin Yap justinyap@theborneopost.com.

Posted on December 30, 2010, Thursday



KUCHING: Bario known as the ‘Land of a Thousand Hand-Shakes’ is the homeland to the Kelabit ethnic minority. The indigenous community that emerged from isolation only within the last half century has shown massive positive development from the results of eBario…

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Dear Memebers,

Following is a blog written by Meddie Mayanja, former Senior Program Officer of telecentre.org titled "Show and Tell – Building Telecentres That Matter". Hope you all find it interesting and fruitful argument.

Source: meddie-mayanja.blogspot.com

Thank you.

Recent turmoil in the global economy has…

Photo Caption: Dr.Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala - Managing Director of World Bank meets children who benefit at Kallady Nenasala.

Photo Credit: ICTA

Nenasala (telecenter) in Kallady, located in Batticaloa district of Eastern province, one of 601 telecenters in…

The workshop which was organised by the Ghana Information Network for Knowledge Sharing (GINKS) in partnership with its local partner, Savana Signatures (SavSign) drew

participants from a cross-section of Junior High Schools some of which

included Dabokpa JHS, Shishegu Zion JHS, Kamina Barracks JHS, Vitting

SHS, NOBISCO, Dabokpa Technical Institute and other sister organization

like ISODEC, NNED, BoldSteps Foundation and…

Source: www.ict.go.ke

Kenya ICT Board will facilitate the establishment of digital access centers, to be known as PASHA Centers…

The Global Impact Study is pleased to announce that we have added Ghana as the fifth country to the user, venue, and non-user surveys and the sixth country for inventory data collection. The country research team will be led by Godfred Frempong…

Over sixty participants mainly Telecentre managers and other ICT4D stakeholders gathered at La Palisse hotel in Kigali  on December sixteenth for a  2 days workshop . Items on the agenda were potential improvements and the shifting role of telecentres in the development of rural Rwanda, The Thousand Telecentres  project in Rwanda and challenges faced by the Rwanda telecentre movement  . The important topics under discussion and strong participation from all involved combined to make the…

Here are some cool reasons why Blogging is important in our mission to develop the society.

• Blogging brings ideas that are useful to the society. We all have pretty good ideas and unique perspectives.
• Blogging is a Personal Brand. it gives you a free media channel to get your message to the public.
• Blogging give us a chance to cry them out and…

On 16th December, 2010, Telecentre.org Foundation and Digital Empowerment Foundation organised a national consultation on Empowering Rural India through Telecentres: Opportunities, Challenges and the Way Forward. The consultation was well attended and included all the stakeholders involved in the telecentre movement in India. There were participants from some of the leading NGOs with significant telecentre initiatives or associated with telecentre initiatives, such as TARAhaat, e-Chaupal,…

Rationale:

India is a room for multiple and multifarious telecentre initiatives managed both by the Government and the private or civil society agencies. While the common objective is to serve the rural masses with effective and need based services, using ICT applications, the very many interventions so far are in the midst of exploring and experiencing varying levels of scope and challenges. The…

The national forum on disability, organized by the Syrian organization for the disabled (AAMAL),

and cooperation with the central council for the disabled Affairs and UN organizations operating in Syria,

the conference took place at al-Umawyeen conference palace from 11-12 December…

Following is the press release on Telecentre-Europe Get Online Week 2010

Telecentre-Europe is running a Europe wide campaign between 28^th February and 5^th March 2011, aiming to get more than 100,000 new computer users online. The campaign will help people to benefit from…

The workshop was hosted at ICIPE Nairobi and attended by telecentre managers and staff from over 30 telecentres across Kenya. KARI, Assistant Director for Information Services, Dr. Jack Ouda officially opened the event. His presence also represented the government, especially Ministry of Agriculture.

His opening speech appreciated ICIPE for hosing the workshop as well as…

The eSkwela project and the Open Academy for Philippine Agriculture (OPAPA), both members of the Philippine Community eCenter Network (PhilCeCNet), were recognized by two international award bodies for utilizing information and communication technology (ICT) tools in their respective fields of work.

The eSkwela…