Telecentres
Resources on telecentres, public access points for ICTs.
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APDIP e-Note 19 on Telecentre Technology
- The affordability of FOSS and its openness to modification and localization is contributing to the sustainbility of telecentres, and more broadly, to empowered communities and poverty reduction. This APDIP e-Note explores the benefits of using FOSS applications in telecentres with case studies from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Brazil, Egypt and Sub-Saharan Africa.
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APDIP e-Note 15
- Telecentre Sustainability - Financing ICTs for the poor
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APDIP e-Note 14
- Telecentre 2.0 - Beyond piloting telecentres
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National Conference and Exhibition on Participatory Telecenter Services and Content Development for Rural Areas, Jakarta, Indonesia, 14-15 December 2005
- This national conference and exhibition organized by Partnerships for e-Prosperity for the Poor (Pe-PP) aims to bring together telecenter and rural development stakeholders.
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Telecentres: Case studies and key issues
- The book opens with a global overview of the multipurpose community telecentre movement and discusses the key issues of ownership, management, operational models and sustainability. The book offers an unparallelled range of information and advice on the organisation and running of telecentres. It has been designed for policy-makers, centre managers and all of those in education, training, health and community development who are keen to serve urban, peri-urban, rural and other disadvantaged communities for which access to education and information means access to a better future.
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Ten Steps for Establishing a Sustainable Multipurpose Community Telecentre
- This first booklet gives a short explanation of an MCT, its ownership and its possible services and programmes. It deals with the initial process of identifying and mobilising key persons in the community to form a Steering Committee as well as the actions to be taken prior to calling an Open Community Meeting. Factors contributing to sustainability of MCT such as availability of physical facilities, funding, volunteers and, more importantly, the interest of the community to avail themselves of the programmes and services to be offered are introduced in this booklet.
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Papers on Multipurpose Community Telecentres
- A collection of papers from ITU on multipurpose community telecenters. Please click to see the full list of papers.
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Assessing Community Telecentres
- This guidebook will assist researchers as they assess and evaluate the role and impact of community telecentres. It provides an introduction to some of the key research issues, a framework for telecentre evaluation, and an impetus for research teams to share ideas, instruments, and methods. Assessing Community Telecentres will interest researchers, practitioners, and academics in information science, communications, international development, and evaluation, including telecentre operators, telecentre managers, and community leaders.
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Tele-community Centres and ICT Applications for Communities
- This is a presentation from the WSIS National Consultation Workshop, November 17-19 2003, Islamabad. Lots of the usual questions about what can be done, but no answers.
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WA Telecenter Network
- This is a commercial site for the WA Telecenter Network in Western Australia. You can join the Telecentre Network in a 'partnership' to deliver services on behalf of government departments or commercial organisations.
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Telecentres: How Did We Lose the Plot?
- A critical analysis of everything that is wrong with telecenters. Far from solution orientated, this article provides no answers to what is needed and reiterates the obvious.
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Telecentres Sustainability: What Does It Mean?
- Another excellent article on telecenter sustainability. A solution for telecentre sustainability emerges when one looks further than simple financial sustainability and widens the understanding of sustainability in such a way that it includes, besides financial sustainability, social, political, cultural, and technical sustainability as elements of equal value. A must read.
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Telecentre Evaluation: A Global Perspective
- The contributions in this volume are the result of an international working meeting on telecentre evaluation, held at Far Hills, Quebec from September 28-30, 1999. There is no attempt here to provide a unique model for telecentres. Instead, the idea is to foster the creation and dissemination of knowledge relevant to the design, operation and evaluation of telecentres.
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Somos@Telecentros: The Story So Far and Lessons Learned
- Community-based telecentres are one of most important examples of digital inclusion initiatives. Some have become agents of social change and have developed within their communities programs that assess local needs. The Somos@Telecentros Network (S@T) developed in Latin America and is until now the only significant regional community based telecenters Network worldwide. The general objective of the S@T network is to strengthen the digital inclusion initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean. Since its inception the S@TNetwork has quickly become the place for activism, information, education, networking, resources, lobbying efforts and communication for telecentre issues in LAC. The second part of this paper describes some of the key lessons learned by the S@T network and how these lessons are used in the plannification for the future.
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Drishtee Telecenters: A Sustainable E-Government and Market Development Solution
- A closer look at the Drishtree Telecenter example where in less than two years, Drishtee has successfully demonstrated its concept in over 285 kiosks across five Indian states. Using a tiered franchise and partnership model, Drishtee believes that it can enable the creation of up to 50,000 information kiosks across India within a span of six years. These kiosks would serve a market of 500 million people.
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Telecenters, Community Informatics and Development
- Here you will find five papers that address a range of telecentre issues that will be of interest to practitioners, researchers and policy makers in developing countries that see telecentres as a means of spreading the benefits of information access more widely among their populations.
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Telecenter Sustainability: Myths and Opportunities
- An excellent article from developmentgateway.org looking at models for sustainability. Telecenters need to be business orientated genterating revenue at least equal its outgoings. This is a must read for for policy-makers, centre managers and all of those in education, training, health and community development who are keen to serve urban, peri-urban, rural and other disadvantaged communities for which access to education and information means access to a better future.
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Telecentres: Case studies and key issues
- The book opens with a global overview of the multipurpose community telecentre movement and discusses the key issues of ownership, management, operational models and sustainability. The book offers an unparallelled range of information and advice on the organisation and running of telecentres. It has been designed for policy-makers, centre managers and all of those in education, training, health and community development who are keen to serve urban, peri-urban, rural and other disadvantaged communities for which access to education and information means access to a better future.
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News: Rural Access by Radio and Internet Helps Close the Digital Divide
- This news article discribes how the Tel@Bureau system of networked telecenters and the Niger radio broadcasting system came together to bring the beinfits of the Internet's information services to rural areas. This inspiring article details the practical application of information disemination for the purposes of quality of life improvement for those living in rural areas. The project created the potential for interactive distance education, telemedicine, e-commerce, and governance in a civil society through the use of two-way communication using the key resources of radio frequencies and solar and/or wind energy systems for a collocated full-service information-and-communication-technology center.
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Rural Telecenter Impact Assessments
- This 57 page report entitled 'How to Get Started and Keep Going: A Guide to Community Multi-media centres' focuses on impact assessments. Impact assessments can start the process of answering if and how access to ICTs produces benefits to the individuals and communities they serve. It is clear that impact measurement of Telecentres, like most development projects, is highly contextual – and thus hard to quantify.
