This paper is meant to address the core operational definition of sustainability, how to achieve it and variables for measuring sustainability. The author uses experience with Multi-purpose Community Telecentres in African countries and selected documents on the subject. The paper demonstrates that sustainability is a process and not an end in itself, that it is much more complex than how it has been understood or measured by evaluators and that its participatory and benefits local development w more...
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For at least a decade governments and nonprofit organizations, often supported by bilateral aid, have experimented with telecentres as a means to extend access to computers, the Internet, and other information and communication services to rural and low-income urban areas of developing countries. Results have been mixed. This Note proposes a guide for government policy on telecentres conceived as private businesses—though with development functions—that are commercially sustainable beyond in more...
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In the village of Wu'an, Hebei Province, in Mainland China (China), a farmer named Li Suotian continually received agricultural market information via the Internet. He discovered that an Israeli variety of tomatoes sold well in the province. Based on this information from the Internet, he decided to grow this variety of tomatoes in place of grains and his income grew eight times larger. A changing agricultural and rural life means more decisions that need more information and more communication. more...
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Abstract: Kiosk/telecentre projects, which provide access to information technologies and related services, have become an important vehicle for delivering the benefits of ICTs to the developing world. As more of these projects are implemented, there is a real need to evaluate their long-term impacts. Assessments, however, are often restricted to economic and technical factors which, though important, by themselves privilege objects and models over people and situated use.
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UNESCO, through its Office in Montevideo, Uruguay, supported the pilot project through the acquisition of basic computing units to support free telecentres in four of the five communities. The 'Gems of the Earth 'project is part of the UNESCO Free Community Telecentre Network along with two other free telecentre projects in Paraguay and Argentina. The Brazilian-based NGO 'Gems of the Earth Rural Telecentre Network' aims at facilitating the creation of free telecentres in rural communities with l more...
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The WA Telecentre Network Program commenced in 1991 and has expanded to 97 Telecentres throughout regional Western Australia. These Telecentres serve an approximate population of just over 100,000 people across 82 local governments. By mid 2006 it is anticipated that there will be a complement of 114 Telecentres around Western Australia, comprising:
1. 99 “standard” Telecentre sites
2. Eight (8) Telecentres in Remote Indigenous Communities (TIRIC)
3. Seven (7) Modular Interacti more...
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telecentre.org makes social investments and provides services that build the capacity of telecentre operators around the world. This work includes the creation and rollout of an online strategy that will: Help people who work in telecentres to find the answers, materials and relationships they need to make their telecentres thrive; provide content, web site technology and relationships that will help regional and national telecentre networks succeed; create a platform for the delivery and promot more...
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