 Events like the East Africa Telecentre Leaders Forum (EATLF) contribute a lot to our telecentres. Issues including connectivity challenges, management and sustainability are discussed and solutions are sought, Wrote Nabweru Telecentre manager, Ivan Ggayi. |
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Mali's former President, Alpha Oumar Konaré envisioned an ambitious project to connect 703 villages to the Internet thus reducing the digital ... |
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At 17 million square kilometers, Russia is by far the largest country in the world. While the ICT industry is the fastest growing industry in Russia, ... |
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Networks, partnerships and collaborative... Networks, partnerships and collaborative responsibility are key in the end and survival of life and its endeavors. They mirror the integrity of a community and the individuals in it. Indeed many of...
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Mailing list summary in brief Using email as a teaching tool
Email is perhaps the biggest growth area of the Internet usage today. Across the globe, it is increasingly being used for everyday’s communication. If used effectively, it can be a wonderful tool for learning because it allows usage with practically anyone, anywhere.
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Social Enterprise, Telecentre Academy... When a few telecentre champions; people and institutions worked to see the birth of telecentres, sustainability and individual performance of...
Sustainability first: two paradigms? Every operator dreams to make the telecentre sustainable. But when asked how they plan to do this, most of them struggle. Is it charging a fee for...
Content key for telecentre success Everybody agrees that content is important to telecentres. It makes a telecentre relevant to the targeted community, builds ownership, helps identify...
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 A talking library for the blind Libraries are silent zones and it is no different at Farook College near this Kerala city. But sometimes in its quiet ambience you may hear a voice reading aloud in English in an accent that is not native.
It is the Digital Talking Book Library.
The college installed this facility at the library for the benefit of visually challenged students and aptly named it 'Insight'.
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 • At the Base: Telecentre Technologies One of my first telecentre technology demos occurred in Forteau, Labrador, an isolated northern Canadian community of 400 people in 1990. We wanted to demonstrate the usefulness of email. Those...
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