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For a telecenter to be sustainable of course there must be income. ... ie. cash. However poor a community is , there surely are some who can afford to pay for the services. Otherwise you surely can forget about sustainability for a telecenter.
A ...
Fantastic achievement for Sri Lanka. Had been receiving many awards for ICT lately. What a country.
Congrats.
Alan
How do you define an old computer?
To a rich guy a working pentium IV is old and has no use for it.
To the poor guy who has nothing ... it is heaven sent
Well , what to do with old computers?
In the western world... that kind of computers , as...
Well well well... very interesting initiative.
Saving the trees we save a lot of things. Trees are the Mother of saving the environment as without trees most living things cannot live from insects to animals and eventually human beings.
It is in...
Telecentres are providing immense services to the promotion of education.Students of all disciplines and societies use the various services of telecentres for their assignments and communications.We may highlight educational activities in this group.
Hello Edwin,
Perhaps you can highlight to us all what are the main challenges and solutions that have been highlighted in the conference as far as elearning was concerned? I remembered most the issues in elearning Africa 2008 was more on the need...
My opinion on this is, a schoool is just a place where many students gather in one place to study....the only way mass education can be effected cost effectively.
If we want to make students study creatively , just apply the right methods in scho...
Thank you Rose for your comments.
Yes the biggest problem for any telecenter is sustainabilities. Most in rural areas are finding it very difficult to be sustainable.
In Malaysia practically most of the telecenters are government funded and is c...
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- For many years I have been studying the impact of ICT in Mass Education on society and how to implement them effectively. I found that existing platforms for delivery of multimedia contents in mbytes are not suitable in the age of Internet. Even broadband is problematic if used nationwide all at once. So I with a partner researched to find a solution for this on how existing slow modems can still deliver multimedia animated contents to all parts of the country without which nationwide ICT in mass Education can never materialise as actually happened.
It was a pleasure that at last we have found the answer with the development of AGE.
We managed to finish the project through the grace of our Malaysian Government's two grants.
- Areas of interest/expertise and types of services provided:
- We are particularly intested in the area of closing the digital divides of developing nation's rural and urban schools.... without the need for expensive broadband. Uisng slow dial ups and yet able to obtain hours/days of animations within seconds of downloads! This is normally impossible.
So we essentially enable countries to achieve the following
1. Enables entire country (rural and urban) to access digital contents without expensive broadband
2. Empowers teachers from blackboard to digital enabled easily for entire country.
3. By going paperless homework/textbooks... a greener country.
4. Enable Ministry of Education to collate students' performance data for entire country anytime.
(You don't have to wait for year end examination results to know the progress of each student for the entire country. - Get it anytime)
We are currently offering our solutions globally to all developing countries and with this would solve the Education for All challenges faced by so many parties globally including UNESCO.
Even Telecenters would increase their reach at least 10 folds ...
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Can current telecenters reach out to more users by many folds and really close the digital divides?
Telecenters generally have been effective to bring about better connectivities and bringing ICT to many rural areas. These bring with them a lot of facilities otherwise impossible to many rural poor. One of the most important of these is ICT for education.
It is accepted that millions have benefited tremendously from telecenters around the world.
However, if we are to look very closely into the effectiveness in actually reaching out to the rural areas, one wonders if the numbers reached can be… Continue
It is accepted that millions have benefited tremendously from telecenters around the world.
However, if we are to look very closely into the effectiveness in actually reaching out to the rural areas, one wonders if the numbers reached can be… Continue
Posted on May 27, 2009 at 7:03am — 2 Comments
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- At 7:21am on January 23, 2009,
Vignesh Sornamohan said… - Dear Alan Foo,
Welcome to telecentre.org!
Please take a few moments to read through our Getting Started guide for some important information. You can find the community guide here: http://telecentrecommunity.ning.com/notes/Getting_started
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Barbara,
Thanks for the explanation. By the way, I was informed last night that your package has arrived. I can't wait to see it.
For your editing, pls. sign up to wordpress.com- it is the platform we are using that for the Lightline. Pls. use t...
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Reynald,
I purposely sent you the logic problem that was illustrated in the front of my logic magazine. I am scanning and attaching the explanation.
It was not an easy puzzle, and, getting two out of four right was good. Since this attachment to...
Reynald,
How do I access the corrections? I am eager to help.
For your workshop, are you near the sea? As a consultant, my favorite workshop was at Emerald Isle on the coast of North Carolina. Oh, I remember those days when I took long beach wal...
e-Asia 2009 at Colombo, Sri Lanka
December 2, 2009 to December 4, 2009
Asia's premier event on Information and Communication Technologies- e-Asia 2009
Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies(CSDMS), India and Information and Communication Technology Agency, Sri Lanka have joined hands to organise eAsia 200...
The IT/BPO Career fair organized by Private Sector Team at in Badulla 12th and 13th November @ Public library Badulla. we arrange Nenasala Information counter this event . As Nenasala Operators we arrange to provide information to participant,...
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I am Natasha from Bangladesh ,i want to be a part of this volunteering,but i need the support of transportation, food and accommodation.Can you please inform me.whether i would have the opportunity?If it is, what is the procedure?
Sincerely
Natasha
Thanks Barbara,
I got two correct responses. I hope I could have explanation of my errors.
About our online publication, updates and correction are regularly done by our editors. I don't mean to add baggage to you ma'am, but if you think that th...
Reynald,
Logic answers
banker Green
grocer White
photographer Black
singer Brown
Good job.
Do you have a projection date for the publication? I am so glad that the corrections are going well. I worried that you would be worried about being awa...
Reynald,
The comments for the forms are attached. I chose the triangle, but I really loved the squiggly line. This is an activity that a professional presented at the University of Phoenix graduation last May. The faculty had to stand up, and man...
Reynald,
Would you change your mind if you saw the following:
Take a very quick look at the shapes below. Decide which one is 'you'. If you really can't decide, then it might be worth taking a look at the notepad next to the computer, or telepho...
correction did find and is still on going.
Barbara,
I would go for square at the first. Please share the interpretation. Include the rest.
Here is a wild guess for the colors:
Black-photographer
Green-banker
White-Singer
Brown-Grocer.
I did found hard time cracking it and I;m not even s...
I think telecentres should also be considered proactively as educational models, in addition to the business model concept. Vocational training for the community, adult literacy etc can be such prepossessing concerns.
In fact telecentres can be th...
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