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Growing Use of Cellphones for Family Planning19th November 2009 The growth of cellphone use, particularly in the developing world, is providing health experts with a new channel of communication to provide family planning information. "The number ...
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November 24, 2009 to November 30, 2009
The Digital Storytelling Workshop that will bring Gender Evaluation Methodology adaptors from all over the world together to share their stories of transformation using GEM. There will also Knowledge Sharing Exchange in four thematic areas: local...
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Telecentre members from around the world look up to Telecentre.org for among other purposes to make a difference in their lives. With members in almost every country, action in tc.org tends to have a broader perspective. Telecentre.org could help ...
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The content availablility is also another key factor. Nothing would have more effect to grassroots telecentre operators than does the creation of relevant content. It’s time consuming, expensive and usually ignored at the price of things that are ...
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Through facilitating knowledge exchange and support among telecentre networks in East and Central Africa, telecentre.org has helped the networks around this region better equip themselves in working with telecentres, which in effect has translated...
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UgaBYTES Initiatives
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Community Facilitaor
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Anything to do with technology, especially that designed the community including the marginalized.
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Information Technology and Telecoms
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www.telecentrecommunity.ning.com">http://www.ugabytes.org, www.telecentrecommunity.ning.com
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mfrancis@ugabytes.org
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francis.mwathi (Skype)
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+256 783 010269
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Ggaba Road
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Kampala
Country
Uganda
Region
Eastern & Southern Africa
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English
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WEEKLY NEWS ROUND UP-AFRICA

Growing Use of Cellphones for Family Planning
19th November 2009
The growth of cellphone use, particularly in the developing world, is providing health experts with a new channel of communication to provide family planning information. "The number of mobile subscribers is increasing at a dramatic rate with the number of global cellphone subscribers in 2006 being estimated at 2.5 billion of an estimated global population of 6.6 billion," says David Cantor, a senior technical manager of ICF… Continue

Posted on November 20, 2009 at 8:00am —

Francis Mwathi

International Mobile Money Transfer Services to Exceed $65bn by 2014



With mobile penetration reaching 100 per cent in many developed markets, the mobile phone will soon be in virtually everyone's pocket. Payments and banking are currently major areas of growth in the mobile world and these are set to become even more specialized than they are at the moment.
According to a… Continue

Posted on November 16, 2009 at 9:11am —

Francis Mwathi

WEEKLY NEWS ROUND UP-AFRICA

Cellphone operators need to get savvy to thrive in Africa
11th November 2009
African cellular network operators need to sharpen up their acts to make a profit in countries where already poor consumers are trying to cut back their spending even further. Operators must begin sharing infrastructure to cut costs, lobby governments for relief from arbitrary taxes, argue against politically imposed rate cuts and offer locally developed data content to keep consumers interested. That list of cru… Continue

Posted on November 13, 2009 at 8:14am —

Francis Mwathi

Cable vandalism may raise internet cost in East Africa

Fibre optic cable carriers are incurring millions of shillings lately as additional cost for security and monitoring off their lines as cases of vandalism are worryingly on a rise in East Africa.

Industry insiders say cable vandalism is fast emerging as avenues of unnecessary expenses and if this continues, operators may even be forced to to pass on the additional costs to the consumers. Companies now have to incur expenses in hiring guards to man the cables with some even being forced to intro… Continue

Posted on November 12, 2009 at 3:31am —

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KASHWESHA Community Resource Centre: A Telecentre standing tall in empowering Slum Dwellers

KASHWESHA Community Resource Centre is a civil society organization committed to promoting the rights of the slum dwellers in a low cost residential area in Nairobi, Kenya. It begun in the year 2001 as a community based organization that focused on the well being of its members through capacity building, by ensuring that its members who mainly consisted of the slum dwellers got the available resources and support. The telecentre serves community members from the adjacent Korogocho slums, KCC slu… Continue

Posted on November 10, 2009 at 1:15am — 1 Comment

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At 1:39am on November 23, 2009, Dennis Mutwiri said…
Thank you Francis.
At 4:04am on November 11, 2009, Mohammad Kamrul Islam Bhuiyan said…
Thank you for congratulating me.
At 4:47am on October 28, 2009, Damas Ogwe said…
Thanks a lot Francis. I am fully on board
At 7:46am on October 16, 2009, Robert Ooko said…
Hi,thanks for your invitation and contribution.I truly feel at home in the community.
At 11:31am on October 3, 2009, Shafeen Charania said…
Thanks Francis - I will be sure to check out the references.
At 2:16pm on September 22, 2009, Diana Jean Muir said…
I am beginning to set up a website for the Africa Virtual School (for which we provide free online courses) and would like you to invite you to participate by setting up a page for your own country. If this is something you're interested in, please feel free to contact me at admin@plc.edu.

http://www.africa-virtual-school.com/

Thanks!
Diana
At 8:09am on September 19, 2009, Martin-Mary Falana said…
Are you online now so that we can chat?
At 8:08am on September 19, 2009, Martin-Mary Falana said…
Dear Francis, got your message late. I went to the rural community to carry out a research on OVC. Just returned and found that the contest has closed. But when I read the message well in the link you provided, I saw that I can still contest as the deadline has been postponed till 30th September. I am happy. Thank you very much. What is your phone number, i need to speak with you directly any moment from now.
At 1:56am on September 9, 2009, Martin-Mary Falana said…
Dear Francis, I just went through your pictures and discovered we can do alot of things together especially in the area of ICT for the rural, marginalised and excluded communities we work in Nigeria.
At 10:21am on September 3, 2009, Frank Bedoya said…
Thanks Mr Mwathi for your information and collaboration. I hope this will be a wonderful time of learning from each other.
 
 

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