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Marco Figueiredo
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- Columbia, MD
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- Academic/research, Nonprofit organization, Telecentre
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- Gems of the Earth Network
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- About Me (biography and organization description)
- I am a digital inclusion activist since 2000. I helped start the Gems of the Earth Rural Community Telecenter Network in Brazil in early 2002. I am involved with telecenters in many ways as I believe telecenters to be the most efficient approach to close the digital divide in the short and mid term. I am engaged in research to come up with self sustainable means to operate a community telecenter, which include business models and technology packages. I also run the Center for Community Informatics at Loyola University Maryland (http://cci.cs.loyola.edu)
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- Telecenter business models, telecenter management software, telecenter operating system, video blogging, and others.
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- http://www.gemsoftheearth.org
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- marco@gemsoftheearth.org
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- North America
- Languages (in order of preference):
- english, portuguese
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Obama Invests 7.2 Billion Dollars in Digital Inclusion
When Barack Obama took office as President of the United States of America, he found the country in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. He was elected president thanks to a grassroots movement of American citizens unsatisfied with the direction the country had taken in the last decade or so. The geniality of his campaign team in defeating the favorites from both the Democratic and Republican parties was in great part demonstrated in their differentiated strategy i… Continue
Posted on May 7, 2009 at 11:30am —
My current definition of telecenter
Telecenters are public spaces used to promote the understanding and use of cyberspace tools to empower people to improve their lives and the lives of their communities.
Posted on February 5, 2009 at 4:54pm —
Reverse Franchising Telecenter
I am playing around with a concept I am calling Reverse Franchising Telecenter. Despite the intriguing name, the idea is very simple: any organization managing a network of telecenters, be it for-profit, not-for-profit or government owned, shall operate in the same dimension of a traditional franchising organization, however franchisees do not pay royalties to the franchiser. Much on the contrary, the franchisee receives a percentage of the network services the franchiser offers to outside custo… Continue
Posted on January 13, 2009 at 2:43pm — 4 Comments
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International Day of Disabled People on the third of December .
“Making the MDGs Inclusive:
Empowerment of persons with disabilities and their communities around the world”
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I think TC.org should build strong active communities based on social justice and mutual respect and changing power structures, in order to remove the barriers that prevent people from participating in the issues that affect their lives, There sho...
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.
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That is what i mean with the communication/IEC plan that I am talking about. There ought to be a mechanism that will give impetus to the fusion of interests of both the government (national and local) and the citizenry in regard to ICT4D in genera...
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