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Organization
Gems of the Earth Network
Job Title
Founder
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)
Areas of interest/expertise and types of services provided:
Telecenter business models, telecenter management software, telecenter operating system, video blogging, and others.
Website
http://www.gemsoftheearth.org
Email (please note that this website is public, including your profile information)
marco@gemsoftheearth.org
Chat ID (MSN, Skype, AIM, etc.)
marcofig (skype)
City (or closest town or municipality)
Columbia
Country
USA
Region
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 —

Marco Figueiredo

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 —

Marco Figueiredo

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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At 3:26pm on January 21, 2009, Mauro Araújo Câmara said…
Hi Marco, welcome to telecentre.org, a good place to discuss ideas.
At 2:19pm on January 13, 2009, Christine Prefontaine said…
Yay! Add your photo and get blogging :)
At 9:29am on January 13, 2009, Sandra Nassali said…
Hello Marco, welcome to telecentre.org. Please up load a photo as we love giving a face to the community and also follow URL: htpp://telecentrecommunity.ning.com/notes/Getting_started
for the community guide. In case of anything else, feel free to contact me.

Regards,

Sandra
 
 

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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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Here we will hold our online consultation from the 12th till 30th November, 2009. Please do participate and help shape the future of telecentre.org. Follow the discussion via email, by clicking the 'follow' link on the right hand side panel.
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