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A Portable Telecenter: Suggestions Please!
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ideas from the grass roots...
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Sulah,
There is a tension in closeness, as we engaging grass roots long term basis, they want to know as they become aware of what they are in, keeping openness from the beginning help build better trust, It's a question degree of openness we need...
Cleopa/Sanda
Thanks for the idea I am adding
The issues with base line surveys, quickly they get out dated as telecenters quickly develop/change and some times get closed, it's important for us to maintain data more accurately at provincial, leve...
Thanks Maddie,
Lots of effort would have consumed in this volunteer online collaboration of ours, an example of open participation, I am honored to have involved in Network Management Guide.
I am waiting to see telecentre.org communities good work...
Thank Partha
What's been successful we have to carry forward
Vertical
-Networking
-Academy (capacity building)
-Content & Services
-Research
Horizontal
- Knowledge sharing
- Services - enable making revenue from services
- Marketing - pushing t...
Jimmy & Cuchie
when Selecting a day I would like to suggest to look at First Telecenter day, we would hold. Definitely it has to fall in next year, so that We have time to plan activities.
Since Telecenters has to do everything with community,
W...
Dear Runil
This idea is very good to expand current telecenter model who lack customers. I am not clearly sure that it should totally run as a business centers, there always people who can't pay, if currently the village does not have ICT so no IC...
Dear Alain
I agree that the model used by telcentre.org is more inclusive, with telecentre.org 2.0 we can enlarge of this inclusiveness. In an open participatory model the term stronger resource node seems more suitable to me. The center could be ...
Niranjan,
Do you mind providing some details about your innovative approaches? As a virtural educator, I am very interested in what you are doing. Are your students taking online classes? If so, are they taking the classes at the Telecentre? Who ...
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Applied Methodology for Evaluation of Telecenter Networks
Sustainability Index - an Applied Methodology for Evaluation of Heterogeneous Telecenter Networks Niranjan Meegammana Team Leader, Sri Lanka Telecenter Community, 27th NITC ‘09 Conference
ABSTRACT
Sustainability Index (SI) is a new methodology used in M & E to assess sustainability position in 60 Nenasala Telecenter Network in Uva province, Sri Lanka. Sustainability
… Continue Posted on September 29, 2009 at 4:30am — 2 Comments
E3 - 4: A Lesson from e-India 2009 Awards
Project E3 winning e-India award has a significant value to all Nenasala operators as it's the highest level of honor received by a Nenasala operator, who is in the bottom of the pyramid of Telecenter movement. As we have witnessed and experienced, Telecenter based ICT4D projects has to stand on ground, long before winning an award, it has to reach the grass roots to make the impact and initiate the change for Human development. With regards to the project E3, this last bit of activity was done… Continue
Posted on September 14, 2009 at 11:00am —
E3 - 3: Developing Culture as Foundation for Future Telecenters
The interesting discussions on administration of internet content took my mind in multiple directions on explicit content related to different forms of knowledge and their use by people of different life styles. These life styles may have existed and evolved from explicit architectural and artistic masterpieces like Khajuraho, Konarak, Ellora and Puri in India (see http://india.shilpasayura.org) as well as Sigiriya in Sri Lanka, and any… Continue
Posted on August 15, 2009 at 7:30pm —
E3 - 2: The forms and faces of Telecenters Sustainability Networks
If sustainability gives a meaning of continuation of existence, it also gives a demanding target to exist forever. Which of course a question to me as our experiences are only 3-4 years; But there is a common consensus that sustainability is a result of continues evolution like evolution of mankind and science.
For Telecenters to sustain or to continue existance, they should continue to evolve in their communities, regions and nations as networks. As we have experienced, this process of… Continue
For Telecenters to sustain or to continue existance, they should continue to evolve in their communities, regions and nations as networks. As we have experienced, this process of… Continue
Posted on July 30, 2009 at 4:30pm —
E3: How e-learning, e business and e Leadership Join in for Sustaining Telecenters ?
E3
is an idea evolved through Shilpa Sayura Experiences and learned interactions in e-India 2007, followed by GK3 and Stockholm Challenge 2008 which expanded our world of ICT4D. We began to redefine boundaries of our knowledge. Having interacted with Nenasala closely, we found that Telecenters needed something special for long term sustainability. In Sri Lanka many of the Telecenters has taken up ICT literacy development model for sustainability, which is a natural tendency and seems
… ContinuePosted on July 27, 2009 at 2:30pm —
Comment Wall (9 comments)
- At 5:05am on November 21, 2009, Santhusha Jayathilaka gave Niranjan Meegammana a gift…
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- At 1:46am on November 20, 2009,
gunadasa rathnayaka said… - areyoubowan my dear Niranjan meegammana it was a pleasure meet sri lankan citizen like you. first of all let me introduce my idea the nenasala project was introduced to sri lanka people.more and more by the icta and silpasauora"navagoviya' at the very handful of the well to do people of the city.the laps of the time .it has been reaching too for and very remote villages rapidly for an examply.those who study in the government school of the metropolis as well the poor students of the down trodden and grass root parents.can touch the knowledge ict.with out any race caste creed and ideological differences.to day whole world has paid more concentration to increase the advanced knowledge of ict through the globe . how it is successful hundred percent such things are being taken place.
- At 10:42pm on November 10, 2009,
Community Facilitator said… - Congratulations Neranjan!!!!! you are a winner of telecentre.org Photo Contest 2009
- At 5:13am on November 09, 2009, Shipra Sharma gave Niranjan Meegammana a gift…
- From the Gift Store
- At 2:40am on August 20, 2009,
MICHAEL( ROHIT SANYAL) said… - Glad to connect with You !
is there any Possible way we connect with Business
michael.jellybean@gmail.com
- At 4:17am on July 22, 2009,
Shipra Sharma said…
- Great photographs Niranjan. I couldn't stop myself from commenting on each and every photo; so ultimately thought to give a general comment. They are so beautiful and relevant for the telecentre community. Where were you hiding them? It makes me think of doing a kind of short internship with Shilpa Sayura!!
- At 9:56pm on July 21, 2009,
Cuchie Echeverria said… - Hi Niranjan!
Thanks so much for sharing with us some photos. It would be great if you can organize all related photos in one album and also add an appropriate description for each picture so that the community will be able to appreciate it better.
Best regards.
- At 10:29pm on February 18, 2009,
Wangchuk Chungyalpa said… - Hi Niranjan,
I look forward to a great membership tenure with SriLanka telecentre group. Thank you.
Cheers!
- At 11:34pm on January 14, 2009,
Wangchuk Chungyalpa said…
- Hi Niranjan,
Nice profile page! I have posted replies to your discussion - including a paper that I wrote. I would like to hear from you. Keep up the great work !
Cheers!
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Hi Sullah.
I totally agree with you about the exigency of first knowing where one is coming from and identifying the gaps that need to be filled before plunging ahead to the next phase.
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Sulah,
There is a tension in closeness, as we engaging grass roots long term basis, they want to know as they become aware of what they are in, keeping openness from the beginning help build better trust, It's a question degree of openness we need...
Cleopa/Sanda
Thanks for the idea I am adding
The issues with base line surveys, quickly they get out dated as telecenters quickly develop/change and some times get closed, it's important for us to maintain data more accurately at provincial, leve...
Thanks Maddie,
Lots of effort would have consumed in this volunteer online collaboration of ours, an example of open participation, I am honored to have involved in Network Management Guide.
I am waiting to see telecentre.org communities good work...
Thank Partha
What's been successful we have to carry forward
Vertical
-Networking
-Academy (capacity building)
-Content & Services
-Research
Horizontal
- Knowledge sharing
- Services - enable making revenue from services
- Marketing - pushing t...
Further to Shipra's question about network capacity building there is a new publication: the Network Management Guide.
I think with this publication, telecentre networks have immortalized what they have learned from experience about network build...
Thanks Sulah. I'm a bit late to join this. But your point is right. Few areas mentioned by Mahmud and Niranjan are already into the basket of telecentre.org 1.0 (BTW, you mentioned upto tc.org 3.0). For example, capacity building, academy, fellows...
Jimmy & Cuchie
when Selecting a day I would like to suggest to look at First Telecenter day, we would hold. Definitely it has to fall in next year, so that We have time to plan activities.
Since Telecenters has to do everything with community,
W...
Well, if I see our practice, we don't need own library or database by topics (agricultural, health care, education...), but yes, we need link collections and articles and comments by topics. Each telecentre can create, generate and tailor an own o...
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.
I guess that to facilitate the engagement of the community would be needed a personal vinculation/attention somehow. Maybe if some referent people would be identified, introduced to the community (maybe by countries/regions/language) people will k...
I think the bicycle ladies of Bangladesh model would be best for starters and most viable.
If you are talking about serving people of abject poverty, I feel this model is the most suitable.
All you need is a netbook and a cheap solar power plus ...
Dear Runil
This idea is very good to expand current telecenter model who lack customers. I am not clearly sure that it should totally run as a business centers, there always people who can't pay, if currently the village does not have ICT so no IC...
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