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This group is to bring together different Grameen Gyan Abhiyan partners and deliberate on the various issues facing the Indian Telecentre Movement
This group shares, discusses, advices, encourages, and educates each other, learn from professionals/activitists and challenge each other regarding health in general.
Hi All,
This is a fruitful video regarding the ICT and its impact on growth. Good to refer this I guess.
Indika
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...
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...
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 ICT industry has changed the way we live, work, and play. With the advent of wireless technologies, the emerging markets have witnessed a tremendous amou...
Thanks, Gavash.
Many thankx to Gavash for sharing this video with telecentre.org :)
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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...
Source: www.icta.lk
Much of the behind-the-scene work with regard to improvement in various services in the public and private sectors brought about through the use of ICT has been carried out by the Information and Communication Technology Agenc...
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"ICTA deserves Nations's Plaudits"
Source: www.icta.lk
Much of the behind-the-scene work with regard to improvement in various services in the public and private sectors brought about through the use of ICT has been carried out by the Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA). The country owes to the ICTA a bouquet of praise for this. This was stated by Minister of Science and T… Continue
Much of the behind-the-scene work with regard to improvement in various services in the public and private sectors brought about through the use of ICT has been carried out by the Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA). The country owes to the ICTA a bouquet of praise for this. This was stated by Minister of Science and T… Continue
Posted on November 11, 2009 at 6:40am —
Sri Lanka's e-Society Program shines at World Bank's Innovation Fair
Sri Lanka’s e-society program that connects the unconnected rural and disadvantaged communities to the world of information and communication through new technologies drew plaudits at the recent Innovation Fair held at the World Bank in Washington, D.C., U.S.A. The Innovation Fair was organized to draw attention of the top management of the World Bank to creative and fresh approaches in global development programs. The e-Society program was one of the six most distinctive projects from the South… Continue
Posted on November 2, 2009 at 10:07pm —
Registrations now open for e-Asia 2009
eASiA2009, Asia's premier ICT event: conference and exhibition which is to be held in Sri Lanka at BMICH, Colombo from 02nd to 4th Dec 2009 is now ready to accept your registrations.
If you are interested in join with us, Please access following URL to register yourself.
http://www.e-asia.org/2009/registration.asp
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http://www.e-asia.org/2009/registration.asp
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Posted on October 28, 2009 at 12:30am —
ICTA assists Microsoft Sri Lanka’s 'Gamata IT' launched in Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka
IT revolution in Nivithigala, Sri Lanka
Launched in the national Year of English and Information Technology, Microsoft Sri Lanka in collaboration with Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) of Sri Lanka has launched groundbreaking “Gamata IT” initiative, a series of activities aimed at taking Information Technology to the most remote rural communities of Sri Lanka, is another step in the Company’s long term journey to making IT accessible to all Sri Lankans. Consid… Continue
Launched in the national Year of English and Information Technology, Microsoft Sri Lanka in collaboration with Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) of Sri Lanka has launched groundbreaking “Gamata IT” initiative, a series of activities aimed at taking Information Technology to the most remote rural communities of Sri Lanka, is another step in the Company’s long term journey to making IT accessible to all Sri Lankans. Consid… Continue
Posted on October 27, 2009 at 12:30am —
"e-Asia 2009 countdown narrows; Response far exceeds expectations"
e-Asia 2009 is looked forward to with tremendous interest both locally and internationally. So said Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) Chief Operating Officer Reshan Dewapura during his address to the ICTA Private Sector Forum meeting held at Cinnamon Grand Hotel, Colombo recently.
ICTA COO expressed joyful wonderment at the surge of interest in the premier Asian ICT event. “Interest in eAsia 2009, which is exactly at a 50-day countdown today, has been gathering… Continue
ICTA COO expressed joyful wonderment at the surge of interest in the premier Asian ICT event. “Interest in eAsia 2009, which is exactly at a 50-day countdown today, has been gathering… Continue
Posted on October 26, 2009 at 7:00am —
Comment Wall (65 comments)
- At 11:30am on November 15, 2009, James Njoroge Gitau gave Seuwandi Yapa a gift…
Microphone adds value to what you are doing by mobilizing all Tele-Centres worldwide keep up the good spiritFrom the Gift Store
- At 5:31am on November 15, 2009,
ANANTHA KESAVA said…
- good photo graphs....... these are showing educationally how teach the childrens.
- At 5:27am on November 15, 2009,
- what a great photo graph of helping of handcapped people its great thing of to educationaly learning cumputer. what a great pleasure of me. i join as a one of the member in your community
- At 4:55am on November 09, 2009, Dr. Syed Mohammed Anwer gave Seuwandi Yapa a gift…
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- At 9:27am on October 30, 2009,
Mohamed Naazim said… - hai, how are you ,i am naazim from polonnaruwa nenasala,
please join with us.to share your ideas to develope our nenasala centre.
- At 10:40am on October 22, 2009, CHARITHA RASANA SENANAYAKA gave Seuwandi Yapa a gift…
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- At 9:49am on October 19, 2009,
Sameera Wijerathna said… - yes, thx.
I replied.
- At 4:14am on October 13, 2009,
VENKATARAMAN MACHIRAJU said…
- Thank you Seuwandi Yapa...
Indeed its a nice forum to share our thought on the concept... I keep a close watch & Interest in Microfinance, Microentreprise and sustainable development issues with underlining focus on ICT interventions wherever possible.
Am working with a IT firm in Hyderabad , Andhra Pradesh. and also work Human resource development & management consultancy through our sister firm Elitser Iha Consultancy services. We are seriously looking for colloborations and support from various like minded teams to provide good solutions to the sector.
Keep in touch. You may also reach me on ramanojas@gmail.com.
With best Regards
Raman
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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.
As we move to tc.org 2.0, the devolution should pave the wa...
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The real question here is "WHO are we trying to influence and WHY". Once we have answered this the HOW becomes easier to identify. After twenty years worrking in the telecentre environment it has become obvious to me that clarity of focus (who and...
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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...
Dear Members,
DigitalLEARNING (a Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies initiative), in association with UN Solution Exchange ICT, Global e-Schools and Communities Initiative (GeSCI) and Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), i...
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