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How do we define Telecenter Sustainability ?
Replied Dec. 8, 2008
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Middle East and North Africa
A group for people working together in MENA region and who want to work on the ICTs and sustainable development, includes telecentres leader, staff, volunteers, and people.
I believe the more Bangladeshis become aware about their rights regarding social and political issues, the more they can start claiming it. ICT can be an enabler in creating awareness regarding social rights, human rights and consumer rights for exa…
A location managed by Ugabytes and supported by telecentre.org, where members can ask questions or provide responses to telecentre management, content & service development, training, technical, fundraising or evaluation issues.
Hello Sandra,
I agree to a great extent to Atmaram's point of view. Telecenters are supposed to run with a profit motive but with a social entrepreneurial drive and business model. Whereas, a cyber cafe need not keep the social development motive in…
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- I am a development consultant, focusing on ICT4D (Information & Communication Technology for Development) and M4D (Mobile for Development) to provide access to information and markets for rural farmers and entrepreneurs of Bangladesh. Working with private sector partners such as Grameen Phone, Cellbazaar, Banglalink, Bangladesh Academy of Rural Development etc. to formulate strategies of private sector led, ICT enabled strategies to improve the livelihood of SMEs in Bangladesh.
I am penta-lingual (English, French, Hindi, Bangla, spoken Mandarin), part time French langauge teacher at Alliance Française de Dacca, IFC-SEDF (World Bank Group).
I am also a business blogger, founder of Bangladesh Corporate Blog (www.bangladeshcorporate.com), first and fastest growing business blog of Bangladesh.
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ICT4D, M4D, private sector development, service market development, market development approach, BDS approach, working with telecom partners for development initiatives, benefits of being a multi-lingual development professional, business blogging etc.
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- English, French, Bangla, Hindi, Mandarin
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- At 4:08am on November 25, 2008,
Rasha El Baz said… - welcome to telecentre.ogr
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i need your help to open center
i have loocal and i need certificate or any agrement
i m a cyber net know .
Congratulations D.Net and CLP team :) Wish it would build lasting success for the digital community next.
Thanks.
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Merry Christmas & A Very Prosperous & Happy New Year!
Let's enjoy our family time and make 2010 the most prosperous year ever for those of you who work from home. My holiday gift to you and your downlines is a wonderful program (only $9.95) that wi…
thank you for Open source software but i want this softwere in my telecentre please help me.
Thank you for your blog...
Dear Vidyaratha,
I agree with that there is limited software to enable billing .
Have you checked all the links that I have provided up here? There must one that has a link to billing software. You can also check the following links :
http://www.a…
Thanks George for the sharing.
You have nicely highlighted on cost-effectiveness of using free and open source software and the need to spend on technical skills to make good use of the software. I agree with you that there should not be completly…
Dear Wandila
thanks for sharing these resources and to open the discussion. I think the problem has been that there is limited software to enable 'billing' , and to manage the time of the user sessions. Apart from those issues, there are FOSS option…
Hello Bhakta
I would like to have more details about this volunteering opportunity. My email address raul.franco@gmail.com
I am currently traveling in Asia and would be interested to help and build a better telecentre network across Nepal. I might…
thas remarkable points implemet
thank you
upul from sri lanka
I am very pleased to see your blog because i need your book for my Research.
The coverpage of Regulatory Reform Bangladesh Perspective book very nice.
Thanks Wandila, Seuwandi and others for this important debate.
I just want to inform you that this morning i was contributing to another discussion list on Raising Voices, on a different topic entiled "Funders and Citizen Media" and i brought up so…
Hello everybody !
Thanks to all of you who are taking part is this discussion. This is really an interesting topic and it has just come at the right time. Lets continue sharing.
Wandila
Dear Ranabir,
Your sharing is an indication of the practical opportunities that free and open source software has , Iam realy impressed with this practical sharing . I hope all telecentre operators having a glance at this have their eye caught .
I…
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