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Developing and sustaining a not-for-profit telecentre
or you could empower them by the formation of digital cooperatives in which they would be part owner of the center. you could tie up with one of your software and hardware vendors for them to become…
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Developing and sustaining a not-for-profit telecentre
Hi Robert, this is one of the most challenging task of the CeC Manager on how to make the center sustainable in the midst of the poverty in the community. basically you have to create programs that w…
Replied Oct 13
How do you define the success of the telecenters?
Hi Dean thanks fo r your reply. i do agree with you that the success of the telecenters must be based on the impact that it would provide the community that it serves. i have seen so many presentati…
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How do you define the success of the telecenters?
to grow in terms of services offered by incorporating the various government and private initiatives that is available so that people would see the importance of the center on their daily activities.…
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or you could empower them by the formation of digital cooperatives in which they would be part owner of the center. you could tie up with one of your software and hardware vendors for them to become community based resellers.
Hi Robert, this is one of the most challenging task of the CeC Manager on how to make the center sustainable in the midst of the poverty in the community. basically you have to create programs that would lead to the development of the community thro…
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I see two ways of approaching your main question on how to gauge the success of telecentres:
1) If you are concerned about the success of a particular telecentre initiative or program, then to measure of its success is an exercise to collec…
Hi Dean
thanks fo r your reply. i do agree with you that the success of the telecenters must be based on the impact that it would provide the community that it serves. i have seen so many presentations when i attend conferences and what i have noti…
Hi Gener,
I guess many have sent valid points to the discussion. I also share Sandra's contribtuion.
These are valid questions that help determine to monitor and evaluate the success of telecenters.
Success of the telecenters however should be mess…
In my view, the centre is only successful if it meets the needs of the user. Therefore, success should be determined by the user and to some extent the Government especially for Government led initiatives.
to grow in terms of services offered by incorporating the various government and private initiatives that is available so that people would see the importance of the center on their daily activities.
i guess one example of which is if a telecenter…
how about a telecenter that is sustained by the community?
in any form of endeavor acceptance of the product must come first before sustainability could be achieved and success follows afterward. so basically the center's management must strive for the community to see the importance of the telecenter then…
I really support your view, and would also like to share my view that the community perpective towards the internet and information/technology is important for community or not.
Greetings everyone,
My take on this issue is that its not a single view of only one impact as listed above.
But actually it will be a mixed bag of impacts, a combination of all the 5 impacts listed above and also there maybe others visible and subt…
Telecenter success can be measured, on how it achieves bridging the digital divide. - Since the main aim is to reduce the digital divide and the knowledge gap, when the information poor societies are empowered with ICT literacy, and the telecenter p…
Yes, in a way, community acceptance and empowerment follow each other. For example, community acceptance may lead to greater use of its services and then to empowerment; or empowerment may lead to acceptance of the telecentre by the community. Both…
a lot of work but this could be done through the leadership of the management of the telecenter
basically i am looking at a model in which the initial funding would be coming from the government side just to prove to the community that the center is productive to them since it has brought changes in the socio economic structure to the people.…
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thank you for Open source software but i want this softwere in my telecentre please help me.
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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
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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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