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You are right! This social networking site is so famous because of its great services and the applications are really awesome! Another thing would be the self-discipline. The people that are doing this are trying to get your Facebook login info, a...
I have always had this question. No matter how much doubts we have we keep on using it. Because people are so addicted to it and for some it has become a way of life.
But you can always keep good manners while in Facebook, and protect your iden...
Blogs have been a major form of knowledge sharing on Telecentre.org and the English team has decided to hold the first ever blog contest.
This group will be a source of information for all community members regarding the contest.
I was thinking late one night, when uploading a video to Facebook, and seeing my 300+ friends on the list.
What if all my firends, and friends of my friends, and friends of their friends.....upload videos? Well, that is exactly what is happening, ...
Dear All,
it is so nice to join this interesting conversation, at this point, as I feel I should introduce the Village Information Centres (VIC) in Sri Lanka.
http://www.fusion.lk/?cat=16
Nadun is no stranger to VIC, he initiated a very active VIC...
An information &assistance resource location where Members can ask or provide responses to questions related to Telecentres in Management, Training, Technical issues, Social Enterprise Tools, Content&Services, Fundraising and Evaluation
Acctually i also participated we CAN workshop. as you mentioned earliyer that telecentre operators were finding solutions to their problems at that time you orgernised We CAN workshop to make a sustainable telecentre..participants shered their kno...
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- At 5:03am on November 6, 2008,
Mahfuz Hossain Mirdah said… - Dear Isura Silva
As I am new with telecentre and with you. Do you pls give me some clear information or activities of telecentre/call centre working in Sri Lanka for agriculture development. Do you have any farmer call centre which can help the farmers to have direct linkage with extension people?
Best regards
Mahfuz
Dhaka
- At 8:01am on October 24, 2008,
Vignesh Sornamohan said… - Hi Isura,
Nice to see you here!
Please take a few moments to read through our Getting Started guide for some important information. You can find the community guide here: http://telecentrecommunity.ning.com/notes/Getting_started
Feel free to contact me for guidance and all the best for your event.
Cheers
Vignesh
- At 3:05am on October 22, 2008,
Pawel Makowiecki said… - Finally ;-) Welcome machiang!!!
- At 2:37am on October 22, 2008,
DR. SYED MD. ZAINUL ABEDIN said… - I congratulate Isura Silva for joining the telecentrecommunity.His participation will enhance the dignity of this forum.
I am personally grateful to him for adding me as a friend.
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- The Telecentre Family (TCF) Network strengthens telecentre operators in Sri Lanka by providing support and services, including capacity building, agricultural information services, and ICT course curricula. Its mission is to create social entrepreneurs who are socially, economically, technologically, ecologically empowered to promote sustainable development. The Family Network brings together the government’s Nenasalas (administered by the ICTA, Sri Lanka’s Information Communication Technology Agency) and Sarvodaya’s community-based telecentres. The network is supported by telecentre.org, a collaborative initiative funded by Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Microsoft, and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
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I have always had this question. No matter how much doubts we have we keep on using it. Because people are so addicted to it and for some it has become a way of life.
But you can always keep good manners while in Facebook, and protect your identity.
Click the following links to read more and be protected and respect others.
Protect your identity in Faceb… Continue
Posted on May 5, 2009 at 10:17pm — 1 Comment
Are we eating unnecessary Bandwidth ?
I was thinking late one night, when uploading a video to Facebook, and seeing my 300+ friends on the list.
What if all my firends, and friends of my friends, and friends of their friends.....upload videos? Well, that is exactly what is happening, though we give very limited attention to Facebook, Youtube etc.
And to think that many of my peers are downloading movies everyday ! makes us to think are we been rude to this wonderful commodity > bandwidth. Everybody has to share what is available.… Continue
What if all my firends, and friends of my friends, and friends of their friends.....upload videos? Well, that is exactly what is happening, though we give very limited attention to Facebook, Youtube etc.
And to think that many of my peers are downloading movies everyday ! makes us to think are we been rude to this wonderful commodity > bandwidth. Everybody has to share what is available.… Continue
Posted on May 1, 2009 at 12:24am —
From eASIA 2008: e-Health - The need for innovation
In the plenary address at the first day Inaugural Session, Karl Brown, Associate Director - Applied Technology, Rockefeller Foundation, USA, speaked on "why eHealth is important in the twenty first century".
The emphasis should be on the whole system, not on how to tackle a particular disease.
He compared the current global health system to a water system in a city. The city is investing on a state of the art water purification system so that its citizens… Continue
The emphasis should be on the whole system, not on how to tackle a particular disease.
He compared the current global health system to a water system in a city. The city is investing on a state of the art water purification system so that its citizens… Continue
Posted on November 11, 2008 at 11:51am —
From eASIA 2008: ICT for Eductaion, Are we doing the right thing?
In the plenary address at the first day Inaugural Session, Jyrki Pulkkinen, CEO, Global eSchools and Communities Initiative (GeSCI) (www.gesci.org) made a very interesting point.
" It is right to put computers and internet at school level, but ICT alone cannot transform the community. We have to put the right conception first "
He went on highlighting the difference between the geographical map and the knowldge map of the world. In the knowledge map, the worl… Continue
" It is right to put computers and internet at school level, but ICT alone cannot transform the community. We have to put the right conception first "
He went on highlighting the difference between the geographical map and the knowldge map of the world. In the knowledge map, the worl… Continue
Posted on November 11, 2008 at 11:00am —
What weCAN meant for all of us at telecentre family in Sri Lanka
It was very enthrolling to see 190 + participants at weCAN, were mingling with each other to find solutions to their day to day problems. At the start everybody thought the solutions are lying with in the panel of 14 resource persons. But as the first day came to a closer telecentre family staff and resource persons were able to dig and show telecentre operators, " if you want to be social entrepreneurs, be the first to understand your self ". Because in a workshop, we are trying to find solutio… Continue
Posted on October 30, 2008 at 12:30am — 1 Comment
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manily poor people depends upon the agriculture.not only people. Nature will be change climate whenever environment increase then automatically all are safe.
Agriculture is the source of food,feed,fibre and fuel for the mankind and domestic animals.Telecentres are becoming helpful for the human efforts to secure the necessary produces for the survival
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