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Sandra Nassali MTN introduces GoogleSMS

In it’s bid to increase information accessibility to its customers, MTN {largest mobile operator in Africa and the Middle East} has introduced a smarter way of accessing information on their mobile phones. With GoogleSMS, all a client has to do is to send an SMS on any idea and get an instant answer. For instance, if one wants to buy or sell something, get news updates {both local and international}, advice on sexual and reproductive health, agriculture and farming tips and many others, all the… Continue

Added by Sandra Nassali on July 9, 2009 at 7:30am — No Comments

Fatema Begum Labony Infomediaries (Telecentre worker) should be a good communicator for the success of a Telecentre!!

Infomediaries (Telecentre worker) should be a good communicator as they are the vital part of a telecentre. Their communication skill can make a telecentre initiatives successful. Infomediary should have clear idea about an issue before providing information to the community people. They… Continue

Added by Fatema Begum Labony on July 9, 2009 at 7:00am — No Comments

Owino Fredrick The majority of public sector employees do not know about environmentally friendly ICT policies Huh!!

The UK (And I think all governments should find out) government set out its target within the Greening ICT Strategy, which calls for government IT to be carbon neutral by 2012, with office carbon emissions down 11.5% by 2011. The report, The Path to Green Government, was produced by Global Action Plan and commissioned by Cisco. It found that 60% of respondents to the questionnaire were not aware of the government’s strategy, with 41% of national government respondents not even being aware of th… Continue

Added by Owino Fredrick on July 9, 2009 at 3:30am — No Comments

Sandra Nassali SEACOM sercive date postponed to 23rd July 2009

The increase in pirate activity during April and May 2009, both in terms of intensity and geographical coverage, necessitated a change in SEACOM’s cable installation plans which resulted in a delay in the ready for service date from 27 June 2009 to 23 July 2009. The planned route required the ship to transit an area of increased pirate activity where other ships had been attacked or seized. The cable deployment in the troublesome waters has since been completed and splicing to connect the secti… Continue

Added by Sandra Nassali on July 8, 2009 at 7:00am — 2 Comments

Sabyasachi Kashyap eINDIA Awards 2009: Saluting the people who went against the convention

eINDIA Awards (http://www.eindia.net.in/awards/2009/) aim to honour the distinguished professionals and institutions working in the domains of e-Agriculture, e-Governance, Digital Learning, eHealth, Telecentre, and Municipal Information Technology (IT). The eINDIA Awards aim to recognise exemplary and innovative projects which demonstrate the use and application of information and communication technology (ICT) that have transfo… Continue

Added by Sabyasachi Kashyap on July 8, 2009 at 12:30am — No Comments

Marta Mans A meeting in Singapur: Global Curriculum Development Workshop (June 2009).

From 2 to 5th of June, the Global Curriculum Development Workshop was held in Singapore, and was attended by representatives of different world organizations participating in the Global telecentre.org Academy (GTA). GTA is a project lead by Telecentre.org and created to provide support and training to people working in ICT centers around the world.

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Added by Marta Mans on July 7, 2009 at 6:54am — No Comments

Edwin Galiwango YAF Workshop: Bridging the information gap in Kalangala using ICT’s

On March the 17th, 2009, a group of young professionals, area politicians and local leaders converged at the Islands Club on Bugala of the Ssese Islands to discuss the use Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to bridge the information gap on the island district of Kalangala. Ms. Natalie Kimbugwe of BDE Consult conceived the idea of involving, training and sensitising local leaders to the value of ICT after discovering that the only Internet provider and Information Centre on the isla… Continue

Added by Edwin Galiwango on July 7, 2009 at 3:48am — No Comments

Munira Morshed Munni The Manthan Award for Best e-Content in Development in South Asia

Invites all digital content initiatives from Afghanistan,Bangladesh,Bhutan,India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan & Srilanka. Last date for filling in nominations July 31, 2009. Please see the site and forward it to your friends. http://www.manthanaward.org/other_full_story.asp?id=25 Continue

Added by Munira Morshed Munni on July 7, 2009 at 3:14am — No Comments

Zulfikar Mochamad Rachman 7 Strategies for Building Successful Telecentres

Hi Everyone, Many of you have discovered or learned about the Magic Number 7. I'm sure you've heard of "7 Habits of Highly Effective People." Hei, there are 7 days in a week Oh ya, there are "7 Deadly Sins" ... Woooo...! The soft drink "7Up" became popular after changing its name from "Bib-label Lithiate Lemon-Lime Soda.' Ummm ... Ya. No wonder... Haiiiii .... yattt...!! "The 7 Samurai" of Akira Kurosawa ... and then adapted as "The Magnificent 7" of John Sturges with the Bang...bang… Continue

Added by Zulfikar Mochamad Rachman on July 7, 2009 at 12:30am — 4 Comments

Dean Mulozi Botswana ICT stakeholders charts the way to a National Telecenter Network

Modern ICTs are increasingly becoming important instruments that facilitate access to social and economic information for development around the world. Multi-purpose telecenters or simply community telecenters are service delivery centers for livelihood development. However, in some African countries, telecenters and development projects alike operate in isolation and at times do not benefit from various opportunities and resources that exist around themselves.

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Added by Dean Mulozi on July 6, 2009 at 10:12pm — 1 Comment

Asad-Uz-Zaman Asad The Wind of Change-Blowing at Subarnachar

“I was bound to stop my education in 2008 due to financial crisis of my family. I was a student of class seven and my family consists of seven members. I was in frustration and very anxious about my future life. Oneday I heard that Digonter Dak Pallitathya Kendra (Rural Information Centre) was offering ` sewing Training Course’ for the rural women with a little amount of money. I took the chance without making any late. Finally I completed the training and working with sewing machine in my ho… Continue

Added by Asad-Uz-Zaman Asad on July 5, 2009 at 1:55pm — 2 Comments

Rasha El Baz telecentre Arabic site blog contest result

telecentre Arabic site blog contest resulttelecentre.org Arabic site has the pleasure to announce the Arabic blog contest ,which took place between 5-30 to the 30/6/2009 we have 17 entyy/blog. with reference to committee of jury headed by Mr. Ashraf Kadah to assess the appropriate selection of participants and the most relevant topics of the contest and the competition was to choose its own commitment to… Continue

Added by Rasha El Baz on July 5, 2009 at 10:23am — No Comments

Md. Saiful Islam What do we and our Farmers need?

What do we and our farmers need? Obviously food. What else for food and food security? Perhaps a long list……………………. Needs brain storming? Let us think simply on it!

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Added by Md. Saiful Islam on July 5, 2009 at 5:00am — No Comments

Gamage Suresh Priyadharshana Agro Technology Workshop For Nenasala Operators Of Central Province

Date : 8th July 2009 Time : 8.30 Am - 5.00 Pm Venue : Agro Technology Park - Gannoruwa-( Audio Visual Centre) Conduct By: Dr. Rohan Wijekoon Assisant Director of Agriculture Morning Session: Visiting Agriculture Technology Park This will give a brief understanding of Sri Lankan agriculture Learning Method: Demonstrations Evening Session: Lectures on Use of IMM CDs for agriculture technology transfer Cyber Agriculture Wikipedia Cyber Agriculture Extension mechanism Suresh Gamage Hureekaduwa… Continue

Added by Gamage Suresh Priyadharshana on July 4, 2009 at 10:02am — No Comments

Subir Das Make sure they got the same opportunity as we do.

Accessibility to education for every one is must for a society’s proper development. We just can’t leave (our brother and sisters) those who are psychically challenged. They can make difference! We have to make sure they got the same opportunity as we do. Continue

Added by Subir Das on July 4, 2009 at 7:24am — No Comments

AHM Bazlur Rahman The Role of Community Radio in Establishing Good Governance Through Right to Information in Bangladesh

As there is no appropriate power and opportunity to complain for marginalized population in the centered democratic society, one kind of opportunists, politicians and local administration take the chance to deprive them of their legal rights. These marginalized rural and poor people may get an opportunity to discuss regarding these actual rights through the programs of Community Radio. Side by side, these sort of radio plays a role of mirror in the society and accelerates pro people endeavor of… Continue

Added by AHM Bazlur Rahman on July 3, 2009 at 12:23pm — No Comments

Francis Mwathi WEEKLY NEWS ROUND UP-AFRICA

Get medical attention, sell products using SMS 1st July, 2009 MTN phone operator Uganda, Google and the Grameen Foundation have launched a mobile phone application that provides instant information to mobile phone users in remote communities. The application enables a mobile phone user to send a text message to 6001 for information on any health including HIV/AIDS tests. “For example, you can type HIV TEST and send to 6001 for information on HIV/AIDS related issues. “To find the nearest… Continue

Added by Francis Mwathi on July 3, 2009 at 11:29am — No Comments

Edwin Galiwango At e-learning Africa, Gambia outlines vision for African education

At the just concluded e-learning Africa held in Senegalese, Gambia, the The President of Senegal, Abdoulaye Wade, has outlined his vision for radical change in African education even as he criticized European governments for restricting access for African students. In a wide ranging and controversial speech at ‘eLearning Africa,’ the continent’s major conference on online education, the 85-year old President said that technology now allowed African students unlimited access to the best universi… Continue

Added by Edwin Galiwango on July 3, 2009 at 2:53am — 3 Comments

Seuwandi Yapa Manual for Community Radio Managers

"Community Radio stations" seems to be emerging as a sub culture in our telecentre network. Lot of countries have encouraged and promoted 'Community Radio Stations'. In searching the web, I found a manual developed for the community radio managers, published by UNESCO office in New Delhi. I thought sharing this piece of information would be useful to all of you, specially those who are interested in launching a community radio station.

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Added by Seuwandi Yapa on July 3, 2009 at 2:08am — 2 Comments

Jan Herder Emergence in Innovations

This is an excellent example of an emergent use of technology and attitude waiting for the BoP to get on board: From Inventor Shawn Frayne from :http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/010063.html "The opinion I have, and the opinion of the others that I work with, is that there’s a huge untapped brain resource in developing countries. When designers or inventors have a different set of constraints, and they’re clever, there’s going to be great inventions and innovations that come out of those… Continue

Added by Jan Herder on July 2, 2009 at 6:30pm — No Comments

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Hi Sandra thanks for your comment.hope we can work together for the future of tele centres in sri lanka. ANIL
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Infomediaries (Telecentre worker) should be a good communicator as they are the vital part of a telecentre. Their communication skill can make a telecentre initiatives successful. Infomediary should have clear idea about an issue before providin...
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In it’s bid to increase information accessibility to its customers, MTN {largest mobile operator in Africa and the Middle East} has introduced a smarter way of accessing information on their mobile phones. With GoogleSMS, all a client has to do is...
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In it’s bid to increase information accessibility to its customers, MTN {largest mobile operator in Africa and the Middle East} has introduced a smarter way of accessing information on their mobile phones. With GoogleSMS, all a client has to do is...
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Infomediaries (Telecentre worker) should be a good communicator as they are the vital part of a telecentre. Their communication skill can make a telecentre initiatives successful. Infomediary should have clear idea about an issue before providin...
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Francis Mwathi replied to Owino Fredrick's discussion 'A billion trees campaign by the UN'
Thanks Fredrick for bringing this campaign to our attention. I hope to register soon.
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The East African Region is on the brink of access to plentiful, low-cost broadband. News of the undersea cable-laying progress reaches us on a daily basis. The arrival of this dramatically increased capacity will change the way that East Africans ...
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Owino Fredrick commented on Owino Fredrick's group '3G-Going Green Group'
Hi Francis.That is an area that should concern us more,particularly environmental activist.How do we craft Green ICT policies to ensure environment conservation? Thats the challenge that is facing humanity now and we should strive to address it be...
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Francis Mwathi commented on Owino Fredrick's group '3G-Going Green Group'
E-Waste: Dark Side of Digital Age These days, it's often cheaper and more convenient to buy a new PC than to upgrade an old one. But what happens to those old computers once they've been abandoned for newer models? The refuse from discarded ele...
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Zulfikar Mochamad Rachman commented on Zulfikar Mochamad Rachman's blog post '7 Strategies for Building Successful Telecentres'
@Sandra: Thank you for your comment. Yes we shall take it from here & I have to write the next blog... @MeganP: Ummm... thank you. But, sorry I don't really get it. @Robinson: Great. Got you a challenge! Share with us when you got them.
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The UK (And I think all governments should find out) government set out its target within the Greening ICT Strategy, which calls for government IT to be carbon neutral by 2012, with office carbon emissions down 11.5% by 2011. The report, The Path...
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Social Sustainability vs. Financial sustainability, which one is appropriate for telecentre initiatives?
When we discuss about sustainability of telecentres we often discuss about financial sustainability. Drive for financial sustainability sometimes creates obstacle to provide quality information service. What is your opinion regards this issue? Pl...
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A billion trees campaign by the UN
Hello people.As an advocate of green world,I humbly submit my request to you guys to join UNEP (based in Nairobi,by the way) in their lofty exhortation to the inhabitants of the earth to plant a billion trees!!! For more information,you can follow...
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Sandra Nassali commented on Sandra Nassali's blog post 'SEACOM sercive date postponed to 23rd July 2009'
Good go at that Fredrick!! :-)..most of us too are eagerly waiting for the hands on bandwidths given our very poor internet connections at hand. Not only are individuals and companies going to benefit from this, but also Community Based Organizati...
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