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Nabil Eid ICT4D PWD is a Social Network Community of Disabled People

ICT4D PWD is a Social Network Community of people and organizations working together to improve the social and economic impact of Persons With Disabilities, Opportunities for connecting (PWDs) through ICTs. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have the potential for making significant improvements i… Continue

Added by Nabil Eid on November 4, 2009 at 2:00am — 1 Comment

Seuwandi Yapa Nenasala Community Development Task Force Expanded in District Level

Information communication technology Agency (ICTA) of Sri Lanka initiated “Nenasala community Development Task Force” as a sustainability tool for the Nenasala network in Sri Lanka. Main intention behind this concept is to promote and assist the Nenasala network in all possible ways that they can self sustain and disseminating the optimal benefits of ICT to every village and to every citizen. During the second phase of the project, ICTA established task forces in district level and the first tas… Continue

Added by Seuwandi Yapa on September 30, 2009 at 2:00am — No Comments

Eiko Kawamura Building the Broadband Economy from the Bottom Up: A Community Informatics Approach to BB and Economic Development

The Journal of Community Informatics - Vol. 5 No. 1 Michael Gurstein Editor-in-chief, The Journal of Community Informatics High speed Internet at relatively affordable prices is rapidly becoming available in large parts of both the developed and developing worlds. This means that the technical restrictions on high volume information access and transaction management, very high speed communications at a distance, and a highly expanded range of Internet and information management capabilit… Continue

Added by Eiko Kawamura on August 4, 2009 at 12:24pm — 4 Comments

Seuwandi Yapa Inauguration of Nenasala Community Development Task Force-Kurunegala District

Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) successfully launched the Nenasala Community Development Task Force for the Kurunegala district on 10th July 2009. This is the 3rd Nenasala community Development Task Force established under district level and the first and the second district level Task Force was established in Gampaha and Kandy districts. Inauguration of Nenasala Community Development Task Force was organized by the Nenasala ambassadors and they were assisted… Continue

Added by Seuwandi Yapa on July 13, 2009 at 2:30am — 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

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 — 4 Comments

AHM Bazlur Rahman Voices of the Rural People - Putting Community Radio First in Digital Bangladesh :Training workshop on Community Radio: Operation, Management and Sustainable Planning

Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) organized training workshop on Community Radio: Operation, Management and Sustainable Planning supported by Free Voice. The workshop was organized from 14-16 June, 2009 in Dhaka. The objective of the workshop is to clarify the Community Radio concept and its strategies of operation, different aspects of CR management and sustainable planning. Thirty high officials from twenty eight applied organizations attended the workshop. Mr. Sohe… Continue

Added by AHM Bazlur Rahman on June 30, 2009 at 9:18am — 1 Comment

AHM Bazlur Rahman Baseline Survey on Community Radio in Bangladesh

Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) is advocating promotion of community radio with the government in relations with other organizations since its inception. The objective of BNNRC’s Community Radio intervention is to address critical social issues at community level, such as poverty and social exclusion, empowerment of marginalized rural groups and catalyze democratic process in decision making and ongoing development efforts. Community Radio is going to play a pivotal… Continue

Added by AHM Bazlur Rahman on May 28, 2009 at 4:16pm — No Comments

telecentre.org telecentre.org English-language site crosses 1000 member mark while participation increases daily across all language sites

The English-language community of telecentre.org has crossed the 1000 member mark in fewer than 6 months and it keeps on growing. The rapid rise in membership reflects both the community's commitment to the telecentre movement and the value of what telecentre.org provides: a place to share information on all things telecentre and to seek help through the various online features including blogs, forums, groups, online events, and photo and video sharing. The younger Spanish-language site also hit… Continue

Added by telecentre.org on May 28, 2009 at 2:04pm — No Comments

Agbenyo John Stephen E- Waste and Telecentres

Reading through a story written Emmanuel K. Dogbevi on http://ewasteguide.info/e-waste-campaign-gra has kept me thinking about the future of telecentres and e-waste. Look at the pictures on the link where Emmanuel wrote his story. What are we going to do about those? There are several computer schools and Internet cafes springing up in Ghana and especially in Tamale where i live and work. This is good news to me because gradually the myth surrounding computers is being broken as people will not… Continue

Added by Agbenyo John Stephen on January 16, 2009 at 10:30am — 1 Comment

AHM Bazlur Rahman Community Radio Handbook for Good Governance and Development in Bangladesh

Community Radio is going to make an important place in development field in Bangladesh. Under this circumstance, Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) has taken initiative of publishing a Community Radio Handbook for Good Governance and Development to meet the basic needs and demands of the community radio initiators, regulators, managers, community leaders and community broadcasters in respect to setting up and operating the community radio stations successfully in Banglad… Continue

Added by AHM Bazlur Rahman on December 1, 2008 at 9:30am — No Comments

telecentre.org Spanish website is now live!

The new telecentre.org website is now available in Spanish. It will soon be followed by sites in French and Arabic. telecentre.org's online communities highlight the people and organizations that make up the global telecentre movement, facilitate peer-to-peer support, and demonstrate the breadth and depth of public-access computing initiatives around the world. Communit… Continue

Added by telecentre.org on November 25, 2008 at 6:00am — No Comments

Medellin Digital The E-Culture Portal of Medellin Digital

The E-Culture Portal (Entrepreneurship Culture) of the Program Medellin Digital opens the door to new opportunities for the entrepreneurs, offering them a network with information, training, forums, blogs and chats, etc. The portal has now 7 new online communities in topics such as Bus… Continue

Added by Medellin Digital on November 5, 2008 at 12:29pm — No Comments

Zulfikar Mochamad Rachman Pusat Internet Desa (Rural Internet Centre/Telecentre) in Malaysia

The Pusat Internet Desa (PID) or Rural Internet Centre project is a telecentre project initiated in April 2000 by the Ministry of Energy, Water, and Communication (MEWC) of Malaysia. 42 centres were established nationwide and each centre is managed by two people, a manager and an assistant manager. It is one of the Malaysian Government’s initiatives to bridge the Digital Divide between the rural and urban communities through community-shared facilities with computers and internet access. Typica… Continue

Added by Zulfikar Mochamad Rachman on October 7, 2008 at 5:20am — 1 Comment

Nabil Eid Reefnet Project in Syria lunched Mobile Computer Lab,E-BAG

Salamieh telecentre through Reefnet project aim to promote and connect rural people in Syrian community. Tal-Aldarah is small village in west Salamieh – Syria, located about 13 Km from Salamieh, the village nearly has a population of over 6 thousand inhabitants. The Mobile Computer Lab is… Continue

Added by Nabil Eid on July 3, 2008 at 12:00am — No Comments

telecentre.org Philippines launches national academy to train telecentre managers

The telecentre.org Academy — a global initiative that provides telecentre managers with ongoing training, capacity building, and professional development opportunities — aims to train one million telecentre managers by 2010. The initiative is structured as a network of national academies, coordinated and supported by a small global support unit. One by one, national academies are taking root. On April 3, 2008, the P… Continue

Added by telecentre.org on May 15, 2008 at 6:30pm — No Comments

telecentre.org telecentre.org events: Non-Stop Convening

March and April were busy months for telecentre.org and our partners; busy and productive in terms of networking,convening, and research. We supported several events in Peru, Thailand, Latvia, United States, and Philippines engaging more than 300 ICT4D and telecentre activists from different parts of the world. PERU. In March 2008, the Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales (CEPES), in partnership with telecentre.org, launched a two-year helpdesk project to support and connect Spanish-speaking tel… Continue

Added by telecentre.org on May 15, 2008 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Mariana Rethen One step forward

A community is formed by people, common interests and as many different points of views as individuals. telecentre.org is no exception. As a member of this community I feel committed to participate, to share my perspective, to help in some way that benefits all the community. Although since July 2007 telecentre.org embraces me as part of the team I still feel humble and timid to write or express firm opinions about telecentres as a whole. The reason behind is quite simple I still have much to le… Continue

Added by Mariana Rethen on May 1, 2008 at 1:00pm — 1 Comment

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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...
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Md. Rayhanul Islam Ratan replied to Wandila Simon's discussion 'Free and Open Source Software ; challenges and opportunities in telecentres'
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Wandila Simon replied to Wandila Simon's discussion 'Free and Open Source Software ; challenges and opportunities in telecentres'
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…
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Wandila Simon replied to Wandila Simon's discussion 'Free and Open Source Software ; challenges and opportunities in telecentres'
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…
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Vidyaratha Kissoon replied to Wandila Simon's discussion 'Free and Open Source Software ; challenges and opportunities in telecentres'
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…
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George Mwika Kayange replied to Wandila Simon's discussion 'Free and Open Source Software ; challenges and opportunities in telecentres'
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…
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Wandila Simon replied to Wandila Simon's discussion 'Free and Open Source Software ; challenges and opportunities in telecentres'
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
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Wandila Simon replied to Wandila Simon's discussion 'Free and Open Source Software ; challenges and opportunities in telecentres'
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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