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Miguel Raimilla Learning from other Networks -- Telecentre-Europe moving ahead

Hello Members of Telecentre Community I was recently part of the Telecentre Europe summit in Istanbul. A vibrant event where I experienced first hand the evolution of Telecentre networks throughout Europe. They are certainly moving in the right direction in terms of improving organization, collaboration and active exchange among members of the network. In my opinion there are two important elements that are responsible for this positive momentum in Telecentre Europe Network: 1.- They are work… Continue

Added by Miguel Raimilla on October 28, 2009 at 1:21am — 3 Comments

Seuwandi Yapa ICTA assists Microsoft Sri Lanka’s 'Gamata IT' launched in Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka

IT revolution in Nivithigala, Sri Lanka Launched in the national Year of English and Information Technology, Microsoft Sri Lanka in collaboration with Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) of Sri Lanka has launched groundbreaking “Gamata IT” initiative, a series of activities aimed at taking Information Technology to the most remote rural communities of Sri Lanka, is another step in the Company’s long term journey to making IT accessible to all Sri Lankans. Consid… Continue

Added by Seuwandi Yapa on October 27, 2009 at 12:30am — No Comments

Seuwandi Yapa e-Arts from Sri Lanka

Nenasalas (National Telecentre Network) is considered to be a brainchild of President Mahinda Rajapaksa under the 'e-Sri Lanka Development initiative, operated by the Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) under its Information Infrastructure Programme, were largely responsible for Sri Lanka reaching a high level in ICT literacy. Therefore, ICTA of Sri Lanka is dedicated to take dividends of the Information and Communication Technology among its all communities. Thro… Continue

Added by Seuwandi Yapa on October 22, 2009 at 4:00am — 2 Comments

AHMED SUDAN SUDAN Telecentre (ICT),, Gedaref digital city organization (GDCO) will stand up on 16th and 17th against poverty

EMAIL standagainstpoverty@gedaref.com On Friday 16th October In Sudan particularly in Omshagara and many of Gedaref mosques and Khartoum north Gedaref Digital City organization (GDCO SUDAN) will stand up against poverty celebrating the International Food Day organized by FAO where GDCO asked many of the mosq… Continue

Added by AHMED SUDAN on October 8, 2009 at 2:26am — 1 Comment

Seuwandi Yapa “Nenasala Udanaya” - Regional Nenasala Convention & Award Ceremony

Sustainability of the telecentres is a great priority in the today’s telecentre movement as it plays a major role in disseminating the ICT knowledge to the rural community. Information Communication Technology Agency (ICTA), the dedicated government institution in Sri Lanka to promote ICT in rural villages, make tremendous efforts to improve the quality of the Nenasala (National telecentre) movement and to assure the continuous up and running of the centres that have been established around the… Continue

Added by Seuwandi Yapa on October 7, 2009 at 2:00am — No Comments

Niranjan Meegammana Applied Methodology for Evaluation of Telecenter Networks

Sustainability Index - an Applied Methodology for Evaluation of Heterogeneous Telecenter Networks Niranjan Meegammana Team Leader, Sri Lanka Telecenter Community, 27th NITC ‘09 Conference
ABSTRACT
Sustainability Index (SI) is a new methodology used in M & E to assess sustainability position in 60 Nenasala Telecenter Network in Uva province, Sri Lanka. Sustainability
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Added by Niranjan Meegammana on September 29, 2009 at 4:30am — 2 Comments

Fatema Begum Labony Change does not just happen, we collectively make it happen

I wrote my first ever blog at telecentre.org and won the blog contest. This achievement gave me confidence that we are doing tremendous job here. I always feel privileged to be a member of telecentre.org because I am getting opportunities to share and learn from others. I was thinking to invite my fellow colleagues who are working at grass root level to share their experience like me with this global community.

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Added by Fatema Begum Labony on September 23, 2009 at 1:00pm — 3 Comments

Seuwandi Yapa ICTA Hot Off The Press

Dear Friends, I would like to share the ICTA news round up during the month of August. Hot Off The Press - August.pdf Continue

Added by Seuwandi Yapa on September 15, 2009 at 4:08am — No Comments

Seuwandi Yapa ICTA launched National Best e-Content Award in Sri Lanka

An opportunity for today’s top e-content creators of Sri Lanka

Information Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) of Sri Lanka is pleased to announce the launch of the Country’s very first National Best e-Content Award. National Best e-Content Award (NBe-CA) is a Local initiative for selecting and givin… Continue

Added by Seuwandi Yapa on September 2, 2009 at 1:30am — No Comments

Shipra Sharma eIndia 2009: The Common Service Centre Sessions at the Indian Telecentre Forum

Some of the SCA representatives, Mr. Ranabir Das, Mr. Mukesh Hajela and Ms. Sunanda at the Indian Telecentre Forum. The eIndia 2009 conference, an annual event organised by Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies (CSDMS) in partnership with several Government agencies and departments… Continue

Added by Shipra Sharma on September 1, 2009 at 6:30am — No Comments

Seuwandi Yapa ICTA Grants Powered Gnu Cash 2.2.9 in Sinhala & Tamil…

Information Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) , through the e-Society Development Initiative (eSDI) grants, have assisted many organizations to develop and pilot various content, software and services successfully in areas such as education, disabilities, web sites and other eCommerce initiatives. ICTA is further concerned to take these initiatives beyond the communities in which they were originally piloted, hoping it will provide an opportunity to all softwares and contents developed are… Continue

Added by Seuwandi Yapa on August 24, 2009 at 4:30am — 1 Comment

Seuwandi Yapa Empowering the Lives of Migrant Workers through ICT

1.6 million of Sri Lankan migrant workers serve in the Middle East, Asia and Europe. There are more than 300,000 are in Kuwait, over 75,000 are in Jordan, and 45,000 are in Bahrain as house-maids. A recent Central Bank report reveals that migrant workers have earned over US$ 2.91 billion during the year 2008. Therefore, Sri Lankan migrant worker population, which draws in 27.5% of the country’s much needed foreign exchange inflow, is known as the highest foreign earning sector in the country. Of… Continue

Added by Seuwandi Yapa on July 31, 2009 at 7:47am — No Comments

Seuwandi Yapa A New Era in IT for Rural Communities

Stepping up in a big way to empower rural Sri Lanka with ICT skills, especially during this Year of English and IT, ICTA and Microsoft have jointly developed a new local language interface software. This local language interface software provides accessibility to the user to learn computers in thier local language. The focus of this project is to take ICT to the islands' most remote rural communities and facilitate them with the optimal benefits of ICT. The main objectives of developing this lo… Continue

Added by Seuwandi Yapa on July 30, 2009 at 2:28am — No Comments

Seuwandi Yapa e-Sri Lanka: what is in it for Agriculture?

ICTA is the implementing organization for the e-Sri Lanka Development Programme a national development initiative, with the objective of using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to foster social integration, peace, and economic growth. To fulfill its mandate, ICTA has presently implemented several programs. The e-Society Development Initiative (e-SDI) is one of the significant projects launched by the ICTA for facilitates and assists the agricultural sector of the country. Goals… Continue

Added by Seuwandi Yapa on July 27, 2009 at 4:42am — No Comments

Seuwandi Yapa Bill Gates says "Sri Lanka poised for greater growth"

President commends ICTA, Microsoft for removing language barriers in computer applications with the launch of Sinhala interface pack Microsoft founder Bill Gates has expressed his optimism that Sri Lanka “is poised for greater economic growth and development” and expressed the global giant’s support since much of future prosperity would be fueled by the use of software and the power of IT. Positive sentiments by Gates, one of the world’s richest entrepreneurs, were conveyed to none other… Continue

Added by Seuwandi Yapa on July 20, 2009 at 11:34pm — No Comments

Subir Dey Call for Papers/Articles - i4d magazine's September issue (Gender and ICTs)

i4d (information for development) magazine, a premier magazine on ICTs published by CSDMS (Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies), an NGO, based at Noida, (Near New Delhi), Uttar Pradesh, India. CSDMS primarily works on capacity building of local level organisations through training and workshops. It is also involved in grassroot projects that use ICT's for knowledge sharing and dissemination. The recent issues of i4d have integrated best practices, case studies and various other pr… Continue

Added by Subir Dey on July 16, 2009 at 12:00am — No 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

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

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

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

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Alan's bicycle model has relatively lower operating cost in terms of vehicle depreciation and fuel-free operation, as compared to eTrike and eJeep.
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The following Philippine mobile telecentre models could basically be the same in terms of cost of services and features (i.e., hardware, software, connectivity): a. ePushcart (mostly made of wood and human-driven), b. eTrike (a motorcycle with a ...
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Jimmy L. Calata replied to telecentre.org's discussion 'Question 2: How to make the telecentre.org Foundation (TCF) more influential on behalf of telecentre movement?' in the group Online Consultation 2009
The Bank (or a similar facility like for example, TFC Finance Centre) that I am referring to is a facility that will take care of the Financial Management System of the Global Telecentre.org. Such a big network would require judicious management o...
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Hello all, As world leaders prepare to go to Copenhagen for the UN climate change summit, the rest of us can share our thoughts on this most topical issue here. Having watched the devastating effects of climate change via video clips from national...
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Jimmy L. Calata replied to telecentre.org's discussion 'Question 2: How to make the telecentre.org Foundation (TCF) more influential on behalf of telecentre movement?' in the group Online Consultation 2009
I agree with you friend that the TCF should not be tied up with conditions or anything that accompanies the contributions of super or regional power, or other leading organizations that constraint us from moving towards our shared goal of solving ...
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