Dean Mulozi's Blog (6)

Challenges of lack of adequate infrastructure in rural areas Mo… Continue

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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Zambian telecenters like any other southern African country outside South Africa still suffer from lack of skills, resources and capacity to manage their telecenters. a number of reasons could be attributed to the problem. The telecenters in southern africa are still in the emerging phase. Given the complexities in nurturing telecenters, development of these technonolgical institutions have not been easy. A need to create skills transfer partnerships with organisations with wider skills capacit… Continue

The success of mobile phones across Africa is well documented and clear for anyone to see. But leave the cities and main roads, and the mobile phone is quickly transformed from an economic success-making tool into an interesting but essentially useless accessory. Cellular coverage is rapidly lost as the population density decreases and distances increase. So how do we ensure that the people in sparsely African communities having no access to mobile coverage do not miss out on a service that is e… Continue

Having interacted with the Ugabytes technical staff on the status of Ugabytes Online support center and indeed its features, one notes that the online resource support center is very critical to management and development of telecenter and resource ICT centers in the region and beyond. It is also interesting to hear that telecenters have not responded effectively to benefit from the services of the support center. Of course, many challenges can be alluded to that. Telecenters and related organiz… Continue

Telecenters all over developing countries include Africa share similar challenges. There a number of challenges within the telecenter community in Africa based on country-to-country situations or regional environments such as capacity development, sustainability, telecenter management, connectivity and energy. Emergence of regional telecenter networks provides an impetus to knowledge sharing and telecenter network experiences in Africa. Such networks are the East Africa Telecenter Forum and the… Continue