In my view, the movement has been too electronic. Whatever is shared needs to move to the ground, to the soil, to offices, to learning institutions in more ways. I therefore posit that the challenges that the networks face include:
1. Collaboratin...
Meeting people sharing personal views, at times shouting has made me learn and capture so much that has shaped my practice in consulting and working for communities. I have slowly started making the telecentre a tool of community development and e...
This may not sound very nice I know but the telecentre.org is not very grassroots focused, it is still a club of the ICT savvy and the networked. At the country level the network should have activities that are seen to be focused on local telecent...
In many African countries much of what happens is driven by the government. Promoting the use of ICTs at the grassroots calls for investment that general fund raising may not meet. There is need to promote telecentre.org to be seen as an asset don...
The discussions on the various forums have been too much technology leaning. We are failing to tap the knowledge behind the various experts involved in utilizing technology in their various daily activities. For this reason, there is need to focus...
Here we will hold our online consultation from the 12th till 30th November, 2009. Please do participate and help shape the future of telecentre.org. Follow the discussion via email, by clicking the 'follow' link on the right hand side panel.
I fully agree with the relevance of Polly's probing question: "what does TCF want to do with its influence?" Her own answer: "concentrate on being the leading voice of the telecentre (and other community ICTs) movement" is a compelling one! I shar...
Active participation of TCF and all telecentres worldwide in all significant local and global activities like, world youth day, indigenous peoples day, family day, united nations day, etc.
I think Jimmy's suggestion is right on! As an elected Executive Committee Member of GKP, I can say that GKP is strongly interested in exploring such affiliations as you suggest. We have already informally and bilaterally agreed with GAID and WITFO...
I fully agree with the relevance of Polly's probing question: "what does TCF want to do with its influence?" Her own answer: "concentrate on being the leading voice of the telecentre (and other community ICTs) movement" is a compelling one! I shar...
One important value brought to Sri Lanka Nenasala was to create a platform for sharing knowledge more openly, which created many opportunities for many. The photo, blogging contest created much enthusiasm among telecenter workers and created a pla...
Thanks for TC.org for bringing attention to this topic of up-scaling and replication, I have completed the research and has made number of findings and came into some useful conclusions to help design future telecenter based ICT4D projects.
This ...
One major challange I see is designing new forms of Telecenter Networks, taking into consideration of their sustainability; and need knowledge of each telecenter as each one is unique, to bring them to a network that deliver benefits to members. P...
A place for community members to get involved with producing newspapers that report on the people, ideas, and activities that fuel the global telecentre movement.
Telecentres are providing immense services to the promotion of education.Students of all disciplines and societies use the various services of telecentres for their assignments and communications.We may highlight educational activities in this group.
Modern technologies of ICT and telecentres
are very helpful for both men and women.But
it may be more useful to learn the actual
status of efficacy for the development of
societies through the telecentre related
technologies.
Sharing space for the telecentre.org photo contest.
Here you can find the guidelines of the contest as well as post whatever queries or clarifications you may have pertaining to the contest.