Links Index
Telecenters
Building more schools is just impossible. And if it would be possible, would another school provide the solution we're looking for? Telecenters, or community telecenters, are small scale facilities where schools, farmers, doctors, Imams, mothers, children, the car mechanics, priests, or your neighbor can go and share with each other to learn about best practices and useful resources for sustainable development. The links below bring you in touch with initiatives we are aware of or are related with.TIP: Use the
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- Rural Multipurpose Community Telecenters. In close collaboration with the Basic Education Division and UNESCO's Communication Sector, LWF is supporting the implemention of Multipurpose Community Telecenters, initially in 5 African countries (Benin, Mali, Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda). The telecenters are seen as a means of providing affordable access to modern information and communication technology tools for development. The purpose of these demonstration pilot projects is to try out and test new technologies and applications, innovative policies, tariff structures and new technologies, and to demonstrate the impact of provision of such tools to populations in rural and remote areas on economic, social and cultural development.
- Specialized teleCenters Of Professional Education (SCOPE). A non-profit developer of community-based telecenters worldwide for both urban and rural venues with a focus on underserved populations, particularly women, children and the disabled. In partnership with local communities using an innovative, grassroots approach, including the "televillage concept," Project SCOPE establishes telecenters which ensure universal access for all to education, training, community redevelopment, public health, and economic development programs via appropriate technology. Additionally, Project SCOPE telecenters will create "cultural connections" to provide a voice for each culture individually but designed for sharing and interaction with all cultures.
- "Little Engines that Did" - Case Histories from the Global Telecentre Movement. An 80-page report on a series of case studies involving 10 telecentres around the world, by Richard Fuchs
- Conectándonos al futuro. The mandate of this project is to conduct a participatory exercise to design a national strategy for building a learning society
in El Salvador.
En Español: El objetivo de este proyecto es la formulación participativa de una estrategia nacional para forjar una sociedad de aprendizaje en El Salvador.
