The latest issue of telecentre magazine is now available


Containing several articles that provide a very informative and interesting read, the special highlights of this issue are:

A new section called TelecentreRus: by Richard Fuchs. His first article for this section, titled "More Lemonade", tells the touching and encouraging story of how the establishment of a Telecentre transformed the careers and lives of the people of Nakaseke, a small village in East Africa. Interviews with Shankar Aggarwal, Joint Secretary, Department of Information Technology, who talks about the CSC project in India- one of the largest Telecentre projects in the world; and with Ashutosh Chaddha, who is leading Intel's education initiative. Mr. Ashutosh talks about Intel's various Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives in the shared access space.

Worldview: Read about progress made and initiatives taken in the Telecentre movement from Latin America, Russia, Syria, Burundi, Rwanda, and the Philippines. Read stories of innovative ideas to make Telecentres work from Sri Lanka and Colombia. Learn about various capacity building initiatives being taken up for Telecentre operators, manager and Network leaders. Another highlight of this issue is stories on the efforts to bridge the gender and disability divides through Telecentres. Read the details here

Solar Power for off-grid PC Deployments

Webinars are one of the major activities telecenter.org organizes to support community learning. Under the main theme “Emerging Technology Solutions for Telecentres”, a webinar will be organized in collaboration with Intel in September 2010 that will demonstrate the feasibility of solar power for off-grid PC deployments in telecentres, rural school PC labs and health centres. The webinar will provide participants with an overview of the major issues associated with designing a solar deployment and also present a number of case studies. Click here to learn more about this.

National ICT appropriation through telecentres and other public access centers to ICT

Colombia: Colnodo, Telecentre.org’s partner and secretariat of the telecentre.org LAC network, along with the ICT Ministry of Colombia, is implementing the project "National ICT Appropriation through telecentres and other public access centers to ICT". This project seeks to increase the social impact of telecentres in Colombia, strengthening the National Network of Telecentres and promoting creative and productive use of ICTs among priority populations. The project will oversee the growth of the National Academy of Telecentres, strengthen National Networks, organise regional and national Face2Face events, evolve strategies for digital inclusion of vulnerable groups, provide assistance to local communities at risk of displacement and also work towards preservation of indigenous languages at risk of extinction.

Click here to read more (in Spanish).