EATLF: E-conference to focus on establishment of a regional Telecentre Academy in Eastern Africa

Country: Uganda
Created By: Esther on 2-Apr-2008 6:24 AM

The East African Telecentre Leaders Forum – EA-TLF comes at a time when telecentre practitioners are increasingly interested in learning and sharing lessons, experiences and efforts through collaboration, partnerships and networking efforts. To maximize results the EA-TLF has been designed with two sessions; the e-discussion and the face-to-face event in Gedaref, Sudan.
The 18th to 28th April e-session is designed to gather the experience of the telecentre community on the UgaBYTES mailing list about the key forum issues. Individual experiences, knowledge and opportunities will be exposed and tapered into the face-to-face event to increase the event’s value.
This fifth EATLF is hosted by Gadaref Digital City Organisation in Sudan in collaboration with UgaBYTES Initiative under the theme; New opportunities for sustaining telecentres

The ten day e-conference will focus on the Telecentre academy as a service provided by telecentre networks. The discussion will be facilitated by telecentre.org’s Shaddy Basheerhamad.
Mr. Basheerhamad will post the keynote address on Friday April 18th and will guide the practitioners during the weeklong discussion.
The EATLF team will equally continue to refocus the discussion through providing daily summaries and guides for areas that may require further discussion or supportive cases.
During the e-session practitioners are encouraged to share their experiences and opinion or guidance on the subject under discussion using email submissions on the list. The discussion will centre on

Establishing a regional telecentre academy
Focus will be placed on:
1. What needs to be done?
2. What are the roles of national networks?
3. How will certification be done?
4. Who else needs to be involved?
5. Working timeline
6. When will the first product be launched?

Participation is open to all Telecentre Leaders who are subscribed on the UgaBYTES mailing list ugabytes@ugabytes.org. The online session has been opened to all in order to promote unlimited common learning.

e-discussion language
The primary language is English.


Discussion Duration
From 18th to 28th April


The e-session is part of the bi-annual forums organized by UgaBYTES with the support of telecentre.org under the online telecentre helpdesk and support services project. telecentre.org is a multi-stakeholder initiative funded by IDRC, Microsoft and SDC.

Please join the discussion at ugabytes@lists.ugabytes.org or to join the mailing list write to secretariat@ugabytes.org

Hope to enjoy the discussion with you...

Contact Name: Ugabytes Initiative

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