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How to generate income at the Telecenter?
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Vocational Traing And Telecentres
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The challenges that telecentres face are sustainability, and spreading the message of what community life is. Also the concept of telecentres linking with one another, the idea of a global village network. Education, both basic, and higher education…
I think telecentres should also be considered proactively as educational models, in addition to the business model concept. Vocational training for the community, adult literacy etc can be such prepossessing concerns.
In fact telecentres can be the…
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We are experimenting with having vocational training in telecentres on different trades. What do you think of this? Suppose we choose a trade say maintenance of computer hardware, or electrical wiring and target the village population straddling acr…
The IGNOU Institute For Vocational Education And Training Shillong, where I work has recently embarked on vocational training in the Common Service Centres of the state of Meghalaya in North East India. The idea is to infuse the telecentre model by…
Those involved with Community Radio Stations also need to study community profiles and assess their needs. You have rightly said that CR Stations focus on social and developmental goals. They can also be used as warning to sound out on catastrophes…
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I think telecentres should have two entities. The first should be the ICT part by which I mean integration of technologies: the computer, television, radio, the mobile et al. The second should be the non ICT part, where vocational training for the c…
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Community Facilitators
I am looking at telecentres and their functionality not only for computer literacy but also as viable study centres for educational needs. They could be termed as knowledge or resource centres. It is here I think that community facilitators could play a significant and meaningful role as counsellors. Such a model will help to augment activities such as teacher training, literacy, carreer counselling, and even inparting awareness programmes on a short term basis such as awareness on health relate… Continue
Posted on February 15, 2009 at 2:54am —
Telecentres As Community Centres
Today the world is a community. It is a global community. It has shrunk in size, due to technological interventions and interfaces. Yet at the micro level, communities exist in anguish. Communities which would like to be literate, communities which would like to interact with the larger conglomerate. And communities which would earnestly desire an advancement of economic status. The very concept of the telecentre is an advocate of the above. Yet such advocacy is not enough in letter and spirit.… Continue
Posted on February 12, 2009 at 12:06pm —
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- At 5:54am on January 5, 2009,
Sandra Nassali said… - Hello Ananya, welcome to telecentre.org. Please up load a photo on your profile as we love giving a face to the community and also visit URL: http:telecentrecommunity.ning.com/notes/Getting_Started
for the community guide. In case of any thing else, feel free to contact me.
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Sandra
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