Hi Everyone, Here is some of the latest highlights from telecentre.org
* Strengthening Community Learning Centres through Linkages and Networks: A Synthesis of Six Country Reports * Village BPO Company services India's second largest bank! * International Fellows of the Jamshetji Tata National Virtual Academy for Rural Prosperity (NVA) * RITA offers new computers to Nyamata Teleservice centre * Reliance Money forays into Emerging Rural India to Sell Financial Products through 10000 Franchisees * Breaking the planners' cord - The Network Birth * Comprehensive Report on the Rwanda Study Tour * Telecentres get Internet * Weekly news roundup - Asia * Weekly news roundup August 23 * Strengthening Community Learning Centres through Linkages and Networks: A Synthesis of Six Country Reports >From the Preface" "This report examines the experiences of some CLCs with such >linkages and networks. It is based on six country reports from Japan, China, >Bangladesh, Thailand, the Philippines, and Indonesia. These country reports, >though quite different in scope, nevertheless have several common elements and >a common methodology. The first part of this study identifies both the common >features and the distinctive characteristics of CLCs that are identified in >the country reports. Read the details here http://community.telecentre.org/en-tc/node/40436 * Village BPO Company services India's second largest bank! In an innovative initiative, Sai Seva Business Solutions, Puttaparthi, located in the state of Andhra Pradesh, and not too far from the IT city of Bangalore, India provides high quality back-office solutions at much lower costs from a rural set up. The firm was established in May 2006, by four friends with marketing and business management experience, with the notion of tapping the potential of 8 million educated unemployed rural youth in the country. Read the details here http://community.telecentre.org/en-tc/node/39780 * International Fellows of the Jamshetji Tata National Virtual Academy for Rural Prosperity (NVA) telecentre.org supported the travel and stay of 25 international telecentre champions, who were conferred the honour of NVA fellowship on the occasion of the 5th convocation of Jamshetji Tata National Virtual Academy for Rural Prosperity (NVA). Read the details here http://community.telecentre.org/en-tc/node/40176 * RITA offers new computers to Nyamata Teleservice centre The deputy Executive Director of Rwanda Information and Technology Agency (RITA), Mr. Patrick Nyirishema said, "RITA will offer the replacement of the old computers at the centre. He also promised to use the centre for future RITA training programs to ensure that the centre becomes even more sustainable". Representing the executive director at official opening of the New centre's home, Patrick was responding to the challenges noted by the telecentre Manager. Read the details here http://community.telecentre.org/en-tc/node/40005 * Reliance Money forays into Emerging Rural India to Sell Financial Products through 10000 Franchisees Reliance Money, the financial products distribution company of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group in India, has entered the Indian rural heartland to sell everything from insurance - on tractors, crops, cattle and life - to mutual funds through rural youth. According to Sudip Bandyopadhyay, Chief Executive Officer, Reliance Money, "Much of the prosperity that has come into the country has bypassed rural India, and this is largely because nobody has ever made it possible for the rural population to access these products." Read the details here http://community.telecentre.org/en-tc/node/39781 * Breaking the planners' cord - The Network Birth The long awaited "Tanzania Telecentre Network" will launch soon in a 2-day national gathering that will take place between 10th and 11th September in Tanzania's Mwanza province. The event that is open to telecentre practitioners and support organizations is expected to have over 35 participants. The launch of this network will bring to life the recommendations of the 1st East African Telecentre Leaders Forum - EATLF of May 2006 in Kampala. The launch gathering is part of the resolutions reached at between the Executive director of UgaBYTES. Read the details here http://community.telecentre.org/en-tc/node/39765 * Comprehensive Report on the Rwanda Study Tour Here you find a comprehensive report on the Rwanda telecentre leaders' India Study Tour. Read the details here http://community.telecentre.org/en-tc/node/39716 * Weekly news roundup - Asia Free Internet access to visually impaired Rural graduates to be trained for ITES jobs Happy Village Centre' scheme launched in Andhra Pradesh, India Intel Foundation, DEF partners to educate and empower rural women Myanmar government plans to implement cyber village project Read a summary of ICT4D news from Asia here http://community.telecentre.org/en-tc/node/40276 * Weekly news roundup August 23 Africa 4th in Broadband Penetration - Study Shows Read the details here http://community.telecentre.org/en-tc/node/40198 P.S. 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