The World Links Organization <www.world-links.org> and World Bank's
World Links for Development Program <www.worldbank.org/worldlinks>
organized a brown bag presentation on planning for school-based
telecentres. Information about the presentation is below and if you'd
like copies of the PowerPoint presentation, feel free to contact me at
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Anthony Bloome
Regional Coordinator
Eastern and Southern Africa
WorLD
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World Links for Development Program's Brown Bag Presentation
on
Planning for School-Based Telecenters
The World Links for Development Program and World Links Organization
invite you to a brown-bag presentation of its newest 40-hour training
material on Planning for School-Based Telecenters. Similar to
community-based sites, school-based telecenters provide access to and
training on information and communications technology. The training
material has been developed by an international team of experts on the
development of community-based telecenters.
The presentation will introduce the training material content which
includes topics on the birth of telecenters and what they do, linking
schools and the community, operation plans, knowing your clients and
services, spreading the work, sustainability models and monitoring and
evaluation.
The workshop presenters, Mr. Robert Hawkins, WorLD Task Manager, and Mr.
Anthony Bloome, WorLD Regional Coordinator for Eastern and Southern
Africa, will discuss WorLD's experience with the development of
school-based telecentres in Zimbabwe and Uganda. In Uganda, the
presenters will discuss WorLD's efforts to reach rural areas through a
combination of wireless technology and school-based telecenters.
WorLD is currently involved in approximately 600 schools in twenty-seven
countries in Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East. The
program's objectives are to promote the use of information and
communications technology (ICT) in Education. Overall objectives include
linking students and teachers around the world with the aid of new
technologies to improve educational and employment opportunities and
build global awareness.
WorLD supports this effort by providing sustainable solutions for
mobilizing the equipment, training, educational resources and
school-to-school partnerships required to bring students in developing
countries online and into the global community.
WorLD began in 1997 as a philanthropic pilot initiative of the World
Bank in response to widespread requests from developing countries to
assist them in preparing their youth to enter an information age and
participate effectively in the global economy of the next millennium.
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