At 03:48 13/12/2001 -0800, Refcon Standard wrote: > I absolutely loved your post...until you brought up the need for > telecenters. They are based on the oldest extant ICT available, and > very costly in too many ways to list. In fact, it could fill a > book...which by the way I wrote. The book uses Mexico's current federal > e-Mexico initiative in example. I'd be happy to send it as an MS Word > attachment to anyone interested. We were the first nationwide > initiative accepted by the WRI. <www.tele-centros.org> the Latin American and the Caribbean Network of telecentres has been collecting stories on how the community are using the telecentres and the challenges that the telecentres are facing, their problems, success and lessons learned among other things. All this information you can find in the above url. We also are doing research of the state of the art of the telecentres in the region. This research will be available in the next two months and we hope it will be published, if everything goes ok.
Peter Burgess wrote: > > But we are also very clear about the need for the telecenter to be > > worthwhile for the community. Does the telecenter have the potential to > > do something of value for the community. This is absolutely critical, > > and value is not what ATCnet might think as the promoter of the > > telecenter, but what the community thinks as the user of the telecenter. Peter, Chasquinet works on telecentres and our vision is not top down level, our vision is to be facilitators, to know and do an asssesment of the community needs as a starting point and how the telecentre can be a tool to support and attend the community needs among other tools. We develop the concept of the telecentre together with the community, the vision and the mission. My experience is that poor and marginal communities appropriate of ICT's when they are going thorough crisis and this crisis needs to be sorted out. Examples to illustrate this experiences you can find in the online resource centre that we have in <http://www.tele-centros.org/CR/cr_busgenres.php3> Hope this resources will help in the reflection of your concept of telecentres. I apologize for the spanglish, All the best, karin ------------ ***GKD is an initiative of the Global Knowledge Partnership*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: <http://www.globalknowledge.org>
