[Telecentres] Telecentre definition.

[Taran Rampersad]

I'm going to take another stab at this, since it's apparent that we're
all speaking different languages.

Can we all agree that:

(1) Telecentres all have communications equipment.
(2) Community, even when people don't physically socialize in the
Telecentre itself, is at the core.
(3) The information, or, the Knowledge (Sensible Communication and
Information) is the reason Telecentres exist. This includes emailing
pictures of grandchildren, learning a programming language, getting
medical advice, flirting with the other gender and even simply playing
games. And I am serious about the games; people underestimate games.

I'll further ask that we can agree on:

(1) Telecentes in the context of the WGIG relate to internet access, but
are not limited to Internet Access.
(2) Capabilities of Telecentres can be positively and negatively
affected by proper and improper internet governance (respectively).

Thus, the questions we now should have are:

(1) What Internet Governance issues are good for Telecentres?
(2) What Internet Governance issues are bad for Telecentres?

Domain names? Bah, that's not relevant to any Telecentres I know of.

Spam - yes. That's something that can choke the bandwidth of Telecentres
- not to mention disgust people.

Access to content - a big one. This relates to (a) languages, (b)
licensing, (c) Standards being conformed to. I think it was the Plenary
list where the fact that entire countries have their email blocked was
revealed. I imagine that would affect Telecentres as well, and that's an
Access and SPAM issue.

Join in, brainstorm... if I do get selected for the WGIG, I'll need to
know these things. And I think defining these things will really get us
talking about a whole bunch of other related things. I'm compiling the
list of concerns, so have at it.

-- 
Taran Rampersad

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