[Telecentres] Challenges in implementation of telecenters

[Marco Figueiredo]

Here are my quick inputs to the discussion over th e 5 major challenges in implementation of telecenters.

1) Lack of an appropriate telecenter software toolset
2) No consensus over an appropriate business model
3) Poor communication between funding agencies and practitioners
4) Scarce telecenter management training
5) No global coordination towards a Universal Internet Access campaign

and..

6) Lack of understanding by the development community that universal internet
access is the pathway to poverty erradication!

Marco



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Marco Figueiredo
Affiliate Faculty - Director
Center for Community Informatics (CCI)
mafigueiredo at loyola.edu 
http://cci.cs.loyola.edu
202-276-8324 (cel)
>>> Shahid Uddin Akbar <shahid_ictdpb at yahoo.com> 04/30/06 6:56 AM >>>
Dear All,
   
  The telecenter is becoming an important development agenda in this days. J
   
  ust for sharing our thoughts, I would request you to forward 5 major challenges which are critical for implementation of telecenter.
   
  Lets see whether we can identify the problems and then move to solutions.
   
  Thanks,
  Shahid Uddin Akbar

		
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