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color=#0000ff size=2>Thanks Andy for bringing this group together. My name is
Don Cameron and I am a former Telecentre Manager and nowadays (time
permitting) volunteer consultant for several CTC's operating in Australia. I'm
also part of the Compumentor team providing free technical and management
support to NPO Telecentre's through TechSoup (<A
href="http://www.techsoup.org">www.techsoup.org</A>).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>My primary focus area is the development of skills,
projects and diversification so necessary for project sustainability -
not all early Telecentre's are nowadays recogniseable as such as community
needs (including the need to finance the project) drive evolution in the
basic structure and model. One of the Telecentre's I work with evolved into
a Youth Cafe to meet this specific community need; others have consolidated to
provide low-cost ISP services to the broader communities, yet others have
developed as community business incubation and/or training centre's -
there are so many opportunities! I have a short paper outlining the challenges
and successes of one such Telecentre at: <A
href="http://www.regional.org.au/articles/development/coolah_revitalisation.htm">http://www.regional.org.au/articles/development/coolah_revitalisation.htm</A> </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>I certainly look forward to these discussions and gaining
input and insight from such a diverse group.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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