Telecentres and kiosks
- Knowledge centres in rural India
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This collection of four essays asks how ICT can be brought to the 600,000 Indian villages. How is India empowering the poor and marginalised to participate in the emerging knowledge society? How will India provide voice to the millions of citizens?
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Have mobile phones improved animal health services in Kenya?
- ( J. Kithuka;J. Mutemi;A.,H. Mohamed / Farm Africa , 2007)
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This paper explores the introduction of mobile phones and community pay phones within FARM-Africa's Kenya Dairy Goat and Capacity Building Project (KDGCBP), implimented in the districts of Mwingi a...
- How to scale up rural ICT projects for poverty reduction?
- ( R. Harris;R. Rajora / Asia-Pacifiic Development Information Program , 2006)
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India has a large number of projects which use Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for poverty alleviation and good governance. However, most of these projects have remained in a perpetu...
- Knowledge centres in rural India
- ( A Garai; B. Shadrach / Open Archive Initiative, OneWorld South Asia , 2006)
- This collection of four essays asks:how ICT can be brought to the 600,000 Indian villages?how is India empowering the poor and marginalised to participate in the emerging knowledge society...
- Telecentre sustainability options
- ( C. Jauernig / United Nations [UN] Industrial Development Organization , 2004)
- This paper addresses the sustainability issue of telecenters. It draws from experience and research related to sustainability of telecenters that has been collected throughout the set-up of telecenter...
- Benefits of using Open Source software in Africa are less than predicted
- ( Bridges.org , 2005)
- This surveys looks at the software used by public-access computer labs in Namibia, South Africa and Uganda. It compares the benefits of using Free/Open Source (FOSS) products rather than their commerc...
- Priorities for ICT for development investment
- ( R. Heeks / Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester , 2005)
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This article argues for a change in agency policy towards ICT for development investment, arguing that whilst such investments are worthwhile, they should look beyond the MDGs.
The paper divides inv...
- Sustainability, scalability and collaboration for taking ICTs to every Indian village
- ( Digital Opportunity Channel , 2004)
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This paper focuses on scalability, sustainability and collaboration aspects in building infokiosks or knowledge centres in India.
It summarises viewpoints from an e- discussion, Video Conference and...
- Collective telecenters must be a priority to ensure latin American internet connectivity
- ( M.J. Menou; K.D. Poepsel; K. Stoll / Journal of Community Informatics , 2004)
- The report discusses the evolution of telecenters and collective internet connectivity across Latin America. The authors discuss the international development community’s support for evolving telecen...
- World Economic Forum - NEPAD E-Readiness Policy Programme to promote the use of ICTs in Africa
- ( Bridges.org , 2003)
- This report describes the activities conducted in the first stage of the World Economic Forum - NEPAD E-Readiness Policy Programme, an initiative aimed at helping African countries develop e-readiness...
- A sustainable model for provision of information kiosks
- ( A. Badshah; S. Khan; I. Garrido / UN Information and Communication Technologies Task Force , 2003)
- Compilation of essays and case studies on the various models of information kiosks being tested and deployed worldwide. Kiosks are defined as public access points where ICTs are used as a tool to deli...
