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Telecentres and kiosks

Review of telecenter sustainability criteria for the establishment of sustainable rural business resource centers for SMEs in developing countries

Telecentre sustainability options

Authors: C. Jauernig
Publisher: 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 projects of different shapes and at different locations.

The findings are integrated with further thoughts regarding telecenter conceptualisation, and are systematically added together along a main plot of strategic goals of sustainability - resulting in rules and recommendations, DOs and DON’Ts, for sustainable telecenter establishment