telecentres

There are studies out there that prove that open-source software can be used in telecentres.

Microsoft present to South Africa 2005

The telecentres were the only computer and internet facilities the villages had.

Stuff.co.nz - Stuff 2009

At these "telecentres" as they are called, trainees will receive interactive distance training and education.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

"telecentres" will be set up in the provinces of Siem Reap, Banteay Meanchey, Kampong Cham and Kampong Thom to provide remote communities with a hub where they can access the Web to improve farming methods.

Scand News for S.E.A - Scandinavian News Portal for Southeast Asia Bjarne Wildau 2010

"telecentres" equipped with computers, Internet access, distance learning programmes, libraries, theatres, multimedia and other activities, were presented at the Laboratory, which was attended by 450 people, most of them students.

IPS Inter Press Service 2009

- IDRC sponsored a great deal of research and interventions around telecentres.

Global Voices in English » Harvard Forum – What do we need to know? 2009

There's a debate about whether these telecentres were successful.

Global Voices in English » Harvard Forum – What do we need to know? 2009

Now IDRC is trying to determine whether building interventions (build our own telecentres) or incentives (support the construction of telecenters or other projects) is more succesful.

Global Voices in English » Harvard Forum – What do we need to know? 2009

When market-based telecentres collapsed, the blame was put on the poor, arguing that there was no demand for services.

Global Voices in English » Harvard Forum: Markets, Mobiles and the ability to make culture 2009

While some alternative public-finance models did show a way to design telecentres useful to the poor, these models were completely eclipsed by the market-based discourse.

Global Voices in English » Harvard Forum: Markets, Mobiles and the ability to make culture 2009