Incubated by Microsoft, Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) for the past five years as Telecentre.org, the new ...

Africa must adopt new plans to enable the public to access information. In the new paradigm shift, the local community should be empowered to come up with their own networks depending on regionl needs ...

DELEGATES from eight countries in the region, who are attending a regional workshop on Telecentres in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, are looking at ways of building the capacity of Telecentres in the ...

ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunications (MoIT) has directed all telecom operators to install state of the art equipment in the proposed 500 telecentres to be ...

Development agencies have long been agonising over how to bridge the growing digital divide between rich and poor countries. Evidence suggests that one solution is to set up communal Internet access ...

Its Monday and the time is 2 O’clock at Muraviwa Village, Traditional Authority (T/A) Nkhulambe in Phalombe district and Grace Yakobe (not real name) a University graduate in Civil Engineering came ...

The populations of the rural areas where telecentres exist are not sensitised enough on the importance of such technology. The multipurpose community telecentres is an infrastructure which offers ...

Rwanda Development Board’s Information Technology has a directorate whose focus is enabling rural communities access basic ICT services for the purposes of boosting their levels of competitiveness. As ...

The government is working on a plan to extend telecommunication services to remote areas through model Telecentres where multi-services would be offered at one place. Pakistan Telecommunication ...

PUTRAJAYA: Telecentres, built in rural neighbourhoods in the country to bridge the digital gap with urban areas, are under-utilised by rural folk. Energy, Water and Communications Minister Datuk Seri ...