Rural Telecentres
Ensuring sustainability
Considering that a Telecentre is “an effective service for increasing rural communities’ livelihoods, this project will promote rural social entrepreneurship. It will operate as a network facilitator and capacity building enabler mainly at national level in order to reinforce the regional (inter-country) and international telecentre networking initiatives.
For more information, please contact: A. Koda Traore (traore[at]cta.int)
Increase awareness and networking through various channels
The CTA Telecentre project will support the global telecentre movement initiatives especially through Telecentre.org and others in promoting the empowerment of local communities to better use ICTs. In this regard, the project will contribute to identifying the key development agenda link to agricultural and rural development sector, and will use the most appropriate platforms and tools to...
Strengthen institutional and staff capacities of Telecentre initiatives in Africa
The selection of the centres to be supported will consider several criteria amongst which their ability to integrate the sustainability factors identified during the study phase of the project. The Centres to be supported should also be part of wider national or regional ICTs development plans rather than experimenting once more pilot initiatives. This support will be provided through the...
Increased access to relevant content and appropriate channels
The project will extensively use the CTA publications programme to provide content to the telecentre movement through Telecentre.org and African regional platforms such as SATNET, UGABYTES etc.
In addition and where necessary, CTA will dedicate resources to develop new publications. The development of these publications will require the full participation of telecentre practition...
