With internet and SMS TradeNet allows rural farmers to advertise their merchandise to an international market and find the fairest price for their crops

'Thanks to market forces, even the world's poorest people are beginning to benefit from the flow of digital information.' Jeffrey Sachs, The Guardian, August 21 2008.

Abstract: 'The primary purpose of the Telecentres for Education and Community Health (TEACH) project was to develop, implement, and validate a distance-based service delivery model for primary healthcare and health education services. The project built upon the basic service and technology model created in Newfoundland and Labrador for the Remote Community Services Telecentre (RCST) project to create a custom telecentre model focused on healthcare and health education services. The facilities an more...

INTERCOM-Ecuanex, founded in 1990, is an Ecuadorian and alternative non-for profit network, integrated by 17 major NGOs of the country. It uses the Communication and Information Technologies as a tool to offer integral solutions and projects to:

* Democratization of the communication and the knowledge;
* Facilitate the exchange between organizations working in the development fields;
* Strengthen the citizen participation.

As a result of the 2000 Strategic Planning, INTERCOM more...

The 'Telecentre in a Box' is a robust, user-friendly, 'turnkey' configuration of several networked PCs providing a variety of Internet utilities/applications, instant access to practical e-commerce utilities, easy to use local administration tools, and globally accessible administration and information tracking tools (extremely useful for evaluation purposes).

The 'telecentre in a Box' is designed for installation and applications in rural areas of developing countries, and can be administere more...

Abstract: 'This study has been funded by the Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF), a multi-donor technical assistance facility aimed at helping developing countries improve the quality of their infrastructure through private sector involvement. A promising new model for deploying service to such communities is that of the “telecentre.” This increasingly popular model is a publicly accessible facility that offers a range of information and communication technology (ICT) ser more...

The 5th of August the business creation node Medellin Digital was inaugurated. It will be a specialized unit in the ICT field in the city that will foster new business creation. This program is one action of the Medellin Digital plan to reduce the digital breach, by developing the ICT as a business tool.

The international telecenter movement is barely under way in Latin America (http://www.tele-centros.org). While the traditional and new, mercantile elites, awash in the current neoliberal rhetoric and blessed by multilateral development banks' structural adjustment programs, have assured Internet access and training for their children in the expensive private school system, public schools, urban and rural, languish without connectivity and social services have been curtailed across the board (vi more...

The paper is part of the final report from the Washington State University (WSU) Last-Mile Initiative (LMI) team - Ashley Giesa, Kylan Robinson, and Jutta Tobias. The WSU LMI team is Butare, Rwanda through a grant from USAid.

The team’s goal was two-fold:

a. to write a business plan set up and start a telecentre business at the Maraba Coffee Cooperative Abahuzamugambi and,

b. to bring Internet connectivity to other PEARL sponsored coffee cooperatives in remote locations.

This pa more...

'To learn from each others’ experiences and to provide input for the development of a national policy, telemedicine practitioners and other stakeholders from around Tanzania gathered for their second telemedicine platform meeting.'