Abstract: 'The research will evaluate the design, development and implementation of telecentres from an end user perspective. The originality and significant contribution to knowledge of this research will be to propose a bridge between two disciplines; information systems design and community development. This research is designed to provide a framework specifically for community based telematics projects which will draw upon participatory techniques developed based on research and practice in more...

Abstract: 'Creating associations for cooperation and developing solidarity, which is to say forming active citizenry, is not possible without democratic policies of communication based on dialogue, on the shared construction of a city, and on compromise and public deliberation. “The individual that uses communication technologies and information does not instantaneously transform into a user. The participation in projects and programs of info-inclusion, the governing and rights of the Internet more...

This is a summary of the results of the 3rd Symposium Forum Media and Development held 27-28 September, 2007 in the Katholisch-Soziales Institut Bad Honnef and organised by he Catholic Media Council (CAMECO). Editor A. Sofie Jannusch (PDF, 84 pages)

Abstract: 'The School Telecentres Management Resources have various resources available that are tailor-made to assist heads of schools and telecentre managers with the planning and operation of school-based telecentres. Also included are a few resources that meet the needs of all telecentres. The resources focus on the following areas of telecentre management: Monitoring and evaluation; Financial management; Policies and operations; Telecentre guides; Professional development for telecentre sta more...

Abstract: 'Performance indicators often refer more generally to how well a project is achieving its various objectives: this allows comparison of project performance with the targets and goals set out for it. Indicators are at the heart of any evaluation, and it requires considerable effort to first identify them, then refine them, and, ultimately, agree on them.

Indicators are measuring devices. They define concepts, such as telecentre user or improved emergency response in terms of the meas more...

This report presents the results of a study carried out in the Manhiça and Namaacha telecentres and the surrounding areas in the period from 1-13 July 2002. The study’s main goals were to evaluate the current state of functioning of the telecentres and use of their services, in comparison with the findings of a similar study in 2000; to evaluate the implementation of the suggestions made in the previous study and the solutions found for the problems identified; and to identify and analyse the more...

'Over the past few years, the long-term sustainability of ICT initiatives has increasingly come under question. Despite persistent doubts, governments, international agencies, NGOs, and private companies are pressing ahead to set up more such projects. This paper studies the financial sustainability of India's largest rural ICT initiative known as eChoupal.

The eChoupals are distinct from other telecentre projects in that the value added is not in providing ICT infrastructure alone, but rathe more...

The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) has telecentre evaluation initiatives in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Each of these is in the process of establishing evaluation frameworks and each is adopting very different approaches. The current paper seeks to build on the outputs of IDRC’s Far Hills Workshop on Telecentre Evaluation (September 1999) to explore the experiences in the two regions. These explorations will in turn contribute to IDRC’s current initiative to develop a f more...

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...

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