To learn more about various online directories of hardware and software technologies appropriate for and relevant to community telecentres worldwide, visit the UNESCO Communication and Information site here: http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=15281&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=-473.html

The CyberVolunteers Programme recruits, trains and coordinates volunteers with information and communication technology skills for development. Volunteers participate in local, regional and international projects for a period of several weeks or months, offering their skills in areas such as web or software development, system administration and content generation.

The Programme values in particular South-South exchanges, but also includes South-North and North-South cooperation, with Project more...

Here's an interesting article on the importance of ICT not only in teaching and learning, but also in management, online collaboration and communication.

To learn more, visit the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO website here: http://www2.unescobkk.org/education/ict/v2_2/info.asp?id=13278

From the article:

'Most of the countries inventoried indicated that they had produced modules and materials for use in training the teachers and other education p 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...

The Free Software Directory is a project of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).This site catalog useful free software that runs under free operating systems — particularly the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants.
Licenses are verified for each and every program listed in this directory.

The Toolkit provides an extensive set of free person-to-person (P2P) communication tools (audio and video conference, scientific text chat, whiteboard, collaborative authorship, portal and mailing list management, etc.), and also basic advice on person-to-equipment (P2E) tools.

It was developed for UNESCO by a team of specialists working with the Institute for Informatics of the Technical University of Freiberg (Technical Coordinator, Germany), the COPINE Centre of the Obafemi Awolowo Univers more...

UNESCO has accumulated significant experience in facilitating the development of some key software tools. These tools are distributed free-of-charge and the objective is to empower the users by giving them access to some key technology for development and knowledge sharing that most of them otherwise could not afford. The development model is based upon international cooperation and the software tools are continuously enriched, modified and updated with the co-operation of a community of experts more...