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...

Abstract: 'The purpose of this paper is to describe the WA Telecentres Network and to discuss the success of this program in enhancing the educational opportunities in rural regions. In 1991, a review of access and equity in post-compulsory education in rural Western Australia identified a number of impediments to in the participation in and completion of programs among rural students. Principal factors limiting education in these regions included: a lack of a culture promoting and encouraging t more...

World Museums is a popular photography group (80+ members and more than 500 photos) on Flickr. The focus of this group will be museums around the world. Show us places you've visited. If you work with a particular museum, show us what goes on behind the scenes or how you connect with the community. Bonus points for photos that have a caption!Museums looking for Best practices/worst practices Exhibitions.

Information communication technologies (ICTs) are fast becoming essential tools in the delivery of information, knowledge and education all over the world. Their application among developing Commonwealth countries is, although slow, expected to increase as the costs of appliances and telephony decrease. Anticipating this increase and mindful that some valuable lessons have been learnt about the role of ICT-based telecentres in supporting educational and community development in both rich and poo more...

Over 7,000 Tanzanians Give Their Opinions on livelihood, education, health, governance, infrastructure, well-being, citizen participation, and more. This report is the largest perception survey conducted in Mainland Tanzania to date. 7,879 Tanzanians, aged from 7 to 90 years, from ten mainland regions, were asked for their opinion on aspects of economic progress, their standard of living, quality of and access to economic and social services, and trends in governance.

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Information Communication Technology (ICT) is the modern day driver of economic growth and poverty alleviation. PCDI embraces this principle and works at bridging the digital divide in the rural communities of Cameroon. Firstly through IT training and secondly by providing Internet Access. However the reality is much more complex than these text book solutions suggest.