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Telecentres, Internet cafes, community multimedia centres, village computing: There are many names for similar initiatives that seek to provide shared public access to computers, the Internet and related technologies to serve a variety of often inter-related developmental objectives. Various versions of 'telecentre models' can be found in most countries, although questions of long-term sustainability are becoming increasingly acute for many initatives in this area.
'Telecentres' have received a great deal of support and attention from international donor organizations and NGOs in the past decade; IDRC (especially through its support of the telecentre.org initiative) and UNESCO are two of the leading organizations quite active in this area:
IDRC & telecentre.org
UNESCO
Telecentre-related work in other prominent international organizations and NGOs
from ADB:
from AED:
from APC:
from APDIP:
from COL:
from CTA:
from CTCnet:
from FAO:
from Grameen Foundation:
from IDB:
from ITU:
from UNDP:
from UNESCAP:
from UNPANB:
from USAID:
from the World Bank:
General telecentre resources
from iTrainOnline:
from the Development Gateway:
from Telecentre.org:
from the World Bank:
Other telecentre initiatives of note
Additional resources
By M. Trucano. Published August 2007.