TELECENTRES
Now part of many regional market places, telecentres are a new way to provide universal access to ICTs in rural areas. A telecentre provides public and private information-based services, such as voice telephone, fax, email, Internet access, tele-medicine (where a patient can consult a doctor elsewhere in the world), ICT training and agricultural and market information. In South Africa, telecentres are a key component in the government's USA Universal Service Agency. In Senegal, there are more than 4,000 privately-run telecentres, under license from the telephone company. In Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique, Mali and Benin, pilot projects are underway. At the 1998 ITU World Telecommunications Development Conference in Malta, women delegates from Suriname and Kenya urged for rural telecentres to be accessible to and managed by women's groups. They echoed the sentiments of Marie-Helene Mottin-Sylla of ENDA, Dakar: 'Unless women can participate fully in Cyberspace, they will face a new form of exclusion from society'.
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
1999
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/48304 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/99636 |
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