Thanks for this list which seems like a great opportunity to learn and share info & ideas. And sorry for the belated intro.
I've been interested for several years in telecenters and other points of public access to ICT in the context of development in the global South. Although my development work (most recently in Niger) has not directly involved telecenters, it has involved some limited ICT4D activities in the field (Niger is one of the poorest and least well connected countries). Part of what interests me in the area of ICT4D is the possibility of adding value to current and planned telecenter projects in Africa by facilitating their accommodation of the first languages of rural users. To that end I've been working on a small-scale initiative named Bisharat since early 2000. This has dealt largely with technical issues and the providing of informational resources for multilingual content development and aspects of localization. The intended audience of Bisharat includes people who might be working on funding & running projects that include telecenters or public computers, or on setting up and running the telecenters themselves. Although I've had occasion to meet or communicate with people involved in telecenter projects, I see this group as an opportunity to learn more about telecenters in practice and to share perspectives about how they can best serve their user communities. Don Osborn, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Bisharat! A language, technology & development initiative *Bisharat! Initiative langues - technologie - d�veloppement http://www.bisharat.net _______________________________________________ telecentres mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman-new.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/telecentres To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
