Hi Cyrille,

Thank you for the information.  This list is certainly a wealth of
knowledge.  When you return from your trip, if you can post or send the
names of the telecentres or organizations that operate the ones you
mentioned in Jamaica and South Africa, it would be very helpful.

Elizabeth

Dr. Elizabeth Carll
Focal Point
International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies;
Chair Media/ICT Working Group,
NGO Committee on Mental Health, New York
Tel: 1-631-754-2424
Fax: 1-631-754-5032
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-----Original Message-----
From: Cyrille Simard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2004 5:50 AM
To: Elizabeth Carll, PhD
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [Telecentres] Content areas - application to telecentres


Hi Elizabeth and everyone,


EN / FR / ES
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Sorry for the delay, I am presently in Burkina Faso with limited access...

Since I am not running a telecentre but rather acting as a consultant in
ICT4D there is many examples I could provide but the one that strikes my
mind is a specific telenter in Benin that examplifies an information
brokerage approach that is quite interesting. It is called the
Question/Answer Sytem. To sum up the system let's just say that it helps
bridging local farmers to information using the Information Technology.
Lets take this particular case to illustrate how it works. A farmer goes to
a telecentre with a specific question/difficulties and explain this to the
telecentre manager/animator in his own local language. The manager/animator
translate this in english/french and puts it in a questions database on the
Internet. At this time, a response team (in Germany in this example) takes
the question and send it to an agricultural expert who provides solutions
to put in the database. The telecentre manager/animator then brings the
solutions to the local farmer and gets its feedback afterwards in order to
get some comments or specific questions about the solutions that were given
to him.

I know that this approach have been also implemented in Jamaica and South
Africa.

You can look at the RUNetwork site it at : http://www.runetwork.de/html/en/
(english) or http://www.runetwork.de/html/fr/ (french).

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D�sol� pour le d�lai, je suis actuellement au Burkina Faso et l'acc�s est
limit�.

Je ne g�re aucun t�l�centre en particulier mais en tant que consultant en
technologie de l'information pour le d�veloppement je pourrais pr�senter
plusieurs exemples. Celle qui me vient � l'esprit provient du B�nin. Il
s'agit d'une approche innovatrice the courtage de l'information. Pour
r�sumer, le syst�me en question permet de fournir des informations � des
agriculteurs en utilisant les technologies de l'information et Internet.
Prenons l'exemple suivant. Un agriculteur qui rencontre un probl�me
particulier se rend au t�l�centre et pose le probl�me au g�rant ou
animateur. Celui-ci d�pose la question dans une base de donn�es sur
Internet. La question est recueillie par une �quipe "service r�ponse" qui
transmet la question � un ou des experts du domaine. La r�ponse fournie par
l'expert est d�pos�e dans la base de donn�es pour que le g�rant ou
animateur du t�l�centre puisse la communiquer � l'agriculteur et recueillir
ses r�actions ou questions compl�mentaires.

Cette approche a aussi �t� exp�riment�e en Jama�que et en Afrique du Sud.

Il est possible de consulter le site du RUNetwork
�  http://www.runetwork.de/html/en/ (anglais) or
http://www.runetwork.de/html/fr/ (fran�ais).

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Afligido para el plazo, estoy actualmente en Burkina Faso y l'acc�s se
limita.

  No administro del t�l�centre en particular pero como asesor en tecnolog�a
de l'information para el desarrollo podr�a presentar varios ejemplos. La
que me viene a l'esprit procede de Ben�n. S'agit d' se acerca innovadora
the corretaje de l'information. Para resumir, el sistema en cuesti�n
permite proporcionar informaci�n a agricultores utilizando las tecnolog�as
de l'information e Internet. Tomemos l'exe siguiente. Un agricultor que
encuentra un problema particular se vuelve al t�l�centre y plantea el
problema al gerente o animador. �ste deposita la cuesti�n en una base de
datos en Internet. Un equipo "service recoge la cuesti�n r�ponse" qui�n
transmite la cuesti�n a unos o m�s expertos del �mbito. La respuesta
proporcionada por l'expert se deposita en la base de datos para que el
gerente o animador de t�l�ce pueda comunicarlo a l'agriculteur y recoger
sus reacciones o cuestiones complementarias.

Este enfoque tambi�n se experiment� en Jamaica y Sud�frica.

Es posible consultar el lugar del RUNetwork a
http://www.runetwork.de/html/en/(ingl�s) ahora bien
http://www.runetwork.de/html/fr/(franc�s).


cyrille



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