In Hungary it is typical, that local governments are supporting telehouses, partly susidising, partly buying services, particularly computer and Internet education (e.g. for school pupils, also for teachers). It is also can be organised by grants (e.g. Internet education for adutlts). We in Hungary are standing for community access as public task, which should be financed to a given extent (it is a big battle to what level, most of local governments do it by their own initiative now) by the governmental (central/local) budget. Matyas Gaspar, Europen Union of Telecottage Associations, president
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Donald Z. Osborn Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 6:47 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Telecentres] NGOs buying telecenter connect time to give away? A correspondent with recent experience in Mali noted that many telecenters "have troubles 'selling' internet hours. So NGO's will buy large quantities to give away to the local population, especially to teachers, doctors and the like...." Is this a common practice in other countries / projects? What does it say about sustainability of a telecenter project? What ideas to make such practice work better or to avoid it enirely? I'll BCC the individual who told me this. At a later time it may be interesting to share an ideas they are working on. Don Osborn 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
