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Rural access and telecentres

Telecentre handbook

Produced by a team at Cornell University after studying and interviewing staff from telecentres around the globe, this manual aims to bring together ideas and approaches to help communities that wish to establish a telecentre.

This comprehensive manual is also useful for telecentre staff and their trainers.

What is a telecentre? (the following is an excerpt from the Handbook's Module 1):

Telecentres have been established to give people in large and small communities access to various information technologies.  Much of the attention today is on access to computers and the Internet; however, some multi-purpose community telecentres provide information-related services involving other media such as audio and videocassettes, publications, newspapers, and community radio.

 

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