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Rural access and telecentres

Rethinking telecentre sustainability: how to implement a social enterprise approach

This article examines telecentre sustainability using experiences from India and Africa to review three telecentre sustainability models.

These three approaches are analysed:
- The social development approach
- The enterprise or information kiosk approach
- The social enterprise approach

It concludes by recommending that networking within communities can lead to a balanced social enterprise model addressing both development needs and financial sustainability.

 

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