Chapter 5: Ensuring Sustainability and Impact through Appropriate
Services and Content

 
  • Voice Only (level 0): either fixed line or cellular
  • PC (level 1): single PC + printer, with or without connectivity—
    a PC-based kiosk
  • PC (level 2): multiple PCs + printer(s) with connectivity—
    a multipurpose telecenter
  • PC (level 3): multimedia center—advanced computing, printing capabilities, photo and video editing, etc.

Table 10: Example of Categorization of Telecenter Services and Content
Table 10: Example of Categorization of Telecenter Services and Content

In matching these with the likely characteristics of the potential sites, we might decide that the best matches would appear to be the ones depicted
in Table 10.

This example is discussed in more detail in Chapter 9.

5.16. Selected Resources

Academy for Educational Development/Dot-ORG. (2006, December). Lesson # 5: Ensure that content is utilized by leveraging appropriate communication channels. Lessons Learned Series. dot-ORG.

Dossani, R., Jhaveri, R., and Misra, D. C. (2005, November). Enabling ICT for rural India. Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University, and National Informatics Centre. Retrieved from
http://iis-db.stanford.edu/pubs/20972/ICT_full_Oct05.pdf

Raihan, A., Hassan, M., Chowdhuri, M., and Uddin, F. (2005). Pallitathya help line: A precursor to people’s call center. Retrieved from
http://www.dnet-bangladesh.org/Pallitathya_pcc.pdf

Richardson, D. (2006, April). ICTs—Transforming agricultural extension? Report of the 6th Consultative Expert Meeting of CTA’s Observatory on ICTs. CTA Working Document No. 8034. Retrieved from
http://www.anancy.net/uploads/file_en/WD8034.pdf

 

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