Latest TelecentresAfrica News

Impilo Foundation, Zandspruit Johannesburg

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:43:14 GMT

Impilo Foundation is a non-profit company formed in 2010, based in Johannesburg.

The Impilo Team aims to assist communities in low-income and semi-formal settlements around Johannesburg use information and communication technologies (ICTs) to support socio-economic development. They work with various partners to increase availability

NetAfrica takes another Leap

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:03:46 GMT

Following the successful bid by Rwanda Telecentre Network (RTN) to host NetAfrica, one of the immediate priorities

NICE International

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 08:21:24 GMT

NICE International BV is a social venture that has developed the NICE Concept: a business model to distribute development products and services in BoP markets, through a network of solar-powered ICT centers operated by local entrepreneurs on a franchise-basis. NICE aims to unleash the potential of people in developing countries through

Malawi establishes a national telecentre network

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 08:55:18 GMT

Networks are increasingly becoming important forms of communities of practice (COPs) where knowledge, information and resources are shared among members of the network. Through online or face- to- face meetings, networks are critical to mobilising knowledge resources through which members can use individually or at organisational level. During the past

e-mpower Africa June 2012 newsletter

Sun, 29 Jul 2012 06:09:53 GMT

e-mpower Africa Online Newsletter is a monthly publication of the Knowledge Network of African Community Telecentres(KNACT) and supported by Read more...

Young Innovators Competition at ITU Telecom World 2012

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:23:14 GMT

This is an opportunity for young professionals to shine a global ICT spotlight on their innovative ideas and digital creativity.

Enter the Young Innovators Competition at ITU Telecom World 2012 (in Dubai, 14-18 October 2012) to show the world how your fresh thinking and talent for technology can provide real-world solutions

Launch of the 2012 - 2013 Africa-wide Women and Young Professionals in Science competitions

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:45:43 GMT

Call for Abstracts: ´Feeding 1 billion in Africa in a changing world´. Deadline: 14 May 2012.

The CTA/ FARA/IFS/ ANAFE/ RUFORUM consortium, in collaboration with AGRA and NPCA, is pleased to announce the launch of its 2012-2013 Africa-wide women and young professionals in science competitions. With a population of approximately 1.03

Train the Most Women to Become Digitally Literate and win 15,000 Swiss Francs worth of ICTequipment

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:41:40 GMT

Telecentre Women Digital Literacy Campaign Contest: Help us achieve the goal of training 1 million women by the year-end 2012!

Calling all partners! Telecentre.org Foundation (TCF) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) are hosting a contest (“Contest”) to award ICT equipment to the telecentre that trains the most number of women

ICT Update magazine is looking for articles for our forthcoming issue on Teleservices.

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:47:15 GMT

We would like to hear from anyone developing technology services telecentres, ICT training facilities, cell phone services to bring information, particularly agricultural information, to rural parts of African, Caribbean and Pacific countries.

If you are involved in providing such services

A knowledge economy begins at the grass roots

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:15:29 GMT

By Therese Burke, CTA; Koda Traoré, CTA

The telecentre movement is nothing new. As an effective service for improving the livelihoods of rural communities, it is a model which exists the world over. Picture a telecentre in Africa, and the image of