Message-ID: <00cb01bef49f$6e414020$4e9d22c4@i2p4k8> Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 19:25:53 +0200 From: Jonathan Miller <mailto:jonmil@ICON.CO.ZA> Subject: Telecentre Initiative To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
One of the key outcomes of the Building Information Community in Africa (BICA) international event held in South Africa last February was the proposal to produce a CD and associated Website to serve the worldwide telecentre community. The objective was to create a medium to collate and continuously deliver critical information to telecentre operators and potential operators as well as other stakeholders. This would allow them to initiate and sustain telecentres throughout the world.We have now put together a proposal to meet that need and I'm delighted to advise that the British Council (the major sponsor of BICA) and the ITU have endorsed it and will likely provide seed funding to get the project going.
This e-mail is to invite you to consider contributing content to the CD and the Website. Should you express your interest below, we will immediately send you a summary of the full proposal.
Our intention is to produce the first edition of the CD within the next two months, because it has been identified as a key deliverable for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting due to take place in South Africa in November. Even better, we may be able to have a prototype ready by ADF 1999, in which case we will request the opportunity to have it on display there.
Please mark the relevant items below with a YES and return this e-mail to us:
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Please send me the summary proposal for the Telecentra CD and Web Site....
I have/am preparing material such as telecentre manuals, business planning models, approaches to achieve sustainability, empirical research, case studies, etc., that I would like to contribute to the CD ... (attach documents, or point to web site if you wish)
I know people who may be interested in this project/ have material they may wish to contribute .. (contact details please)
Please keep me informed as to progress on this project ..
Please send me the CD when it is ready .. ___________________________________
Kind regards
Jonathan Miller Peter Frampton
Telecentra Publishing P O Box 26138 Hout Bay 7872 South Africa