 May, 2011 - Vol 1, Issue 10 |
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| News from Telecentre.org | Telecentre.org Foundation is pleased to announce that the new corporate website is now available at www.telecentre.org. The new website offer a user-friendly, easy to navigate interface which provides easy access to information on the Foundation's programme pillars, core activities, and many more. Read more The Global Search for 100 Outstanding Telecentre Women Managers 2011 is an integral part of the Telecentre Women:Digital Literacy Campaign, organized by the ITU and Telecentre.org Foundation. Nominations now open for this year's Global Search for 100 Outstanding Telecentre Women Managers and nomination guidelines have been posted on the Telecentre Women: Digital Literacy Campaign website. Read More |
| | 605th Nenasala (Telecentre) is opened in Sri Lanka
|  "Computer and information and communication technology are powerful weapons in the country's development war", Telecommunication and Information Technology Minister of Sri Lanka, Ranjith Siyambalapitiya said recently. The Minister said so while participating at the inauguration of the 605th Nenasala 'wisdom outlet' under President Mahinda Rajapaksa's concept of setting up 1000 Nenasala wisdom outlets island-wide. This 605th wisdom outlet was set up at the Udowita Undugoda Sri Bimbarama temple in Mabopitiya in Kegalle, Sri Lanka. Speaking further on the occasion the Minister said: "The war of restoring peace in the country has by now been successfully completed under the leadership of President Mahinda Rajapaksa. What we now have is the war of developing the country. Information and Communication Technology is pivotal in the development war. Read MORE |
| Region 3 Community e Centre managers in Philippines: One for all, all for one | | 
The CeC Managers of various LGUs in Region 3 converged at the Central Luzon State University on May 16-20, 2011 for the Basic Technical Training for CeC Managers. It was attended by eighteen (18) CeC Managers and their alternates coming from the provinces of Aurora, Bataan, Bulacan, Pampanga, Tarlac and DepEd member from Jaen Central School, Nueva Ecija. The activity was hosted by the Information Systems Institute (ISI) of CLSU, the implementing partner of the CICT- NCC- Field Operations Office in the effort of putting up a Community e-Center in every municipality in the Philippines. Read MORE |
| | | | Wiring Thailand |  Rice farmers using 3G and 4G mobile phones. Migrant tribesmen downloading satellite weather information. Children of subsistence loggers opening Facebook accounts. Buddhist monks hosting open-air IT classrooms beside their temples.Wiring Thailand opens all these perspectives. The country already has a big jump on its regional neighbours in the extent of ICT (information and communication technology) coverage. Now, however, the Government along with UN partners, is looking to extend Internet and mobile phone use throughout Thai society, including to its most remote and unconnected inhabitants. Jumped on board When word of the UN Special mission to Thailand started getting around Geneva in late 2010, the first body to jump on board was ITU (International Telecommunications Union). ITU was eager to show off its projects throughout Thailand. Once the Geneva team landed at Bangkok, an interview was quickly held at ITU regional office. It is housed in the suburban locale of the national Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MICT). ITU cooperates with the host administration (MICT), rather than being housed at UNESCAP downtown or in its own building. Read MORE |
| 20 million Bangladeshi to access internet by year-end |  The government of Bangladesh is planning to double the coverage of internet access in less than a year as part of the government's vision of Digital Bangladesh. Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications said internet users in Bangladesh would be around 20 million by the end of this year with a phenomenal increase in the internet connections. Currently, 10 million people are using internet regularly from 1.1 million internet connections. According to Internet Service Provider Association of Bangladesh, 60 internet service providers in the private sector are now offering internet services, besides the state-owned Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited. Citing the findings of a report, the official said on an average, 10 people used a connection for sending emails and browsing web sites. Considering the phenomenal growth rate, driven by increasing number of 'internet population', he said they were expecting another 10 million people on the online trail from 1 million new connections by the end of 2011. Read MORE |
| | | | APTN | Asia-Pacific Telecentre Network (APTN) is a collaborative initiative of the United Nations' Economic and Social Commission for the Asia-Pacific (UN-ESCAP) and telecentre.org and APTN Secretariat presently being hosted at ICT Agency (ICTA) Sri Lanka. The network will promote innovation and knowledge-sharing amongst Telecentre organizations in the Asia-Pacific region and it will serve as the focal network or the knowledge hub for communication and information technology in the Asia Pacific region. | | e |
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