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Telecentre in IndonesiaI am interested in developing a telecentre in my place. I need more information if you have any to develop this kind of multipurpose community telecentre that is applicable in Indonesia. The telecentre, known here as 'wartel', will be completed with internet related services for public use. What is a Wartel?Wartel is a public telephone kiosk operated by private owners. PT Telkom has served rural and also urban areas with telephone kiosks which can include fax service and internet connection at some extent. These telephone kiosks, I believe, is a start-up for a telecentre setup. Regards, Re: Telecentre in IndonesiaA lot of discussion is going on about the concept of 'telecentres', which would offer all kinds of means for information exchange and communication to people in the various rural areas. There is also discussion on whether new buildings and organizations have to be introduced for these 'telecentres' or that rather existing structures and organizations should be used. In that case people would already be familiar with going to these places for some of their business or activities. The basic idea behind these centres is that in a sort of WARTEL all kinds of telecommunication and computer networking services are provided for various groups and individuals in the local community concerned. Training is amongst the services and in a number of cases they have room for people to conduct meetings, etc. Greetings, I am similarly setting up a rural telecentre in NSW Australia - and have recently completed negotiations with suppliers for ISDN Internet access (we will be operating as an ISP by the 24th of next month) - please let me know if I can help. Regards, Saya bekerja di dalam proyek "Acacia" yang di pimpin International Development Reseach Centre (IDRC), Kanada, sejak 1996. Dalam segi proyek ini, telecentres telah di coba di beberapa tempat di Afrika dan sebagian hasil percobaan ini sudah diterbikan di Internet. Silahkan anda melihat. Alamatnya: http://www.idrc.ca/acacia/stcat.htm. Kind regards, There is a growing recognition that a national network will embrace the range of skills and information necessary to be responsive to a gamut of needs and that the centers can also serve to meet individual needs for communication, and information retrieval. We are very interested in the role of the " wartels" in connecting with "hubs" for bringing about a broad base of users. Any planning effort will also be looking at the possible use of the centers as aggregators of information garned locally and used for decision-making within the community. The group whom you sought information from is a good one --- the Canadians are in the forefront of international efforts to establish national networks and have begun to move toward the strategies of a roll-out of some magnitude rather than thinking about a pilot effort here and there. Ron Epstein Quite a lot of information about telecentres (or multipurpose community centres) has been developed for in South Africa. I am sure that technology developments in Africa will face similar problems and constraints to those in Indonesia. Much of this information is online and has been linked from our site: http://www.saide.org.za. - Guidelines for making decisions about the use of technologies for education can be found at the TELI (Technology Enhanced Learning Initiative) documents - this would have relevance to establishing a telecentre which has educational usefulness. - The paper by Neil Butcher raises issues about the use of ICT's for development and gives an overview of current South African initiatives, dedicating a section to telecentres. Have a look also at the following South African sites: Universal Services Agency - http://usa.org.za/, Technology Enhanced Learning Initiative in Southern Africa (TELISA) - http://pgw.org/telisa. Both organisations are currently setting up telecentres in Southern or South Africa. Hope this is useful. Nicky Roberts I've completed two reports for IDRC which are at the ACACIA website that might be of interest. Both of them deal with telecentre start-up issues. I am also involved with supporting the Canada-Indonesia Technology Network (CITN) which is a partnership of Canada's National Research Council and Indonesia's BPPT and BANGDA, among others. I'd welcome learning more about your telecentre idea. I hope this is of assistance to you. Rich Fuchs UNESCO has been discussing the development of a multipurpose community telecentre project in Indonesia with links to basic science education in public schools, improvement of information access through school and public libraries, and improving flow of information for better government service delivery. Yours sincerely, Greetings, Mr. Suwono. My name is Dan Spealman, and I work with George Scharffenberger here at Pact in Washington, DC. Pact works to strengthen and build the capacity of civil society organizations all over the world. (You're welcome to visit our Web site at http://www.pactworld.org.) Our Indonesia office is currently looking into activities involving the Internet (and possibly telecentres) to support these organizations and their efforts. It sounds like you have a large amount of technical experience and a large amount of vision, I'd love to talk to you about some of the technical realities and how you envision non-governmental organizations utilizing the services you will be providing. Hope to hear from you soon. You can always reach me at this e-mail address. ______________ Dan Spealman |
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