[UgaBYTES] Sustainability.....are there any in africa..???..!!!

[Jose']

Dear Colleagues,
As Peter has mentioned "Issues are different from community to community".
Thats is the reason before opening a centre,you have to seek the community members opinion.
It is very very important in my own opinion because,you fulfill the communities hearts desires"

Its like when a politician comes to seek votes,he promises things and when he delivers them,
he gets back to the throne!For telecentres,if you deliver communities desires,
they have an obligation to support your en devours in serving them!!

what is it going to take to have the community sustainable ?

A community knows what they need.By involving the community in bringing their opinions and us as 
telecentre practitioners acting on them,reciprocates the community
having to bring the concept of ownership thus for anyone time,you shall create revenue,
and at the same time searve them.
Regards,
Jose'
... and then to ask what role the telecentre can have in the sustainable community.
The telecentres role in the community and the community inhabitants is to maintain,inform and keep up to date with the current changing trends in the market.The community at this point trusts in you and are willing to go there way you "walking your talk" and lending an ear to the community members.

For example,if a community says they need internet connectivity,your role is to look for the resources and man power to provide the same!after bringing the internet,inform them and charge for browsing!!to cater for the hard work done.

Peter Burgess <peterbnyc at gmail.com> wrote: Dear Colleagues

I think of telecentre sustainability at two levels:
1 .... enough cash to pay the bills and stay in business
2 .... doing something that has real socio-economic value at a cost
that is small relative to the value.

The telecentres that have been designed by the international relief
and development community tend to achieve the first by getting money
for a rather short time from the donors ... no matter what the costs,
the donors cover the bills for this short time. When the donors end
their support, these telecentres are in trouble.

But worse, the question of socio-economic value has not been
sufficiently addressed and often there is not much real useful
socio-economic value and the costs are high, and there is not even
sustainability at the level 2.

If a telecentre strategy is designed around what is going to be useful
in the community ... what is going to be affordable by the community
... what technology can be low cost and satisfy criteria 1 ... then
there is a chance.

Issues are different from community to community ... but the role of
jobs in the community and cash to pay for services is a part of the
problem and solution. Telecentres are probably the best tech job in
the community, and perhaps the only tech job in the community ... but
the value of giving jobs to this group of people is NOT, sadly a way
to telecentre sustainability.

Perhaps the first and biggest question is to find out what is it going
to take to have the community sustainable ... and then to ask what
role the telecentre can have in the sustainable community.

Sincerely

Peter Burgess

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Peter Burgess
The Transparency and Accountability Network: Tr-Ac-Net in New York
www.tr-ac-net.org
IMMC - The Integrated Malaria Management Consortium Inc.
www.IMMConsortium.org
917 432 1191 or 212 772 6918  peterbnyc at gmail.com

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Jose' Njuki-Imwe Ngunjiri || +254 722 336754 || 
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