[UgaBYTES] [ciresearchers] FW: telecentre.org newsletter, October 2008

[gkwagner at via.at]

Dear colleague in Africa,

there are three major types of funding:

1) PUBLIC funding:
has many disadvantages since the telecenter
becomes dependent from Government.

2) BUSINESS funding:
e.g. by banks, telcos.
not a PPP, but a private-private funding model.

3) Even more effective: CITIZEN FUNDING
establish a kind of foundation/trust
either in the legal form of association or
_Genossenschaft_ (sorry, I miss the English term; a kind of trust).
So 1000 to 2000 citizens became stakeholder in such
an association and contribute to the telecenter.

You may combine also 2) and 3).

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Following the arguments and experience of Klaus
in Latin America I would recommend more a PRIVATE
financial model instead of a PUBLIC one.

But you might even try to make a financial mix as
follows:
- 25 percent by local government
- 25 percent by businesses
- 25 percent by citizens
- 25 percent by income from selling services

kind regards from Vienna and Belgrade,


Gerhard

Zitat von Michael Gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com>:

> Good question... My strong sense is that funding opportunities would be
> country specific that is would be based on either national programs or
> national/regional programs of the various agencies but I'll share it with
> the list where I'm sure there is a lot more collective knowledge on this
> than I possess...
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> You might also want to direct the question to ugabytes
> ugabytes at lists.ugabytes.org which is a very active and useful list of
> telecentre managers and others based in Uganda but covering most of
> sub-Saharan Africa and beyond.
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> MG
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> Michael,
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> Do you know of sources of funding for starting
> a telecentre in a developing country?
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> West Africa is the context.
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