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

[Mark Farahani]

I like this discussion-can you please state more for each?where does government funding falls,i always get confused with what is community and government.Also this word donor funding is very common-how do we take this.
Thanks
Mark

--- On Fri, 10/10/08, gkwagner at via.at <gkwagner at via.at> wrote:

> From: gkwagner at via.at <gkwagner at via.at>
> Subject: Re: [UgaBYTES] [ciresearchers] FW: telecentre.org newsletter, October 2008
> To: ciresearchers at vancouvercommunity.net, "Michael Gurstein" <gurstein at gmail.com>
> Cc: ugabytes at lists.ugabytes.org, ciresearchers at vancouvercommunity.net
> Date: Friday, October 10, 2008, 12:22 AM
> 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).
> 
> **************
> 
> 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...
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > MG
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Sent: October-09-08 3:43 PM
> > To: Michael Gurstein
> > Subject: Re: [ciresearchers] FW: telecentre.org
> newsletter, October 2008
> >
> >
> >
> > Michael,
> >
> > Do you know of sources of funding for starting
> > a telecentre in a developing country?
> >
> > West Africa is the context.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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