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

[Kiringai Kamau]

Gerhard's post is definitely true, with my bias going for the more
sustainable though last option which provides the integrated mix of his
first funding models.

 

Bring the Government, Business and Community together without regard to the
level of investment may provide an even better perspective in many countries
in Africa. With the ITU sanctioned access perspective going through the
government, there is little doubt that moist investment should come from the
government, but there must be a willing private sector to promote the
business thinking and supply the much needed technological support to the
community which will provide the market or user-base.

 

In poor economies therefore success is driven by public resources and an
entrepreneurial perspective coming from the private sector.

 

Unfortunately this is the only model that works, much as some donors do not
like seeing government involvement.

 

Kiringai

 

 

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

 

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

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> -----Original Message-----

> Sent: October-09-08 3:43 PM

> To: Michael Gurstein

> Subject: Re: [ciresearchers] FW: telecentre.org newsletter, October 2008

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> 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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