[UgaBYTES] How is the telecentre in your area helping community linkage to development programmes?

[Kiringai Kamau]

Dear All,

I wan to thank the community of internet users that the Telecentre movement
has become. We have seen a lot of energy in Africa with the good
institutional focus led by UGABYTES which also inspired the creation of the
first National Telecentre Academy in Africa in the Sudan courtesy of the
indefatigable effort of Mohamed Isa of GEDEREF city. Other country
telecentre initiatives are growing and indeed creating a niche for their
work.

 

We at VACID Africa have been more involved in the creation of Cottage
Industries. We are excited about the impending completion of the Kenya
government sponsored under sea fibre optic cable. We have prepared ourselves
for this by starting two critical websites, which are slowly gaining focus
and still under development. These include www.kenyaagriculture.or.ke
<http://www.kenyaagriculture.or.ke/>  and www.kenyagateways.or.ke
<http://www.kenyagateways.or.ke/> . Of course our own site at
www.vacidafrica.or.ke <http://www.vacidafrica.or.ke/>  is going to focus on
our own work while the other two will be managed by ourselves for the
development efforts in Kenya.

 

As the foregoing happens, we want to become part of the success that you
have been in your own countries and invite you to be part of what VACID
wants to see of Kenya and Africa, as we start new chapters in other
countries to address agribusiness and cottage industry development.

 

How do you become part of VACID Africa's vision.

1.    We are a network of service providers

2.    We rely on people doing what they can do best-advising others

3.    We want to create an interaction blog that is based on community
development models that sustain at the grassroots

 

To help us impact on the Kenyan development programmes and unify our country
through the internet as we go through the healing process (you know what
happened here), we want to hear about any development innovations that you
as a person or an organization believe can be factored into our development
interaction with Kenya's development partners and the government.

 

Kiringai Kamau

Founder and Value Chain Analyst

VACID Africa