[UgaBYTES] Are n't Internet cafes becoming a threat to telecentres?

[gkwagner at via.at]

Perfect Polly, I agree with your point.

The major point is to achieve a well-done division of labour
between
- public sector
- private sector
- and the third sector (NGOs, business associations).

You will be surprised that even in a (semi-communist) town as Vienna
public corporations or outsourced semi-private corporations
knock out small innovative private companies.
Incredible stories. Yes, you can address courts and competition law.
But no small company will win that battle.

most countries fail in that regard in Europe.
Except switzerland and some Skandinavian countries.
There civil servants argue that plenty of task are NOT their job
and could be done better by private sector or NGOs.

kind regards,


Gerhard (Austria)



Zitat von Polly Gaster <polly.gaster at uem.mz>:

> Meddie _ I shd add one point. It sometimes seems to me that the main threat
> to
> telecentres in the traditional meaning of the word isn't the private sector
> but government - yet telecentre.org (to name but one) seems more and more
> interested in working with largescale government IT initiatives - or UN or
> whatever - which are being called telecentres, part of the network, etc, and
> what's being lost is the community ownership, empowerment and participation
> component. I'm not saying that government placing access points in rural
> areas, etc, is a bad thing, just questioning that in view of this trend maybe
> the whole telecentre movement needs rethinking?
>
> It may be that this is more important for us in Mozambique than for other
> countries because we are going down the CMC road, and it is certainly not
> acceptable to have government running the community radios! At the same time,
> we do say that citizens have a right to information and its part of
> government's task to facilitate access to that right - but not through
> ownership.
>
> This still bring us back to the same old question - is simple access to
> equipment and e-government services enough? Who pays? Is the trend away from
> community ownership definitive?
>
> Polly
>
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