While often modern technology tends to bypass local communities in remote regions, recent technological advancements in communications have erased geographical distances, and infra-structural bottlenecks: located in some fifty kilometers north of Kampala, Uganda, in a remote village, the Nakaseke Multi-purpose Community Tele-center, has introduced new information, and communication technologies to this rural area, and catalyzed a number of development activities in the region. The Tele-center is part of a chain of five donor supported Tele-center projects in Africa, whose overall objective is to stimulate rural development, by facilitating access to information, learning resources, and communication technologies by the Nakaseke, and Kasangombe communities, and to support improved medical services through telemedicine. The early involvement of the communities, helped mainstream Tele-center issues into community activities, by localizing its applications to an understandable level for the communities. Nakaseke is a successful example of transferring the maintenance costs from donors, to the local communities, thereby moving towards sustainable local ownership. Among its challenges, the development of a framework for information dissemination, sharing, and networking is in the process, by forging practical linkages within information communication technology initiatives in, and outside the country.
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2000/12/31
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Informativo
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No. do relatório
22133
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Nº do volume
1
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1
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2001/09/18
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Disclosed
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Nome do documento
Uganda : information technology and rural development - the Nakaseke multi-purpose telecenter
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farmer;knowledge and learning;indigenous knowledge;information and communication;flow of information;ethnographic research method;source of funding;process of trial;local farmer;agricultural information;agricultural growth;teaching staff;record keeping;documentation systems;daily operation;community program;reading culture;information package;learning resource;resource center;root crop;telephone line;community telecenters;tax collection;knowledge capture;construction work;community trade;business practice;local ownership;commercial environment;rural community;data gathering;ict application;farming system;research result;community workers;school child;school community;market rate;fundraising activities;crop price;community ownership;local farming;on-line trading;daily activity;fax service;organizational structure;post harvest;Support for Agriculture;agricultural productivity;extension worker;rural area;young people;remote village;audio recording;copy services;remote region;computer application;medical service;informal transfer;medical practitioner;Agricultural Extension;
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