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A Short History of Telecentres andWhy the European Telecentre Network isSo Important!
Rich Fuchs, Director, IDRCIstanbul, TurkeyOctober 14, 2009
1. Do you think telecentres have been successful?
2. What impact have telecentres had?
3. What are the main barriers for helping communities participatein the Knowledge Economy?
4. What is the role of telecentres in the current economic downturn?
5. What advice do you have for the evolving Telecentre Europe Network?
1st Telecentre ever, 1985-Velmdalen, SwedenHenning Albrechtson,
Founder of the first telecentre
1st North American Telecentre-Clarenville, Newfoundland, Canada 1989
We Are…One global community of more than 200 networks and
organizations that work with 80,000 grassroots telecentres.Spread over 70 countries,
reaching 40,000,000 telecentre users.One virtual community with 3000 + online members interacting in
English, Spanish, French and Arabic.
Access Awareness Diffusion
•Cecep Sabiya*Samurai Swords*No Phone, noFax, no computer*Sells to distributor*Business is good!
•Abdullah•Hospital andlawn furniture•Has computerand email
•Pak Amin•Makes metalfurniture•Is about to buy a computer
InnovatorsEarly Adopters
Early Majority Late Majority Laggards
Innovators Early Adopters Early Majority
Late Majority
Laggards
Skewed to the left distribution = More Late Technology Adopters
Technology Adoption Life CycleTechnology Adoption Life Cycle
Before
After
Telecentres……….•“Make” the Market•Build Community Awareness•Help make the first local entrepreneurs•Help build the ICT polity•Broaden the Knowledge Economy
“Ignore the Late Majority and the Laggards”Geoffrey Moore, Speaking at JAVAOne, San Francisco,June 1998 as reported inhttp://www.javasoft.com/features/1998/06/chasm
•The Enterprise Model
•The Adoption Model
•The Trigger ModelE-WayTelecentre
Sustainabilities
What telecentre.org is trying to do about this!!!
telecentre.org2005 – 2010
What Was Accomplished
telecentre.org2005 – 2010
What Was Accomplished
• Establishing and networking the telecentre movement
• Training knowledge workers at the Base of the Pyramid
• Influencing policy on shared access computing
• Leveraging resources for the telecentre movement
• Becoming the ecosystem to the telecentre movement
• Greater ICT diffusion & productivity where the poor work, live and learn. A major technology bridge to the next 3 billion at the base of the pyramid
• A live and online leader for the telecentre movement globally
• A sustainable Global Telecentre Academy
• Deepening existing network presence and building new network associations (China, Eastern Europe)
• Policy advisory & applied research roles for private and public investors
• An R&D linkage to a living digital community laboratory.
• Deepening sector focus in health, learning, micro-credit, agriculture and micro-enterprise.
telecentre.orgProgram for 2010-2015telecentre.org
Program for 2010-2015
The Future Challenge!!!!
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Fixed Mobile Internet Subscribers Internet Users Cellular internet
Temporal Distribution of ICT development from 1995 to 2007, worldwide
World ICT TrendsWorld ICT Trends
•3 billion+ more mobile than internet subscribers
Mobile
Internet
Cellular Internet
• Very small number of mobile broadband subscribers
Source: ITU Online Database: ITU ICT EYEhttp://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ICTEYE/Default.aspx
Net Mobile Subscriber Additions – Regional Break-out (In Million, 2007E – 2012E)
Slicing up the Mobile Services Revenue Pie: June 2008 Special Edition. Portio Research Ltd. (www.portioresearch.com)
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s Subscribers Users Broadband subs
Temporal trend of Internet behavior, world-wide from 2000 to 2007
•More Users than Subscribers•Higher rate of Increase for Users than Subscribers
Increase in Shared Use Computing
Source: ITU Online Database: ITU ICT EYEhttp://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ICTEYE/Default.aspx
