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<title>ICTs have the ability to improve the livelihood of people living in rural areas for social and economic development they empower grassroots with information ranging from agriculture, farming, business, health, education to political.</title>
<link>http://www.ugabytes.org/telecentretimes/?c=129&amp;a=1161</link>
<description><![CDATA[ It’s always said that an informed community is an empowered one for all kinds of growth. Realizing their valuable use, telecentres have been planted in various rural communities to promote the use of ICTs for Development. Do you think their impact is positive?

Read some of the view from members within the Telecentre movement about May's issue.]]></description>
<author>UgaBYTES Initiatives</author>
<category>TechNet</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 04:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The Global Information Technology Report 2008-2009</title>
<link>http://www.ugabytes.org/telecentretimes/?c=137&amp;a=1160</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Denmark and Sweden once again lead the rankings of The Global Information Technology Report 2008-2009, released for the eighth consecutive year by the World Economic Forum out of 134 countries. The United States follows suit at third followed by Singapore (4), Switzerland (5) and the other Nordic countries together with the Netherlands and Canada complete the top 10. The Report which remains the world’s most comprehensive and authoritative international assessment of the impact of ICT on the development process and the competitiveness of nations is based on three key components, the Environment component, the Readiness component and the Usage component. In Africa, Tunisia remains the leader of the thirty countries of the continent followed by Mauritius (51), South Africa (52), Egypt(76), Botswana(77), Senegal(80), Morocco(86), Nigeria(90), Gambia(91), Namibia(92), Kenya(97), Libya (101), Zambia (102), Ghana(103), Mali(107), Algeria(108), Mauritania (109), Malawi (110), Côte d’Ivoire(111), Madagascar(112), Burkina Faso(113), Lesotho(118), Tanzania(119), Uganda(120), Benin(121), Cameroon(123), Mozambique(124), Ethiopia(129), Burundi(131), Zimbabwe(132), and Chad(134) in the classification of the “Networked Readiness Index 2008-2009 “.]]></description>
<author>UgaBYTES Initiatives</author>
<category>East Africa</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 03:47:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Shinyalu Community Telecentre guarantees free access to Methods of Information and Communication to its community</title>
<link>http://www.ugabytes.org/telecentretimes/?c=133&amp;a=1159</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Shinyalu Telecentre, located at Lirhanda in Shinyalu Division, around 8Km East of Kakamega town of Western Province in Kenya is an initiative that has been warmly received not only by the smallholder farmers population but also by many other people from all walks of life including students and teachers from nearby schools who have taken an opportunity to have computer lessons, tap the wealth of information on the internet, as well as a means of communication.]]></description>
<author>By Robinson Mukangayi, Kenya</author>
<category>Social-development</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 03:23:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Development and Promotion of Handbook on ‘Technology for Women’</title>
<link>http://www.ugabytes.org/telecentretimes/?c=133&amp;a=1158</link>
<description><![CDATA[ In March 2009, D.NET organized a national workshop on achieving Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and the focus was mainly on the development and promotion of a handbook ‘’Technology for Women’’- whose aim is to encourage women to meaningfully participate in technology development through appropriate processes.]]></description>
<author>Fatema Begum Labony, Bangladesh</author>
<category>Social-development</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 03:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Who is sitting there? Preliminary Results of an Investigation</title>
<link>http://www.ugabytes.org/telecentretimes/?c=141&amp;a=1155</link>
<description><![CDATA[ There have been few opportunities for telecentres in Central America meet and reflect upon their actions. This opportunity took place in San Jose, Costa Rica where in March the 3rd and 4th about 40 people from different countries: Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama and Costa Rica were together. All of them wanted to perform this important task; reflect on the successes, challenges and lessons learned from investing in ICT4D to reduce the digital gap for the last twenty years. In this context, Kemly Camacho, coordinator of research and development of Sula Batsú (organization that hosted the event), gave a presentation on a global research (diagnosis) of access points to information. This research was promoted by the University of Washington and was conducted in 23 countries worldwide. In the case of Central America, Costa Rica, Honduras and the Dominican Republic were included.]]></description>
<author>Luiza Caldas</author>
<category>Easy Times</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 01:51:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Telecentres have helped in the growth of  ICTs among rural communities</title>
<link>http://www.ugabytes.org/telecentretimes/?c=135&amp;a=1154</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Bob Lyazi is the Director of Rural Communications Development Fund (RCDF), a project operating under Uganda Communications Commission (UCC). He is also the chairman of the Association of the Universal Service and Access Funds for Africa (AUSAFA), the continental body established  by the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organization (CTO) that is responsible for the establishment of RCDF projects to the rest of other African countries. Francis Mwathi talked to him about his work and how it’s enabling development in rural and inaccessible areas through ICT connectivity.]]></description>
<author>UgaBYTES Initiatives</author>
<category>Product-development</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 08:44:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>CHES program for rural based Hospitals is launched</title>
<link>http://www.ugabytes.org/telecentretimes/?c=139&amp;a=1153</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Mobile technology is proving to be a major cost and time saver in the medical environment and as a result, represents a significant evolutionary step in the field of modern medical treatment and preventive care. The tremendous growth of wireless technologies has introduced the potential of continuous health care monitoring for mobile patients.]]></description>
<author>Francis Mwathi, Uganda</author>
<category>Opinion</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 08:19:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Mobile phone banking (m-banking)- a key note in promoting development today</title>
<link>http://www.ugabytes.org/telecentretimes/?c=125&amp;a=1152</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Providing financial services/ access such as savings, deposits, money and remittances is vital to reducing poverty. Finances can enable poor people to invest in productive assets like agriculture, livestock and poultry or help expand a business.

In many developing countries however, most people do not have access to basic financial services. Poor people are often considered viable customers by formal financial institutions as their transactions are small and many live in remote areas beyond the reach of banks or their networks. Even still, informal banking services e.g. micro finances and savings associations remain limited in their reach. In order for financial institutions to view the poor as viable customers, new ways of serving them profitably have been explored with the introduction of m-banking.]]></description>
<author>Sandra Nassali, Uganda</author>
<category>Lead Story</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 08:12:00 GMT</pubDate>
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