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telecentre.org is investing in a future where people running telecentres are constantly connected to each other, sharing ideas, swapping resources, and lending a helping hand. This is a future with vibrant telecentres in hundreds of thousands of communities around the world. It’s a future where information and knowledge are available to all.

As a starting point, we are making social investments that support the work of seven regional telecentre networks. These investments will go to:

• Chile, where the ATACH network will help telecentres move beyond access and training, into new e-government and local democracy efforts
• India, where the National Alliance for Mission 2007 will forge a train-the-trainer program to eventually build a pool of hundreds of thousands of skilled village knowledge workers
• Mozambique, where UNESCO’s Community Multimedia Centre program and others will provide training, technical support and knowledge sharing services for telecentres across the country
• South Africa, where the Universal Service Agency, Microsoft Digital Villages and SangoNet will train small telecentre operators in social enterprise development
• Sri Lanka, where Sarvodaya and eSriLanka will set up a national network to connect social entrepreneurs and community organizers running telecentres
• Uganda, where UgaBytes will extend the support and training services that it offers to telecentres across East Africa
• The Americas, where the Telecentres of the Americas Partnership will create a learning exchange for telecentre operators from across the hemisphere

We’re also working with a number of partners to build out global services that support the capacity of telecentre networks. This includes work with TakingITGlobal to create an online ’ecosystem’ that connects telecentre websites in dozens of countries; and a series of workshops with NESsT that will provide social enterprise coaching and business planning support for telecentre networks.

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