Sustainable Telecenters: A Guide for Government Policy
Author: Bjorn Wellenius Date: 1/1/2003 (PDF, 200KB)
A Guide for Government Policy: For at least a decade governments and nonprofit organizations, often supported by bilateral aid, have experimented with telecenters as a means to extend access to computers, the Internet, and other information and communication services to rural and low-income urban areas of developing countries. Results have been mixed. This Note proposes a guide for government policy on telecenters conceived as private businesses—though with development functions—that are commercially sustainable beyond initial public support.