[Telecentres] FYI: ITU Launches Multipurpose Community Telecentre Initiative in Africa

[Mikhail Doroshevich]

ITU Launches Multipurpose Community Telecentre Initiative in Africa

Geneva, 10 January 2005 - The International Telecommunication Union
(ITU) is launching an initiative to establish a network of at least 100
Multipurpose Community Telecentres (MCTs) in 20 African countries. The
MCTs will provide critical access for communities to Information and
Communication Technologies (ICT), to help ensure these communities can
obtain the social and economic benefits that come with participation in
the Information Society.

The MCTs are to be managed by women, which will enable them to actively
participate in the development and decision-making processes of the
African continent. This initiative is in partial fulfillment of the
commitment made by 175 countries to a Plan of Action at the first phase
of the World Summit on the Information Society to extend the benefits of
ICTs to all of humanity.

http://www.itu.int/newsroom/press_releases/2005/02.html