[Telecentres] Guide to Rural Telecentres Published in Brazil

[Mikhail Doroshevich]

Guide to Rural Telecentres Published in Brazil
09-03-2005 (UNESCO Brasilia)

A "Guide to Rural Telecentres" (Guia Gemas da Terra de Telecentros
Rurais) was recently published by the Brazilian NGO Gemas da Terra. The
Guide, that was produced with resources from UNESCO's Information for
All Programme, is aimed at helping Portuguese-speaking communities to
establish community multimedia telecentres in rural areas.

Gemas da Terra is a network of rural community telecentres in
communities with less than 2,500 members. The project started end of
2001 when Marco Figueiredo, a former NASA engineer, moved to Sao Goncalo
do Rio das Pedras, a community of about 1,500 people in the
Jequitinhonha Valley, one of the poorest areas of Brazil. Communities in
Sao Goncalo do Rio das Pedras, Milho Verde, Tombadouro, Conselheiro Mata
and Rodeador worked together to develop a model for establishing
self-sustainable rural community telecentres and the first telecentre,
established in Sao Goncalo do Rio das Pedras, was operational in
November 2003.

The guide can be downloaded, together with an open-source software to be
used in telecentres, from the website of Gemas da Terra.

http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=18376&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_S
ECTION=201.html

http://www.gemasdaterra.org.br/recursos/manuais.htm


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