[Telecentres] >>: Ensuring Sustainability of Rural Telecenters: Lessons from Sri Lanka - TODAY!!, 12:30 - 2:00 pm EST

[Mikhail Doroshevich]

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Тема: Ensuring Sustainability of Rural Telecenters: Lessons from Sri
Lanka - TODAY!!, 12:30 - 2:00 pm EST


World Bank

           Invites you to take part in a seminar/live webcast/chat on


                 Ensuring Sustainability of Rural Telecenters:
                             Lessons from Sri Lanka


       Speaker:  Ismail Radwan, Senior PSD Specialist, SASFP, World Bank

                                  Discussant:

                     Judy Payne, e-Business Advisor, USAID

      Chair: Robert Schware, Lead Informatics Specialist, GICT,
Co-Chair,
                                e-Development TG

                           Tuesday, January 17, 2005

                               12:30 pm ? 2:00 pm

                Room I1-200, 1850 I Street NW Washington DC USA

           LIVE WEBCAST AND ARCHIVED VIDEOCLIP WILL BE ALSO AVAILABLE

             Live Webcast will start at 12:30 pm EST on Jan. 17 at:
                        http://vcg01.worldbank.org/eDev

                              PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:

With two different and complementary models of telecenter operating in
Sri Lanka with the support of the e-Sri Lanka initiative, Sri Lanka
provides a useful early case study of the potential sustainability of
the telecenter model. Ismail Radwan, TTL for the E-Sri Lanka project
will present a short synopsis of the two models currently in operation.
He will also present a short video shot on location at some of Sri
Lanka's telecenters and draw some early lessons from experience to date.

Do rural telecenters make sense?  How to make them sustainable? What are
the pros and cons of various approaches?

Come and join us for this lively debate on rural telecenters!

Speaker bio.

Ismail Radwan is a Senior PSD Specialist in South Asia Finance and
Private Sector Development Unit.  He has been based in  Colombo, Sri
Lanka since January 2005 in order to effectively supervise the e-Sri
Lanka project from the field. He manages several  other Bank projects in
the region.  Ismail has a background as a management consultant as well
as working in the Ministry of  Finance in Namibia from 1993-1996.  He
holds an undergraduate degree in economics from Oxford and a master's
degree from  Wharton.

Feel free to forward this invitation to other colleagues, everyone is
welcome!

Participants from outside the Bank DO NOT need a building pass for this
seminar. No registration needed for the live webcast/chat. For further
information on the seminar or to join our mailing list, please write to
edevelopment at worldbank.org, visit http://www.worldbank.org/edevelopment
or contact Oleg Petrov at 202-4738861




Best regards,
Mikhail Doroshevich
E-Belarus.ORG
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