ABSTRACT
Telecentres provide public access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for educational, personal, social and economic development. There are numerous examples of telecentres throughout the developing world. For example, the Canadian government’s International Development Research Center (IDRC) supports many typical telecentre projects in Africa (the ACACIA Project) and in Asia (the Pan Asia Network, IDRC). Individual telecentres have been shown to foster profound developmental outcomes within the communities they serve. Despite promising indicators from a number of pilot telecentre projects, the question of sustaining any successes that emerge always arises.
