The first week of the Ugabytes e-conference has had a very interesting and useful discussion on ‘telecentres and solar’. One of the highlights is a brief case study on solar at the Nakaseke telecentre:
More Nakaseke telecentre runs on solar→

Portland, OR, USA –  May 19, 2006: While I rarely get excited about new computer hardware, the release of Intel‘s new Community PC platform is worth noting. According to Tony Salvador, the genesis of this machine can be traced back to a simple question: “How can we give telecentres more up time so that they can serve more people, offer more services and generate more income?” The answer was to build a basic PC that addressed the constant challenges of power, dirt and heat faced by rural telecentres. More Power (conscious) PC→

Portland, OR, USA –  May 19, 2006: In my books, anyone with a slide bullet that reads: “find and work with fellow travelers” is worth paying attention to. Our new colleagues from Intel had just such a bullet. More Fellow travellers→

Redmond and Bellvue, WA, USA – May 16 – 18, 2006: Jumping from group to group at Microsoft‘s first ever Community Affairs Summit, I felt like had gone around the world in 30 seconds. The room was filled with people from every corner of the planet (okay, it was pointed out that there was no one from Antarctica) … and all of them were dedicated to rolling out Microsoft’s Unlimited Potential program. 120 people in one room talking about how to do a better job of funding telecentres. That’s my kind of party. More Around the world in 30 seconds→

Colombo, Sri Lanka – May 8+9, 2006: Peer to peer. Partner to partner. People to people. We’ve built P2P thinking into the DNA telecentre.org program from the very beginning. The idea is simple: if you connect the right set of smart, passionate, creative people to each other, the task of amping up the telecentre movement will take care of itself. More P2P movement making→

Moratuwa, Sri Lanka – May 5+6, 2006: Last May, it became clear that Sri Lanka would be an excellent place to learn about building telecentre networks. The ingredients: small country; rapidly growing telecentre movement; supportive and active government ICT agency; NGO / government / private sector involvement in rural computing. And, as the mixing bowl: a desire amongst key players to collaborate. More Why it’s (net)working in Sri Lanka→

More Sarvodaya circles (again)→

Moratuwa, Sri Lanka – May 1, 2006: It’s always inspiring to a
family grow and evolve. This is exactly what I witnessed last night at
the opening of the second Sri Lanka telecentre family workshop at Sarvodaya headquarters in
Moratuwa. More Telecentre family gathering→

Paris, France – March 23 + 24, 2006 More Getting better all the time→