Publication: Uganda - Information Technology and Rural Development : The Nakaseke Multi-Purpose Telecenter
Date
2000-12
ISSN
Published
2000-12
Author(s)
Prakash, Siddhartha
Abstract
While often modern technology tends to
bypass local communities in remote regions, recent
technological advancements in communications have erased
geographical distances, and infra-structural bottlenecks:
located in some fifty kilometers north of Kampala, Uganda,
in a remote village, the Nakaseke Multi-purpose Community
Tele-center, has introduced new information, and
communication technologies to this rural area, and catalyzed
a number of development activities in the region. The
Tele-center is part of a chain of five donor supported
Tele-center projects in Africa, whose overall objective is
to stimulate rural development, by facilitating access to
information, learning resources, and communication
technologies by the Nakaseke, and Kasangombe communities,
and to support improved medical services through
telemedicine. The early involvement of the communities,
helped mainstream Tele-center issues into community
activities, by localizing its applications to an
understandable level for the communities. Nakaseke is a
successful example of transferring the maintenance costs
from donors, to the local communities, thereby moving
towards sustainable local ownership. Among its challenges,
the development of a framework for information
dissemination, sharing, and networking is in the process, by
forging practical linkages within information communication
technology initiatives in, and outside the country.
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Citation
“Prakash, Siddhartha. 2000. Uganda - Information Technology and Rural Development : The Nakaseke Multi-Purpose Telecenter. Indigenous Knowledge (IK) Notes; No. 27. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10811 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”