[Olpc-open] [bytesforall_readers] RE: [UgaBYTES] Rwanda Telecentre Network (RTN) to organize the firstTelecentre leaders forum

[Edward Cherlin]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 6:02 AM, Meddie Mayanja <mmayanja at idrc.ca> wrote:
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> Paul, hi
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> Thanks for sharing with us this nice piece of news. Which month is the
> event?
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> Are you inviting telecentre practitioners from around the region too?

Have you invited anybody from One Laptop Per Child, or the people in
the Rwandan Ministry of Education who are working with them? We are
going to deliver more than 10,000 XO laptops to Rwanda, localized into
Kinyarwanda, later this year. The XO has built-in mesh networking, so
that all of the children in a school can communicate with each other,
whether or not there is an Internet connection. We will supply school
servers containing large chunks of Wikipedia in English and local
languages so that villages without Internet connections can get some
of the rich information content from the Internet anyway. We also have
more than 10,000 XOs for Ethiopia, and are talking to almost all
governments about putting them in schools all over Africa and indeed
the whole world.

We have heard that Nigerian schoolchildren in pre-production trials
have created an XO Hospital for repairs, and the first Igbo spelling
checker dictionary.

I also work with OneVillage Foundation Ghana, which has a telecenter
project in Winneba.

> Meddie
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> Telecentre Network Leaders
> Subject: [UgaBYTES] Rwanda Telecentre Network (RTN) to organize the
> firstTelecentre leaders forum
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> Dear friends,
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> For the first time from 16th to 18th April this year, Rwanda Telecentre (RTN
> ) will bring together 70 people  for 3 days to talk about  Telecentres.
> Participants include Telecentre operators and other key players in Rwanda
> Telecentre movement. The forum will be hosted by Nyamata Telecentre located
> a t 30 Kms from Kigali.
> RITA (Rwanda Information Technology Authority) through e-Rwanda project has
> committed to provide possible financial resources for the event.
>  The first Rwanda Telecentre leaders forum has been conceptualized to bring
> local Telecentre practitioners in a platform for learning and sharing
> experiences, and to discuss critical issues that are affecting the growth of
> Rwanda Telecentre movement.
>
> Paul BARERA
> Chairman Rwanda Telecentre Network
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Edward Cherlin
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