Community Multimedia Centres for egouvernance and elearning

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Community Multimedia Centresfor e-gouvernance
and e-learning

• Global Knowledge Partnership
• Annual Meeting, Addis Ababa, 4-6 April 2002
• Günther Cyranek
• Adviser for Communication Information
• UNESCO Cluster Office Addis Ababa

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Multipurpose Community Telecentres-MCT DANIDA
(1996) funds to UNESCO to support MCT pilot
projects within the HITD/AISI framework IDRC,
the ITU and UNESCO with support of several other
international partners

• Benin Malanville, a town in the far north of the
  country. VSAT
• Mali Timbuktu, a medium sized city and the
  principal regional administrative centre for the
  desert north. MCT will with a leased 64 Kb line.
• Mozambique Manhiça and Namaacha, ca 80 km from
  Maputo. Participants include Eduardo Mondlane
  University (CIUEM), teacher training institutions
• Tanzania Sengerema, a rural town on Lake
  Victoria. Tanzania Commission for Science and
  Technology, Ministries
• Uganda Nakaseke, a rural village 50 km north of
  Kampala. Uganda National Commission for UNESCO,
  Uganda Public Libraries Board, Uganda Telecom Ltd.

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Aims of MCTs

• Rural Business Centre
• Tel, fax, copy, e-mail, Internet
• Public Service Provider
• writing, printing, flyer, documents
• Information Distribution Centre
• access point to distance education material
• access point for government information,
  documents, forms,

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e-governancefor African municipalities

• UNESCO-DANIDA project in 5 African countries
• Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Tanzania, Zambia
• Main objective
• To promote free information exchange and open
  dialogue between the municipalities and their
  communities

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Workshop on E-governance for African
Municipalitiesorganized by UNESCO in cooperation
with UNCHS (Habitat)
Nairobi, 8-9 October 2001

• General lack of appropriate policy framework in
  African municipalities
• Recommendations
• 1. Developing a common understanding of
  E-Governance through advancement of collective
  experiences
• 2. Conducting needs and resources assessment, and
  identifying appropriate technology

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• Recommendations (contd)
• 3. Building continous awareness within municipal
  authorities on
• e-gouvernance regarding
• Funding
• Training
• Capacity Building
• 4. Integrating information services and
  technology through an
• information office to enhance interaction
  between municipality
• and community by creating
• an internal information sharing strategy
• an internal/external communication strategy
• 5. Mobilizing national and international agencies
  to bring
• e-governance on the national policy agenda

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Nakaseke
Uganda
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Reopening of destroyed Telecentre

• Reach-out bus

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Namacha Mozambique

• 7 primary schools in Namaacha Town and its
  environs. One of these has for this year 1600 new
  pupils and 26 teachers
• heavy teaching load for teachers at primary
  school level.
• problem of upgrading less qualified primary
  school teachers
• Secondary School to be upgraded to Pre-university
  level with the introduction of 11th and 12th
  grades.
• A nearby four-star hotel got a 64 kbps leased
  line
• generally all telecommunication facilities
  available in Maputo are also available in
  Namaacha.

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Namacha Mozambique

• Secondary School
• Pedagogical Orientation

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New directions for CMCs

• Out-Reach by suitcase radio
• Thematic CMC networks
• Refugee camps
• (e.g. Tanzania)
• Cultural Heritage Sites
• (e.g. Lalibela, Ethiopia)

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Community Multimedia Centre - CMC

• First pilot CMC was the Kothmale Internet Project
  in Sri Lanka
• Reaching a rural community with ICTs and
  community broadcasting
• Using radio browsing
• Encouraging use of computers in its public
  telecentre via training and facilitators

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CMCs in Africa

• Mali Timbuktu
• FM suitcase radio
• Partners UNESCO, IDRC, ITU, WHO
• Mozambique
• Adding radio to MCTs in Namacha and Manhica
• Partners UNESCO, IDRC, ITU, Switzerland FiT
• Uganda
• CMC network of existing community telecentres and
  radio stations
• Partners UNESCO, IDRC, Belgium FiT
• Tanzania
• Adding community radio to Sengerema
• CMC planned at Kilwa, a world heritage site

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Tanzania Planned CMCs in Refugee campsITU,
UNESCO, UNHCR, NPA cooperation

• Ngara Town
• CMC with library in community centre
• 5KVA Generator by UNHCR
• K9
• Houses by Norwegian Peoples Aid with 24h
  electric power by existing generator
• Lukole
• Housed in containers
• Powered by near hospital generator

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Tanzania CMCs in refugee camps

• Educators from the refugee camps develop teaching
  materials for
• face-to face sessions
• educational radio programs
• Refugees follow the Burundi curriculum
• Developed radio programs are aired by local Radio
  Kwizera, sponsored and run by the Jesuit Refugee
  Services
• Radio Kwizera reaches all refugee camps bordering
  Burundi, Rwanda and DRCongo

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CMCs in Cultural Heritage Sites

• Community Multifunctional Centre in
  Lalibela, Ethiopia
• UNESCO in cooperation with European
  Commission, Japan
• Historical
• information
• Workshops
• Telecentre
• Multimedia

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• Lalibela
• ROHA compound The Future Community Centre

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Components of the Multifunctional Community
Centre

• Ethnographic Museum
• Permanent Training for Handicraftsmen/women and
  marketing
• Training for local tourist guide teams
• Telecentre with multimedia production
• for tourism (agencies and hotels)
• Radio component in discussion because of
  regulation problems

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Animation of the future Community Centre

• Decision
• Makers
• In
• Lalibela

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Analog VSAT

• Tradition
• Change

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Thank you

• g.cyranek_at_unesco.org
• References www.unesco.org/webworld/
• UNESCO midterm strategy 2002-2007 (31 C/4)
• Paris 2001
• Report of the International Expert Meeting on
  E-Governance for African Municipalities. UNESCO.
  Nairobi 2001
• The Riley Report Changing Shape of Information
  and the Role of Government (webworld.unesco.org/in
  foethics2000/documents/paper_riley.rtf)