SATNET Presentation

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Overview Southern Africa
Telecentres, Realities and Challenges
Opportunities for telecentres to rural development
Need for Telecentre networks
The role of SATNET, Current activities & challenges
Regional Capacity Development Programme
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Poverty is one of the major development challenges facing the SADC region.
80% average live in rural areas
Available info. indicate; 70% of the population lives below the international poverty line, US$2 per day, 40 percent of the region's population or 76 million people live below the intentional poverty line of US$1 per day.
80% of the population in some Member States is estimated to be living in extreme poverty.
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Lack of adequate capital assets, the rates of return on the physical, human and social capital of the poor are generally low due to low physical productivity and low prices for their goods and services,
Limited economic opportunities
Challenges in agriculture sector
Climate change and desertification, soil erosion and degradation,
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Public services not reaching the people; information on agriculture, health, education etc,
Poor access to Markets
Traditional knowledge
and information exist but rarely shared
Information exchanges are not adequate
Information and Communication Technology barriers
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Challenges

ICTs can play a tremendous role in mitigating poverty levels
Defining new roles of ICTs,
Civil society community can take advantage to explore new avenues of using ICTs to resolve the challenges
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‘ Telecentres – are public places where people can access computers, the Internet, and other digital technologies that enable people to gather information, create, learn, and communicate with others while they develop essential 21st-century digital skills’’ (CTA study on telecentres in Mozambique)
‘‘ Telecentres can become knowledge service centres that add tremendous value to local economies, act as catalysts for the creation of a micro-knowledge sector, and provide higher value work for educated workers who can be retained in the rural community.’’ Ian Howard from APC study on Observations on sustaining rural ICT in Africa- 2008)

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No- longer merely communication centres
Centre for Knowledge- indigenous and international; Stimulating and generation of indigenous knowledge within local communities
Market place
Services and resources
Education: Offering opportunities for access to Education resources; online education to millions of people
Centre for governance giving a ‘voice’ and promoting decision making process
Promoting local economic development
Opportunity for access to finance
Expanding cultural and social opportunities
Promoting public service delivery; E-governance

Lack of coordination
Duplication of efforts, Activities and resources
Policy framework and advocacy
Resource mobilization
Value and scope for replication of projects
Recognition from international agencies
Promoting new ideas, new thinking
Helps to create and expand knowledge frontiers
Ability to speak with one voice
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Building knowledge networks
Increased collaboration among telecentres
Strengthening institutional partnerships
Collaboration on knowledge products
Building knowledge production skills base
Joint capacity building initiatives
Scope and scale on research
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Formation based on the 2006 All Africa Telecentre Conference; Port Novo, Benin, Microsoft, Telecentre.org, SDC and UNESCO
Formalized at the 2008 Sustainable Telecentre Africa Lusaka Conference
Registered as a non profit in 2009.
Pioneers: Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe and south Africa, Tanzania and Botswana
Joined by Malawi, Lesotho, Congo DR
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- Indigenous Southern African Network
- Working with civil society organisations
- Promotion & facilitating network development
- Telecentres, ICT service centres, schoolnets, - Multi-community centres, networking NGOs
- Policy dialogue and ICT governance issues
- Extension of socio-economic disparities and ‘bridging the divide’

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Knowledge sharing and information exchange
Support Institutional development Tels. and national networks
Policy advocacy
Capacity development of ICTs and telecentres
Promotion of ICT innovations
Undertake ICT Projects in conjunction with partners
Facilitate social and economic development through application and demonstration of ICTs
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Held a 2 regional development forums to plan the way ahead
Established management & governance structure
Completed a constitution for the network
Trained two national network groups
Facilitating telecentre network development with partners & other NGOs in SA
UNESCO ICT youth awareness project
Backstopping UNECA knowledge centre project
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Developing literature on how to manage networks
Developing an information management system
Database for telecentres and info-hubs in SA
First Newsletter for telecentres in southern Africa
Drawing a regional telecentre model guides and framework (SADC/COMESA/ITU)
Completing SATNET.ST 2012-2014,
Completed localization resource training materials
Involved in resource mobilization to support activities of the organization
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Opened dialogue with ITU and SADC on issues on Policy framework
APC
Governments of Botswana, Zambia and Malawi on issues of PPP
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Budget support – human resource
Geographical area of SADC
Many NGOs work in isolation
Variance on government policies
Agencies work in isolation
Inadequate ICT Policy implementation
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Reference to SATNET Strategic Plan
Promote telecentres & Build their capabilities
Mobile technologies and telecentres
Telecentre database
Transforming telecentres into knowledge centers (UNECA)
Provide capacities to development of national networks ST period
Work with governments to speed up Policy ICT implementation modalities
Telecentre sustainability models
Regional framework on telecentres
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Local ownership is critical
Leadership is key – champions make the difference
Technologies work in stable infrastructural environments
Support and maintenance is critical
Capacity to use, maintain, support, upgrade is required
Content is ‘king’
Policy is important in provision of enabling environment
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Link between communities and large scale diffusion
Shifting limited innovative pilots towards large-scale impactful interventions
Learning from other on-scaled interventions
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“… make the 21 st Century a truly African Century…”
Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa
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Thank you for your attention
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