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I was holding an 'i-river' close to the sound box of telecentre.org launching venue. I thought I wouldn't be able to capture sound in good quality and will probably use bits and pieces of this for further work. But to my surprise our new 'i-river' made a good recording of sound at the opening ceremony. And therefore the entire ceremony and the speeches are PODCASTED here for those who couldn't be there in person.

For you information, 'telecentre.org' was officially launched on November the 17th at the Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) Pavilion of the World Summit of the Information Society in Tunis. This launch includes presentations by its founding social investors - Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the Microsoft Corporation and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) – followed by an informal reception. Presenters in sequence include:

Scholarship recipient: Ndaula Sula, UgaBYTES Initiative, Uganda,
Pamela Passman, Vice President, Legal and Corporate Affairs, Microsoft Corporation
Scholarship recipient: Priyanthi Daluwatte, Sarvodaya, Sri Lanka
Walter Fust, Chief Executive Officer, SDC
Scholarship recipient: Iván Sanhueza Belmar, Operador local del Telecentro Red Visión, Chile
Mark Surman, Managing Director, telecentre.org, IDRC