As I write this blog in the IDRC booth after watching a streaming of Jarra's film...we 've had to say the final goodbyes. Guys are all headed off to different points on the global map any second from now....

The consequences of the TLF and its tappering into the hatching of tc.org has started to bear impact. A cooperation between UgaBYTES-Uganda and Sarvodaya-Sri Lanka was reached late night. Sarvodaya will provide community integration model guides and manuals to UgaBYTES to support the East African Network's strategy of increasing grassroots impact. Arrangements have been completed for the UgaBYTES team to visit Sarvodaya in the first quarter of 2006 to further the understanding of the grassroots programs. Within the comparation UgaBYTES, will support the online strategy of Sarvodaya.

En Santiago, la tecnologia para ciegos, esta lejos del alcance de todos. Cada vez sin embargo, resulta mas facil encontrar accesos para ciegos.
Gracias al uso de JFW, es possible utilizar internet y en general computacion, en todos los niveles.

LA GRAN IMPORTANCIA DE LOS TELECENTROS ES EN QUE ESTAN SITUADOS EN LAS COMUNIDADES MAS REMOTAS, Y AYUDA A LAS COMUNIDADES A CONTAR SUS PROPIAS SENTIMIENTOS, PROBLEMAS, EMOCIONES Y GRANDES FRACASOS Y LOGROS. EL TELECENTRO DE ASODIGUA ESTA HACIENDO UN LLAMADO A LAS ORGANIZACIONES INTERNACIONALES PARA QUE AYUDAN DIRECTAMENTE A LAS VICTAS DE LA TORMENTA ESTAN, QUE AFECTO A MUCHAS COMUNIDADES DEL OCCIDENTE DE GUATEMALA, PRINCIPALMENTE A LA GENTE INDIGENAS DE SOLOLA DONDE ESTA SITUADO EL TELECENTRO DE ASODIGUA.ESCRIBENOS A asodigua@intelnet.net.gt porque atraves de los telecentros una persona se comunica al mundo en un segundo y en un minuto solo con un clik. es por eso que creemos que los telecentros juegan un papel muy importante dentro de cualquier comunidad para estar comunicado en cualquier momento y dar a conocer la realidad de un pueblo desde los actores sociales comunitarios y de base. Reporta para ustedes Manuel Garcia chuta. desde la CUMBRE DE LA SOCIEDAD DE LA INFORMACION WSIS DESDE TUNIS 2,005. director del telecentro de adodigua Guatemala Movil (502)55518533.

So after the years of campaigns, awards, projects and endless policy lobbying, this crazy Summit is coming to a close.  Strange feeling as to what will happen to the Youth Caucus next week, month, year, but having spent 6 months in Geneva at the heart of the beast, it's both a relief and sad moment to see it all end.  Some of my best friends and colleagues have all come about through WSIS and TIG (cue the cheezy music).  But anyways, half-way thru, here's some thoughts on the WSIS thus far...

Speed Geek, it made me occupied couple of hours yesterday talking to people continuously about our programmes in the telecentre.org workshop. Though it had given me a hard time in continuous talking, on the other hand it gave me plenty of opportunity to interact with many people across the world sharing experiences and answering to questions etc.

The picture was taken at a blogging session we had with telecentre.org at wsis. I think blogging is a powerful tool to share stories and experiences. I hope the networks can adopt blogging as one of t

Yesterday afternoon we had our kick off telecentre leaders forum. the passion and energy was contagious!

The key take-away from the forum was why telecentres matter:

1.) broaden sociological development through information access