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[RRE][RRE} IDRC/Acacia
``` [As Phil Agre has announced, I agreed to moderate for a while to give him a rest from five years of hard and useful work. I've promised him that I'll do my best not to undo those five years of work in a couple of months, but I know that to keep this promise I must appeal to members of the list both to supply me with useful stuff and to let me know when I let standards slip.
Phil's last message by chance dovetails interestingly with my first. His contained Rob Kling's analysis of ordinary citizens' access to the Next Generation Internet, primarily in the US. Mine now points to a report from the Canadian government's Acacia project to establish popular "telecentres" in areas with limited communications infrastructure. The Acacia project concerns sub-Saharan Africa, though this report includes telecentres in Wales, Labrador, and Australia]
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IDRC is pleased to announce the availability of Richard Fuchs (Futureworks, Inc.) report entitled "LITTLE ENGINES THAT DID" CASE HISTORIES FROM THE GLOBAL TELECENTRE MOVEMENT.
The report results from an IDRC/Acacia-commissioned study on telecentres and includes a review of six cases (in Canada, Australia,Wales, Senegal, Sweden and South Africa), an analysis section, interviews with three case-study authors, and access to the on-line archive of the moderated discussion list used by the study process.
The report is accessible on-line at URL: http://www.idrc.ca/acacia/stcat.htm
A downloadable ZIPped version is available at URL: http://www.idrc.ca/acacia/download/tx-engin.zip (** see note at bottom)
A new, unmoderated and open list, "Telecentres-l," was created and can be used for sharing information about telecentre development activities, events or any other relevant material. Those of you interested in joining this list, simply send an e-mail to lyris@lyris.idrc.ca, and write the following in the body of message:
subscribe telecentres-l Your Name
Finally, archive of the telecentres-l will be available to subscribers at the following URL: http://www.idrc.ca/cgi-shell/lyris.pl?enter=telecentres-l&text_mode=0
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Paul Duguid Social & Cultural Studies University of California, Berkeley duguid@socrates.berkeley.edu Tel: 510 848 1843 Fax: 510 540 0347 ```
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