The Impacts of Community Telecenters in Rural Colombia

Author:

Amariles Fabiola,Paz Olga P.,Russell Nathan,Johnson Nancy

Abstract

Abstract This paper evaluates the impacts of two community telecenters on their host organizations and on the rural areas they serve. Awareness and use of telecenters by rural households were low, as was users’ ability to articulate information needs. Significant institutional impacts occurred in the NGOs that hosted the telecenters. The results suggest that sustainable expansion of ICTs in rural areas of developing countries may best be achieved by working through local organizations willing to incorporate the technologies into their work, while striving with the communities they serve to build local capacity to use information and ICTs. Resumen Se evalúa el impacto de dos telecentros comunitarios en las organizaciones anfitrionas y en las áreas rurales aledañas. El uso de los telecentros por los campesinos es bajo, así como su habilidad para articular las necesidades de información. Los impactos institucionales observados sugieren que la mejor manera de lograr la expansión sostenible de las TICs en las áreas rurales de los países en desarrollo podría ser por medio de organizaciones locales que incorporen las tecnologías ellas mismas y las usen con sus comunidades, construyendo capacidad local para el uso de la información y de las TICs.

Publisher

University of Waterloo

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