[kictanet] Digital Community Villages with social Enterprise.

[Jose']

   The 4th telecentres leaders forum organized by Ugabytes initiative in Uganda saw up to six countries being represented across the board being Uganda, Kenya Tanania,Rwanda,Burundi and Sudan. We were privileged on the last day to have the presence of the minister for Communication in Uganda Honorable Alintuma Nsambu.
   
  The workshop being facilitated by Mr.Loic who is an expert on Social Entrepreneurship from an organization called Nesst brought out the topic of social enterprise more practical than said. What was noted all through the forum was that Digital Villages(telecentres) need to adopt new strategies and innovativeness for self reliance that reaches out to the community yet at the same time catalyze development through social enterprise within the community members. Before  telecentres embark into social entrepreneurship, what is encouraged is to carry out a need assessment so that the project can be embraced by the community.
   
  To make a digital village be self reliant and non dependent on donars,the following needs to be carried out to ensure success.
   
  1)      The Digital Village(Telecentre) needs to have a clear Mission
  2)      Have a healthy relation with the key players being the community running up the ladder to its partners and friends of the organization.
  3)      Have committed constituents.
  4)      Ability to adopt new trends and be flexible
  5)      Have a strong leadership.
  6)      Enable legal political and social environment
  7)      Accountability is key
  8)      Have sufficient financial resources
  9)      Have valuable and useful results or impact
  10)  Have effective high quality or work program.
   
  The Honorable Minister Nsambu pointed out that his government is behind every effort to support digital Villages as he introduced a new computer that is being produced that uses Solar energy.
   
  This is Jose' Njuki-Imwe Ngunjiri Reporting.
   
   

       
---------------------------------
Get easy, one-click access to your favorites.  Make Yahoo! your homepage.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/pipermail/kictanet/attachments/20071114/748a9a33/attachment.htm>