A Short History of Telecentres and Why the European Telecentre Network is So Important! Rich Fuchs, Director, IDRC Istanbul, Turkey October 14, 2009

1.Do you think telecentres have been successful? 2.What impact have telecentres had? 3.What are the main barriers for helping communities participate in the Knowledge Economy? 4.What is the role of telecentres in the current economic downturn? 5.What advice do you have for the evolving Telecentre Europe Network?

1 st Telecentre ever, 1985-Velmdalen, Sweden Henning Albrechtson, Founder of the first telecentre 1 st North American Telecentre- Clarenville, Newfoundland, Canada 1989

We Are… One global community of more than 200 networks and organizations that work with 80,000 grassroots telecentres. Spread over 70 countries, reaching 40,000,000 telecentre users. One virtual community with online members interacting in English, Spanish, French and Arabic.

Access Awareness Diffusion Cecep Sabiya *Samurai Swords *No Phone, no Fax, no computer *Sells to distributor *Business is good! Abdullah Hospital and lawn furniture Has computer and Pak Amin Makes metal furniture Is about to buy a computer

Innovators Early Adopters Early Majority Late Majority Laggards InnovatorsEarly AdoptersEarly Majority Late Majority Laggards Skewed to the left distribution = More Late Technology Adopters Technology Adoption Life Cycle Before After Telecentres………. “Make” the Market Build Community Awareness Help make the first local entrepreneurs Help build the ICT polity Broaden the Knowledge Economy “Ignore the Late Majority and the Laggards” Geoffrey Moore, Speaking at JAVAOne, San Francisco,June 1998 as reported in

The Enterprise Model The Adoption Model The Trigger Model E-Way Telecentre Sustainabilities

What telecentre.org is trying to do about this!!!

telecentre.org 2005 – 2010 What Was Accomplished telecentre.org 2005 – 2010 What Was Accomplished Establishing and networking the telecentre movement Training knowledge workers at the Base of the Pyramid Influencing policy on shared access computing Leveraging resources for the telecentre movement Becoming the ecosystem to the telecentre movement

Greater ICT diffusion & productivity where the poor work, live and learn. A major technology bridge to the next 3 billion at the base of the pyramid A live and online leader for the telecentre movement globally A sustainable Global Telecentre Academy Deepening existing network presence and building new network associations (China, Eastern Europe) Policy advisory & applied research roles for private and public investors An R&D linkage to a living digital community laboratory. Deepening sector focus in health, learning, micro-credit, agriculture and micro-enterprise. telecentre.org Program for telecentre.org Program for

The Future Challenge!!!!

0 500,000 1,000,000 1,500,000 2,000,000 2,500,000 3,000,000 3,500, YEAR,000 FixedMobileInternet SubscribersInternet UsersCellular internet Temporal Distribution of ICT development from 1995 to 2007, worldwide World ICT Trends 3 billion+ more mobile than internet subscribers Mobile Internet Cellular Internet Very small number of mobile broadband subscribers Source: ITU Online Database: ITU ICT EYE

Net Mobile Subscriber Additions – Regional Break-out (In Million, 2007E – 2012E) Slicing up the Mobile Services Revenue Pie: June 2008 Special Edition. Portio Research Ltd. (

Temporal trend of Internet behavior, world-wide from 2000 to 2007 More Users than Subscribers Higher rate of Increase for Users than Subscribers Increase in Shared Use Computing Source: ITU Online Database: ITU ICT EYE

Thanks…see you in the future!