Sustainable Telecenters: A Guide For Government Policy
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Overview: Governments and nonprofit organizations, often supported by bilateral aid, have experimented with telecenters as a means to extend access to computers, the Internet, and other information and communication services to rural and low-income urban areas of developing countries. This paper proposes a guide for government policy on telecenters conceived as private businesses, though with development functions that is commercially sustainable beyond initial public support.

