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Telecentre-Based Community Wireless Networks: Empowering Rural Community in Uganda

Telecentre-Based Community Wireless Networks: Empowering Rural Community in Uganda

Dorothy Okello, Julius Butime
Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 18
ISBN13: 9781466629974|ISBN10: 1466629975|EISBN13: 9781466629981
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2997-4.ch009
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Okello, Dorothy, and Julius Butime. "Telecentre-Based Community Wireless Networks: Empowering Rural Community in Uganda." Social and Economic Effects of Community Wireless Networks and Infrastructures, edited by Abdelnasser Abdelaal, IGI Global, 2013, pp. 160-177. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2997-4.ch009

APA

Okello, D. & Butime, J. (2013). Telecentre-Based Community Wireless Networks: Empowering Rural Community in Uganda. In A. Abdelaal (Ed.), Social and Economic Effects of Community Wireless Networks and Infrastructures (pp. 160-177). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2997-4.ch009

Chicago

Okello, Dorothy, and Julius Butime. "Telecentre-Based Community Wireless Networks: Empowering Rural Community in Uganda." In Social and Economic Effects of Community Wireless Networks and Infrastructures, edited by Abdelnasser Abdelaal, 160-177. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2997-4.ch009

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Abstract

This chapter shares the experiences of the Community Wireless Resource Centre (CWRC) as it embarked on the journey to address affordable connectivity for four telecentres in rural and underserved Uganda via telecentre-based community wireless networks. Telecentres have long played a key role in availing access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and in supporting the provision of universal access. With falling prices and new technologies increasing individual access to ICTs, the telecentre-based community wireless networks need to continually innovate in order to remain relevant to both the telecentres and the partners that together comprise the community wireless networks.

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