Telecentres are considered as a solution to development problems all over the world as those have the potential to provide urgently needed access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) as well as to narrow the ‘digital divide’ in remote, and disadvantaged communities.

Telecentre projects have already been initiated in many developing countries. Many telecentres are still in the planning or pilot stage. At this stage of ICT development, the information about telecentres all over the world are quite interesting, especially for those who are directly or indirectly associated with ICT for development. Here is a collection of some online resources on telecentre and kiosks which may attract you to explore more about it.

• http://idpm.man.ac.uk/publications/wp/di/di_wp10.pdf (History of telecentre development)
• http://www.mssrf.org/publications/pmw.pdf (Full paper on M.S.Swaminathan Foundation’s project)
• http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/egov/ifip/dec2001/dec2001.pdf (Information Technology in Developing Countries, Volume 11, No. 3, December 2001. A newsletter of IFIP Working Group 9.4 and Commonwealth Network for Information Technology)
• http://www.eapf.net/sourcebook/final-09022004.pdf (Pre publication draft of the book Information Communication Technologies for Development, A Comprehensive Guidebook for parliamentarians)
• http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/univ_access/telecentres/ (Website of International Telecommunication Union)
• http://www.iadb.org/sds/itdev/telecenters/fullrep.pdf (Information about Telecentres for Socioeconomic and Rural Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, by Francisco J. Proenza, Roberto Bastidas-Buch and Guillermo Montero.)
• http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/univ_access/seminar/buda/proceedings/Budapest-en.pdf (Complete report of Regional Seminar for Central European Countries on The role of Community Telecentres in fostering universal access and rural development.)
• http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/univ_access/telecentres/papers/NTCA_johan.html (Report on First International Conference on Rural Telecommunications in Washington, 30 November - 2 December, 1998 on Universal Access for Rural Development from Action to Strategies by Johan Ernberg, ITU)
• http://www.idrc.ca/telecentre/evaluation/html/main.html (Link to many papers on telecentres)
• http://www.idrc.ca/telecentre/evaluation/html/17_Edu.html (Education for All in the Information Age by Laurel Elmer)
• http://www.irrodl.org/content/v4.1/idrus_review.html (Book review of the book on telecentres)
• http://www.communitysa.org.za/T2000LitRev.doc (Literature review for the Telecentre 2000 study)
• http://www.telecentres.wa.gov.au/telecentres/ (Australian website on telecentres)
• http://www.telecentres.com/ (Telecentre Powys, site of UK)
• http://www2.fmg.uva.nl/sociosite/topics/telecenters.html (Links to the telecentres of Italy, Canada, USA, UK, Germany and Netherlands)
• http://www.idrc.ca/telecentre/evaluation/html/main.html (Telecentre evaluation, a global perspective)
• http://www.connected.org/develop/mohammed-s.html (An informative interview of Mohammed-Sani Abdulai, Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Ghana and Chairman of the Education Committee of the Ghana Chapter of the Internet Society on Telecentres)
• http://www.andrewbibby.com/telework/oz.html (Telecentres in Rural Australia, article by Andrew Bibby)
• http://www.euforic.org/by_theme/742.htm (Stories on Telecentres in different countries)
• http://www.bellanet.org/leap/impact/index.cfm?fuseaction=main&cat_id=211 (Different stories related to ICTs, Telecentres and Internet)
• http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/univ_access/telecentres/papers/guelph.html (Paper entitled ‘Partnerships and Participation in Telecommunications for Rural Development, Exploring What Works and Why’ by Johan Ernberg)
• http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue5_1/owen/ (Role of Multipurpose Community Telecentres in Accelerating National Development in Ghana by Wilfred Owen, Jr and Osei Darkwa)