[WSIS CS-Plenary] Dialogue on Telecenters in Pakistan - Pakistan Telecenters Initiative (PTI)

[Fouad Riaz Bajwa]

Dialogue on Telecenters in Pakistan - Pakistan Telecenters Initiative (PTI) 

PTI is a Civil Society Group carrying forward dialogues and actions in
support of Pakistan's upcoming massive rural Telecenter movement. The World
Bank, Government of Pakistan and Telecom Companies are contributing to a
fund of Pakistani Rupees 100 Billion under the Universal Service Fund USF
available for funding possibly 40,000 Telecentre deployments throughout
Pakistan. PTI invites participation from stakeholders including Civil
Society networks, Business Industry, International Organizations, Government
and Intellectual contributors towards developing this group as a Telecenter
Knowledge Management Resource (KMR) for efficiently managing and improving
the Telecenters Movement in the country. You may join PTI at
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Telecenters/join. 

Organizations Civil Society Networks supporting the Pakistan Telecentres
Initiative 

- SATC - Salman Ansari Technology Consultants 
- FOSSFP: Free and Open Source Software Foundation of Pakistan 
- International Free and Open Source Software Foundation (iFOSSF), MI, USA 
- RBI - Responsible Business Initiative 
- Pakistan ICT Policy Monitor (B4A-APC) 
- BytesForAll Network South Asia 
- Ubuntu Pakistan 

By Fouad Riaz Bajwa 
Country Programme Manager
Pakistan Telecentres Initiative PTI 
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Telecenters 
http://ifossf.org/group/foss_in_telecenters  




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