CTA and Infobridge Foundation have started the TelecentresAfrica WIKI. This wiki provides a collaborative space for sharing experiences, solutions and innovations for the most critical challenges of telecentres in rural areas in Africa. The challenges of the telecentres are in most cases pan-African, but it is quite difficult to describe solutions for individual challenges. Each telecentre has its own multi-layer, socio-economic context and a challenge often requires a solution adapted to the local situation. Although several solutions and innovations were identified during the Sustainable Telecentres in Africa workshop in Zambia in June 2008, there is a clear need to expand the knowledge base by bringing together best/good practices, innovations, experiences, stories from the field and examples of local adaptations of solutions for the identified main challenges. The overall goal is to improve sustainability of rural telecentres in Africa and assure that rural telecentres in Africa are able to provide adequate services and supply information that is needed by the local communities they serve in such a way that it will improve the food security and rural livelihoods.
A TelecentresAfrica Guide will be prepared based on this wiki.

The TelecentresAfrica WIKI is a ‘collaboration web space’ for registered users of the TelecentresAfrica platform to contribute to a knowledge base for the development and upscaling of sustainable telecentres in rural areas of Africa. Those interested to participate and contribute to the wiki should register first at the TelecentresAfrica website. For more information see the TelecentresAfrica Wiki.