The Segarama telecentre bets its future on wireless

Soon funding for the Segerama telecentre, located in Western Tanzania, will end. The centre was funded by UNESCO and IDRC and has been operating for 4 years. It provides internet access, computer training and houses an FM radio. It also provides internet to other organizations in the community using Motorola's canopy wireless system. Though that system works very well, it is too expensive for many potential customers in Segerama, so Felician Ncheye, the director of the telecentre explains that they believe that they can market a lower-cost wireless service to small business in the town. To do so they will need funding however.

Felician Ncheye is the director of the Segerama Telecentre

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• Tanzania
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• IDRC
• UNESCO
• Wireless
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