I have been interested in and involved, to some degree, in the telecenter movement since 2007, when I first heard of them, working on a project in the Dominican Republic.  I had the honor of meeting both the President and the First Lady of the Dominican Republic, Margarita Cedeño de Fernández, who is extremely dedicated to this project, constructing around 135 of the Centros Technologica Comunitarios-- the President, Leonel Antonio Fernández Reyna is keenly involved as well. You can see a slide presentation below which I put together on 2 Community Technology Centers during a couple of visits we made to the Dominican Republic in 2008 and 2009.
 The practice of using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) 4 something... Development, Education, Society, etc. is very similar everywhere people are encountering web 2.0. for the first time.  The challenges are similar, though of course the context varies widely, hugely.  In 20 or so years of teaching Technical Theater here in rural Vermont, at Johnson State College, it occurred to me that the discoveries and advances in the global ICT4D movement paralleled the teaching I was doing and that we are all encountering. The paradigm shift is effecting everything--a movement from a fossil based economy to a wisdom based one. Here in the Lamoille Valley of Vermont there is talk of Broadband. What does it mean? Some see the glass half full, some half empty. What is different is that the web 2.0 environment and ubiquitous broadband bring the same seismic shift that encountering the emergent noosphere brings: disruptive innovation. It disrupts us into a learning paradigm, the Children's Machine reminds us we are all children again confronting this new tool.