Telecentre
A message center (or Tele Cottage ) is a publicly accessible device with extensive ICT -Facilities, often in rural areas for economic development is operated.
For the economic development of a sparsely populated community with the help of ICT applications, a state-financed telecentre was set up for the first time in 1985 in Vemdalen, Sweden, under the name "Electronic Village Hall of Vemdalen" . The concept of using networked computers and telecommunications to strengthen rural areas by offering teleworking , training and tele-teaching with the help of information and communication applications, and to bridge the digital divide , came under the name Telestuga (Danish and Norwegian: Telestue , Sami: Telegoahti ) first in Scandinavia, later worldwide under the name Telecentre, Telecentro or Telecottage widespread use.
Since the 1990s, publicly funded teleworking and teleservice centers (TTZ) with high-quality ICT equipment have served teleworkers and often start-ups in Germany as a spatial basis for providing services.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lars Qvortrup: Social Experiments With Information Technology And The Challenges Of Innovation Page 77, Retrieved on November 24 of 2009.
- ↑ Diss. Birgit Biedemann: Telework and teleservice centers as an instrument of economic development in rural areas: A question of the location? (PDF; 1.8 MB). Retrieved November 24, 2009.