ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This workshop and the facilitators guide were developed by Natoma, a consultant in learning and development, in collaboration with Futureworks, Inc., specialists in telecenter development and operations.

The developers would like to thank the many people around the world who took time to respond to requests for information about their telecenters, their schools, or their research. Special thanks go to: Maria Cristina Costa, World Links in Paraguay; Jingo Fair, Felix Masaraneyi, and Ted Sells, World Links in Zimbabwe; to Scott Robinson of the Universidad Metropolitana of Mexico City; and to Polly Gaster, Eduardo Mondlane University Informatics Center, Maputo, Mozambique.

The coordinators, head teachers, and resource teachers who participated in the February, 2001, field test in Harare, Zimbabwe, contributed a great deal of time and energy toward finalizing the design of the workshop. We hope that every workshop achieves their level of interaction and energy. Special thanks to Eliade Gudze, World Links coordinator, Zimbabwe; Ted Sells of the Ministry of Education of Zimbabwe, and World Links associate; to the entire ZOIC organization; and to the workshop rapporteurs, Reyhana Masters-Smith and Leonissah Munjoma.

The World Links Organization and its World Bank counterpart, World Links for Development, have been cooperative throughout the process, and understanding of the difficulties involved in coordinating research across regions and disciplines. Sam Carlson, director of the World Links Organization, and Anthony Bloome, regional coordinator for Africa, have consistently held to a vision of schools linked with communities to achieve sustainable advances in ICT implementation and learning.

The workshop would have been radically different, and much less effective, without the foundation of knowledge and experience laid down by Richard Fuchs, formerly president of Futureworks, Inc., now with the International Development Research Center.