Telecottage Handbook- How to Establish and Run a

TABLE OF CONTENTS
5.4 Telecottage software .............................................................44
5.5 Communications technology ....................................................46
5.6 Maintaining technical quality levels.............................................47
5.7 Financing and sustainability .....................................................48
5.8 Telecottage budget...............................................................50
5.9 Finding resources and sustainability ............................................53
5.10 Rules, regulations and contracts ...............................................57
5.11 The process of establishing a telecottage .....................................59
CHAPTER 6:
THE TELECOTTAGE MOVEMENT IN HUNGARY ..................................66
6.1 Development programmes for society .........................................67
6.2 Beginning with a working model ...............................................67
6.3 Simultaneously from above and below.........................................68
6.4 The enthusiasts ...................................................................68
6.5 Achieving recognition at home .................................................69
6.6 Role of the media .................................................................69
6.7 Civic basis .........................................................................70
6.8 Singular culture ...................................................................70
6.9 Economies of scale, multifunctionality, sustainability..........................71
6.10 Hungarian Telecottage Association – the service mechanism...............72
6.11 Partnerships with the business sector .........................................72
6.12 Partnership with the public sector.............................................73
6.13 Partnerships within the civil society sector ...................................74
6.14 Community access, community task...........................................75
6.15 The road to institutionalization – the community net .......................75
6.16 Quality assurance................................................................76
6.17 Critical point: human resources ................................................77
6.18 Community information technology, new professions ......................78
6.19 Strategic growth and development ...........................................79
6.20 Where has the money come from until now?................................ 79
6.21 The lobby school ................................................................80
6.22 International relations ..........................................................80
ATTACHMENT 1:
CHECKLISTS ..........................................................................82
Preliminary questions about the telecottage programme, critical points........82
Organizational dilemmas that can occur in the telecottages,
for which responses are needed.................................................84
Points to ensure regarding control of the telecottage building
and floor plan .....................................................................85
ATTACHMENT 2:
TELECOTTAGE MOVEMENT TIMELINES...........................................87
LINKS ..........................................................................................89
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