Housed at IDRC, telecentre.org makes social investments and provides services that strengthen grassroots telecentre networks. These networks give people managing telecentres the raw materials they need to succeed: training, support, marketing, and technology. They also help telecentre people to learn and innovate together, to make technology more useful for the communities they serve.   

telecentre.org social investments are provided to networks working at the national or regional level. These investments furnish telecentre people with financial resources to come together, and to build the friendships and trust that make networks possible. The investments also underwrite costs of new network-based services for telecentres: training programs, support lines, knowledge sharing, innovation. Things that make telecentres easier to run, and better for users. 

telecentre.org also offers support services directly to networks, such as event facilitators from existing grassroots networks, business planning coaches with experience in social enterprise, and website tools that assist in the creation of online communities. Knowing that networks need nurturing and facilitation, we believe that services like these are essential to helping networks thrive. The services are offered on a low-cost or no-cost basis to telecentres anywhere in the world.

At a global level, telecentre.org connects national networks to each other, highlights the best telecentre news and training materials, and generally shines a light of the good work of telecentres around the world. This is done through telecentre.org events, websites, and other activities that create stronger global telecentre movement.

With financial support from IDRC, Microsoft and SDC, telecentre.org social investments and services are provided to networks of telecentres working together. We do not provide funding for the creation or maintenance of individual telecentres.