Evaluation of UNESCO's Community Multimedia Centres

While the tools developed by UNESCO are helpful, in order to be sustainable CMCs will need to learn 1 In the course of the final review of the report, the Sector contested the above statement as a misinterpretation of what was said. [...] In the opinion of the evaluation team, the CMC initiative is an outstanding success, and certainly deserves the consideration it has been given to date by UNESCO as a flagship endeavour of the Communications and Information Sector. [...] Even in situations where the telecentre is in a different physical location from the radio (Guyana and Lumbini, Nepal, for example), efforts are still made to ensure that radio staff participate in computer training and have access to the Internet for research and to the computers for enhancing the production qualities of their programmes. [...] In the space available, we can share only a few examples of the benefits to the communities: p28 UNESCO CMC Evaluation From Benin: ! Increase in the rate of schooling of girls as a result of campaigns carried out by radio (organization of contests of schools registering the most girls) ! Cultural development: the number of local bands increased from 5 to 78; with music cassettes produced and distr