This page presents basic information, a short description of services of different CMCs. To see their profiles please click on “Institutions” in the right column.

Unequal access to information and knowledge presents an increasingly serious handicap in a world where information has become pivotal for social and economic development. There is widespread acknowledgement that disparities in access and use of ICTs contribute to the widening digital divide, which creates a new kind of exclusion or knowledge poverty.
UNESCO’s pilot Community Multimedia Centre (CMC) programme was established in 2001 to address these problems at the community level. A CMC combines community radio by local people in local languages with community telecentre facilities such as computers with emails and Internet.
Since then, the programme has been quickly developed and there are around 40 CMCs today in over 15 developing countries in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean.
You will find on these pages, detailed information about some CMCs across the world and some articles presenting the different experiences of the people who run or use these centres.