eCARE –A rural telecom and renewable energy project in Ghana
eCARE is a project which establishes telecommunication centers owned and operated by local entrepreneurs in rural and peri-urban areas of Ghana. The eCARE centers run on solar energy and offer telecom and clean energy services to the people living in rural and peri-urban communities.
Today 69 centers are in successful operation in all the 10 regions of Ghana. The centers are benefiting more than 500,000 people in the affected communities. These rural and peri-urban people benefiting from the project have access to affordable telecommunication services in areas where this was previously lacking. eCARE is bridging not only the “digital divide” “but also the energy divide”. By the end of 2008 eCARE will have at least 200 centers nationwide offering renewable energy powered telecom services to more than one million Ghanaians!
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