Who are we

Kenya Telecentres Link is a non profit organization and a national network committed to increasing the social and economic impact of grass root telecentres. It seeks to create opportunities for telecentres to share and learn from each other in Kenya and across the world. This will result in better and quality service delivery by telecentres. 

KenTel was formed in February 2007 with an aim of establishing a national network for different models of telecenters in Kenya. The idea came about after some telecentre organizations in Kenya participated in regional telecentre activities namely, the East Africa Telecenter Leaders Forum conference held in Uganda Kampala in October 2006 and the Benin Telecentre Leaders Forum in November 2006.

The Kenyan delegates who participated in these conferences continued interacting and exploring on ways to initiate and strengthen telecentre movement in Kenya. In February 2007 Ugunja Community Resource Centre (UCRC) through the support of Microsoft Corporation and the UgaBYTES initiative hosted the first national meeting that brought together telecentre leaders in Kenya. It is out of this three days workshop that KenTel was born, when all telecentres managers present at this meeting clearly expressed the need for such a network.

Ugunja Community Resource Centre (UCRC) currently hosts the KenTel secretariat. 

Our Vision

To facilitate sustainable growth of telecentres in Kenya.

Our Mission

To create an enabling environment where telecentres will thrive while providing affordable, accessible and relevant information transfer and exchange within the communities in Kenya as well as the rest of the world.

Our Objectives

  • To facilitate knowledge and information exchange through training, education and professional networking
  • To engage in ICT policies formulation and development through advocacy and lobbying
  • To promote ICT continuous research and knowledge generation for community development
  • To promote use of ICTs for community development through telecentres
  • To link all telecentres in Kenya towards sharing best practices as well as foster learning from each other through exchange visits and use of our mailing list and website.