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 Why do we need TeleCommunities? Because we need innovation to create jobs and high quality lifestyles, enriching products and services, adapted to our needs. Because by centralizing resources on the local level, nested in regional and global alliances, it is easier to support people with social networks, training and technical help. Because by creating a worldwide market of best ideas, we can find the critical mass needed to go from vision to action. Here's an approach in which developing countries are not necessarily behind compared to the richer countries, because often community centers in poorer areas already pool technical and other resources. So it's basically a matter of connecting these TeleCommunity Centers in a meaningful way, using software with which one can build informal and formal knowledge markets, and exchange enriching experiences. And it's not all high tech. Many down-to-earth-livelyhoods can be connected to TeleCommunities: from bike repair shops, delis and lunch gardens, child care providers, public transportation between the TeleCommunity Centers, to teachers and administrative services, a whole group of activities can be clustered around these Centers. We think a worldwide network of cooperating TeleCommunities can form the living tissue of an enriching society. Join us in building the Global Federation of TeleCommunities. Garsett Larosse Secretary General