LinkNet, P.O. Box 630 166, Choma, Zambia
Email: <info AT link DOT net.zm>
LinkNet Zambia is an organization providing for cost-based building, operations and maintenance of targeted and tailored communications infrastructure and services for special interest groups in rural areas of Zambia. Local communications infrastructure and services are built, operated and maintained with LinkNet members and aims to grow and utilize local rural expertise to its fullest potential. Currently LinkNet is in search for funding for its plans, then rollout will start.
Technical and training support is provided from a rural center of experience in the settlement of Macha, with possible extension in other rural areas in extended stages of LinkNet deployment.
Typical rural special interest groups served by LinkNet Zambia are rural health institutions, education institutions, and community development organizations, and their governing bodies.
LinkNet strives to empower rural communities directly and indirectly through supporting empowering institutions and organizations with suitable, appropriate and cost based communications infrastructure and services. Therefore, by nature, LinkNet infrastructure and services must holistically available to all in the rural community, for instance through public Internet facilities run by local entrepreneurs.
LinkNet Zambia membership is open to Christian faith based and non-christian rural institutions and users such as Mission Hospitals, Mission Schools, and other general servicing institutions like Rural Health Centers, Community Centers, etc. Each cooperating rural entity can be member of LinkNet.
On its website http://www.link.net.zm a number of documents are published: