I wonder if part of the reason that they are loathe to act on forming the committee is just the complete lack of understanding that anyone in the village has about computers. I understand that your village has leadership problems anyway, but I think this might be a contributing factor.

I know that I, personally, tend to procrastinate when I am faced with doing a task that I know nothing about. Perhaps they are stumped because they can't figure out who to even try and recruit for the "computer center committee". Or who would even have an interest in serving on it.

Computers are so strange and foreign to the "leaders" in your community it's like you're asking them to form a "committee" to oversee somebody who is constructing a spaceship. Perhaps giving the teacher some authority isn't such a bad idea (provided that the teacher still has to answer to a committee) because then there is "someone" in charge who the leaders can turn to who presumably has some experience working on a computer.