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7 – 13 October 2013

Abuja Nigeria

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Telecentres? Network? Its types? GTA? TWDLC?

I will high light on GDCO Sudan as example of accessibility tools in:-

Agriculture, education & telemedicine

Disability & out of schoolchildren,

portable Telecentres (Future)

innovation in Telecentres

Challenge

How GDCO overcome these challenges

TCF initiatives as universal access strategy

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A Telecentre is a public place where people can

access computers, Internet, & other digital

technologies that enable them to gather information

to develop their skill to facilitate their lives.

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standard Telecentre it is Telecentre that deals with Training,

capacity building and skill development

Knowledge Telecentre and this where GDCO share knowledge,

experience and best practices with other Telecentre practioners

and transfer it to Gedaref Sudan e-g. e-Agriculture, e-learning and

e-government and e-health.

3- Investment Telecentres are applications of the knowledge

Telecentres for more sustainability e.g. agro-mobile, telemedicine

for more Telecentre sustainability without changing the objectives

4- portable Telecentre it is the future of Telecentre it is multi-

services Telecentre which combine the above three

Types of Telecentres

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Telecentre movement?

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TCF & accessibility initiatives

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GDCO is a win-win PPPP 4 sharing knowledge, experience and

best practice. It is founded in partnership with DSE Netherlands 750

Founder of the first Telecentre academy in Africa, the Middle

East and the 13th in the world

Winner of 8 i4d awards

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DSE & GDCO Partnership

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GDCO establish Telecentre in GMAC

Develop a software (Database) for 10.000 farmers with 10%

This database helps in

easiness of transaction between farmers and GMAC

16 agricultural reports

solving conflict between farmers, forest and nomads

disaster control

Gedaref state national resource e-map

Crop market even for low computer skill or illiterate farmers

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http://easy123.org/sudan/

The online crop market and other services will be provided through our website, voice mobile, SMS, e-mails and desktop application for illiterate or low computer skill farmers

Desktop or cloud computing

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Telemedicine Unit 4 treating sick people online

Training medical staff and medical students online

Supporting e-infrastructures for IT college for better connectivity

two e-Libarary units (buildings)

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GDCO trained PWD free and provide 80 of them free computers to keep at home to communicate with their families and friends

Deaf are using emails and internet chatting instead of the sign lang,

Intellectual disable and blinds are also included in the system

reduce time of training & promote 4 easiness of accessing internet

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there are more than 3 million out of schoolchildren in Sudan due

to poverty, climate change, digital divide and cultural issues.

Working on out school children helps in drying the resource of illiteracy

in an innovative ways

In 25 square meters space & with 10.000 US$ the rural out

schoolchildren Telecentres Telecentre can provide :-

training more than 1000 people / year

Illiteracy eradication & improve quality and

reduce the cost of education and many other

services

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illiteracy eradication

discover grazing and water area through GIS by nomads

solving conflict between farmers, forest and nomads

Basic health care and telemedicine

Telecentres can be used as IT Clubs

Agriculture extension & Supporting e-government

global Telecentre courses & also can be used by TEPS

using solar 4 Mobile charging 2 increase the internet penetration

Poverty elimination (SeVO)

Skype to reduce the cost of telephone bills

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Telecentres projects are strong win-win PPPP for community development

they provide equal access

Improving environment of education through ICT with high quality and low cost

The end users of each project are completely involved

There are many added value services

The content of the projects developed in local languages

Improved quality of training and certification

Telecentre projects are big ICT market

Easiness of changing training Telecentres into knowledge and investment

Telecentres without changing its objectives.

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ICT is not part of the culture and not a priority

Poverty and financial support

High running cost

high cost of e-infrastructure and low speed internet

Limited number of children in the Telecentres

The big digital gap (divide)

Most of the Telecentres depend on donation and grants.

Reluctance to change and automation 4 senior staff

Limited access to energy sources and power supply

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Develop strong public win-win PPPP to pay the initial cost of the Telecentres.

reduce the cost of management

on call staff to reduce the cost of employment

hire operator or Telecentre manger with high skill and social charisma.

continuous monitoring and evaluation

use schools and youth clubs for training with sustainable cost

Hiring shepherd for animals and tanker for bringing water

automation of deaf school with SPEG (laptops and projectors)

solar energy

GDCO start with poor people and marginalized community unserved areas and

provide some of them computers and free laptops to keep at home

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