Our founders Regional Forum on Development RFD Hammamet











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Our founders Regional Forum on Development (RFD) Hammamet, Tunisia September 17, 2012 Broadband … Tools for Telecentre Sustainability L/O/G/O ahmed 22 digital@gmail. com Ahmed M. M. Eisa www. gedaref. com

GDCO Sudan Winner of 7 Int. Awards e- India 2007 award e- India 2008 award e. World 2011 award e- India 2009 award Sudanese best NGO ICT award 2011 Best Telecentre album 2011 Philippines 10. 000 US $ award

Telecentres p Telecentre. org network (movement) p global Telecentre academy 3

GDCO Telecentres Deaf Telecentre T. O. T Telecentre NTC Men Telecentre Girl Telecentre Deaf Telecentre Out school Telecentre University Telecentre

Broadband? Broadband is a mean of access with high-speed Internet to a wide range of services to facilitate and improve the ways we are living. Broadband helps the Telecentre movement to achieve its goals in sharing knowledge, experiences and best practices to improve the content, networking and sustainability of Telecentres. 5

Education & Health p Drying the resources of illiteracy p Connecting people with disability p telemedicine p Gedaref university support p Telecentre Women Digital Literacy Campaign p Telecentre. org Academy p Vo. IP (Internet phone), video streaming and gaming p Equity and Equality

agriculture p Solving conflict ( farmers, shepherds and forest) p agricultural reports &farm registration p Accessibility to global crop markets p disaster control (bird flu) p grazing area and water resources detection p under-developing easy. Farmer project p Under developing agro-mobile

Drishtee agro-mobile India Crop Price Animal Price Online Support 4 O% profit Agri. News break Weather forecast fertilizer

Raising the Floor Easy. Farmer Switzerland http: //easy 1234. org/sudan/ This a project for illiterate or low skill in computer farmers

e-Government p GDCO was appointed the chair of e-government p An agreement between the MCIT and Sudatel a- connecting 50 school Telecentres b- Connecting 10 hospital d- government’s building with networking e- Gedaref University f- Gedaref technical college p An online survey application p Accessibility to Interactive web portal p global e-business (e-marketing)

Challenges p. ICT is not part of the culture and not a priority p. Digital divide p. High cost of broadband infrastructure p. Government taxes p. Security risk and hackers p. Distances and geographical barrier in rural area p. Power supply