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Role of GDCO Telecentres in connecting the unconnected. Ahmed Fath-alrahmen Eisa Member of win-win PPP. physical D. Intellectual D . deaf D. blinds D . Rural community. Out of school Children & Young . farmers . Women & Girls . What is the Telecentre movement ???.
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Role of GDCO Telecentres in connecting the unconnected Ahmed Fath-alrahmen Eisa Member of win-win PPP physical D Intellectual D deaf D blinds D Rural community Out of school Children & Young farmers Women & Girls
GDCO Sudan,,, the winner of 7 global ICT awards i4d 2008 award India i4d 2008 award India i4d 2007 award India 10.000 US $ award Best Telecentre album 2011 Philippines Sudanese best NGO ICT award 2011 eWorld 2011 award India
e-agriculture http://gedaref.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=100:2011-06-09-16-16-40&catid=38:rokstories-samples&lang=en&Itemid= • huge database for 10.000 farms • Gedaref electronic (digital) Map which solves the conflict • Crop market web portal • disaster control through ICT • Agro-Mobile Services which provide illiterate farmers with 6 services • Reduce the cost of farms planning • Training and capacity building Solving conflicts Farmers, forest, Sheppard
Connecting the unconnected (disability) • Free training • Free computers to keep at home • Inclusion through global, regional and national conferences • Vocational training Telecentres Abu Dhabi SCHS – Sharjah Hanan Troock
Telemedicine 228 Telemedicine unit 750 computer from DSE GDCO in partnership with NTC & NIC - faculty of medicine Gedaref University - Constructed 228 meter square telemedicine unit to treat sick people online any where…. training and capacity building of medical staff and medical students
Out of school children e-learning • 3 million out of children and double illiterate adults • Drying illiteracy resources • e- Sheppard & e-tanker • added value services with portable Telecentre which can be a truck or tent or Gottia (hut) • e-tanker 2012 Skill in writing using PAINT 2011 2011
TENT Gottia Truck • Illiteracy eradication • Agriculture services (including Easyfarmer) http://easy1234.org/sudan/ • Power supply 4 mobile charging • Telemedicine • Poverty elevation for students • water resources and grazing area discovery • solve the conflict between farmers, Sheppard and forestry
Innovation in GDCO Telecentres • Development of strong partnerships (PPP) and win-win partnership for community development • Improve quality of training, certificating & skills development. • Equal access to the services • Providing more than 6 quality services to the community in space of 25 meter square • reduce the cost of management and save time • Each Telecentre start as training project then became a development tool and finally it becomes an investment project without changing its objectives to achieve sustainability
Achievement • Bridging the digital divide • Drying the resources of illiteracy • Solving the conflict between the farmers, shepherd and forest. • Connected the unconnected (disabled, women, out of school, rural community, illiterate or low computer skill farmers) • Utilization of Telecentres to reduce the cost of education and improve its quality • ICT is not part of the culture and not a priority and there is a big digital gap (divide) • Poverty,, financial support and high cost of e-infrastructure • children are supposed to bring the water in the morning from the river or wells and go with their animals in the morning so no students in the class challenges