Increasing universal access through telecentres

1. 7 – 13 October 2013
Abuja Nigeria
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2. 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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3. 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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4. Types of Telecentres
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 multiservices Telecentre which combine the above three
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5. Telecentre movement?
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7. TCF & accessibility initiatives
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8. 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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9. DSE & GDCO Partnership
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10. 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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12. 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 http://easy123.org/sudan/
Desktop or cloud computing
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13. 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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14. 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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16. 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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18. 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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19. 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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20. 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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21. 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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