Village knowledge centre

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VILLAGE KNOWLEDGE
CENTRE
An innovative strategy for information
dissemination
Praveen .Rapaka ph.D scholar
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Introduction
The Village Knowledge Centre (VKC) is a place to render distant
services from a single window point to rural masses especially in
remote areas of the country through modern Information and
Communication Technology.
The knowledge centre will be connected to a central studio using
technologies viz WiMax/VSAT/leased line. There will be live
interactive sessions in real time by the central speaker with
audience at remote villages or content already prepared on any
subject that the rural communities might need or desire, will be
disseminated.
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The purpose of setting up of a VKC is to bring access to a range
of services, content and information to people living in remote
villages or areas which do not provide such access otherwise.
Objective of VKC
1. The VKC programme is meant for reaching the benefits of the
Information Technology directly to the communities at the grass root
level.
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2.Provides single window delivery of need-based services
relating to the life cycle needs of rural population, viz. rain water
harvesting, nutritional information including primary processing of
fruits and vegetables
3.Promotes rural sanitation, preventive and curative aspects of
health and hygiene, skill development and linkage with
market requirements and demands.
4. capacity building among village based organisations and
people or on any issue that the rural communities would
desire.
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1. Inclusion:
VKC should be set up in rural areas inclusion of
disadvantaged communities should be a pre-requisite for the
opening of centres in any area .
2. Community monitoring and ownership:
The VKC should also address the all important questions of
community monitoring and ownership the monitoring and
evaluation of the centre should be undertaken by a joint
committee comprising of implementation staff and people
from village
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3. Conversion of generic into location specific information and
advice :
VKC’s should provide location specific information to villagers
related to prices of agricultural input ,output, markets
,entitlements health care, transportation, weather etc. in order to
make functioning of VKC unique , local community to be trained
to collect and feed in most of the information by themselves .
4. Priority to information related to livelihoods , health ,weather
and market:
VKC should provide information based in the need of the local
community. Data base should be prepared under various
categories such as current , long-term , agricultural , health
educational socio-economic and general information fulfil the
villagers requirement.
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5.Knowledge and skill empowerment:
To increase earning potential of the villagers VKC ‘sshould try to
empower the rural community by enhancing knowledge level and
improving skill of the people , VKC’s may facilitate the formation
of SHG help villagers in identification of income generating
activities .
Setting up a new village knowledge centre: The
Ten Steps
MSSRF based on their experience with the information village
experiment have developed a structure methodology for setting of
VKC
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Social mobilization and need /demand assessment
Community participation
Connectivity
Content
Hub and spokes model
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Monitoring and evaluation
Services( multi purpose centre)
Partnership
Capacity building
sustainability
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Step 1
this is a crucial stage , this is long process of consultation and
discussion between the agency and the village it commonly takes
2 or 3 months sometimes nearly a year for some cases .
Step 2
The agency needs to build partnership with a community of group
of stake holders taking care to ensure that these are not
dominated by self interests of groups or individuals .
Step 3
Technical solution to connectivity problems can always be found
.conventional telephony systems are important but often the
participating community must provide the ‘’ last mile’’ connection
to the commercial network
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STEP 4:
Content is defined in 3 categories
Generic content such as government employment schemes,
health, local news etc
Dynamic content such as real time market prices, examination
results etc.
Timely content such as offshore wave height predictions and
potential fishing zones for coastal communities
STEP 5:
This simple infrastructure model gives great flexibility and
expansion potential. At the most 25 to 30VKC’s (spokes) are
linked to a single central facility (the hub).
The hub in turn linked via satellite linked to the state level
hub at the enabling organisation .
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STEP6:
NVA is systematically monitoring its activities through an
evaluation framework NVA collects data and periodically analyses
and communicates to all the stakeholders to take appropriate
decisions and make future plans.
Step7
this step sets out to ensure that the VKC provides a genuine,
relevant range of services to the community. Emphasis is placed
on local discussion between the implementing agency and as a
wide a range of villagers as possible.
Step8
the toolkit emphasizes the partnerships between the VKC’s ,local
experts and remote institutional consultants.
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Step9
Capacity building for the local communities is one of the
drivers for the establishment of the VKC’s.
Step 10
This is key question will the VKC model develop into a
sustainable system both at its current local level and planned
national level ? The VKC project recognises this and addresses
it in two ways .
Firstly it must be of local value driven by local needs.
Secondly the VKC ‘s must have a clear and developing business
plan which includes fee paying and income generating
services.
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Infrastructural facilities:
there should be
1. 3 or 4 computers based on usage density of population and
availability of space
2.Notiice board.
3.printer.
4.Few local news paper
5.Wired or wireless PA system .
6.satellite receiving antenna .
7.communication equipment..
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Space requirement
Each VKC work from two locations 1. the originating point
of of information dissemination which is central site
2.Remote site receives information from central site
At central site
a) one room size 20’ x 25 ‘ to install the equipment.
b) space to install communication equipment.
c) Space to keep diesel generator set.
At remote site
a) one room size 10’ x 15 ‘ to install the equipment.
a) space to install communication equipment.
b) Space to keep diesel generator set.
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Impact of VKC
Though the experience of VKC is still young .it foresees
affecting several social changes , improved access to health
infra structure , increased exposure of rural youth to computer
base networking increased awareness of ecologically sound
techniques in agriculture and A.H, leading to enhanced
production, income and livelihood opportunities.
Challenges and obstacles
Sustainability –more than financial matters
Cooperation and ability to share knowledge
Training how to train millions of potential telecentres.
Up scaling- no pathway , competing priorities
Local language issues – how to deliver services and contents in
local language s effectively.
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THANK YOU
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