Role of GDCO Telecentres in connecting the unconnected

Ahmed Fath-alrahmen EisaMember of win-win PPP

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farmers Out of school Children & Young

Women & Girls

Intellectual D deaf D physical D

Rural community

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What is the Telecentre movement ???

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GDCO Sudan,,, the winner of 7 global ICT awards

10.000 US $ award

i4d 2008 award India i4d 2007 award India i4d 2008 award India

Sudanese best NGO ICT award 2011

Best Telecentre album 2011 Philippines

eWorld 2011 awardIndia

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e-agriculture

Solving conflictsFarmers, forest, Sheppard

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

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Connecting the unconnected (disability)

Free training

Free computers to keep at home

Inclusion through global, regional and national conferences

Vocational training Telecentres

SCHS – Sharjah Hanan Troock Abu Dhabi

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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

Telemedicine

750 computer from DSE 228 Telemedicine unit

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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

2011 2011 2012

Skill in writing using PAINT

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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

TENT Gottia Truck

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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

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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