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Sudan Telecentres Promoting e-services

for Community Development

WSIS+10 High-Level Event 2014

ahmed22digital@gmail.com

http://community.telecentre.org/profile/AHMED

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What is gedaref digital city organization GDCO

Telecentres and Telecentre movement

GDCO e-projects

People with disability

e-agriculture

Gedaref university support

Out of school children

Women Telecentre digital literacy campaign

Innovation & Challenge

Future beyond WSIS 2014 for more ahmed22digital@gmail.com

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GDCO WIN-WIN PPPP

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GDCO is NGO founded in partnership with DSE.

winner of 7 i4d awards

Founder of the first TCA in Africa and middle east &the 13th in the world

It is part of the Telecentre movement.

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Writer and blogger in many magazines and

community websites

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GDCO & many people in Sudan stand with 173million people in the world to fight against povertyand delivered speeches at different mosques withdifferent tools and that was the first time whenthe idea of Sudan e-village organization (SeVO) forfighting poverty was originated.

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GDCO shared messages on the education is No. 1initiative in the World Cup (football) in SouthAfrica (2010) with many global leaders and footballplayers

education is GOAL 1

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GDCO participated in more than 60 conferences &workshops and presented 30 papers

It is member in the knowledge network formarginalized, underserved and disadvantagecommunities in UN-ESCWA

It is a partner with ITU in iwrite4wsis initiative

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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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It is group of individuals sharing knowledge, experiences and

best practices for community development.

Telecentre.org is the initiative of IDRC, Microsoft and Swiss

development fund @ WSIS 2005 in Tunisia

Globally registered there are 87534 Telecentres, in 76 nationalnetwork, in 6 regional network and 52 countries.

Telecentre.org Network

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In Africa region we have many Telecentre Networks

Sudan national Telecentre academy http://Sunta-sudan.org

gedaref Sudan

Arabic @ Middle East and north Africa MENA Region

http://mogtamaa.telecentre.org/

Net Africa http://www.net-africa.org/

Southern Africa http://www.satnetwork.org/

EATL (Ugabytes in Uganda) & West Africa in Benin

Kenya www.kenyatelecentres.org/telecenters/

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1- standard Telecentre it is Telecentre that deals with Training,

capacity building and skill development

2- Knowledge Telecentre this where GDCO share knowledge,

experience and best practices with other Telecentre & transfer it to

Sudan 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

to sustain our Telecentres without changing the objectives

4- portable Telecentre is the future (NOT YET) of Telecentre it is

multi-services Telecentre which combine the above three

Types of GDCO Telecentres

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one the main objectives is to connect people equally and insure

no one is left behind

Expand the internet broadband to marginalized, disadvantage

and under-served rural communities to improve and facilitate the

ways of living

Telecentres connect villages, schools, universities, hospitals and

concentrate on people with disability, women and even low

computer skills and illiterate farmers

The end users of each project are completely involved In

telecentre,org network we work on MDGs

Telecentre Objectives

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Telecentre Academy TCA

Telecentre Academy (TCA) is the capacity building arm

of Telecentre.org Foundation

The academy was managed by IGNOU India 2008 and now it is in

Philippines

GDCO held the 5th EATLF in partnership of Ugabytes and its partners

and the first Telecentre academy in middle east and north Africa and

13th in the world was founded

GDCO appointed sudan open university to be its representative in the

Telecentre academy consortium of universities TACU

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The Telecentre women digital literacy campaign

It is a partnership between Telecentre.org foundation and ITU

the initiative targeted one 1.014.096 women by January 2014

the main objectives is to connect people equally and insure no one

utilizing of e-learning for training women computer skills online to

empower women through ICT

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TIS Talk webinars (17)

initiative of Telecentre.org foundation and Intel

It is technology, innovation and sustainability in Telecentres webinars

teaching online Telecentre mangers and operators how sustain their Telecentres

demonstrates and share best practices between Telecentre movement

stakeholders

Telecentre networks and Telecentre practitioners will have access to an Online

Library with Telecentre sustainability resources in multiple languages

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Basics Telecentre certificate

It is a partnership between and Telecentre.org foundation

It is a course to improve the quality of searching the internet to users

which is aimed at increasing the level of employability of individuals in local

communities

run from the 2nd of June to 30th, June 2014

The best Telecentre & Telecentre manger will be awarded Samsung Galaxy

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It started with 4 courses

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Starting this month TCA with ITU will offer entrepreneurship course for

women hopes to build a community of practice

People who have taken the course can exchange knowledge,

experiences, resources and good practices t

Initiatives focused on the use of ICT tools in the enterprise world

The training initiatives focused on the use of ICT tools in the enterprise

world for 8 weeks (40 work hours)

entrepreneurship course for women

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Telecentres lack of practical training in Sudan ICT Colleges

16% of the world population are people with disability

57 million illiterates people in the world,, 28.5 million more illiterates

due to war and disaster

more than 3 million children out of school in Sudan

women suffer from inequality especially in ICT

These situation forced GDCO to establish strong win-win PPPP for

community development.

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GDCO provides Free training , Free computers &laptops for some to keep at home

Deaf are using emails and internet chatting insteadof the sign Lang,

automation of the deaf school with 6 laptop & 6projectors in partnership with Eindhoven-NEvolunteers for Gedaref projects

Social & digital Inclusion

Promotion of the easiness of accessing internet

New model of schools with Kuwaiti UniversityStudents volunteers

Vocational training Telecentres with

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The e-agriculture project is a multi-stakeholders

partnership to improve and develop the agricultural practices

in Sudan

It is a win-win public private people partnership (PPPP)

for improving both quality and quantity of production

e-agriculture project

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GDCO establish Telecentre in GMAC and farmer unions

Develop a software (Database) for 10.000 farmers with 10%

of the total cost and guaranteed for 20 years for support

and updates

Trained 75 GMAC staff the basic courses of computer

support GMAC to train 30 agriculture engineers GPS, GIP

and AUTOCAD with minimum cost

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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

Online crop market even for low computer skill or illiterate

farmers

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solving conflict &disaster control

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The online crop market and other services will beprovided through our website, voice mobile, SMS, e-mailsand desktop application (cloud computing) for illiterate orlow computer skill farmers http://easy123.org/sudan/

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EasyFarmers is a project for illiterate or low skill in computer farmers

http://easy1234.org/sudan/

EasyFarmers

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Drishttee India agro mobile service

Gedaref University Support

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Telemedicine Unit 4 treating sick people online,training medical staff and medical students onlinein partnership with

Supporting e-infrastructures for IT college forbetter connectivity with 120 computers inpartnership with DSE-Ne

two e-Libarary units (buildings) in partnershipwith NTC/NIC

Laptop and projector (SPEG)

high efficiency camera (Gedaref Ministry ofhealth)

NTC/NIC

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Globally, there are more than 57 million out of schoolchildren, in

addition 28.5 due to disasters and war (UNESCO). In Sudan, there

are 3 million due to poverty, climate change, war, digital divide

and cultural issues. In Wad Elmoshamir village 99% are illiterate

Working on out school children helps in drying the resource of

illiteracy in an innovative ways instead of adult education.

It reduce the cost and improve the quality and environment of

education in strong win-win public private partnership

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Future & Innovation In Telecentres

The portable Telecentre is the future and it represent the best

innovation because

In 25 square meters you can have a Telecentre which can be a tent,

Rakooba or Gottia (local cheap building)

With 15.000 US$ this Telecentre can provide training to more than

1000 people (15 laptops X 6 shifts X for 11 month = 990 people + 30out of school children…

Illiteracy eradication

Agriculture extension & Supporting e-government

Basic health care and telemedicine

solar 4 charging Mobile (revenue & increase internet penetration)

Illiteracy eradication

Poverty elimination (future employment, health insurance, books )

discover grazing and water area through GIS by nomads

solving conflict between farmers, forest and nomads (geographical

coordinates)

Skype to reduce the cost of telephone bills

Telecentres can be used as IT Clubs

It can help in

Challenges and how it can be overcome?

We still have problems to establish most of our projects and application

specially the agro-mobile services and the portable Telecentres because we are

facing many challenges

ICT is not part of the culture and not a priority and this can be solved by

continuous training with a running sustainable cost price

GDCO start with poor people, marginalized community and unserved areas

and provide some of them computers and free laptops to keep at home

Resistant to change in senior staff

Poverty & big digital divide in developing countries this can be solved by

developing win-win PPPP and a multi-stake holders work together

Globally, more than 57 million out of schoolchildren, in addition 28.5 due to

disasters and war (UNESCO). In Sudan, there are 3 million due to poverty,

climate change, war, digital divide and cultural issues. In Wad Elmoshamir

village 99% are illiterate

Challenges &solutions

The big challenge is that the Children in out of school they are supposed to bring the

water in the morning from the river or the wells and later they go with their animals

and in the evening do milking so there are limited numbers or sometimes no

students in the class so we are thanking for an e-water tanker and e-shepherd to help

those kids so they can be available.

High cost of e-infrastructure, high government taxes and Power supply and this can

be solved by reducing taxes and solar energy supply

use schools and youth clubs for training with sustainable cost

Local curriculum development & reduce the cost of management

automation of deaf school T with SPEG (laptops and projectors)

use schools and youth clubs for training with sustainable cost

solar energy

Challenges &solutions

Equal access to ICTs by empowering women, youth, and people with disability

(Excluded in MDGs) & marginalized communities.

Illiteracy eradication (drying resources of illiteracy

Fighting poverty

Innovation & integration of ICTs e-services (portable Telecentre)

Increase mobile penetration @ Affordable wide broadband accessibility and

improve cloud computing

Promote eHealth and telemedicine

Content (curriculum and accredited certificate)

Strong PPPP for better community SDGs through S. Telecentres

priority areas that need to be

addressed Beyond 2015

priorities

We should realize the fact that ICT is not part of the

culture and not a priority even to many developing

countries which means strong win-win PPPP is

needed

an income generated money should be constructed

for sustainability of Telecentres

For success of the Telecentres both social and

economic factors should be considered

Needs and priorities of the community should be

considered before starting

Conclusion

Finally it my pleasure to invite all of you individuals,

organizations, governments, private sector academic

and research institutes to join this movements to

develop a PPPP for community development