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| Project Period |
29/11/2009 to 10/12/2009 |
| Countries: |
India |
| Summary |
Twenty-four representatives from fourteen African countries particpated in a 10-day CTA-led study visit to India as part of the TelecentresAfrica initiative by CTA and InfoBridge Foundation in support to the telecentre movement in Africa. Supported by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), this initiative, whose theme is “Social and Economic Development using Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs)”, was meant to enhance participants’ knowledge on how India has harnessed ICT to promote its overall growth. Collaborators for the study visit in India include Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Limited (IL&FS), Kerala State IT Mission (KSITM) and SREI-Sahaj Corporate.
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| Background |
CTA’s strategic plan 2007-2010 has clearly emphasises on the need for the “500 million people living in ACP rural area” to better access information and services using ICTs as a leading resource/innovative force including the development of innovative products. In this context, Telecentres have an important role to play to contribute to sustainable social and economical changes consistent with the MDGs.
As a result of the studies conducted by CTA and recommendations of the Lusaka workshop recognise sustainability of rural telecentres as one of the main challenges of developing telecentre in Africa. Among the issues recommended by the workshop, CTA and its partners have decided to focus on the following main areas:
* Facilitating access to relevant content;
* Create awareness on the role of telecentres at various levels especially at policy and decision making levels;
* Supporting ongoing telecentres programmes integrated to wider national or regional ICTs development plans rather than experimenting once more pilot initiatives.
The study visit is part of the awareness raising planned activities. Participants analysed the various models applied for their possible use in rural Africa.
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| Objective |
The overall objective of this study visit is to contribute to improving African rural farmer’s livelihood through an increased use of ICT enabled services.Success and challenges of setting up large scale telecentre projects are shared and assimilated by participants.
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| Outputs |
Outputs:
* Presentations given during TelecentresAfrica Study Visit Inida available at Repository
* Documentary films on TelecentresAfrica Study Visit India
* Report on TelecnetresAfrica Study Visit India
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| Results |
Expected results are:
* India Common Service Centres models visited and lessons shared among participants
* Participants country experiences shared
* National eGovernance framework discussed by participants and Indian Officials
* Study visit documents (including documentary film, input for the webportal)realised
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| Project Description |
Conference or workshop paper |
 ICTs and ARD in the ACP Regions: CTA Experiences |
 776kb |
| Project Output |
Conference or workshop paper |
Relevance of ICTs in African Agricultural and Rural Development: Opening Remarks |
40kb |
| Project Output |
Media presentation (video, TV, radio, interview) |
Accessible and Affordable Health Care |
1,321kb |
| Project Output |
Media presentation (video, TV, radio, interview) |
BangaloreOne Integrated Citizen Service Centers |
308kb |
| Project Output |
Media presentation (video, TV, radio, interview) |
Battling HIV Epidemic with the help of technology: India Perspective |
1,641kb |
| Project Output |
Media presentation (video, TV, radio, interview) |
Common Services Centers (CSC) scheme of National e-Governance Plan of India |
574kb |
| Project Output |
Media presentation (video, TV, radio, interview) |
Community Radio in ICT for Development |
1,963kb |
| Project Output |
Media presentation (video, TV, radio, interview) |
Cooperative-based Knowledge centres - A new paradigm of e-agriculture in Africa |
905kb |
| Project Output |
Media presentation (video, TV, radio, interview) |
Distributed Generation and Supply of Electricity |
1,254kb |
| Project Output |
Media presentation (video, TV, radio, interview) |
e-Governance with PPP mode - Common Services Centres in West Bengal, India |
2,027kb |
| Project Output |
Media presentation (video, TV, radio, interview) |
e-Procurement in Karnataka |
198kb |
| Project Output |
Media presentation (video, TV, radio, interview) |
ICT for Development: Bilateral and Multilateral Perspectives |
351kb |
| Project Output |
Media presentation (video, TV, radio, interview) |
Information Infrastructures for Development (I2D) |
806kb |
| Project Output |
Media presentation (video, TV, radio, interview) |
Information Technology: One Size that Fits All
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vimeo.com/10060618.. |
| Project Output |
Media presentation (video, TV, radio, interview) |
Kerala State IT Mission |
2,813kb |
| Project Output |
Media presentation (video, TV, radio, interview) |
Nemmadi – Peace of Mind |
438kb |
| Project Output |
Media presentation (video, TV, radio, interview) |
Note on Nemmadi Telecentre Project |
334kb |
| Project Output |
Media presentation (video, TV, radio, interview) |
Role of Government in ICT for Development - Putting Next Step Forward: Challenges in scaling up ICT pilots into sustainable business models |
185kb |
| Project Output |
Media presentation (video, TV, radio, interview) |
Role of ICT in Health Care Outreach in India |
1,263kb |
| Project Output |
Media presentation (video, TV, radio, interview) |
Role of media in bridging the digital divide |
539kb |
| Project Output |
Media presentation (video, TV, radio, interview) |
Sega Silocon Valley, Kenya |
1,187kb |
| Project Output |
Media presentation (video, TV, radio, interview) |
Solution eXchange - Wider Choices , Smarter Development |
1,659kb |
| Project Output |
Media presentation (video, TV, radio, interview) |
Tanzania Telecentre Network (TTN) - e-Governance Initiatives |
270kb |
| Project Output |
Media presentation (video, TV, radio, interview) |
Technology - the driver for job creation. An Indian Experience |
3,383kb |
| Project Output |
Media presentation (video, TV, radio, interview) |
Ugunja Community Resource Centre, Kenya |
212kb |
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