gdco sudan and wsis 2016

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Ahmed Mahmoud Mohamed EisaChair of GDCO Sudan

E-mail ahmed22digital@gmail.com

Telecentre Movement and GDCO Sudan Role in SDGs Implementation

http://gedaref.com/

WSIS 2016 Thematic Workshop Geneva Friday 06/05/2016

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e-Agriculture

e-Learning

e-Infrastructure

Capacity Building

Empowering Women Through ICT

People with Disability

Out of School Children

Partnership

Iwrite4wsis to promote 4 wsis process

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Telecentre is a public place equipped with computers, internet and ICT equipment's to collect information to help people facilitate their lives

Telecentre.org is the initiative of IDRC, Microsoft and Swiss development fund founded in Tunisia WSIS 2005

What are Telecentre??

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Global Telecentre Movement Network

Network of 87534 Telecentres in 52 countries , with 76 national Telecentres network and 6 regional

networks

:// . . /http community telecentre org profi/le AHMED

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Telecentre academy TCA

TCA is global network of trainers & mentors

you get courses and skill you needed online in your language and in your local Telecentre

Courses are available all year long

TIS TALK

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SparkLab is a global initiative developed by Telecentre Foundation TCF and many partners

It make innovation and new development opportunities available for everyone & everywhere.

SparkLab

Other Educational tools TCA

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5th EATLF & 29 Global Telecentre leadersFrom 17 Countries & SuNTA was Founded

Sudan National Telecentre Academy SuNTA

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GDCO organized the 5th EATLF and SuNTA was founded

SuNTA appointed Sudan open university to be our representative in the TACU

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It is part of the Telecentre movement chaired by Microsoft

It is founded in partnership with DSE Netherlands

winner of 7 international ICT4D awards

DSE Netherlands donated 750 computers to GDCO & supported by SPEG and many e-projects were developed

e- India 2007 awarde- India 2008 award

e- India 2009 award

Gedaref Digital City OrganizationGDCO Sudan

eWorld 2011 award

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founder of 1st Telecentre academy in Africa, Middle East and 13th in the world (SuNTA) 2008

Member of UN-ESCWA knowledge network for marginalized community

GDCO is a win-win PPPP sharing knowledge, experience and best practice.

Sudanese best NGO ICT award 2011

Best Telecentre album 2011 Philippines

10.000 US $ award

GDCO Sudan

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Gedaref technical college

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e-Agriculture Project Objectives

Agriculture development through ICT

monitoring agricultural resources from being depleted or eradicated

national and global online crops market

Exchange of Knowledge and best practices among farmers

improve the quality of training

monitoring farms from any place through satellites

integrating the 17th SDGs and 11th WSIS action lines

Using ICT for disaster control

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Establishing Telecentres in GMAC @ Farmers unions

Developing software for GMAC

Design crop portal for crops and animal prices

Collecting information from the internet for disaster control

Implementation (tools)

Signing e-Agriculture project agreement

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Developing software (DATABASE) for 10,000 farmers/farm @ GMAC

Data include the farm number, farmer name, sector, area and many more

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16 agricultural reports

GMAC & More than 20 Sectors and 4 Million Acres

20 sectors (Areas)

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Achievement

Training, capacity building and ICT skill development for GMAC staff, their families and farmers

Empowering GMAC to train 30 agricultural engineers GPS - GIS & AUTOCAD

16 agricultural reports in few minutes (crops, rainfall, sowing date)

quick transaction between GMAC and farmers

Solving conflict ( farmers, shepherds and forest)

Empowering GMAC to develop Gedaref State National Resource e-map by GMAC staff which save a lot of money

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Achievement (GSNR e-Map) Solving Conflict ( Farmers, Shepherds and Forest)

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Achievement

Reduction in the cost of agricultural planning and determining of the geographical coordinates (demarcation)

Using internet (ICT) for disaster control (Bird Flu and Ebola)

Development of strong partnerships PPPP to support community services

Daily crop and animal prices are available online to framers & traders

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we work in phase 2 with Gedaref Technical College and the same software developer

Linking the e-Map to through satellite (online)

Online Crop Market

2nd phase of e-agriculture?

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2nd phase of e-agriculture?

Possibility of grazing area and water resources detection

Agro-mobile services (Drishtee India)

EasyFarmer or cloud computing for low computer skills or illiterate farmers (raising floor and Wisconsin Uni.)

http://easy123.org/sudan/

agro-mobile services

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New Crop Portal Advantage

The new web includes voice services to connect illiterate farmers and blinds (cloud computing) http://easy123.org/sudan/

Daily 2000 messages Agriculture extension services,

20 crops and animals and weather forecast

Our hacked old web (after 2 weeks the new portal) www.crops.sunta-sudan.org/

Also http://sudan-e-village.org/crops-market/

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New crop web portal

http://ngregency.com/cropmarket/category.php?id=12

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Gedaref university e-infrastructure

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Gedaref University e-Infrastructure support

donation of 120 computers to Gedaref university

Donation of telemedicine unit (228 square meters)

Donation of 2 e-Libraries units (22 square meters each)

donation supporting the telemedicine unit with HD camera, 60 computer tables and 60 chair , 2 projectors and laptop

Implementation (Tools)

telemedicineICT College

e-Libraries

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Telemedicine

training and skill development for medical staff and students

Treating sick people online

strong win-win PPPP

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Telemedicine Agreement Between Gedaref and Sri-ramachandra Universities Through GDCO

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Supporting the establishment of Telecentres in the centers or school and civil society organization linked to PWD with more than 150 computers and 25 laptops

starting to build Gedaref deaf school (El-amal)) by Kuwait organizations and supported by of 4 projectors and 4 laptops by SPEG

Ultra sound stick and 200 blind stick & early discovery deaf instrument, beryl printer and beryl holly Quran

people with disability

Implementation (Tools)

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people with disability (Achievements)

GDCO train people with disability free

Provide some of them specially the deaf computers and laptops to keep at home to practice and communicate

Deaf are using internet chatting and email instead of sign language

reduce time of training

Social e-inclusion through ICT

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ICT is not part of the culture and not priorities in many developing counties

People with disability are excluded or ignored in many things specially ICT and there is an inequality

poverty & Big digital divide (gap)

Limited number of students in the class rooms for deaf

there is no high school for deaf and no centre for intellectual disabled

Challenges

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Solutions is e-School 4 deaf

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There million out of school children globally, regional and in Wad-Elmoshamir village (99% illiterates)

Using solar energy for charging laptops to connect children and also used for charging mobile to sustain which increase internet penetration

Elimination of the resources of illiteracy instead of adult education

Better quality education @ low cost

Out of Schoolchildren (Pilot)

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Out of Schoolchildren (Pilot)

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ICT is not part of the culture and not priorities in many developing counties

Distances and geographical barrier in rural area and there is no educational or medical services and no near water resources so children they have to bring it from 2 Km. far lagoons (haffers)

Children have to go with their animals (calves) in morning and milking cows in the evening

Big digital divide (gap)

Challenges

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Women are the most vulnerable community to poverty

Telecentre.org foundation, ITU and many partners including GDCO Sudan conducted a campaign in 2014 to train women the women the basic computer courses and internet to develop their skill to sustain their life

Empowering Women Through ICT

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Portable Telecentre (future)?

The tool that goes deep in rural areas to provide an integrated e-services for community development

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ICT is not part of the culture and not priorities in many developing counties

Resistance to ICT changes & and application in senior staff

Big digital divide (gap)

High cost of broadband and e-infrastructure specially power

Security risk and hackers

Distances and geographical barrier in rural area

Challenges

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Portable Telecentres are an integrated e-services tools

It is social business module or SME that create economic and social sustainable development.

it helps in moving services to rural areas according to the needs

Eradication of resources of illiteracy

it improve the implementation of the SDGs

better quality of training with minim cost anywhere and at anytime

Portable Telecentres

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THANK YOU &

Thanks to our Great Partners

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

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