[UgaBYTES] E-INDIA THE GREAT CONFERENCE FOR ICT DEVELOPMENT

[NKURUNZIZA Jean Paul]

Congratulations to GDCO and to Ahmed Eisa!
Sincerely



> India is home to one of the largest numbers of ICT4D projects in the
> world.
> Most of them are 'Telecentre' initiatives in rural contexts, based on
> public
> access to technology approach. Telecentre.org is a global community of
> people and organizations committed to increasing the social and economic
> impact of grassroots Telecentres. The founding investors include the
> Canadian' International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Microsoft, the
> Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SWC) and ugabytes.org.
> Between
> the 29th and 31st of July 2008 the Indian largest and inclusive ICT event
> was held at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. Around 4000 participants from
> around
> 50 countries representing all continents including 400 speakers   attended
> the conference, (eINDIA2008 the fourth annual ICT4D forum). The conference
> was organized by Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies
> (CSDMS).
> It is the premier Information and Communication Technology for Development
> (ICT4D) event.  The conference objectives are to provide a collaborative
> forum to participants to share Development, knowledge and ideas The Indian
> Telecentre forum 2008 (ITF 2008), fifth in the series of Telecentre Forums
> organized by CSDMS, provided a platform for all key stakeholders
> representing the government, the private sector, the civil society, and
> funding agencies to join and discuss the achievements, challenges and the
> progress in the Telecentre movement. The best thing about this conference
> you are attending 7 conferences in one (at the same time)    and we shared
> knowledge and experiences with a large group of global ICT practitioners.
>
>  The themes for the Telecentre forum are
> • A Close Examination of Telecentre Movement in India
> • Demystifying Social Enterprise Model
> • Discussions on Achieving Balance between Financial and Social
> Objectives
> • Asian Telecentre Leaders Knowledge Sharing Session
> • The Need of New Technologies and Innovations in the Areas of Content
> and
> Connectivity
> • Upgrading the Skills of the Grassroots Managers
> • Examining the Role of NGOs in Common Services Centers Program.
> • Mobile Phones Take Over Telecentres?
>
> on the 31th july  Gedaref digital city organization (GDCO), the Sudanese
> organization, has been chosen as the winner of the *Best innovations at
> the
> grassroots Telecentre, in Telecentre* category – e-India 2008 Awards.
> Mr.
> Ahmed Eisa, GDCO chairman, has received the award that has been given to
> GDCO as an appreciation to its role played in supporting the global
> Telecentre movement. Also because GDCO has recently succeeded in launching
> the first Telecentre academy in Africa and Arab World, and the No. 13 in
> the
> globe. Sudan National Telecentre Academy (SuNTA), was born in the 5th
> EATLF
> held in Khartoum last June, in which 17 countries had been represented.
>
> GDCO is going to participate in the  meeting of the International
> Telecentre
> Academies, in Spain, with 2 members representing GDCO and Sudanese
> Telecommunications Co. (Sudatel), which is the main supporter of
> SuNTA.     Prof.
> F. N. Rajasekharan, the Vice Chancellor of Indira  Ghandi national open
> University   launched the SuNTA website during in last session of the
> Telecentre leaders forum. And, one of the big achievements that
> accompanied
> eINDIA is the announcement of the establishment of the Sudan Telecentre
> Network. The announcement is attended by the network partners
> Excellency  Bashir
> Sahal, Minister of Education in Gedaref State, Sudan; Engineer Ayman Taha,
> (Sudanese Society for Information Technology); Dr. Nazar El-Bashir
> (International Org. for Telecommunications); Dr. Akram Mohd. Ahmed
> (Sudanese
> Organization for Information Technology); Eng. Mohamed Hassan Babikir
> (Sudan
> Academy for Science) and Eng. Mohamed Omer Elfarouq (HotNet Internet
> Services provider and NGOs.).
>
> TC-MENA and east africa telecentre leaders  are fully represented and they
> win 3 awards (karim gasim, nabil eid, dalia and ahmed eisa) . GDCO has
> participated in the main activities of eINDIA by presenting three papers
> in
> the Telecentre forum:
>
> 1. role of Telecentres community Development.
>
> 2. Sudan  Telecentres Network.
>
> 3. Sudan National Telecentre Academy.
>
> GDCO chairman gave a hat-off to all those who supported GDCO all through
> the
> long path towards the success accomplished.  The award was not GDCO award
> it
> is an award for GDCO partners it the great people of Eindhoven represented
> by DSE, Gedaref state community, Gedaref state public water organization
> for
> development, Gedaref government (ministry of education ), Sudan government
> represented by NTC, NIC and information supporting fund. Also Sudanese
> telecommunication company (Sudatel the supporter of the academy), Gedaref
> university, Sudan academy of science, agricultural bank, , Sudanese
> society
> of information technology, Mahgoub awlad (SONS) company, IDRC,
> TELECENTRE.ORG, UGABYTES and its partners, our new partner from India
> DRITSHE who are doing a great job to Telecentre movement in India,
>
> *IT IS REALLY WONDERFULL AND GREAT CONNFERENCESSSSSSS7 AND I THINK ANY ONE
> INTERESTED ICT DEVELOPMENT SHOULD ATTEND IT AND THOSE WHO WORKING ON
> TELECENTRE MOVEMENT THERE IS NO WAY ???/ YOU SHOULD ATTEND SEE YOU NEXT
> YEAR
> INSHALLA (IF GOOD WISHES)*
>
> * *
>
>
> --
> ahmed mahmoud mohamed eisa
> www.gedarefcity.org
> Gedaref digital city organization (GDCO) is NGOs established early 2005.
> It
> is a big telecentre in Sudan. It is a non political organization but it
> has
> a partnership with the government, other national & international
> organizations, donors and supporters based on the benefit of the
> community.
> It is the first digital city in Sudan . It is the winner of information
> for
> development award (i4d 2007 awards) in e-India august 2007 at new Delhi.
> It
> has strong partnership with the great people of Eindhoven through the
> digital city of Eindhoven (DSE).
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