[UgaBYTES] GDCO- SUDAN telecentre profile

[ahmed digital]

dear friends
here is the story of gedaref digital city the first and the big telecentre
in sudan

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Gedaref digital city organization (GDCO) is NGOs in SUDAN established early
2005. 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). who donated 750 computers to GDCO, another 600 PCs are on the way by
the end of this year GDCO is supported by Gedaref state government and
community, information supporting fund  represented by the national
information centre (NIC) and national telecommunication cooperation (NTC) .
It is supported by Gedaref public water organization

*Objectives *

Using of information technology for the development of the community.
Trainings and Enhancing capacity building, special treatment for the
disabled through ICT and Bridging the Digital divide

*Projects implemented by GDCO :--*

*1)  Bridging the digital divide  and inclusion of disabled in the society*

This is the big project GDCO implemented it is provides equal access to ICT
(bridging digital divide), training and capacity building, and inclusion *of
*disabled in the society. GDCO trains them for free (capacity building),
provide them with free computers (at home), establish Telecentres for every
group to     help them sustain the life and be self dependent so 120
computers were donated by GDCO & DSE to the  disabled to establish 6
Telecentre. GDCO trained the disabled (deaf) the internet so they can send
emails, chat through messengers instead of  the sign language.**

*2- Gedaref university (e-learning) support*

Gedaref University was provided with 120 computers for the computer Science
College and community college. The objectives are to get more practices,
electronic library and more research.**

*3- Electronic (digital) medical records*

50 computers were donated by GDCO & DSE to the hospital and medical centers
to keep patients records and have a data base which can be used for
strategic health plan.**

*4- e-Agriculture (farmer)*

15 computers were donated by GDCO & DSE to the mechanized agric.
Scheme.   13000
farmers are on the network of this partnership. After this project is
completed farmers can get information through GIS and GPS. Also farmers use
GDCO website in agriculture extension and to sell their crops (crop
marketing).

http://gedarefcity.org/oldsite/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=96&Itemid=77


http://www.stockholmchallenge.se/data/923

http://www.dse.nl/%7Egedaref/archief.htm

http://www.eindia.net.in/telecentreforum/presentation/Ahmed_Presentation.pdf


http://www.i4donline.net/news/news-details.asp?catid=7&newsid=10255

http://www.barrierbreak.com/agenda.php

http://www.dse.nl/node/view/1402

http://www.digitaldivide.net/articles/view.php?ArticleID=889

http://www.digitaldivide.net/search/index.php?Keyword=SUDAN

http://www.telecentre.org/?event=search&criteria=GDCO&x=17&y=7

http://www.telecentre.org/?event=search&collection=site&criteria=SUDAN&x=29&y=12


http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=t&ie=UTF-8&rls=TSHA,TSHA:2006-03,TSHA:en&q=gedaref+digital+city


http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=gedaref+digital+city&fr=yfp-t-501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8


http://www.ideler.nl/2006-1213-gedaref-visit/

http://www.digitaldivide.net/search/index.php?Keyword=SUDAN

-- 
        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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