[UgaBYTES] ugabytes Digest, Vol 492, Issue 1
Aggrey Omondi
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Sun Aug 23 13:37:54 GMT 2009
Congratulations Ahmed for your good work. I join you and your organisation
in celebrating your award.
Pius Aggrey Omondi
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Ugunja Community Resource Centre
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> 1. GDCO SUDAN & PPP win eIndia 2009 Award for Civil
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> dear friends
> Our great public private partnership (PPP) win eIndia 2009 Award for
> Civil
> Society-Telecentre for development
>
> Dear Ahmed Eisa,
> >
> > Greetings from eINDIA 2009!
> >
> > We are happy to inform you that your nominated project 'GDCO
> e-Agriculture
> > Initiative' as the winner of eINDIA 2009 Awards in the
> > category ' Telecentre Civil Society/Development Agency of the
> > Year'. The award will be presented at the awards ceremony at eINDIA 2009
> > event on 26th Aug 2009 from 6.00 pm- 8.00 pm, at Hyderabad International
> > Convention Centre, Hyderabad, India.
> >
> > Please accept heartiest congratulations from eINDIA 2009 Team.
> >
> > Thanks and regards,
> > Prachi
> > ****************************
> >
> > Prachi Shirur
> > Technical Coordinator, eINDIA 2009
> > Centre for Science Development and Media Studies (CSDMS)
> > G-4 Sector - 39, Noida, UP, India
> > Phones: +91-120-2502180-85
> > Fax: +91-120-2500060
> > Mobile: +91-9871529758
> > www.csdms.in
> > www.eindia.net.in
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > *From:* awards at eindia.net.in
> > *To:* awards at eindia.net.in
> > *Sent:* Wednesday, July 22, 2009 3:43 PM
> > *Subject:* Nomination of eIndia 2009 Award for Civil Society-Telecentre
> >
> > *Nomination of eIndia 2009 Award *
> >
> > (1). Nominated By
> > (1)Implementor
> > Implementor
> >
> > *Implementor*
> >
> > (a)Name of Project
> > Telecentre partnership for development
> >
> > (b)Address
> > Omshagara Gedaref, c/o Khartoum 2 alamarat post office, 1st 19th box
> 15021
> >
> > (c)City
> > Gedaref
> >
> > (d)State
> > Gedaref
> >
> > (e)Country
> > sudan
> >
> > (f)Zip
> > 15021 zip 12217
> >
> > (g)Telephone (with country code)
> > 00249912331155
> >
> > (h)Mobile No. (with country code)
> > 00249912331155
> >
> > (k)Email
> > Ahmed22digital at gmail.com
> >
> > (l)Alternate e-mail
> > ahmed at gedaref.com
> >
> > (2)*Other's*
> > Implementor
> >
> > (A)Name of Project
> >
> >
> > (B)Address
> >
> >
> > (C)City
> >
> >
> > (D)State
> >
> >
> > (E)Country
> >
> >
> > (F)Zip
> > < br/>
> > (G)Telephone (with country code)
> >
> >
> > (H)Mobile No. (with country code)
> >
> >
> > (I)Email
> >
> >
> > (J)Alternate e-mail
> >
> >
> > (2). Please Answer the following questions
> >
> > (a). List of various initiatives which you handled or handling. Give the
> > project details, your success story(s), project management.
> > Sudan is the biggest country in Africa. It is 2,505,800 sq km. Sudan has
> > boarders with 9 countries (7,687 km) , the weather ranging from tropical
> in
> > the south and desert in the north. Sudan population (April 2009) is 39.15
> > million. 30.89 million (79%) in the north and 8.26 (21%) in the south.
> > Gedaref mechanized corporation (GMC) is the biggest rain-fed mechanized
> > agricultural scheme in Sudan. This rain-fed mechanized scheme has a high
> > potential of building a national food stock and provide hard currencies
> > which improve the economy of the country. GMC is growing more than 8
> million
> > feddan (1 feddan = 1.038 acre) Gedaref digital city organization (GDCO)
> is
> > NGOs (Gedaref Sudan). GDCO is the founder of the first national
> Telecentre
> > academy in Africa and the 13th in the world (Sudan national Telecentre
> > academy SuNTA). GDCO is the winner of information for development award
> (i4d
> > e-India 2007) also the winner of i4d 2008 awards for the best innovations
> at
> > the grassroots Telecentre. Digital city of Eindhoven (DSE) donated 750
> > computers to GDCO and more than ten community development projects were
> > established using ICT. It is part of the global Telecentre movement 1-
> > e-health and Telemedicine It is the delivery of health-related services
> > (clinical and non clinical) and information via telecommunications
> > technologies. Telemedicine is the ability to deliver healthcare or
> clinical
> > services (where distance is a critical factor) which allows patients to
> > visit or consult with physicians (specialist) live through ICT GDCO& DSE
> > donated 51 computers to the project. More than 40 medical staff were
> trained
> > a medical e-form was developed. A telemedicine unit (10X23 meter) was
> > donated by national telecommunication corporation (NTC) and constructed
> in
> > the hospital of Gedaref and manage by Gedaref university 2- e-education
> and
> > bridging the digital divide GDCO work very hard in bridging the digital
> > divide, training and enhancing capacity building for the community. GDCO
> > established more than 15 Telecentres in Gedaref and 3 Telecentre in
> > Khartoum. GDCO trained the community for cost price. It trains the
> disabled
> > for free. More than 3000 were trained. GDCO donated 120 computers to
> Gedaref
> > university (faculty of IT and community college). Two units (3X 6 meters)
> as
> > e-library with 15 computers were donated to the university. A
> telemedicine
> > unit will be also used for training the students online. More than 300
> > disabled were trained (159 deaf and 140 physical disabled) and new
> project
> > for training the blinds in Khartoum university will be established in
> > partner with IDRC and ESCWA-UN. Training 120 teachers (free) as mangers
> and
> > operators for school Telecentres established by NTC. GDCO established
> Sudan
> > national Telecentre academy (SuNTA( as the first academy in Africa. OTHER
> > GDCO projects OTHER GDCO PROJECTS 3- Include the excluded 4- Speeding
> > e-government 5- Graduate support 6- Using of ICT for disaster control 7-
> > e-farmer (e-agriculture) which is the most important one that sustain
> GDCO.
> >
> > (b).Brief description of nominated project/initiative, including purpose
> of
> > the project/initiative .
> > 7- e-agriculture objectives of e-agriculture 1- Best utilization of ICT
> for
> > agriculture development specially GIS & GPS in monitoring agricultural
> > resources. 2- Enhance capacity building and improve the quality of
> training
> > of agricultural sector 3- increasing crop yield and decreasing cost of
> crop
> > production. 4- development of national and global crop marketing online.
> 5-
> > Using the web in e-farming where farmers can get agriculture extension,
> > information through GIS and GPS to help them mange their farms, ,,,, also
> > exchange of Knowledge and best practices between farmers . . 6-
> > Establishment of strong partnership to improve agricultural practices.
> > E-agriculture tools and methodology 1- quality training to enhance
> capacity
> > building of the farmers and agricultural staff in Gedaref through
> > Telecentres. 2- establishment of agricultural data base in the mechanized
> > rain fed agricultural corporation. 3- establishment of crop marketing
> data
> > base for the agricultural crops in Gedaref and then replicated in other
> > states 4- development with Drishtee the agro mobile services which
> provides
> > 6 e-agricultural services at the beginnings. E-agriculture implementation
> 1-
> > GDCO and DSE donated 15 computers to Gedaref mechanized agriculture
> > corporation, 21 PCs to the farmers union ( 10 PCs to Gedaref mechanized
> > farmer union, 6 PCs to Gedaref state union as farmers information centre,
> 5
> > PCs to gala alnahal farmer union) to establish training Telecentres and 3
> > rural Telecentres in Doka, Hawata and Fao . 2- GDCO trained 55
> agricultural
> > engineers and staff of Gedaref mechanized agriculture corporation the
> basic
> > of the computers courses then 25 of them were trained more than 12
> courses
> > on computer and GIS and GPS courses. 3- a software (program) for Gedaref
> > mechanized agriculture corporation was developed and the information of
> > 13.000 farmers was included in the system of mechanized agriculture
> > corporation. 4 - designing a web portal for the crops prices
> > http://gedaref.com/markets/ 5- a new partnership with Sudani (mobile
> > operator and internet service provider) and EU and FAO through SIFSIA (
> > Sudan institute for food security information action) was established
> > www.trade.net 6- finally the agro-mobile e-service started designed in
> > partnership with Drishtee organization will be developed . (We get the
> > experience and information from Indian organizations and companies (e.g.
> > TATA) at Grameen 5th convention. Drishtee started designing the mobile.
> the
> > mobile will provide 6 e-services to the farmers, traders, companies or
> any
> > one who need it. ) Agro-mobile services
> > http://202.71.128.176/mobile/sudanmobapp 1/ Daily weather forecast 2/
> > Crops prices. 3/ fertilizers applications . 4/ Agriculture News beak. 5/
> > online support (help desk) . 6/ animal prices How the agro-service will
> > work? These services are provided in 4 ways a- SMS b- voice messages c-
> > internet d- through a 3rd party for illiterate people and in rural area.
> > (this party will sell many e-services to community e.g. mobiles prepaid
> > card, electricity prepaid card, and help farmers to sell water) their
> crop.
> >
> > (c). Brief description of the key persons who are involved in this
> > project/initiative.
> > ahmed mahmoud mohamed eisa -Chairman of Gedaref digital city organization
> > (GDCO) full time volunteer. -B.Sc in Agriculture Khartoum university
> (1981)
> > -M.Sc (Agriculture.) Manhattan Kansas USA (1985) in pearl millet -State
> > Minster of Agriculture Sudan in 1988 -Parliament (constituent assembly)
> > member in 1986 - 1989 -Representative of the parliament in the Arab
> > parliamentary union meeting in Abu Dhabi (1989) -Representative of
> > parliament in the national research council (1986 -1989) - former member
> in
> > agriculture research council -Gedaref University council member, Alsharg
> > University (former) -Former Member of broad of director of Agric. Bank,
> > Farmer bank and Sudan commercial bank. -founder of first national
> Telecentre
> > academy in Africa and middle east and the thirteen in the world -winner
> of
> > information for development awards i4d 2007 and i4d (DISABLED INCLUSION)
> -
> > attend 23 international conferences, workshop and forums and presented
> more
> > 20 papers. - winner of information for development awards i4d 2008
> > (INNOVATION) - Cover magazine for many IT magazine and blogger in many
> > websites. - member in east Africa telecentre leaders, north Africa
> > telecentre leader, euorpe telecentre leaders, GKP, CIVICUS and
> Ugabytes.org,
> > telecentre.org - ESCWA - UN telecentre member
> > http://www.knowledgenets.net/gedaref/ - UN online volunteer
> >
> http://www.onlinevolunteering.org/en/vol/opportunity/organization_view.html?id=10790References
> > www.gedaref.com www.sudantelecentreacademy.org
> > http://www.telecentre.org/profiles/blogs/2086278:BlogPost:4959
> > http://telecentrecommunity.ning.com/main/search/search?q=ahmed+sudan
> >
> http://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&channel=s&hl=en&q=gedaref+digital+city&btnG=Google+Search
> > http://www.telecentre.org/group/gga/forum/topics/2086278:Topic:5697
> > http://www.dse.nl/node/view/1402 http://www.dse.nl/node/view/2036
> > http://ugabytes.org/nod/?q=search/node/sudan
> > http://www.digitaldivide.net/search/index.php?Keyword=sudan
> > http://www.bettyiyamuremye.blogspot.com/
> >
> http://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&channel=s&hl=en&q=GDCO+SUDAN&btnG=Google+Search&aq=t
> > http://www.dse.nl/~gedaref/archief.htm<http://www.dse.nl/%7Egedaref/archief.htm>
> <http://www.dse.nl/%7Egedaref/archief.htm>
> > http://www.e-asia.org/2008/InternationalSuppotingPartners.asp
> > http://www.eindia.net.in/2008/telecentreforum/agenda.asp
> >
> http://www.telecentre.org/photo/photo/listForContributor?screenName=21w449uixv4i
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/26741789@N04/2589199717/
> >
> http://www.telecentremagazine.net/interview/interview-details.asp?interviewid=47
> > http://i4donline.net/august07/ http://wwwhttp://
> >
> www.i4donline.net/articles/current-article.asp?articleid=1385&typ=Rendezvous.i4donline.net/articles/current-article.asp?articleid=2160&typ=Features
> > http://i4donline.net/September08/September08.pdf
> >
> http://www.telecentremagazine.net/articles/article-details.asp?Title=Telecentre-Stakeholders-Forum-2008-Contributions-to-the-Telecentre-Movement&articleid=159&typ=Event
> > http://www.govtech.com/dc/articles/395428
> > http://www.stockholmchallenge.se/data/923
> >
> http://www.ask.com/web?o=13927&l=dis&gct=&gc=&q=gedaref%20digital%20city%20organization&qsrc=2869
> >
> http://css.escwa.org.lb/ictd/850/Track3/Ahmed_Eisa_Impact_of_Telecentres.pdf
> > http://umconference.um.edu.my/umweb/index.php?menu=view&kon_id=36-1
> >
> http://www.i4donline.net/search.asp?cx=partner-pub-8663082235668863%3Affsoyqm3bm0&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=gdco+sudan&sa=Search#1188
> >
> http://www.telecentremagazine.net/search.asp?cx=partner-pub-8663082235668863%3A84iwr0tzxoo&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=GDCO+SUDAN&sa=Search#923
> > http://www.knowledgenets.net/gedaref/
> >
> > (d). Achievements of the project/Outcome of the project.
> > E-farmer and the 8 MDGs The main objectives of this project are to
> increase
> > the agricultural production, improve its quality and nutritional value
> and
> > reduce the cost of production which focuses on poverty and hunger
> > reduction,,, increase farmers income which improve the quality of
> education
> > ,,, improve household food security and nutrition which reduce children
> > mortality and Improve maternal health,,, This project gives the farmers
> the
> > opportunity to be medically treated using information technology
> > (telemedicine) to reduce the cost and provide the patients with high
> quality
> > of treatments against serious diseases (malaria, typhoid, HIV),,,, The
> > project ensure environmental sustainability by preventing over exploiting
> > the resources and preventing the eradication of forestry and these can be
> > taken through GIS monitoring of agricultural resources.,,, finally this
> > e-farmer project is a great partnership where partners (farmers, NGOs,
> PPP)
> > from different parts of the world share experiences , best practices and
> > knowledge to make the life more comfortable for farmers communities.
> > E-agriculture achievements 1- Huge data base for daily crops prices for
> than
> > 20 crops ( sorghum , sesame, gum Arabic, vegetables and animals ) were
> > collected daily. http://gedaref.com/markets/ . Also this data is send
> > weekly to SIFSIA on e-souk (e-market) for testing a big project
> > www.trade.net which will start in august 2- More than 13.000 farmers
> > information are installed in the system of Gedaref mechanized agriculture
> > corporation (GMAC). Farmers renew their farm license annually and it is
> done
> > manually in two to three days, but now they can renew in few minutes. 3-
> a
> > daily report of information is available to the director general, the
> > minister of agriculture (agriculture Sector, Division, Name of the area,
> > Farm number , Area of the farm, Computer number , Renewal date , Amount
> paid
> > , and whether the farm is planted or not and how many acres are planted
> and
> > what type of crop) which will help ministers, Leaders and mangers to take
> an
> > accurate and quick decision. 4- a lot of information about crops quantity
> > are available which help in good planning for food security. 5-- SIFSIA
> is
> > going to distribute 10.000 mobiles to the farmers to encourage using the
> > services to sell their crops and know the prices of the crops. 6- farmers
> > and traders can easily sell and buy crops. 7- achieve the 8th MDGs. 8-
> > sharing experiences and best practices locally, nationally and globally.
> 9 -
> > reduction in the cost of. agricultural planning and Geographic
> coordinates
> > (demarcation) because it is conducted by the trained engineers in GMAC.
> 10-
> > this project is going to be replicated all over Sudan by the end of this
> > year. The Importance of e-agriculture project for GDCO sustainability
> GDCO
> > is going to invest on this project to sustain its Telecentres 1- selling
> > these information to the traders, and private companies. 2- selling a
> weekly
> > information to SIFSIA to keep it on its website e-souk www.trade.net 3-
> > getting percentages of the message send by Sudani
> >
> > (e). Give details of the challenges that were faced while implementing
> the
> > policy and how were they overcome?
> > Like any other Telecentres in developing countries. GDCO facing a lot of
> > challenges which include 1- neither the government nor the community ICT
> is
> > part of their culture or a priority 2- high cost of computers 3- low
> speed
> > and high cost of internet 4- poverty and digital divide 5- Monopoly of
> > telecommunications companies (one service provider). 6- sustainability 7-
> > quality of training and certification 8- poverty 9- funding (financial
> > support) GDCO to overcome some of these challenges established a model
> > depend on partnerships with the NGOs (both national and international),
> > schools, government and private sector to use the schools, clubs to
> reduce
> > the cost of training. GDCO reduce the running cost (salaries) by on call
> > (temporary) teachers. GDCO signed agreements with many universities to
> have
> > their final year students to train the community the basic courses of
> > computer. This public private partnership (PPP) provide GDCO with the
> basic
> > infra structure specially the computers. GDCO is now investing in the
> > e-agriculture project and it is going to sell the crop market
> information.
> > GDCO in a partnership with Africa university trained more than 800 people
> > computer courses for free. Poverty is widely spread (99% of the disabled
> are
> > very poor) within the disable and they can not access ICT, so GDCO train
> > them for free and provide some of them with free computers and maintain
> it.
> > Also GDCO train some of them as trainers (TOT) which help us to shorten
> the
> > period of training and reduce the cost. GDCO use the deaf for the
> promotion
> > of easiness of learning computers and send them to the internet caf? and
> pay
> > their bill and this convince many people to study computer and the number
> of
> > internet caf? increased by more than 500% (five hundred) in one year.
> >
> > (f). Please furnish any other related useful information about the
> > nominated initiative that you have not been able to provide in your
> earlier
> > responses.
> > The information supporting fund in Sudan through the national
> > telecommunication corporation (NTC) collected money from each mobile
> > operators as a percentage paid by the subscribers.. . This money is used
> by
> > NTC in developing ICT in constructing 1219 school Telecentres (3.5 X 6
> > meters with 10 computers and network) targeting 2500 schools by the end
> of
> > this year. Also constructed 153 community Telecentres (10 X 23 meters, 15
> > PCs , copy machine, printers, fax and internet), 61 of the community
> > Telecentres trained 2.433 of the community. NTC provides 50 computers for
> > every university. Also provided 50.000 computers to the community (400 $/
> > computers for 20 months). NTC constructed 12 telemedicine units. GDCO has
> a
> > partnership with NTC. GDCO on behave of Sudan Telecentre academy (SuNTA)
> > sign a MoU with the ministry of education in Gedaref state to train 120
> > teachers as Telecentre operators and mangers and it will be replicated in
> > other states. GDCO last month start a new partnership with Gedaref
> metrology
> > station. The station will provide GDCO website with 1- rain fall from 80
> > rain gauges installed in different part of Gedaref agricultural schemes.
> And
> > the predicted rain for 10 days. 2- daily temperature and sun burn. 3-
> > relative humidity 4-wind speed Another partnership will be signed this
> month
> > with all the states in Sudan to have this e-agriculture replicated. A web
> > portal for crop and animals prices will be developed and the revenue from
> > this project will be a source of sustainability for the Telecentres.
> >
> > *Posting date*: 7/22/2009
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> AHMED M. M. EISA
> MOBILE 00249912331155
> KHARTOUM alamaraat P.O.BOX 15021- post code 12217
> WWW.GEDAREF.COM
> http://sudantelecentreacademy.org
> Gedaref digital city organization (GDCO) It is non governmental and non
> profitable organization (Gedaref Sudan). GDCO is the founder of the first
> national Telecentre academy in Africa and the middle east and it is the
> 13th
> in the world (Sudan national Telecentre academy SuNTA ). GDCO is the
> winner of information for development award i4d 2007 awards ( e-India
> 2007)
> also the winner of i4d 2008 awards for the best innovations at the
> grassroots Telecentre. Digital city of Eindhoven (DSE) donated 750
> computers
> to GDCO and more than seven projects were established using ICT for
> community development.
>
>
>
> --
> AHMED M. M. EISA
> MOBILE 00249912331155
> KHARTOUM alamaraat P.O.BOX 15021- post code 12217
> WWW.GEDAREF.COM
> http://sudantelecentreacademy.org
> Gedaref digital city organization (GDCO) It is non governmental and non
> profitable organization (Gedaref Sudan). GDCO is the founder of the first
> national Telecentre academy in Africa and the middle east and it is the
> 13th
> in the world (Sudan national Telecentre academy SuNTA ). GDCO is the
> winner of information for development award i4d 2007 awards ( e-India
> 2007)
> also the winner of i4d 2008 awards for the best innovations at the
> grassroots Telecentre. Digital city of Eindhoven (DSE) donated 750
> computers
> to GDCO and more than seven projects were established using ICT for
> community development.
>
>
>
> --
> AHMED M. M. EISA
> MOBILE 00249912331155
> KHARTOUM alamaraat P.O.BOX 15021- post code 12217
> WWW.GEDAREF.COM
> http://sudantelecentreacademy.org
> Gedaref digital city organization (GDCO) It is non governmental and non
> profitable organization (Gedaref Sudan). GDCO is the founder of the first
> national Telecentre academy in Africa and the middle east and it is the
> 13th
> in the world (Sudan national Telecentre academy SuNTA ). GDCO is the
> winner of information for development award i4d 2007 awards ( e-India
> 2007)
> also the winner of i4d 2008 awards for the best innovations at the
> grassroots Telecentre. Digital city of Eindhoven (DSE) donated 750
> computers
> to GDCO and more than seven projects were established using ICT for
> community development.
>
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