A presentation on BCICT Project

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A presentation on BCICT Project

• Committee for the promotion of public awareness
  and Development Studies(COPPADES)
• COPPADES, Post box 5926, Tel [phone] ,
  Samakhusi, Kathmandu, Nepal

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Topics

• Introduction of COPPADES
• Overview of BCICT
• BCICT Objective
• What does COPPADES do?
• Need of IT for sustainable development
• Our partner schools
• What Schools Achieve
• Problems and difficulties
• Funds and infrastructure development
• Roles of government, NGO and INGO
• Conclusion

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Introduction

• Committee for the Promotion of public Awareness
  and Development Studies (COPPADES) is an NGO
  working in the field of computer and ICTs
  education and services in rural areas in Nepal
• BCICT focuses on government schools and community
  people
• Standardizes the quality of education by adding
  Computer and ICT on traditional education
• Contribute to bridging the digital divide

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Introduction

• Has launched ICT program Phase wise
• Has launched phase I program at 2000
• Phase I program covered students of 65 schools
  and community people around schools of 8
  districts namely Bardia, Bajura, Dhading,
  Lamjung, Gorkha, Tanahau , Rolpa, Solukhumbu
• About 20,000 students and 8,000 community people
  learned IT education after phase I program

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Introduction

• Phase II program
• Phase II included 80 schools and community people
  of 22 Districts
• With an objective to reach to 20,000 students and
  10,000 community people with computer and IT
  education
• Phase III program included 80 schools and phase
  IV included 165 rural schools and communities
  across the country

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Overview of IT

• The importance of information and communication
  technology (ICT) has increased remarkably during
  the last few years.
• Access to information and knowledge is essential
  for the marginalized and poor people to improve
  their lives and the lives of their children
• In the context of Nepal only few rural people can
  have access to IT

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Overview of IT..

• The difference between the people who have access
  to IT and who do not is increasing day by day
• It is necessary to reduce the gap
• COPPADES is making contributions to reduce such
  gap

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Overview of IT..

• COPPADES realizes the potential of information
  and communication technologies to improve lives,
  reduce poverty and empower people
• By the use of IT student can access distant study
  materials, news and information via the Internet
  and can update their knowledge which contributes
  to sustainable development

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Objective

• To promote broader access to knowledge and
  information as tools of equitable sustainable
  development
• To improve lives, reduce poverty and empower
  people
• To make equal opportunities where all people are
  able to access to and use knowledge and
  information to improve their life
• To make virtual learning center

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Objective.

• To make available news, results published, study
  resources, bidding information, job opportunities
  and other information to people in rural
  communities
• To providing virtual marketplace and
  advertisement board
• To promote E-Health, E-Farming and E-Governance
  and E-Learning and Distance learning

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What does COPPADES DO ?

• Announce the schools to join the BCICT project
• Carry out technical feasibility of the schools
• Provide training on hardware and software for one
  teacher of each school who lives in the same
  community where school is located so that he can
  assist other community people and youths besides
  school students
• Provide five (5) computers to each school with
  printer, network cards, modem and LAN Cable and
  HUB
• Provides follow up and support to partner
  schools

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Achievement of Schools

• Establish IT infrastructure in their schools. It
  is a revolution in the field of information
  technology
• Most schools run academic courses for 9,10,11,12
  and some run non academic courses i.e. short term
  courses
• Schools access Internet and email
• Almost all the schools conduct their official
  work i.e. record keeping, printing official
  documents with the use of computers
• Some schools operate computers with solar energy
  and also diesel generators where other energy
  alternatives are not available

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Problems and difficulties

• Government TAX
• Political unrest
• Unstable Government
• Lack of funds for poor schools
• Lack of electricity supply
• Lack of quality telephony for Internet access

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Roles of Government, NGO and INGO

• The NGO and INGO should lobby government
• To make policy to conduct ICT education to all
  schools
• To make policy for increasing the availability
  of information and knowledge on ICT for
  development and empowerment
• Should invest time and resources to IT Education
  in rural areas

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Conclusion

• COPPADES realizes that the potential of
  information and communication technology is
  essential for improving lives, reduce poverty and
  empower people

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• THANK YOU !!!
• Committee for the Promotion of Public Awareness
  and Development Studies
• (COPPADES)
• COPPADES, Post box 5926
• Samakhusi, Kathmandu, Nepal
• Tel [phone]
• Email coppades_at_ntc.net.np
• Website http//www.coppades-nepal.org