Cost, financial aspects and technology Issues

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Cost, financial aspects and technology- Issues

• Development of cost effective models
• Short long term
• Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
• Exploring income streams
• Common resource pools and starter sets
• Cost effective scalable technologies
• Combination of technologies
• Role of stakeholders in cost effective solutions
• Government (tax duty incentives, resource
  pools, enabling participation, affordable
  communications, etc.)
• Private sector (content, creating and
  maintaining infrastructure, etc.)
• Donors, Parents-Teachers Associations, content
  providers

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Cost, Financial Aspects and Technology- Case
studies

• Tamil Nadu secondary schools project
• Private investment in hardware, software,
  networking personnel
• Cost recovery over 5 years half yearly payments
  by Govt., commercial training/IT Enabled Services
  after school hours
• Exploring combination of technologies Linux
  server in school networked with TVs in classrooms
  - Bangalore
• APNET Dedicated TV channels for education
• Using Build Own Operate Transfer (BOOT) model
• Delivered through dedicated as well as public
  cable networks

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Cost, Financial Aspects and Technology-
Recommendations

• Explore alternate models that reduce costs and
  share experiences
• Open software
• Refurbished computers
• Alternative communications options
• Build knowledge base/toolkit on best practices on
  cost effective models
• Preserve flexibility
• Explore combination of tools and technologies
• Build-in monitoring and evaluation to allow for
  the capacity for change and to learn
• Be skeptical about technology solutions offered
  by vendors and donors

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Political buy-in, Policy and Stakeholders - Issues

• Support ownership at all levels
• Government
• District local levels
• Schools and community
• Integrated chain of information sharing
• Policy and frameworks
• Embedded
• Dynamic and commitment to change
• Political processes
• Government
• Donors
• Initial conditions
• Participation of the private sector

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Political buy-in, Policy and Stakeholders -
Recommendations

• Develop ownership by involving stakeholders and
  through transparent information sharing
• Ensure that macro ICT policy is in place and
  programmes are suitably aligned with this
• Investigate and articulate explicit change
  methodology
• Pursue effective risk management
• Identify and consider potential risk at every
  level
• Analyze and respond
• Walk away from unfavourable initial conditions
• Learn from the past for managing political
  process
• Empower stakeholders to sustain ICT programmes in
  education