ICT perspectives for rural development. This PPT contains the possible and potential technologies for rural development

1. Krishna Pandey
IT Consultant (MOST)
Member, HPR-Nepal
kris.pandey@hotmail.com

2. • Identified gap Digital Divide
• Optimal Solution is the word
“Communication”
• ICT communication refers to any kind of
medium that act as a pool between sender
and receiver for exchange of information. For.
Eg: Internet, Intranet, radio wave,
electromagnetic wave, or medium that may
be wired or wireless

3. • Telecommunication Service providers (ntc,
ncell, smarttel, utl, etc)
• ISPs (NITC, mercantile, ntc with adsl, wlink,
subisu, websurfer, broadlink, nepal wireless,
etc)
• NTA (Policy and regulatory agency)
• MOIC (Broadband policy), MOST (IT policy)

4. • 5-10%
• A big Why?
• Lack of identified solution to address rural
problem
• Lack of service provider to meet the rural
demand
• City centric businesses and service providers

5. • Rural’s Need Assessment is the bigger
challenge in Today’s time.
• Model that fits our topography and has been
sustainable in the neighbors and third country
is the development of end user application.
• That can promisingly deliver services such as
G2C, B2C
• Applications are the only stuffs that user can
interact with as much as he can

6. • Various e-applications for various domains:
Agriculture
Education
Health
Employment
Finance
Others

7. • e-Agriculture Application with essential info:
– Market price of cash crops
– Demand and supply of their products in city
– Transportation charges
– Government plans and schemes for farmers
– Banks/ FIs schemes and loan plans for farmers
– Product market areas
– Forums about cultivable soil, crops, diseases in
crops and interacting platform to find the solution

8. • e-Education application oriented platforms:
– e-Library/ e-Pustakalaya
– e-Paati
• Programs being supported and are organized by
various groups: OLE, OLPC, Help-
Nepal, UNDP, Midas-edu Kit, etc
• Programs are profit and non-profit oriented.

9. • Programs are scattered and conducting in
narrow domain and are somehow specific
• “Innovation is not just doing different things
but it is also the intelligence of doing existing
things differently”
• Here we find ourselves and fit ourselves
• We are working on the development of e-
Library application to be hosted in desktop
and in web

10. • Our application suits itself in desktop with one
computer hosting as a server locally to all other
client desktop or school PCs.
• As well as we remain in Web which can be
assessed globally getting connected to the
internet with our simple credentials.
• Trying to build general purpose framework that
may acquire any kind of reading, learning,
materials in various formats (text, audio, video,
etc) and make them highly presentable format.

11. • We are trying to integrate sms system to our
web application with an API for mobile access
as well.
• We have developed prototype of our product
and it is on the way of final release.
• CMS-Cell is working on contents and are
integrating contents from available agencies.

12. Some cool snapshots
of our prototype
application