Project Spotlight: Sustainable ICT Initiative
2008
Strategy Humanitarian Sustainable
ICT Development Initiative
By TechCeFaCos Group
Using Holistic Creativity & Technological Approaches
………………………………………..……………………………………………………………. ‘Tele-CML: Center, Mobile & Link’ is a non-profit initiative of TechCeFaCos Group and her ‘Common Members Link’ i.e. linking with her promoters and supporter in UK, Canada, US and Italy. This will be to promote and support an integrated practical ICT Solution for sustainable socioeconomic and educational development in Cameron by increasing the awareness of ICT's benefits as well as making it more accessible and affordable to all Cameroonians. Through a series of projects, this initiative is “Make, Take and Link ICT Services” to empower communities by providing access to appropriate information and communication. The fast growing mobile telecom technology has been important to the TeleCentre and other models of ICTs dissemination initiatives, hence the need for the integrated strategy approach to enhance sustainable socioeconomic and educational development through ICT. This will come after an initial set-up period and donor-led investment.
Integrated Strategy Approach
Tele-CMR: Centre, Mobile & Link TeleCentre ‘making ICT services available for all using low cost & ‘low tech’ Concept: Setting up a centre with low cost tech to serve the Kumbo community with basic ICT services as means for bridging the digital gap with the rural communities of Bui, others towns in Cameroon as well as the entire world
…the world is a global village!
TeleMobile ‘taking ICT services for empowering those marginalize’ Concept: A mobile team of IT experts with portal IT equipment and toolkits to serve rural communities, schools, groups etc of Bui with special ICT services
TeleLink ‘linking ICT services for sustainable development’ Concept:
Utilizing and exploiting telecom techniques in collecting, assembling or organizing and disseminating agro and health info from a central IT unit to control using SMS, ITM, Voice …taking ICT services to the all! mail etc
…reaching the right people with information!
Objectives:
• Help bridge the digital divide or gap between the community of Bui and her people as well as the entire universal, • ICTs public and social security service delivery • Encouraging the use of computers and multimedia tools as well ICTs in learning the basics of literacy and better understanding • Provide a high standard and level of ICT exposure that help identify youths with special talent for further training • Providing a model for introducing basic computer literacy to
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Objectives:
• Alleviating the problem of computer scarcity in Bui rural communities as well as associate problems relating to sustainable ICT services • Ensure that all Bui rural studies are computer literate as well as open to modern working atmosphere • Establishing a flexible data entry system to information and communication related issues vital for the rural person with an easy way in pursuit and development of additional educational and socioeconomic opportunities • Create local content and development into a web portal and
Objectives:
• Developing an information and communication system for gathering, validating and updating community development issues on agriculture, health etc to sharing it through SMS, Voice Mail and ITM etc • Provide and coordinate access for Telephone Conferences (see telephone conference manual) • Provide an integrate technological approach toward information and communication access for community development
By TechCeFaCos Group-Kumbo, Cameroon: www.techcefacos.org| efsPro
Project Spotlight: Sustainable ICT Initiative
2008
preparatory communities as well as academy and educational institutions • Increase the exposure to computers and IT as well as associate benefits for the Bui community • Encourage and empower technical and educational as well as socioeconomic networks like LUGs
CD-ROM base • Develop an educational and training content for illiterate youths, with emphasis on rural youths, girl child and women using ICTs • Encourage and stimulate local knowledge systems and media
Contents:
Computer and Internet Local Content Learning and Skills Community Radio Economic Development Local Knowledge Micro-credit Multimedia • e-democracy …………………………………………… • • • • • • • • Our Focus: Documentation Services Telecom Services Internet Services Multimedia Studio Community Field Office-Mobile ICT Team etc vi. ICT Resource Lab-IT Training, Testing Centre etc vii. Economic DevelopmentMarketing etc i. ii. iii. iv. v.
Contents:
• Training on IT-basic computer and internet operation skills and TelecomSMS, Voice Mail • Technical and Educational SupportComputer and IT Education, IT-Aided Learning, School Mgt System, Enriching existing school curricula • Eradicating high rural illiteracy with IT-more practical activities to enhance users’ capabilities, CD-ROM tutorial for basic literacy and sharing generic daily issues • ‘Learning Kit On The Bike’-roving kit with audiovisual and multimedia material like tapes, CDs etc for lending; tools for machine translation and text-to-speech in tribal languages in order to help illiterate, blind and physically impaired • Web portal development, maintaince and updating-help in finding and accessing info on agricultural, human right, health, education issues etc
Contents: Enhancing information sharing through SMS, ITM etc on generic topics of daily issues or aspects:
• Food Security: include agricultural information, including prices, market information etc • Human Rights & Social Services: family related legal information; Legal assistance services • Health: Community health services, diagnostic services, immunization campaigns etc • Education: Illiteracy courseware online curricula; skills and vocational training
Remarks:
• Efforts: -TeleCentre Presentation • Funding Proposal: -Phase One: Funding Proposal Sum. -Phase One: Funding Proposal Doc. • Requirements: -List -Catalogue • Support Documentations -MOU Partners -camtel’s Poster & Project -Legal Documents -Staff’s Training Documentation
Remarks:
• Efforts: -Mobile Team in Mbven Subdivision -Photo Album on sites • Funding Proposal: -Mbven Case Projection Costing • Requirements: -List -Catalogue • Support Documentations: -Cases: Free Range etc -MOU Partners -Sample Community Dev’t Portal Doc.
Remarks: • Efforts:
-Setup Doc. base on Agro System
• Funding Proposal:
-Not available for now
• Requirements:
-List -Catalogue • Support Documentations -MOU Partners -Cases: Village Phone Project
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By TechCeFaCos Group-Kumbo, Cameroon: www.techcefacos.org| efsPro