Telecentres in Bangladesh

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Comment by Alan Foo on March 8, 2009 at 6:53am

May be BTN can have a look at our powerpoint presentation on how to bridge the digital divides without broadband for Education

In order to understand what we are doing and will be doing towards closing the digital divides in developing countries. ...i.e the other 5.5 billion people around the world, please read our powerpoint presentation here and after going through it you would have a good idea what we are talking about.


http://www.paperlesshomework.com/ppt/AGE4telecenters2.ppt 1.6 mbyte no voice over

or

download and play this with voice over.

http://www.paperlesshomework.com/ppt/AGEpowerpointvoice.zip about 37mbytes.

(you have to unzip the voice file to enable voice here)

Essentially it would explain how we can get the following, deemed impossible using any tech available to do even one of the following in developing countries(developed too) not to say 4 .


1. Enables entire country (rural and urban) to access digital contents without expensive broadband
2. Empowers teachers from blackboard to digital enabled easily for entire country.
3. By going paperless homework/textbooks... a greener country.
4. Enable Ministry of Education to collate students' performance data for entire country anytime.
(You don't have to wait for year end examination results to know the progress of each student for the entire country. - Get it anytime)
5. Lighter schoolbags... use pen drives

It helps to increase the reach of Telecenters many folds by enabling users to take contents out of telecenters easily. At the moment it helps in English not Bangladeshi yet. The fonts can be created though.

Please do have a look.

Regards
Alan

Comment by Munira Morshed Munni on March 5, 2009 at 5:01am

Thanks Belayet.