1) Ahmed Mahmoud Mohamed Eisa is the Chair of GDCO Sudan and discusses the role of telecentres and GDCO in implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals in Sudan. 2) GDCO has implemented several e-agriculture, e-education, and e-health projects using telecentres to provide services and training to rural communities, including developing software and maps for agriculture. 3) Key challenges facing telecentre initiatives in Sudan include lack of ICT prioritization, limited infrastructure such as broadband access, and addressing needs of vulnerable groups such as people with disabilities, out-of-school children, and empowering women. Portable telecentres are proposed as a

1. Ahmed Mahmoud Mohamed Eisa
Chair of GDCO Sudan
E-mail ahmed22digital@gmail.com
Telecentre Movement and GDCO
Sudan Role in SDGs Implementation
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http://gedaref.com/
WSIS 2016 Thematic Workshop Geneva
Friday 06/05/2016

2. e-Agriculture
e-Learning
e-Infrastructure
Capacity Building
Empowering Women Through ICT
People with Disability
Out of School Children
Partnership
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3.  Telecentre is a public place equipped with computers,
internet and ICT equipment's to collect information to
help people facilitate their lives
Telecentre.org is the initiative of IDRC, Microsoft and
Swiss development fund founded in Tunisia WSIS 2005
What are Telecentre??
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4. Global Telecentre Movement Network
Network of 87534 Telecentres in 52 countries , with 76
national Telecentres network and 6 regional networks
http://community.telecentre.org/profile/AHMED
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5. Telecentre academy TCA
 TCA is global network of trainers & mentors
 you get courses and skill you needed online in your language and
in your local Telecentre
 Courses are available all year long
 TIS TALK
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6.  SparkLab is a global initiative developed by Telecentre Foundation
TCF and many partners
 It make innovation and new development opportunities available for
everyone & everywhere.
SparkLab
Other Educational tools TCA
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7. 5th EATLF & 29 Global Telecentre leaders
From 17 Countries & SuNTA was Founded
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8. Sudan National Telecentre Academy SuNTA
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 GDCO organized the 5th EATLF and SuNTA was founded
 SuNTA appointed Sudan open university to be our
representative in the TACU

9.  It is part of the Telecentre movement chaired by Microsoft
 It is founded in partnership with DSE Netherlands
 winner of 7 international ICT4D awards
 DSE Netherlands donated 750 computers to GDCO & supported by
SPEG and many e-projects were developed
e- India 2007 award
e- India 2008 award
e- India 2009 award
Gedaref Digital City Organization
GDCO Sudan
eWorld 2011 award
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10.  founder of 1st Telecentre academy in Africa, Middle East and 13th in
the world (SuNTA) 2008
 Member of UN-ESCWA knowledge network for marginalized
community
 GDCO is a win-win PPPP sharing knowledge, experience and best
practice.
Sudanese best NGO
ICT award 2011
Best Telecentre album
2011 Philippines
10.000 US $ award
GDCO Sudan
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11. Gedaref
technical college
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12. e-Agriculture Project Objectives
 Agriculture development through ICT
 monitoring agricultural resources from being depleted or
eradicated
 national and global online crops market
 Exchange of Knowledge and best practices among farmers
 improve the quality of training
 monitoring farms from any place through satellites
 integrating the 17th SDGs and 11th WSIS action lines
 Using ICT for disaster control
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13.  Establishing Telecentres in GMAC @ Farmers unions
 Developing software for GMAC
 Design crop portal for crops and animal prices
 Collecting information from the internet for disaster control
Implementation (tools)
Signing e-Agriculture project agreement
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14. Developing software (DATABASE) for 10,000
farmers/farm @ GMAC
Data include the farm number, farmer name, sector,
area and many more
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15. 16 agricultural reports
GMAC & More than 20 Sectors and 4 Million Acres
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16. Achievement
 Training, capacity building and ICT skill development for
GMAC staff, their families and farmers
 Empowering GMAC to train 30 agricultural engineers GPS -
GIS & AUTOCAD
 16 agricultural reports in few minutes (crops, rainfall,
sowing date)
 quick transaction between GMAC and farmers
 Solving conflict ( farmers, shepherds and forest)
 Empowering GMAC to develop Gedaref State National
Resource e-map by GMAC staff which save a lot of
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17. Achievement (GSNR e-Map)
Solving Conflict ( Farmers, Shepherds and Forest)
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18. Achievement
 Reduction in the cost of agricultural planning and determining of
the geographical coordinates (demarcation)
 Using internet (ICT) for disaster control (Bird Flu and Ebola)
 Development of strong partnerships PPPP to support community
services
 Daily crop and animal prices are available online to framers &
traders
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19.  we work in phase 2 with Gedaref Technical College and the
same software developer
 Linking the e-Map to through satellite (online)
 Online Crop Market
2nd phase of e-agriculture?
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20. 2nd phase of e-agriculture?
 Possibility of grazing area and water resources detection
 Agro-mobile services (Drishtee India)
 EasyFarmer or cloud computing for low computer skills
or illiterate farmers (raising floor and Wisconsin Uni.)
http://easy123.org/sudan/
agro-mobile services
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21. New Crop Portal Advantage
 The new web includes voice services to
connect illiterate farmers and blinds (cloud
computing) http://easy123.org/sudan/
 Daily 2000 messages
 Agriculture extension services, 20 crops
and animals and weather forecast
 Our hacked old web (after 2 weeks the
new portal) www.crops.sunta-sudan.org/
 Also http://sudan-e-village.org/crops-market/
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22. New crop web portal
http://ngregency.com/cropmarket/category.php?id=12
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23. Gedaref university e-infrastructure
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24. Gedaref University e-Infrastructure support
 donation of 120 computers to Gedaref university
 Donation of telemedicine unit (228 square meters)
 Donation of 2 e-Libraries units (22 square meters each)
 donation supporting the telemedicine unit with HD camera, 60 computer
tables and 60 chair , 2 projectors and laptop
Implementation (Tools)
telemedicineICT College
e-Libraries
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25. Telemedicine
 training and skill development for medical staff and
students
Treating sick people online
 strong win-win PPPP
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26. Telemedicine Agreement Between Gedaref and
Sri-ramachandra Universities Through GDCO
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27.  Supporting the establishment of Telecentres in the centers or school and
civil society organization linked to PWD with more than 150 computers and
25 laptops
 starting to build Gedaref deaf school (El-amal)) by Kuwait organizations
and supported by of 4 projectors and 4 laptops by SPEG
 Ultra sound stick and 200 blind stick & early discovery deaf instrument,
beryl printer and beryl holly Quran
people with disability
Implementation (Tools)
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28. people with disability (Achievements)
 GDCO train people with disability free
 Provide some of them specially the deaf computers and
laptops to keep at home to practice and communicate
Deaf are using internet chatting and email instead of sign
language
 reduce time of training
Social e-inclusion through ICT
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29.  ICT is not part of the culture and not priorities in many developing
counties
 People with disability are excluded or ignored in many things specially
ICT and there is an inequality
 poverty & Big digital divide (gap)
 Limited number of students in the class rooms for deaf
 there is no high school for deaf and no centre for intellectual disabled
Challenges
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30. Solutions is e-School 4 deaf
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31. There million out of school children globally, regional and in Wad-
Elmoshamir village (99% illiterates)
 Using solar energy for charging laptops to connect children and also
used for charging mobile to sustain which increase internet penetration
 Elimination of the resources of illiteracy instead of adult education
 Better quality education @ low cost
Out of Schoolchildren (Pilot)
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32. Out of Schoolchildren (Pilot)
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33.  ICT is not part of the culture and not priorities in many developing
counties
 Distances and geographical barrier in rural area and there is no
educational or medical services and no near water resources so children
they have to bring it from 2 Km. far lagoons (haffers)
 Children have to go with their animals (calves) in morning and milking
cows in the evening
 Big digital divide (gap)
Challenges
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34.  Women are the most vulnerable community to poverty
 Telecentre.org foundation, ITU and many partners including GDCO Sudan
conducted a campaign in 2014 to train women the women the basic
computer courses and internet to develop their skill to sustain their life
Empowering Women Through ICT
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35. Portable Telecentre (future)?
The tool that goes deep in rural areas to provide an integrated
e-services for community development
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36.  ICT is not part of the culture and not priorities in many
developing counties
 Resistance to ICT changes & and application in senior staff
 Big digital divide (gap)
 High cost of broadband and e-infrastructure specially power
 Security risk and hackers
 Distances and geographical barrier in rural area
Challenges
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37.  Portable Telecentres are an integrated e-services tools
 It is social business module or SME that create economic and social
sustainable development.
 it helps in moving services to rural areas according to the needs
 Eradication of resources of illiteracy
 it improve the implementation of the SDGs
 better quality of training with minim cost anywhere and at anytime
Portable Telecentres
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38. THANK YOU
&
Thanks to our Great Partners
http://community.telecentre.org/profile/AHMED
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