| Organisation |
Objectives
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Description
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| Sustainable
Development Network (SDN) |
To strengthen the institutional capacity of
public and private institutions in working towards Honduras’ sustainable
development through the promotion and exchange of information on behalf of
the country’s social, cultural, political, economic, and environmental
development. |
Honduran NGO that initiated within the United
Nations Development Program
in 1994. The main purpose of SDN is to link the multiple actors involved
in sustainable human development through access to electronic information. |
| Global
Village |
Strengthening
democracy in the country with an emphasis in training the population for
rational decision-making.
Changes by
non-violent means.
Accountability and
transparency |
Project
Global Village initiated a television program called "Strengthening
Democracy" within their Civil Society program with the main
purpose of educating the Honduras population on their responsibility as
decision-makers and voting citizens during the last presidential elections
(November 26, 2001). |
| FOOD
Remote Area Networking (RAN) |
To enhance the networking capability of
development organisations in remote and rural areas through ICTs and act
as backbone for providing cost-effective Internet access to NGOs, CBOs and
telecentres in remote areas utilising wireless networking wherever
appropriate to facilitate social and sustainable development. |
The RAN project envisages the establishment of a
remote area electronic networking using packet radio modems in 10 remote
sites in India. The overall
strategy in operating the network was to be an Internet Information
Provider rather than just be an Internet Access Provider |
| Gomukh
Trust |
To develop a network of Agri business and food
processing sector ultimately to work as network to supply technology
information, market intelligence, prices, demand supply and international
scenario. |
Gomukh trust works in 4 main sectors (Water
resources, Environment, Agriculture and
Livelihood). Their main ICT-related project is the establishment of
Information Centres in different villages of India. |
| National
informatics centre |
To create appropriate Information Technology
infrastructure in a cluster of contiguous villages.
The objective of the project is to demonstrate the use of IT
infrastructure in the accelerated socio-economic development. |
Networking telecentres in villages within the
Warana Co-operative Complex in India; each will provide Tele-education,
Computer-based education, and Open University access (Indira Gandhi
National Open University). The Warana project is jointly carried out by the National
Informatics Centre (NIC), Government of Maharashtra and the Warana
Education Department. |
| M.S.
Swaminathan Research Foundation |
To set up village information shops that enable
rural families to access information and communication technologies.
The project trains educated youth, especially women, in rural areas
in operating information shops and maintaining a system that generates
locally relevant information from generic information; |
This project has established a hub-and-spoke
model of data-cum-voice communication in a group of six villages in South
India. The village centres can communicate with each other as well as to
the Internet. A hybrid of technologies is used-wired with wireless for
communication and solar with mains for power supply. The hub provides
connectivity to the Internet through dial-up telephone lines, and the
staff creates locally useful content. |
| Katha |
To empower the lower income group community
if boys and girls from the community through ICT training.
This is especially important to the are as a KATHA conducted
surveys showed that small business houses in India are slowly but surely
moving to computerised work and the need for IT professionals to serve
this growing population of small businesses, is immense. |
In partnership with BT they have set up the Katha
Information Technology and eCommerce School (KITES) which caters for the
youth from lower income communities. KITES also has a Business English Lab
and a Lifelong learning Centre for adults in the community (India).
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| Swayam
Krishi Sangham (SKS) |
To reduce poverty through the provision of
financial services to the poor in an efficient and sustainable manner. |
SKS currently operates four branches in Medak
district, AP India), offering a range of credit and savings services to
the poorest women, who would never get loans from a bank.
They use a computerised management information system, handheld
computers for data entry, and are piloting electronic passbooks. |
| Madudu
Catholic diocese |
No specific aim as it is not a formal development
project. Justified as part of
the church’s overall service to the community |
A public phone booth is installed at the Madudu
Catholic Diocese headquarters (Uganda).
It is operated under a contractual relationship between the diocese
and telephone company. The
diocese runs an informal system whereby diocese worker verbally deliver
messages. |
