[wsfii-discuss] Video Conferencing Demo to Nepali Leaders

Mon Mar 26 05:24:42 UTC 2007

Dear Mahabir, All

I am encouraged to hear of your progress in Nepal and thanks for
updating us.

I am now working on the website for the Winneba Open Digital Village
WODiV.

Wsfii now has www.opendiv.org wiki for planning the upcoming WSFII
Africa 2007 conference and also I am thinking for any content relevant
to the promotion of Open Digital Villages in general although the focus
now is on the Prop Conference/workshop now planned for April.

We definitely want to consider what we can learn from your
groundbreaking efforts in using ICT in relation to our work in Ghana and
Africa.

I have several others in my network who might be interested with these
Video Conferencing developments, so I decided I would update them by
posting the information below on my Blog http://blog.onevillage.tv.

I also plan to add a link to your project on the ODiV website.

Kloschi and also recently discussed setting up a blog focusing
specifically on wireless and Open Digital Villages. We will either
locate this at the opendiv or opendigitalvillage sites.

I see the blog as a useful tool to organize information like the update
from Nepal so that it can be better utilized and people can be better
informed on the net about the latest developments and innovations going
on in our network.

Thanks again for updating us. Look forward to hear more from you soon.

Take Care.

Jeff

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Subject: [wsfii-discuss] Video Conferencing Demo to Nepali Leaders

Hello All;

Yesterday I have had a successful video conferencing demo to the members
of parliament at the conference hall of Minisitry of Information and
Communication. The Minister, members of parliaments, and government
officers were there. 24 of them were the MPs from different parties.

They were very much impressed with the video conferencing. The purpose
was
to tell the government how useful the VSAT technology can be to reach
remote areas for telemedicine, teleteaching and training purposes. Right
now we are lobbying to make the VSAT user license free because we have
to
pay USD3,500 for VSAT license fee, plus Rs.1,500 for video conferencing
license. Moreover, we are asking the government to bring down license
fee
for setting up ISPs in the rural areas to USD1

Dr. Mingma Sherpa from the Ministry of Health gave presentaton about how
telemedicine program can be done. He also informed about the government
plan for setting up telemedicine programs in the remote areas of Nepal.

We used VSAT with KU band at 384/384 kbps rate using Vega Pro camera.

I have found that direct intereaction like this will be useful to
convince
the policy makers. Ihope that the government will make liberal laws for
the advancement of ICT in Nepal.

Thanks.

Mahabir

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