[wsfii-discuss] Video Conferencing Demo to Nepali Leaders

[Thomas Maketa]

Hi Mahabir,

was the solution you use for teleconferencing open source?
If yes what was it, I'm very interested by the technical approach you used.

Kind regards
TM

On 3/26/07, mahabir at himanchal.org <mahabir at himanchal.org> wrote:
>
> 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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