[wsfii-discuss] Video Conferencing Demo to Nepali Leaders

Mon Mar 26 12:00:14 UTC 2007

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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