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Recently District Information and Documentation center(DIDC) and Nepal Rural Information Technology Development Society(NRIDS) jointly organized a technical program regarding the establishment of community Information Center (CIC) in every villages of Syangja District. President of NRIDS Mr. Sudip Aryal presented the ongoing activities of NRIDS to aware ICT in the rural areas of Nepal. There are currently eight CIC’s in Syangja District. We are planning to extend this activities to all the villages of Syangja District. Mr. Aryal handed over the overal plan document regarding Rural transformation of Syangja District by establishing community information center (CIC) NRIDS has been working for ICT Development of Syangja District for more than three years. The participant of the meeting were Information Officer- Mr. Tanka Nath Lamsal and Sub-computer Operator Mr. Parashuram Adhikari. We will be updating about the information revolution initiave to transform Syangja with the help of ICT soon.

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CWRC Launches Community Wireless Networks in two telecentres

In July 2007, community wireless networks were implemented at telecentres in Lira and Nabweru by the Community Wireless Resource Centre (CWRC). The CWRC team included CWRC staff and four electrical engineering students who are doing industrial training under CWRC. This intervention arose out of the need to reduce the high cost of internet connectivity at IDRC-supported telecentres in Uganda, to explore optimal connectivity models such as sharing the existing bandwidth with neighboring institutions via outdoor wireless networks and to provide internet access to these partners without need for heavy initial investments in satellite hardware and subscriptions. (more…)

HumaniNet and the other sponsoring partners of Tech Day, to be held in Kathmandu on August 22, have assigned ten free registrations to students and youth ages 16-23 who have an interest in ICTs for humanitarian work in Nepal. Anyone interested should send a short paragraph introducing themselves and explaining why they would like to attend to info@humaninet.org by August 13. The ten people selected will be notified by August 16. (more…)

The Problem
The work of CBOs & NGOs in developing countries is vital to millions of people. However,fund-raising for these organizations is particularly difficult, for numerous reasons:
o There is often great competition among numerous local groups for scarce local
financial resources.
o International funders are reluctant to fund community-based NGOs “directly”, because of a perception of lack of accountability, difficulty in establishing credible references, practical issues with resource transfers, and numerous tax questions. (more…)

A commercial low power computer was launched by California based company Inveneo in Kampala last week. The computer system uses three options of power supply including solar and a normal 12V battery as an alternative source to conventional power.
The computer was launched by Inveneo with support from the Ugandan government through the ministry of Information and Communication Technology.
This computer requires 6 to 10 times less power than a standard desktop computer, eliminating the need for generators, inverters, converters andUPS. (more…)