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ICT for development

To promote literacy through ICT  



Kamal Abdul Nasir,

 

Project Champion,

 

21 century Media  Consultants

 

New Delhi

 

 

Kamalkamal16@hotmail.com

 

 

09910228189

 

 

 

 

“The illiterates of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and re-learn.”

                                                Alvin Toffler

 

 

Virtual Learning has become synonymous with learning via the internet. It is designed to facilitate teachers and learners. Templates for content pages, discussion for a, chat, quizzes, exercises, blogs, RSS etc are some of the components of the virtual learning.

 

 

PRIORITY

 

1-Promotion of freedom of expression and media pluralism

 

2-Human resource development

 

2-Development of community media

 

3-promotion of international partnership

 

 

The need for an ICT-initiative can not be overemphasized as there is an urgent need for access to ICT to bridge the digital divide  and open up empowering channels.Technology has enormous potential to address the challenge of educational transformation. The Governments in Asia are very aware of the development of new teaching models, which will ensure greater knowledge retention and conceptual understanding.

 

 

Solutions proposed through this project

 

 

 Health , Education , Agriculture , Livelihood , Livestock ,

 

e-Governance , Empowerment , Self Help Groups,  Entertainment ,Micro Credit Channels , General Access to New Communication technology and Media , Promoting Cottage Industries and Traditional Arts and Crafts ,  Providing Platform for expression of Local Culture

 

 

Description of the target Groups

 

 

        Immediate Beneficiaries

 

         Underprivileged Rural Groups

 

 

Immediate Objective

 

        -To enable the rural youth and other groups, who, because of their special circumstances, could not complete their education or never went to school

 

        Teachers  training

 

         Enabling Youth in Vocational and Soft Social Skills e.g. Job Search , Personality Development , Computer Skills

 

        Empowering Woman and Child Development

 

        No. of People Trained : 50 at each location

 

        Time frame of the course offered : 3 months

 

        Quality of training

 

             Latest State of the Art eLearning Softwares  , hardware and Broadband Connectivity will be used

 

        Equipment used :

 

 

Development Objective

 

 

        To equip the rural communities with vocational education and training and help create linkages to livelihood opportunities.    

 

        To create an educated voter pool.

 

        To create the media units and interactive components which shall ensure freedom of expression and will give voice to the unheard and also improve the communicative capacity.

 

 

Project Inputs

 

 -RESEARCH-METHODOLOGY- 3 months

 

 -PILOT- 3 months

 

 - EQUIPMENT-1 month

 

 -TRAINING THE TRAINER- 2 months

 

 -TESTING THE EQUIPMENT/systems- 1 month

 

 -CONTENT DEVELOPMENT

 

 -LAUNCH DIGITAL UNIVERSITY-one year

 

 

The program can be implemented , with KNOWLEDGE CENTRES through several local NGOs and panchayats

 

 

Working out a detailed plan of action

 

 

 Planning the purchases including equipment-computers, scanners, printers, for content development, Network hardware & Software

 

 Human resource requirements including teachers/resource persons/student training 

 

-Administrative and logistics support

 

 

 Project Outputs

 

 

         Training 1000 X 12 = 12000 members of the rural community during the pilot stage in different areas .

 

 

We will set up a fully equipped media production unit in each center.

 

 

 The students will become professionally qualified  in their chosen area in short-term courses and find alternative employment instead of just relying on traditional sources of income like agriculture or folk arts.

 

 

 

ACTIVITIES

 

 

Identify specific target groups, NGO’s, specific content requirments,objectively verifiable indicators to do the impact assessments etc.

 

 

Plan of developmental activities.

 

 

Nature of media content in each of the identified area and time plan for their development

 

Number and details of target groups.

 

 

Plan of feedback mechanism on the relevance value and impact of the content and knowledge centers

 

 

Evaluation criteria for the project impact income enhancements, number of people trained)

 

 

Plan Revenue model," pay what you can” to make the project sustainable beyond  the grant period