ICT Implementation and Infrastructure Deployment Approach for Rural Nepal
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is the basic tools of our daily lives to optimize the resources, improve work performance and efficient service delivery. Due to diverse demographic and geographic situation of Nepal which has remote areas, g
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Abstract Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is the basic tools of our daily lives to optimize the resources, improve work performance and efficient service delivery. Due to diverse demographic and geographic situation of Nepal which has remote areas, government itself is not able to properly provide services to the citizens at Rural. Empowering rural people by means of ICT services in service delivery is becoming quite challenging. Nepal, after adopting the liberalization policy to encourage involvement of private sectors (Government of Nepal, http:// nta.gov.np/en/legislation/policies, [1]), there have been optimum competitions in ICT sectors which help to reduce the digital divide and considerably increased the ICT penetration rate (Nepal Telecommunications Authority, http://nta.gov.np/en/ mis-reports-en, [2]). But the services are more squeezed to city/urban areas. Varieties of challenges at rural Nepal raised the operability and sustainability issues of ICT centers. We have analyzed the survey data carried on the rural ICT centers to visualize its status and proposed the sustainable ICT implementation approach for rural Nepal.
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Keywords Rural ADSL Wi-MAX
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ICT
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Access centers
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Policies
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Sustainability
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1 Introduction Within the last decade, we realized that there have been tremendous improvements in Information Technology (IT) and the telecommunications sector of Nepal. The global ICT business is increasing day by day with the development of smart applications, user friendly and rapid deployment of infrastructure. For the B.R. Dawadi ⋅ S. Shakya (✉) Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University, Pulchowk, Nepal e-mail: [email protected] B.R. Dawadi e-mail: [email protected] © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 P. Meesad et al. (eds.), Recent Advances in Information and Communication Technology 2016, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 463, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-40415-8_31
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developing countries like Nepal, Information and Communication Technology can play a remarkable role in human development through community development, economic growth, improvement in education and literacy, natural resource management, governance and health sector development. ICT accessibility areas like libraries, tele-centers, cyber-cafes, common service centers offer more access and use of ICT for development among underserved populations who are especially the rural peoples for our case in Nepal. However, due to several other factors (such as demographic condition, terrain, transportation, electricity, literacy and health status etc.) make the maintainability, operability and sustainability of the ICT centers and services quite challenging. This paper analyzed the status of 58 ICT centers and ICT services provided by other agencies to identify the challenges and issues for better approach to sustainable ICT deployment.
2 Literature Review 2.1
ICT Services for Rural People
ICT service centers are the public places where people can access comput
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