Strategies to Increase Skilled Internet Users in Rural Nepal
Learn about the existing policies, recommended strategies, and success stories of deploying ICT volunteers and government staff to enhance internet skills in rural Nepal. Discover how community ICT learning centers are vital for bridging the digital divide and empowering the rural population.
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Increasing skilled internet users in rural Nepal Prepared by: Group 5 Sallu Tiwari, Kishor Sapkota, Subhash Dhakal, Prabesh Subedi, Narendra Saud
Rural and urban population and state of the Internet users Population Internet Users 90% 83% 20.00% 80% 17.30% 18.00% 70% 16.00% 60% 14.00% 50% 12.00% 40% 10.00% 30% 8.00% 5.40% 17% 6.00% 20% 4.00% 10% 2.00% 0% Rural Urban 0.00% Rural Urban
Education o The country has only 65.9 percent literacy rate o Urban people have higher education than rural area
Existing policies o The National Broadband Policy, 2071 o Information and Technology policy, 2071 o Policies somehow lack to address for wider and rapid change need particularly in rural area
Recommended Strategies o ICT volunteer networks should be formed o Training and deployment of government staffs for internet skill o Establishing and upgrading community ICT learning centers
ICT volunteer networks o Success stories of ICT volunteers worldwide o Indonesia deployed more than 6000 ICT volunteers across 34 provinces o Networks building from high school pass outs and other youth
Deploying government staffs o Country have 292,845 teachers o more than 5000 health service centers o Cost effective way
Community ICT Learning Center o 13 years of experience of having community Tele Centers o 525 Tele Centers currently are in function o Outdated technologies, upgrade is required o Building new o Learning centric Tele Center
