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Setting up Rural Tele Centre (RTC) in Lao PDR
Under the Bilateral Cooperation between Lao PDR and India, National
Informatics Center (NIC) has entered in a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on
Information Communication Technology Cooperation with Government of Lao PDR.
There are Nine Areas of Cooperation to be implemented by NIC. Amongst the nine
areas, one is to setting up Rural Telecentres (RTCs) in Lao PDR.
Study made with National Authority of Science and Technology, Lao PDR (NAST)
officials and identified sites were surveyed, detailed discussions & meetings
were made regarding the readiness of sites.
As per their feedback both the
applications (Rural Bazar and open ENRICH ) were specially redesigned and
configured and tested in C-DAC also guide to team for preparation of
User Manuals and Technical manuals and also interact with Lao team for
converting them in Lao language.
For setting the Rural Tele Centre in the
7 provinces & capital of Lao PDR, total of ten (10) RTC sites were visited and RTC’s were setup (Hardware and Network using
the ADSL/IPTAR broadband connectivity) and
both applications were deployed and
hosted as
www.sumson.gov.la and
www.tarad.gov.la
at National Data Centre Vientiane, Lao PDR.
In this visit
interaction was also made with local officials and explaining them the utilities
of and functioning of RTC & the brief description and training of how to use the
two websites including the troubleshooting.
Two weeks
training was conducted at Vientiane Lao PDR to RTC operators from all 10 RTC’s
(Total 35) functionality of use of following.
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www.tarad.gov.la
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www.sumson.gov.la
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Network and Hardware
All 10 RTC’s were inaugurated by
respective Governor of province at the time of establishment of RTC’s and main
function held at Vientiane after completion of training which was inaugurated by
His Excellency Sh. S. K Goel Ambassador of India to Lao PDR & His Excellency
Prof. Dr. Bountiem PHISSAMAY Minister to Prime Minister Govt. of Lao PDR.
Achievements:
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This project was successfully completed on
schedule time and all 10 RTC has
been set up with Acceptance certificate from Governor Offices /Directors of
respective for RTC establishment.
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Received Certificate of Excellence & completion
letter of project from Director General of cabinet NAST Lao PDR.
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Appreciation certificates received from Minister
to Prime Minister Govt. of Lao PDR for successful establishment of RTC’s &
imparting the Training to RTC operators.
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Successfully Established of Rural Tele Centre (RTCs) in remote and rural areas along the Mekong River for ICT Penetration Agriculture, Rural Health and Rural Development Programmes is one of the areas of Cooperation between Lao PDR and India.
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