1. L/O/G/O Ahmed M. M. Eisa www.gedaref.com ahmed22digital@gmail.com Our founders Regional Forum on Development (RFD) Hammamet, Tunisia September 17, 2012

2. GDCO Sudan Winner of 7 Int. Awards Sudanese best NGO ICT award 2011 eWorld 2011 award e- India 2009 award Best Telecentre album 2011 Philippines 10.000 US $ award e- India 2007 award e- India 2008 award

3. 3  Telecentre  Telecentre.org network (movement)  global Telecentre academy Telecentres

4. GDCO Telecentres T.O.T Telecentre Girl Telecentre University Telecentre NTC Men Telecentre Deaf Telecentre Out school Telecentre Deaf Telecentre

5. 5 Broadband? Broadband is a mean of access with high-speed Internet to a wide range of services to facilitate and improve the ways we are living. Broadband helps the Telecentre movement to achieve its goals in sharing knowledge, experiences and best practices to improve the content, networking and sustainability of Telecentres.

6.  Drying the resources of illiteracy  Connecting people with disability  telemedicine  Gedaref university support  Telecentre Women Digital Literacy Campaign  Telecentre.org Academy  VoIP (Internet phone), video streaming and gaming  Equity and Equality Education & Health

7.  Solving conflict ( farmers, shepherds and forest)  agricultural reports &farm registration  Accessibility to global crop markets  disaster control (bird flu)  grazing area and water resources detection  under-developing easyFarmer project  Under developing agro-mobile agriculture

8. Drishtee agro-mobile India

9. http://easy1234.org/sudan/ Raising the Floor EasyFarmer Switzerland This a project for illiterate or low skill in computer farmers

10.  GDCO was appointed the chair of e-government  An agreement between the MCIT and Sudatel a- connecting 50 school Telecentres b- Connecting 10 hospital d- government’s building with networking e- Gedaref University f- Gedaref technical college  An online survey application  Accessibility to Interactive web portal  global e-business (e-marketing) e-Government

11.  ICT is not part of the culture and not a priority  Digital divide  High cost of broadband and infrastructure  Government taxes  Security risk and hackers  Distances and geographical barrier in rural area  Power supply Challenges