1. Increasing skilled internet users in rural Nepal
Prepared by: Group 5
Sallu Tiwari, Kishor Sapkota,
Subhash Dhakal, Prabesh Subedi, Narendra Saud

2. Rural and urban population and state of the Internet users

3. Education
The country has only 65.9 percent literacy rate
Urban people have higher education than rural area

4. Existing policies
The National Broadband Policy, 2071
Information and Technology policy, 2071
Policies somehow lack to address for wider and rapid change need particularly in rural area

5. Recommended Strategies
ICT volunteer networks should be formed
Training and deployment of government staffs for internet skill
Establishing and upgrading community ICT learning centers

6. ICT volunteer networks
Success stories of ICT volunteers worldwide
Indonesia deployed more than 6000 ICT volunteers across 34 provinces
Networks building from high school pass outs and other youth

7. Deploying government staffs
Country have 292,845 teachers
more than 5000 health service centers
Cost effective way

8. Community ICT Learning Center
13 years of experience of having community Tele Centers
525 Tele Centers currently are in function
Outdated technologies, upgrade is required
Building new
Learning centric Tele Center

9. Thank you!