MDG goal 2: Achieve universal primary education

 

                                            

Katha’s poverty alleviation through IT initiative
The project combines educational programs with IT tools to educate the children of the rural poor in computer-based technologies. Katha’s IT project focuses on street children. It helps break class and caste barriers by expanding the reach of English into poorer communities. Katha’s innovative curriculum combines leadership training, holistic learning and IT skills with traditional subject learning.
For more details, visit http://www.katha.org/

Uganda’s VSAT school-based Telecentre project
The project uses earth-satellite VSAT technology in Uganda to connect schools and communities to Internet to access knowledge, educational resources to break isolation and thus foster development opportunities. The earth-satellite VSAT technology is deployed in remote communities that could not use dial-up or spread spectrum to access Internet services. A network of 15 sites in isolated areas has been developed.
For more details, visit http://www.schoolnetuganda.sc.ug/

Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women

Use of mobile phones for inter-city marketing for women entrepreneurs in India
This project in India used mobile phones to enable community based women organizations to promote inter-city direct sales of products made by artisans and skilled workers. On an average, the production groups made a profit of Rs 1,100 (approx $25) in the first month of operation and the marketing groups made a profit of Rs 605 (approx $12) during the first month of operation.
For more details, visit http://www.xlweb.com/intercity

Dimitra Project – rural women and development
Dimitra is an ICT project that aims to highlight rural women’s contribution to their communities and their countries. The project seeks to promote information exchange, and to update and disseminate information on gender and rural development issues. The Dimitra database is accessible in both French and English. It contains profiles on organisations based in Europe, Africa, and the Near East that have organised projects or programmes involving or concerning rural women and development.

Dimitra values local knowledge and works closely with local partners participation to exchange information about good practices, ideas, and experiences.

For more details, visit http://www.fao.org/sd/2002/PE1201_en.htm

Goal 4: Reduce child mortality &
Goal 5: Improve maternal health

Computerised health records
The Naujhil Integrated Rural Development Project for Health and Development in India seeks to emancipate women and children below the poverty line. To alleviate poverty, backward villages in rural Uttar Pradesh were organized to find solutions which will solve their problems for food security by water harvesting, genetic improvement of milch animals, cottage industries for self help groups with micro credit schemes, awareness programs for those below poverty line. This is an emphasis on skill development and non-formal education.
PCs are used in the Family Planning Program in two areas with a population of 40,000. Computerised health records enable the due date for vaccination is given to the village health worker so that when they reach the village they do not have to look for the users. Other data are computerised and are used for pregnancy detection.

For more details, visit http://www.nirphad.org/health.htm

Creating local digital health content in Ghana
Participants expressed the need for more generation and dissemination of medical content by health workers using Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) to improve the quality of health care delivery in Ghana.
Bryan Pearson of Medical Education Resource Africa (Mera) a neutral carrier of continuing medical information for physicians and other health professional in Africa, said health professionals need information in order to improve the quality of health care and that CME is a must for the development of health delivery in Africa.

For more details, visit: http://www.iicd.org

Source : http://ictfordevelopment.wordpress.com/