Pravab

Help Nepal Network (HeNN) aims in providing support for rural areas of the country in health and education sector (Help Nepal Network, n.d. a).   HeNN initiated a project to establish one electronic library for every district of Nepal. This included computer facilities that would be used not only by the students and teachers but also the local communities. 15 of the e-libraries have already been deployed in different districts including some of the rural ones (Help Nepal Network, n.d. b). FOSS Nepal volunteers have been helping in the set up of this project (FOSS Nepal Community, n.d. c).    This project uses Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) in its implementation and uses F/LOSS. They all run on GNU/Linux operating system which has made it possible to achieve a reliable and secure network and has cut the cost to one forth compared to computer laboratory that doesn’t use F/LOSS. This model is very favourable for rural areas (Help Nepal Network, n.d. b). Pe...

Nepal is one of the poorest countries in the world where almost 80% of the population reside in rural areas (Asian Development Bank, 2009; The World Bank, 2010). People in this rural area do not enjoy much of the social services like for example education. They are suffering from poverty (Asian Development Bank, 2009). Only few people in this region understand English. Due to the language barrier and poverty, only few people in this region are enjoying the benefits offered by the information communication technology (Bal, n.d.).  Not long ago did Ministry of Education realise that there was potential of educational sector benefiting for the ICT. They realised it could improve the teaching and learning process and decided to implement ICT in educational sector through one laptop per child program and lab model and other programs (DoE, 2010).  -  NepaLinux - FOSS Nepal - Nirvikalpa - E-library - One Laptop per Child (OLPC) REFERENCES http://pravab.b...