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

Rural and urban population and state of the Internet users

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

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

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

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

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

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ICT Learning Center 13 years of experience of having community Tele Centers 525 Tele Centers currently are in function Outdated technologies, upgrade is required Building new Learning centric Tele Center

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