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| Introduction |
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IRFD has embarked on
a comprehensive ICT application for global education and development.
This effort will result in establishing a Globally
Based Computerized and Electronic Education Infrastructure
Network and implementing a comprehensive “e-Community
Development Strategy.” |
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| IRFD will strive for the following core
objectives: (i) educating children, youth, men, women, mentally
challenged people; (ii) generating and disseminating knowledge;
(iii) promoting access to information and communication rights;
and (iv) application of ICT into socio-economic, politico-cultural
development, particularly in marginalized communities, and
regions (both in rural and urban). |
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| This effort is aimed at human skills
development, which will contribute toward the targets (to connect
villages with ICT and establish community access points; to
connect universities, colleges, secondary schools and primary
schools with ICTs; to connect health centers, cultural centers;
to connect all local and central government departments etc.)
set in the WSIS Plan of Action, and creating a sustainable
e-society for the 21st Century. |
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| IRFD will
bring all the sectors (Governmental bodies, business and industry,
NGO/CBOs) together to maximize full human potential, institutional
capacity building, sustainable utilization of local resources,
and thereby integrating marginalized communities into the national
and global process of development. This project will particularly
strive for achieving UN Millennium Goals. The final aim is
to “bridge the digital divide” between peripheries
and the centers within national boundaries, regions, and the
global division between North and South. |
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