Our Partners
1. Himanchan Higher Secondary School, Nangi, Myagdi
Nepal Wireless Networking Project is owned and runed by Himanchal Higher Secondary School Nangi, Myagdi. The ENRD is also working with the extension and maintenance of Nepal Wireless networking project. Himanchal Higher Secondary school is a mother organization of this ENRD. It has one of the major objective to make the digital divide narrower by creating new opportunities using wireless technology and providing services in the field of communication, education, health and local commerce in rural areas in Nepal. This project has been constructing, administering and supporting a wireless network that connects 32 villages in Kaski, Parbat, Myagdi, Makwanpur, Palpa and Dolakha districts of Nepal. The ENRD has been providing the technical support to the Nepal wireless project and has been helping to extent the network in other parts of Nepal.
2. HLCIT (High level commission of Information Technology)High Level Commission for Information Technology (HLCIT) is an apex body formed under the chairmanship of Rt. Hon. Prime Minister of Nepal with a view to providing crucial strategic direction and helping formulate appropriate policy responses for the development of ICT sector in the country as well as harnessing these technologies to meet key developmental challenges including governance reform and catalyzing economic growth for poverty reduction. The key objective of the commission will be to oversee the implementation of National IT Polilcy and strategy as well as to provide strategic policy direction and support to the government in concert wifth its vision to build a knowledge-based society by creating enabling environment for the development and growth of knowledge based institutions and industries.
3. MPP
The Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya (MPP) is the principal archive of books and periodicals in the Nepali language, the mother tongue (or lingua franca) of a little over 30 million people of South Asia. The Library is a not-for profit, non-governmental institution that is run by a trust whose members are eminent men and women of letters of Nepal
MPP and ENRD are working together to localize the Nepalinux in the rural areas. MPP has been developing localized software and ENRD is installing and doing social research on the communities feedbacks from its rural telecenters.
4. OKN (Open knowledge Network) Nepal
OKN Nepal (EK SANSAR GYAN SAGAR) was formally launched on June 3, 2005 by the Secretary, Department of Science and Technology in Kathmandu. OKN had implemented in 24 rural telecenters in Nepal. Ek Sansar Gyan Sagar, the local name for the OKN Programme in Nepal, adopted Multi-Stakeholder Partnership model to steer the process of connecting the 200 plus telecentres in the country. Government, NGOs, community-based organisations (CBOs) and the private sector have formed the Digital Divid ENDS Action Group (DigiDAG) for the implementation of OKN in Nepal. Open Knowledge Network is an initiative to support the creation and exchange of local content in local languages across the South, supported by a range of information and communication technologies. ENRD actively involved in this program for the management of the content which was the main objective of the program too.
5. READRural Education and Development is international organization which was established in 1991. The mission of READ is to create, advance and leverage a replicable library based model in Nepal for sustainable economic development that empowers communities, increase literacy and supports education. In OKN project and many other programs ENRD is collaborately working with READ for the creation, collection and dissemination of the demand driven content, specially on education sector in the rural area where internet connectivity is available.
7. Makwanpur District Development CommitteeThe ENRD provide technical support to the Nepal Wireless Networking Project Makwanpur. This project is running under the joint efforts of Makwanpur District Development Committee, HLCIT, ENRD and Honarable MP Mr. Krishna Prasad Dahal, Makwanpur - 1. Now, seven high schools of south- east part of Makwanpur district are connected with wireless internet service from Kathmandu.
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