Information Communication Technology 4

Development

Submitted by :
Ajay Kumar Singh
Roll No. 9201003
KSRM:2009-11
 Implemented by: Byrraju Foundation in partnership with NISG,
Media Lab Asia and UNDP.

 Coverage Area: 32 villages in East & West Godavari districts of

Andhra Pradesh.

 established a broad band wireless network connecting about

32 villages centre and three towns in Krishna, East and West
Godwari district, with hub at Bhimavaram town.

Project Objectives:
 To provide virtual delivery of high quality healthcare,
education, livelihoods training, and agriculture related services
to people in rural areas.
The project has helped the rural people in the following areas:

 Telemedicine:
 tie up with hospital near by the town and Narayana Hrudayalaya, Bangalore
 approximately 7000 patients receives consultation in Gynecology, Cardiology,
Orthopedic, Pediatric and General Medicine.
Education:
To provide high quality educational facilities to student.
To inculcate a scientific temper in students and nurture a healthy
scientific attitude to explore, experiment and experience science concepts
and thus fostering a rational approach through experiments.
To give additional capacity building to teaches workshops
Livelihoods :
 Tailoring, embroidery, fabric Painting, helps them to earn 500-1000 per month,
approximetly1200 women get benefited yet
V-Agri & V-Aqua:

Field officers make regular visits to fields/tanks and take digital pictures of
crops/fishes/prawns which are transmitted through the internet to agri/aqua
experts who analyze the images and expert advice is delivered through the field
officer to farmers on the same day.

Around 1000 agri and 400 aqua farmers have benefited thus far.
Information Needs /Mapping
 Beneficiary group –Agri & Aqua Farmers

Prior condition/situation Change in condition/situation

Most of the adopted villages are agri
With the availability of Ashwini platform
based. Farmers used to depend on
fertilizer/pesticide companies for advice for virtual interaction with domain
regarding agri and auqa yields. It is experts, agri and aqua farmers are able to
difficult to identify problems in growth of
get the most updated and reliable expert
crop and crop-disease/pests with a necked
eye. Because of their dependency on advice for increasing their yields more
quakes they incurred huge loses and easily. This has reduce their travel costs
suffered a lots which often lead to farmers and time and increased the productivity.
suicide.
 Beneficiary Group:- Rural Women
Prior condition/situation
Illiterate rural women strive hard for
making some contribution to the family
income, but with very low skill levels, they
look for opportunities that provide
necessary skill sets.
Change in condition/situation
Project Ashwini has provided the much
needed platform for the rural women to
improve livelihood skills like tailoring,
embroidery, fabric painting etc. Having
acquired the skill sets, most of the rural
women are now in a position to earn about
Rs.500 to 1000/- per month by way of self
employment or employment under an
entrepreneur
 Beneficiary Group: Village Community
Prior condition/situation
The village community used to spend time
in isolation not concentrating on
development issues. The Foundation
provided a platform for interaction among
the members of the community by forming
Grama Vikasa Smithis (GVS). The
community as a whole is deprived of
proper health care / advice, for which they
had to depend on medical facilities in
nearby towns incurring large amounts of
money towards travel, consultancy and
medication.
Change in condition/situation
Creation of a Grama Vikasa Samithi
enabled the community to discuss and
prioritize development projects on a need
basis. The community involvement and
active participation have contributed to the
success of the ICT initiative. Tele-medicine
through Project Ashwini has helped the
community in getting expert health
advisory services within their villages at a
much affordable cost. Technology-driven
educational programs improved the
standard of education of rural children
besides catering to the needs of computer
education and adult literacy. This platform
has also contributed in enhancing the
general awareness levels of the community
STAKEHOLDER ANALYSIS
 Byrraju Foundation
 Visionary and owner,
 aims to build self sustaining village across the country

 National Institute of smart Government (NISG)

 high speed fibre optic network with two way
communication

 Media Lab Asia

 managed to implement broadband wireless based on
Wi-Fi technology
 Agricultural Institute and agricultural Department
 Doctors from the hospitals
Interaction with the farmers to experts
Strength & Weakness of the Project

Strength

Accessibility of hub from villages

Use latest technology and infrastructure.
Provide suggestion to crop disease, health, education etc.
 all time connectivity (24X7)
 Capacity Building
 Provide appropriate technology and training

Weakness
 not provide market facilities to the farmers.
 depend on the technology
 Economic Dimension:
 they get more updated information i.e. fertlizer,seed, crop disease
etc
 increased their household income.

 Social Dimension
 try to minimized the gap between rural people and urban people
by providing the quality of education, providing the job
opportunities etc

 Cultural Dimension
 due to the local language i.e. Telgu
 Impact on
social institution

Impact on Impact on
resources, resources,
roles& relation Roles &
Relational

Impact on men Impact on men Impact on men

Impact on Impact on Impact on Impact on

women women women women

Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4

 THANK YOU

Ashwini centre in the village