ICT Implementation and Infrastructure Deployment Approach for Rural Nepal

Dawadi, Babu R.; Shakya, Subarna

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“…There is a small body of writings related to the status and practice of ICT in education in Nepal. Several researchers (Dawadi & Shakya, ; Pangeni, ; Rennie & Mason, ; Shields, ) reported the expansion of internet infrastructures throughout Nepal and suggested that these should increase the possibility of e‐learning and enable school teachers to access the latest online information and so facilitate rural school students' education. However, Thapa and Saebo () reported that a lack of high‐quality internet, electricity, and supporting infrastructure are major challenges in Nepal's rural schools.…”

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“…However, Thapa and Saebo () reported that a lack of high‐quality internet, electricity, and supporting infrastructure are major challenges in Nepal's rural schools. Dawadi and Shakya () reported the lack of skilled workforce, unreliable and costly internet facility, low level of ICT literacy in rural communities, high hills and mountains, lack of hydropower in the countryside and low power solar energy, and lack of security for ICT infrastructures. Rana () reported a range of problems in the introduction of ICT in rural primary education in Nepal and suggested that the strategies currently used to overcome them are inadequate and potentially unsustainable.…”

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Implementation of Nepal's education policy in ICT: Examining current practice through an ecological model

Rana

Greenwood

Fox-Turnbull

2019

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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Educational policy implementation can be conceptualised in terms of an ecological model that explores roles and relationships within a complex evolving environment. This article draws on an ecological model to examine Nepal's implementation of its policy for information and communication technology in education. The policy is developed by government and mandated to schools, but government does not commit funding to resource infrastructures or train teachers in information and communication technology (ICT) use. Instead, nongovernment organisations (NGOs) have stepped in and provided resources and training. Thus, two separate systems have evolved. This article examines their actions and interactions as components within an ecology. It utilises a methodological approach that involves qualitative case studies of particular rural schools, analysed through interpretive phenomenological analysis and the lens of an ecology model. It reports findings of how a largely symbiotic relationship has evolved that is somewhat successful in meeting immediate needs and examines changes that are developing in the ecology and that may impact on the future of ICT implementation in Nepal. The study contributes to practical understanding of the potentially symbiotic roles of NGOs and government in ICT provision to rural schools in Nepal. It further contributes to ways policy implementation in developing countries may be theorised.

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Implementation of Nepal's education policy in ICT: Examining current practice through an ecological model

Rana

Greenwood

Fox-Turnbull

2019

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“…The 7.8 Richter scale devastating earthquake in Nepal in 2015 severely affected the ICT infrastructure including BTS, transmission towers, fiber backhaul, and microwave links throughout the Nepal (Dawadi & Shakya, ). Considering the earthquake prone area, NTA has set the priority to establish effective disaster communication networks and Internet connectivity to those areas.…”

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Towards energy efficiency and green network infrastructure deployment in Nepal using software defined IPv6 network paradigm

Dawadi

Rawat

Joshi

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The use of information and communication technology (ICT) has resulted in significant impacts on social welfare, economic growth, transparency, and good governance in developing countries like Nepal. Due to the diverse geographic and economic situations, ICT network and service expansions throughout Nepal have been becoming quite challenging. Private network operators mostly have confined their services to urban areas. Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA) collects 2% royalty form Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Telecom Operators as Rural Telecommunications Disbursement Fund (RTDF) to enhance ICT services to rural Nepal. Broadband expansion projects initiated by utilizing RTDF to expand ICT infrastructure throughout Nepal are expected to have considerable societal and economical transformations in the rural communities of Nepal. This paper not only presents the current ICT deployment scenario of Nepal but also studies design, analysis, and evaluation of green networking that leverages both software defined networking (SDN), and Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)-aka Software Defined IPv6 (SoDIP6)-for energy efficient networking, robust services, and sustainable ICT ecosystem for developing nations like Nepal. We evaluate the SoDIP6 network by considering a typical ISP with end access networks and present benefits and recommendations. Experimental results show that the proposed SoDIP6 network help significantly reduce the energy consumption and carbon footprint leading to overall economic benefits to service providers and the society. Furthermore, energy-saving practices through SoDIP6 networks and some policy directions to the government to focus on green networking considering sensitivity of climate change and global warming impact in the mountainous and developing countries like Nepal are presented.This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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“…For example, the worst disaster in Japanese history was on 11 March 2011, consisting of Great East Japan earthquake of magnitude-9, along with the subsequent tsunami and nuclear accident that destroyed 1500 telecom buildings by the main shock and 700 telecom buildings experienced power outages [8][9][10]. The Nepal earthquake, in 2015, affected the Rural ICT infrastructure and services by collapsing of the houses, schools, ICT access centers, BTS, transmission towers, fiber backhaul, and microwave links [11,12]. An earthquake of magnitude 7.1 struck central Mexico on 19 September 2017, caused 355 fatalities, 6100 injuries, and collapsed nearly 44,000 buildings, including telecom infrastructure [13].…”

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Disaster-Resilient Optical Network Survivability: A Comprehensive Survey

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Network survivability endeavors to ensure the uninterrupted provisioning of services by the network operators in case of a disaster event. Studies and news reports show that network failures caused by physical attacks and natural disasters have significant impacts on the optical networks. Such network failures may lead to a section of a network to cease to function, resulting in non-availability of services and may increase the congestion within the rest of the network. Therefore, fault tolerant and disaster-resilient optical networks have grasped the attention of the research community and have been a critical concern in network studies during the last decade. Several studies on protection and restoration techniques have been conducted to address the network component failures. This study reviews related previous research studies to critically discuss the issues regarding protection, restoration, cascading failures, disaster-based failures, and congestion-aware routing. We have also focused on the problem of simultaneous cascading failures (which may disturb the data traffic within a layer or disrupt the services at upper layers) along with their mitigating techniques, and disaster-aware network survivability. Since traffic floods and network congestion are pertinent problems, they have therefore been discussed in a separate section. In the end, we have highlighted some open issues in the disaster-resilient network survivability for research challenges and discussed them along with their possible solutions.

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ICT Implementation and Infrastructure Deployment Approach for Rural Nepal

Cited by 10 publications

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Implementation of Nepal's education policy in ICT: Examining current practice through an ecological model

Implementation of Nepal's education policy in ICT: Examining current practice through an ecological model

Towards energy efficiency and green network infrastructure deployment in Nepal using software defined IPv6 network paradigm

Disaster-Resilient Optical Network Survivability: A Comprehensive Survey

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