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Sustainable Development
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| Involvement in UN Partnerships: | Yes |
| If yes, explain in detail: | I had participated in more than 20 UN conferences. 1- UN-ESCWA Iam a member of the steering committee of the Knowledge network for disadvantage, marginalized and underserved community in UN-ESCWA and participated 6 workshops in Beirut December 2008, Beirut 2009, Jordan 2008, Cairo February 2010, Syria 2010 and one of them is organized in Khartoum January 2010 Other UN-ESCWA conferences includes paper on WSIS follow up conference (Syria June 2009), Beirut august 2010, paper on investment on ICT Cairo April 2010, Workshop on Delivery of E-Services in Civil Society 29 November 2010 UN House, Beirut, Lebanon 2- ITU With international telecommunication union ITU in Geneva I participated in WSIS 2010 (exhibition), WSIS 2011(exhibition country and thematic workshop), WSIS 2012 exhibition and 3 thematic workshops) and WSIS 2013 (exhibition and thematic workshops). All online consultation preparatory conferences. Participated in world telecom 2011 in Geneva and get a certificate of one of the best digital talent in world from the ITU Secretary General participated in world telecom 2012 conference in Dubai as panelist in smart cities panel. Participated in connecting Arab Summit conference in Doha Qatar march 2012 as panelist, expert meeting, submitting 5 projects and in many discussion Participated in the ITU session in ICT4ALL conference in Tunisia September 2012 and presented a paper in uses of broadband in Telecentres, chaired the 2nd session and brief the meeting on the second day on the WSIS follow up about the initiative between ITU & GDCO on iwrite4wsis.. Appointed by ITU-ARO as expert to study the Telecentre in the Arab States and visited Djibouti and Comoros states 2012 3- Other UN organization Middle East and North Africa Telecentre stakeholders’ Consultation Workshop, Cairo Egypt on December 5 7, 2006 (UNDP) and many Telecentre workshop in partner with UNDP Presented a paper and chaired the session which approved the Cairo Declaration for connecting people with disability through ICT in the first Arab Regional Forum on the exchange of experiences and best applications for communications and information technology in the provision of services to people with special needs in Cairo - Arab Republic of Egypt 13-15 November 2008. (ITU, WHO, UNDP) With UN-HABITAT I participated in the UN- HABITAT day (1 - 2 October 2007 Dan Hague Netherlands) and the fourth session of Web for Development Conference (UN-HABITAT Kenya 2007) Presented a paper on role of broadband in Telecentre at the high-level panel in the sixteenth annual session of the CTSD, UNCTAD 3-7 June 2013 Geneva Participate online on what approaches/actions have been SUCCESSFUL in promoting the inclusion of disability in development? For world we want 2015 for more look http://www.worldwewant2015.org/node/317004 under Q.2 |
| Affiliation with other organizations: | http://gedaref.com/ADBCP/recov/newone/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=148:2011-06-14-18-29-36&catid=38:rokstories-samples<=en&Itemid= |
| Publications: | http://gedaref.com/ http://www.wsis-community.org/pg/profile/ahmed22sudan http://seepcommunity.com/profiles/blogs/gdco-sudan-and-telecentres-movement-promote-for-ict http://community.telecentre.org/profile/AHMED http://seepcommunity.com/profile/AHMEDEISASUDAN http://www.youtube.com/user/gedaref22sudan http://gkpfoundation.org/profile/AhmedMahmoudeisa http://www.unite-it.eu/profile/AHMED |
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Statements or documents submitted Commission on Sustainable Development: |
http://gedaref.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=130:2011-06-11-08-00-33&catid=38:rokstories-samples¿=en&Itemid= |
Social Development
| Accreditation to: | Conference of States Parties |
| Purpose of the organization: | The concept of NGOs as receptive organizations for donation is completely changed and they became partners in development and the big PPP (public, private partnership) become true ... Mission GDCO mission is to bridge the big digital divide and help our community to use ICT for development to facilitate their living and get the social and economic benefits of ICT. Also, to promote the use of science and technology to benefit the marginalized, disadvantage, unprivileged and underserved communities worldwide and promote equal opportunities for all people to have access to ICT to improve their lives in addition, promoting innovation and advancement of ICT for development bringing together the public sector, private sector and civil society organizations to achieve the sharing goals. Objectives of GDCO 1- Best utilization of ICT to provide quality services for community development 2- Improve the quality of training, quality skills and certification to enhance capacity building, 3- sharing Knowledge, experiences and best practices through ICT. 4- Bridging the digital divide especially within persons with disability, disadvantage and marginalized communities to include them in the society. 5- Achieving the millennium developments goals (8th MDGs) 6- Help the governments to speed up the e-services to the community. 7- Co-ordination between the working organizations and institutions in the field of Information Technology to achieve the shared goals and participate in establishing new Telecentres, and support the operating Telecentres 8- development of partnerships between NGOs and governments, private sector, and academic and scientific institutions to support community services |
| Activities relevant to the conference of States Parties to the convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: | http://gedaref.com/ADBCP/recov/newone/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=102:2011-06-09-16-21-11&catid=38:rokstories-samples<=en&Itemid= Include the excluded projects are a public-private partnership for community development. Disabled individuals are still excluded from many areas of life including information technologies (IT) so ICT training is an important key qualification and the Standard ICT trainings are insufficient for the handicapped. In addition to that: 1. More than 99% of the disabled are very poor. 2. They are considered a useless community and no one cares about them. 3. Show people that challenges and ICT can create great things, also show others that learning computer is not that difficult. 4. Create a new source of revenue for them. 5. Have equal access to ICT. 6. Fight against poverty within the disabilities community through ICT. 7. Help the deaf to communicate with their families, friends and have another way of communication instead of sign language through chatting and e-mail all over the world instead of one place. 8. Training, capacity building and development of skills through computers (ICT). 9. Help them to share knowledge, experience and best practices to develop their communities. Implementation and achievements 1- GDCO donated more than 150 PCs to train the disabled (disabled union, Al-Amal school for deaf, NGOs working with disabled). 2- GDCO provides the disabled specially the deaf and dump with free computers (60 computers) to keep at home, practicing and communicating with their friends and families and maintaining or changing them if it is broken. 3- Training the deaf as trainers (TOT) which helps in shortening the time and reducing the cost of training (from 6 months to 21 days) and GDCO is establishing subsistence Telecentres for disabled (very soon after failure of the pilot project). 4- Integration & inclusion of the disabled in the community through many national and international conferences (Abu Dhabi exhibit for disabled, KITEX Khartoum, scientific innovation exhibit in Khartoum, Telecentre Cairo). 5- Paying the cost of the internet for the disabled in the commercial internet café to demonstrate to the community the ease of access to the internet. 6- GDCO provided Brail printer, 60 boxes of brail holy Quran and early deaf discovery instrument. (Sheik Zayid Ins (UAE), Tamkeen (UAE), and prime). 7- Sudan celebrates World Telecommunications Day, May 17, 2008 at GDCO Telecentres in Khartoum and 70 deaf students and 90 physically disabled graduated. 8- GDCO promote the inclusion of the disability dimension in many conferences and presented more than 18 papers on disability and chaired the session in WHO and ITU which ratified the Cairo declaration for using ICT for disabled. 9- CAIHAD (Syria) developed an Arabic encyclopaedia (1,200 pages, 10 volumes, 10 CDs) for intellectually retarded disabled and GDCO is going to support CAIHAD to print it. 10- we distributed 25 new laptop per child to alamal deaf school, our elnblind school, and intelectual disability organization 11- we grant 6 of active leaders of people with disability new laptop 12- we start working with SPEG organization for full automation of alamal deaf school and establishing vocational training centre |
Advancement of Women
| Affiliation with other organizations: | GDCO is part for the global women digital literacy campaign which is imitative of Telecentre.org foundation and ITU www.telecentre.org/women/ |
| Publications: | http://women.telecentre.org/?page_id=304 |
| Major group affiliation: | Non-governmental Orgnizations |
| UN-NGO-IRENE Newsletter: | Yes |
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