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Connect a School, Connect a Community in the Comoros
| Project No | 2COM15001 |
| Title | Connect a School, Connect a Community in the Comoros |
| Description | This Project is designed to promote broadband connectivity in schools in remote, rural or underserved areas of the Comoros. This Project aims to improve ICT access and use by school children.This Project will connect schools to broadband Internet services, provide individual or shared computing devices to school children, and establish in the connected schools community ICT centres that can be used both for the socio-economic development of community members and to provide fee-paying services to foster sustainability for the community ICT centres. Furthermore, this Project will also provide relevant training for teachers, managers of the ICT centres and the trainers who will provide socio-economic relevant training for community members to enable use of ICTs in their day-to- day social and economic activities. |
| Area of Action |
Technology & Network Development |
| Status | Implemented |
| Time Frame | From 27/1/2015 To 31/12/2016 |
| Beneficiary Countries | Comoros (Union of the) |
| Implementing Agency | ITU |
| Cooperation Agency | Autorité Nationale de Régulation des TIC (ANRTIC) |
| Post Implementation Assessment Report |
 Open Document
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| Financial Scale (CHF) | 100'000 - 500'000 |
| Achievements |
The Project connected schools in remote, rural and underserved areas in 10 selected centers including the necessary servers, desktop PC, UPS, multifunction machine-medium (Laser printer-scanner-photocopier-fax-digital sender), laptop, wireless routers, projectors and projectors screens. |
