To my understanding is, satellite link is not something you just go out and buy one. What you should start with is call the local phone company, any phone company, and they will be able to give you some idea whom to call next. Or perhaps the phone company can provide the service themselves.
Even though the cost of telecommunications has gone down tremendously, worldwide, getting a satellite link is not going to be cheap. And someone has written --- the content of the type of service/education etc. etc. that you intend to provide is ACTUALLY cost more and more headaches. My strong advice is, not to look at the technology first, BUT first do a good research and planning on what kind of contents, service, the communities the services needed etc. etc. etc. By looking into these areas first, you might (I hope) come upon websites (and the like) that already provide some of the services you have in mind. In many cases that would save you so much more energy, resources. MOST of all, you do not have to RE-INVENT the wheel!! Cindy ============= cindyho...@gmail.com --- On Wed, 29/7/09, bento dsouza <bendso...@yahoo.com> wrote: From: bento dsouza <bendso...@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [DDN] what is the procedure ? To: "The Digital Divide Network discussion group" <digitaldivide@digitaldivide.net> Date: Wednesday, 29 July, 2009, 5:31 AM dear Sameera Wijerathna sameera.wijerat...@dialog.lk How difficult and how expensive is it to get a satellite link? ben From: Sameera Wijerathna <sameera.wijerat...@dialog.lk> Subject: Re: [DDN] Nationwide implementation of ICT in mass Education.... To: "The Digital Divide Network discussion group" <digitaldivide@digitaldivide.net> Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 4:27 AM Hi Ben Your question is not clear to me; anyway getting a satellite link is not difficult and not expensive. But getting a dedicated television channel and developing contents for that is a really a challenge. Regards Sameera. -----Original Message----- From: digitaldivide-boun...@digitaldivide.net [mailto:digitaldivide-boun...@digitaldivide.net] On Behalf Of bento dsouza Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 6:03 PM To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group Subject: Re: [DDN] Nationwide implementation of ICT in mass Education.... How do we ngos get access to the satellite links and get a free service for school realted news ? ben --- On Fri, 7/3/09, Sameera Wijerathna <sameera.wijerat...@dialog.lk> wrote: From: Sameera Wijerathna <sameera.wijerat...@dialog.lk> Subject: Re: [DDN] Nationwide implementation of ICT in mass Education.... To: "The Digital Divide Network discussion group" <digitaldivide@digitaldivide.net> Date: Friday, July 3, 2009, 5:58 AM Dear Alan/Others Here in Sri Lanka (South Asia) we have a project called Digital Bridge, in which we connect thousand rural schools with the satellite technology. We are working with the Ministry of Education (MoE) of Sri Lanka and there is a dedicated educational channel which telecast programmes on local school syllabus. We have developed contents in local languages (Sinhalese and Tamil) and schools can select the language according to their preference. The high quality, educational contents developed by the Ministry of Education, are telecasted by Dialog TV (a company of Dialog Telekom) to the rural schools. Sri Lanka, being a developing country has some infrastructure issues in the rural schools. In some schools we do not have qualified teachers to teach subjects such as Mathematics, Science, English, etc. Also those schools are lacking with library facilities, science lab facilities, computer lab, etc. So in our Digital Bridge project we have selected those rural schools and trying to deliver quality education using the technology as an attempt the bridge the rural digital divide. Best regards, Sameera Wijerathna Co-ordinator CSR (ICT) Dialog Telekom PLC 3rd Floor, DTV Building, 275, Nawala Road, Nawala. Sri Lanka. Mob: _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to digitaldivide-requ...@digitaldivide.net with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. ________________________________ This e-mail is confidential. It may also be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient or have received it in error, please delete it and all copies from your system and notify the sender immediately by return e-mail. Any unauthorized reading, reproducing, printing or further dissemination of this e-mail or its contents is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Internet communications cannot be guaranteed to be timely, secure, error or virus-free. 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