Hi Ben/Others
Last mile connectivity/end user reception is easy and not expensive. But You maintaining a satellite TV channel is complex and expensive business. In the satellite there is something called transponders. One transponder can be used for around 20 channels. You have to pay huge amounts to the company who owns the satellite. I am giving you an extremely rough costing for maintaining a satellite channel. Payment for the usage of transponder - USD 100,000 (roughly) Encoder (one time cost) - USD 20,000 (roughly) IVG - USD 2000 (roughly) Above is for the channel, how about contents? You have to have a good mechanism to develop contents. In our Digital Bridge project Ministry of Education develops the contents. Read more at following http://sameeraw.wordpress.com/ or http://ict4d-in-srilanka.blogspot.com/ Best regards, Sameera. http://ict4d-in-srilanka.blogspot.com/ -----Original Message----- From: digitaldivide-boun...@digitaldivide.net [mailto:digitaldivide-boun...@digitaldivide.net] On Behalf Of bento dsouza Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 9:02 AM To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group Subject: Re: [DDN] what is the procedure ? 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. 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