Overview

by Nepal Studies — last modified Dec 05, 2008 06:10 AM

Contaact details and other information about institutions, individuals and types that potentially have a stake in the outcome of developing Universal Communications in Nepal, including potential developers, sponsors and users.

Introduction

These notes are a placeholder for collecting URLs and email addresses plus notes as potential stakeholders are identified while browsing other documents. Please add any further suggestions.

Contact information will need to be organized into a database for email and postal invitations to participate in development. Stakeholder representatives are essential for both requirements analysis and sponsorship (including funding and project management).

Identification of user types provides the basis for defining actors in use case analysis and for specifying usability requirements for user interfaces.

This is also a source for project glossary and conceptual model in domain analysis.

Specific programs and funds are listed as well as the institutions administering them so as to contact the persons directly in charge and take into account the specific policies and other features.

Sources

The following abbreviations are used for sources of the potential stakeholders identified below.

ruralict: http://www.ruralict.ftml.net/np/nepal.htm
ruralict-links: http://www.ruralict.ftml.net/np/links.htm - many more listed there - grab all
ruralict-reports: http://www.ruralict.ftml.net/np/reports.htm
ruralict-tor: http://www.ruralict.ftml.net/np/Terms%20of%20reference.doc

External

ADB

Asian Development Bank. Major donor with detailed project oversight.

Antelope Consulting

Produced comprehensive reports on Increasing Access to ICTs in Rural and Peri-Urban Nepal [ruralict]

DANIDA

Danish International Development Agency (?). Financed consultants for privatization of NlTC [ruralict-tor]. Also Danish IT professional associations involved in sponsorship of OLPC pilots?

JICA

Japan International Cooperation Agency (?) Major donor. Sponsored MCTs with MoLD [ruralict-tor]

TSRP

Telecommunications Sector Reform Program. WB sponsor of [ruralict-tor]?

UNDP

United Nations Development Program. Major donor for technical assistance and project oversight. [ruralict-tor]

WB

World Bank. Major donor especially for infrastructure.

Government of Nepal (GoN)

MoIC

Ministry of Information and Communications.

MoLD

Ministry of Local Development

MoEST

Ministry of Environment Science and Technology (formerly MoST)

NITC

National IT Coordination Committee [ruralict-tor]. Replaced by HLICTC?

NTA

Nepal Telecommunications Authority

RTDF

Rural Telecommunications Development Fund

RUPP

Rural-Urban Partnership Program

Individuals

ISPs

Telecos

(WLL, GSM, CDMA, trunk, international, radio paging. VDC Public Call Centres etc)

NTC

Nepal Telecommunications Corporation. Incumbent being privatized.

Plans extensive rural CDMA cell phone network.

Types

AM Broadcaster

Backbone

Cable TV operator

Cyber

Internet Cafe

FM Broadcaster

MCT

Multi-purpose Community Telecenter [ruralict-tor]. Obsolete term for telecenter?

Merchant

Newspaper Publisher

Occasional Publisher

Periodical Publisher

PoP

(Internet) Point of Presence. Has connectivity to an ISP. Local connections can be made for additional internet users sharing same connectiity.

Sections

Personal tools