OER Workshop

Contents

1 Introduction
2 Opening Educational Resources in Nepal: Rationale: -
3 Goal and Objectives:
4 Question to be addressed:
5 Methodologies to be adopted:
6 Participation
7 Program Agenda
8 About Organizers:
8.1 Center for Open and Sustainable Learning (COSL)
8.2 Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Nepal Community
9 Reporting the Workshop

Introduction
Draft OER Workshop Report

Open educational resources (OER) are an Internet empowered worldwide community effort to create an education commons. These resources are educational materials and resources offered freely and openly for anyone to use and under some licenses re-mix, improve and redistribute. Open educational resources include:
Learning content: full courses, course materials, content modules, learning objects, collections, and journals.
Tools: Software to support the creation, delivery, use and improvement of open learning content including searching and organization of content, content and learning management systems, content development tools, and on-line learning communities.
Implementation resources: Intellectual property licenses to promote open publishing of materials, design-principles, and localization of content.
(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Educational_Resources )

Opening Educational Resources in Nepal: Rationale: -
For a truly educated society, content and capacity are all equally important. This requires a rich digital knowledge base, partnership among government, civil society and private sector for the development or localizing the relevant content - preferably in national and local languages. Also awareness and skill to access these contents and ability to contribute towards it can develop a truly educated society. Recent advancement in Free and Open Source Software movement has taken a shape of revolution in freedom movement in the cyberspace. And acronyms like Open Content, Open Educational Resources (OER), Creative Commons, GNU General Public License or the GNU Free Documentation License have become a common name in the ICT arena. Nonetheless many stakeholders from civil society, government and media are not aware of the importance of these Open Educational resources and how it could be an enabler to their effort bring education for all in the society. There are several concerns that should be raised, discussed, answered and build new skills, capacities and partnership for further collaboration.
In this context, The Center for Open Sustainable Learning (COSL) (http://cosl.usu.edu/) and Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Nepal Community (http://fossnepal.org/) is jointly organizing a one day workshop on Opening Educational Resources in Nepal: Localizing content, disseminating knowledge at Yala Maya Kendra, Patan Dhokha, Lalitpur, Kathmandu.

Goal and Objectives:
Goal: To build a consortium for Open Educational Resource in Nepal
Objectives:
1.Identify players for OER in Nepal and understand their initiative, activities, challenges and realities.
2.Foster relationship with these players
3.Buildup a Consortium for OER in Nepal
Question addressed:
1.Who are the key players in localization and dissemination of the Open Educational Resources in Nepal?
2.What are the different initiatives in Open Educational Resources in Nepal?
3.How could these key players and different initiatives compliment each other for Open Educational Resources in Nepal?
4.What are the key challenges/hurdles in incorporating technology into rural educational development?
5.What are the actions/initiatives required to localize/enable Open Educational Resources Content/tools available worldwide?
6.What could be the mechanism to disseminate these Open Educational Resources (Localized/Original) in these communities?
7.What steps/initiatives are required to empower grassroot people to use/access these Open Educational Resources?
8.More …
Methodologies adopted:
The workshop was a platform to showcase emerging open education initiatives and to explore ways to better create, share and evolve open educational materials. It provided an interactive environment for dialog among the participants to foster relation and share experiences. It was participatory in nature and encouraging to participants to raise their issues and ideas for further discussions and collaboration. The dynamics of the workshop will be strengthened using different knowledge sharing approaches such as:
1.Speed Dating
2.Speed Geeking
3.Open Space Technology
4.Wiki News Desk
Participation
Participants in the workshop consisted of people from varies civil society and other organizations working on the themes of the workshop from Pakistan. The workshop consisted participants belonging to different sectors: · Government agencies · NGO Representatives · Development Activists · Media · Academicians · IT professionals · Content developers.

Presenter's List
Participant's List

Program Agenda
Workshop on Opening Educational Resources in Nepal: Localizing Content, Disseminating Knowledge

PROGRAM AGENDA : May 25, 2007

S. N.
TIME
ACTIVITIES
REMARKS

1.
9:30 -11:00 AM
Registration & Semi-formal Inauguration Session
[MC: - Youth Community member / FOSS Volunteer / Facilitator ]
Sharing Experiences/Challenges faced by Rural Community in education sector: Community Member (7-8 Mins)
Introduction to Workshop, COSL and its activities : Ms Tiffany Ivins (7-8 mins)
Introdution to FOSS Nepal Community & FOSS initiatives (7-8 Mins)
Special address by: Dr. Subarna Shakya, Excecutive Director, NITC and Advisor FOSS Nepal Community (10-12 mins)
Special address by: Mr. Manohar Bhattarai, HLCIT Full Time Member (10-12 Mins)
Keynote address Dr. David Wiley, Director, The Center for Open Sustainable Learning (15-18 Mins)
Address to Guest and participants: Ms. Shirstee Gurung (10-12 Mins)

2.
11:00 AM -11:30
Tea Break

3.
11:30- 1:10 PM
Introduction
11:30 -11:40 AM --> Introduction (Speed Dating)
Speed Geeking
11:40 - 11: 50 AM --> Introduction to Speed Geeking
11: 50 - 12:20 PM --> Speed Geeking Session (Max 6 Speed Shared/ 5 Mins Each Session)
YMRC : Ms. Ramita Shrestha
SEEP : Ms. Helen Sherpa
COSL: eduCommons: Ms. Tiffany Ivins
LTSP: Mr. Shishir
FOSS Content Initiatives (Wikipedia, Sixyadaan, OLPC, Samvad): Mr. Sagun
FOSS Technical Initiatives: (Nepalilinux in communities: ENRD, MPP) : Mr. Paras, Subir, Basanta
Open Space Open Space "Building Consortium on Open Educational Resources in Nepal" Focus statement for Action oriented debate (There could be max 4 parallel session at one time at four station)
12:20 - 12:30 PM --> Introduction of Open Space
12:30 - 12:40 PM --> Opening Statement (Focus Statement)sharing
12:40 - 1: 10 PM --> Agenda Setting in Market Place

4.
1:10 -2:00 PM
Lunch Break

5.
2:00 -3:30 PM
Open Space "Building Consortium on Open Educational Resources in Nepal" (There could be max 4 parallel session at one time at four station)
2:00 - 2:30 PM --> First Parallel session takes place
2:30 - 3:00 PM --> Second Parallel session takes place
3:00 - 3:30 PM --> Third Parallel session takes place

6.
3:30 -4:00 PM
Tea Break

7.
4:00 -500 PM
Cross Fertilization & Concluding Session
4:00 -4:45 PM Roaming Wall OR Idea shared in Open circle (Way ahead for the Consortium on OER in Nepal)
4:45 - 5:00 PM --> Concluding remarks from Dr. David Wiley, Director, The Center for Open Sustainable Learning

About Organizers:

Center for Open and Sustainable Learning (COSL)
COSL is part of the Department of Instructional Technology at Utah State University in Logan, UT. The Center is believes that all humans beings are endowed with a capacity to learn, improve, and progress. Educational opportunity is the mechanism by which they fulfill this capacity. Therefore, free and open access to educational opportunity is a basic human right. When educational materials can be electronically copied and transferred around the world at almost no cost, there is a greater ethical obligation than ever before to increase the reach of opportunity. When people can connect with others nearby or in distant lands at almost no cost to ask questions, give answers, and exchange ideas, the moral imperative to meaningfully enable these opportunities weighs profoundly. Hence center believes that we cannot in good conscience allow this poverty of educational opportunity to continue when educational provisions are so plentiful, and when their duplication and distribution costs so little. The center brings these differences through of mix research, development, and teaching.

Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Nepal Community
FOSS Nepal Community is established by the team of those enthusiastic people who believe in the usage of Free/Open Source Software. The prime target of FOSS Community Nepal is to promote and diversify the usage of Free/Open Source Software in the country.
1.To raise awareness among government bodies, private sector, civil society, educational institutions and media for expanding the scope of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) via Free and Open Source Software.
2.To sensitise government bodies, civil society and media for the implementation of E-Governance by means of FOSS; the optimal solution for E-Gov.
3.Advocacy for Alternatives in Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) specific to ICT.
4.To enhance the capacity of IT professionals by promoting inclusion of Free and Open Source Software in educational system and providing platform for IT Professional to make them Globally saleable.

Reporting the Workshop
Draft OER Workshop Report

OER Day Documentation

Contents

1 Inauguration Session
1.1 Ms.Tiffany Ivins
1.2 Mr.Subir Pradhanang
1.3 Ramita Shrestha
1.4 Dr.Subarna Shakya
1.5 Mr. Manohar Bhattarai
1.6 Dr. David Wiley
1.7 Ms. Shirstee Gurung
1.8 Conclusion
2 Speed Geeking Session (Draft form)
2.1 YMRC
2.2 SEEP
2.3 C()SL
2.4 LTSP
2.5 FOSS Content Initiatives (Nepali Wikipedia, Sixyadaan, OLPC, Sambad)
2.6 FOSS Technical Initiatives: (Nepalilinux in communities: ENRD, MPP)
3 Open Space Session (Draft form)
3.1 Open Space Ideas, Discussion Highlights, Action Ahead

Inauguration Session
The workshop on Open Educational Resources (OER): Opening Educational Resources in Nepal: Localizing Content, Disseminating Knowledge started on May 25, 2007. After formal welcome by Ms. Kabina, the workshop entered into formally kick off and many speakers shared thier work,views and ideas to clearify the objective of the workshop and what they want to acheive at the end of the day.

Ms.Tiffany Ivins
Tiffany, who has been working with C()SL, Introduced the workshop and shared about C()SL and its activities. She had came to Nepal first time in 1998. And since 2004 she has been working on behalf of UNESCO for Literacy, Health, Education and Development for more effective income generation and economy. She has focused on education that would provide support to various infrastructures of development such as health, agriculture, etc. She focuses on technology for promoting the education. Grasping different perspectives of open content to raise the status of people in our nation. As a action ahead she is trying to create a bridge between Government, NGOs, INGOs and technical expertise. and she is committed to provide assistance to the relevant sectors required for development.

Mr.Subir Pradhanang
Subir, who has been founding member of FOSS Nepal introduced about the FOSS movement in Nepal and welcomed the participants for the workshop. He also further proposed that FOSS Nepal Community would be happy to support any technical support that these OER community might need in coming days.

Ramita Shrestha
Ramita Shrestha, who is working as a Voluteer in Rural Telecenter in Shankhu shared about Challenges faced by Rural Community in Education Sector. This telecenter initiative is joint Project of Ministry of Education and Science and Technology (MOEST) in order to share informations even in the rural areas of Nepal. The main objectives of the program is to disseminate knowledge about Local information and Agriculture. The telecenter was able to mobilized women and youth group for community sanitation.It was able to establish itself as a platform to develop self confidence and skill development among youths. It also formed community youth club.
The challenges faced by the telecenter are:
1.Lack of Telephone and Internet Services
2.Lack of Fund to Purchase materials
3.Lack of Computer Hardware
4.Lack of Computer Trained Personnels.
The action ahead proposed by Ramita was to:
1.To Engage young People in social services so as to utilize their leisure time.
2.To Initialize community awareness problems.
3.To operate as an NGO.
4.To work as a service center to offer important ICT Training.

Dr.Subarna Shakya
Dr.Subarna Shakya, Executive Director, NITC, Govt. of Nepal and Advisor FOSS Nepal Community gave an special address in the workshop. He shared that there are around 200 tele-centers established in Nepal through Government with the collaboration of NGOs and INGOs. But, lack of relevant content and attention has hindered the effective functioning of these centers. So, he has focused on campaigning about it in different schools and colleges. According to him relevant content needs to be contributed to initiate any project resource. He further said that there is need to
1.Implementation of FOSS in context of Nepal.
2.Promotion through Workshop in all the possible ways.
3.Localization of ICT in Nepal for education sector.

Mr. Manohar Bhattarai
Mr. Manohar Bhattarai is the Full time member of The High Level Commission for Information Technology (HLCIT), Govt of Nepal. In his special address, he gave the overview of present situation of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), telecenters, the challenges they were facing and the way how we can use the resources to solve them. He also noted that despite everything that happened in the last one decade, there has been good progress in ICT. Internet access points has been established in the rural parts in Nepal. More than 200 telecenters have already been deployed and more are being considered.
He also mentioned that FOSS provides immense solution to a lot of our problem. He's been in the telecenter movement since the beginning. With his experience, he stressed that an innovative strategy is required to give value to current ICT movements. He's stressed on the value of content for the rural masses. The current telecenters of Nepal have sustainability problem due to lack of proper content. They have provided physical connectivity but due to lack of content, the most of the telecenters are not functioning.
He as part of HLCIT welcomed and showed full support to Open Content and Open Education. He brought up Education Commons in Nepal and also mentioned on collaboration of FOSS Community and Open Educational Resource Community to spread education to rural places.

Dr. David Wiley
Dr. David Wiley from The Center for Open Sustainable Learning (C()SL), in his impressive iPod controlled slide presentation, shared that it was his first visit in Nepal and that he was amazed and humbled by everything he's experienced in past few days in Nepal. He's visited various areas in Nepal and found the country beautiful and the people are very friendly. However he's faced a common question from all around - how can a foreigner help? People have conception that foreigners cant fix things. They think that the outsiders don't have knowledge of ground reality. But he argued with - "passion supports passion".
He shared his ideas about Open Educational Resources. He said that resources means material that like textbooks, CDROMs, etc. And Educational Resources is what help people to get education. He defined the word 'open' as freedom to copy, change and share.
1.Copy - We should be able to copy any material, whether book, music, picture (in camera, on the web or printed).
2.Change - We should also be able to change the content; we should be able to translate the content for free and legally.
3.Share - We should also be able to share the content freely (as in freedom). There shouldn't be any kind of restrictions.
Dr. Wiley then talked on how can create content when there's no internet. Well, there can be several ways. He focused on the line - 'Lowest tech is best tech'. Internet is just the latest hype, there are several medium like radio and television. We can use audio and video for illiterates. However, high tech can work too. He gave an example of iPod. An iPod can contain 1650 hours of audio. That is 70 days non stop audio. It can also show photos. Current iPods can store around 25000 photos and 100 hours of video. But iPod is just one way. There could be many other ways too - other low tech stuffs. But, his question was who can do this work? Can one NGO? Can one INGO? The answer is - NO.
There are over 20 thousand NGOs in Nepal and each with a mission! Each of them have an identity and as we all know identify can interfere. He recommends them to be truly unique and to make really lasting change. And for that, we must work together.There are very few successful projects so we must work together. He hopes to make new friendships new partnerships plans. If we can do it, it will be a blessing to us too..
Ms. Shirstee Gurung
Ms. Shirstee Gurung from Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya began with how Nepali Unicode came along. She first of all noted that people had confusion how library can do localization. But the plan of Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya was to get all the Nepali books in computer. But they were unable to do so because at that time character encoding system wasn’t developed. Then MPP went on to develop Nepali Unicode and hence it also became involved in localization. The first project they did was PAN Localization. Nepalinux was developed and released in 2005. Similarly there are a lot of localizing components happening currently like Nepali Dictionary.
Now since MPP is involved for the last 5 years in localization, they have all the experts and the materials for the Nepali community. They need to start some kind of movement so that it can reach to the Nepali mass. To address this, they organized Software Freedom Day on 16th of September for the first time in which they received an overwhelming participation.
However they have felt that they should also take the technology to remote areas. Some of the projects MPP is doing on this regard are Bhasashanchar project, LTSP project. In the LTSP Project, they are deploying the LTSP based lap in 4 schools. They have already deployed a lab in Phulchoki and are targeting Dailekh, Myagdi Dhading too.

Conclusion
Following conclusion was drawn from the discussion and open space session that took place during the day long workshop with different educational and technical stakeholders of OER.
1.Initiative for Open Content and Open Content Resources : Open content concept hasn't been widely publicized in Nepal. It needs to be promoted, advertised and informed about to various communities, organizations, etc for its effectiveness. The more the public knows about it and understands about it, the more effective it becomes. It also helps build up the contents as individuals and organizations related with content creation become aware of its benefits.
2.Implementation : The initial implementation can come with interaction of different stakeholders of Open Education Resources. A framework for its operation should be decide as to achieve consolidated efforts for synergistic impact. An ambassador should be chosen for dedicated effort. Concrete actions should be taken from the initial stages. Government Organizations like HLCIT, NITC can create strategies based on Open Content for its ICT and education movements. Public and private partnerships should be established. Efforts are already underway to bridge the digital divide. Different organizations are taking technologies to remote areas. The focus of Open Education Resource should be on building useful, valuable and effective content and how those contents can be disseminated to a wider audience.
3.Need for participation : A single NGO or a small community can hardly make a wide impact. Participation of various parties is very important. Collective effort and dedicated participation only can make a difference. If we work together we can definitely bring a change.
4.Examples and ongoing efforts : Nepali Wikipedia is gaining momentum, also acting as a Open Content Resource. Telecenters for rural people and local communities acting as good hub for resource dissemination. OER efforts by Dr.Wiley and others set example and source of inspiration. These should set an example for leading the OER movement in Nepal.
5.Possible Benefits : The possible benefits of OER is that it could prove to be a source of quality materials to educate people on different subjects. It can also act as medium of creating awareness in people of different hazards and common stereotypes, example HIV-AIDS, Malaria, Constitution, etc.

Speed Geeking Session (Draft form)
There were altogether 6 spots for Speed Geeking.
1.YMRC : Ms. Ramita Shrestha
2.SEEP : Ms. Helen Sherpa
3.COSL: eduCommons: Ms. Tiffany Ivins
4.LTSP: Mr. Shishir
5.FOSS Content Initiatives (Wikipedia, Sixyadaan, OLPC, Samvad): Mr. Sagun Dhakwa and Mr. Jwalanta Shrestha
6.FOSS Technical Initiatives: (Nepalilinux in communities: ENRD, MPP) : Mr. Paras Pradhan, Subir Pradhananga, Basanta Shrestha

YMRC
Youth Managed Resource Center (YMRC) is an youth organization working for youth on social issues in different parts of Nepal.

SEEP
SEEP stands for S=Self-Employment E=Economic E=Education P=Program. It uses technology which is most popular in net which has limited access to resources.It tries to teach business skills ,basic reading skills, book keeping,feasibility study to related fields alongwith big challenges.

C()SL
Center for Open and Sustainable Learning (C()SL) is a software which helps people to publish and share open content. There are around 40 Universities using this Software which is available in many other Languages(Standard:English).It also helps to avoid Copyrights and Piracy in the market.The several stages are:
1.Checks the qualities,links and websites
2.Replaces copyright materials
3.Availability of course contents and more information system
4.Contains features like searching,commenting,editing and publishing
Example:Wikipedia

LTSP
Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) is an education projrct and it is an add-on package for Linux that allows many people to simultaneously use the same computer. Applications run on the server with a terminal known as a thin client handling input and output. These thin clients are also known as X terminals. Generally, they are low-powered, lack a hard disk and are quieter than desktop computers. This is because they do not have any moving parts.

FOSS Content Initiatives (Nepali Wikipedia, Sixyadaan, OLPC, Sambad)
There has been several FOSS Content Initiatives in Nepal. The most important of them are Nepali Wikipedia, Sixyadaan, OLPC and Sambad.
Nepali Wikipedia http://ne.wikipedia.org: Nepali Wikipedia is an attempt to create more Nepali content in Wikipedia. There are currently couple of thousands of Nepali articles in Wikipedia. The Nepali Wikipedia initiatives is to get lots of Nepali articles on Wikipedia.
Sixyadaan http://www.sixyadaan.org: Sixyadaan is the Open Courseware Project in Nepal. It is
1.Is a free and open educational resource (OER) for educators, students, and self-learners
2.Is a publication of Course materials & Researches in Nepal
3.Requires no registration to access the materials
4.Requires a free registration to contribute
5.Is not a degree-granting or certificate-granting activity
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) OLPC Nepal is a Non-Profit Organization is to create an environment for OLPC, take necessary steps to ensure every child in Nepal get the laptops and develop the Local Activities for OLPC laptops that could revolutionize how we educate the children. Their goal is to provide every children of Nepal with new opportunities to explore, experiment, and express themselves.
Sambad
Sambad in an Text to speach initiative in progress in Nepal.

FOSS Technical Initiatives: (Nepalilinux in communities: ENRD, MPP)

Open Space Session (Draft form)
After Speed Geeking was over, Mr. Hempal Shrestha and Ms. Shikha Shrestha introduced about Open Space. The idea of Open Space was to bring ideas together and discuss on them.
She highlighted that we are lagging in education. We have half literacy and horrible quality of education. Only those who have money and source can have proper education. But who live in rural area and have problem with food, they don’t have proper education. Open content can help us.
We have a lot of NGOs and if all NGO can want to have their own identity, then they can’t make it to the goal. So how do we unite them? We need to have a consortium. But it’s not easy to develop a consortium, the real problem is how to make it sustainable. And it's certainly a great hurdle.
Now we have our consortium – open education consortium -- and we are here work on open content. We all have hidden potentials but how we can bring them all together? That's why we’re doing open space.
Ms. Shikha also introduced us about the principles of Open Space.
1.When it starts, it’s the right time
2.Whatever happens is the only thing that could happen
3.Whenever it’s over , its over
4.Law of mobility
Then she showed a metacard to write an idea which can be no longer than 3 lines. The ideas that came up for discussion in Open Space were as follows:
Time/Space
A
B
C
D
E
First Session
Inclusiveness
Unity, Sustainability & Cooperation
Role of government and public in IT and ITC
Development of Telecenter
Identification of Primary Stakeholders
Second Session
Open Education Toolkit
Passion, Commitment and Dedication
community radio and telecenter

Before starting any program we need to understand local content. If we forget local resources we never understand real education.
Third Session
Give More Advertisement
Public Awareness
Involving Young Technicians

Sustainable ICT access
Fourth Session
Integrated action
Share, exchange and contribute
creating portal from various colleges/universities to put course content as open content

Lets involve people from remote places

Open Space Ideas, Discussion Highlights, Action Ahead
For text format Open Space Outcome

Topic
of Discussion
Idea Initiator
Participants
Overview
Issues
Actions Ahead
Inclusiveness
Mr. krishna Gautam
1.Mr. Hem Bahadur gurung
2.Mr. Krishna gautam
3.Ms. Onisha pradhan
4.Mr. Raj bahadur giri
5.Ms. Bimala adhikary
6.Mr. Ujjwal Shrestha
1.How can consortium be sustainable?
2.Inclusiveness
3.Through technology even disable people should be streaming.
1.Identify the issue from all the areas regarding Inclusiveness.
2.Maximum utilization of the technology.
3.As ordinary people can use the technology to fullest, the disable should also have this preferences.
4.Facilitate different softwares for disable like judge,daisy(print with disability) etc.
5.People in Hi-technology are not concerned about the rural area, but without the development of rural area the country cannot be developed.
6.A nice quote by Mr. Krishna gautam in nepali "Jaha Samma Apanga Manche pugna sakchan tyaha samma, normal manche pani puchan tara jahan samma samanya manche puchan tyaha samma apanga manche pugna sakdainan".(Where we(disable people) can reach, the normal people have reached there quite before, but where the have reached we have never reached.)
1.Lead recognition.
2.Awareness campaign.
3.Active participate.
4.should have Stakeholders.
Open Education Toolkit
Mr. Hempal Shrestha
1.Mr. Hem Bahadur gurung
2.Ms. Onisha pradhan
3.Ms. Bimala adhikary
4.Mr. Ujjwal Shrestha
1.Open Education Toolkit is not a tool but it’s the collection of tools.
2.Documentation of Nepali Open Education Toolkit
3.Toolkit for all
4.Infrastructure.
5.Open Toolkit turned out to be technical jargon.
1.Open education toolkit should be based on “Universal Design Pattern”
2.Decentralization of technology.
3.Tools for open content should have localized manual.
4.Nepal government have not initiate any plans to open content.
5.Illiterate student and disable are hardly helped with the help of this toolkit
6.Community School and primary schools are targeted.
1.Open Education Content should be initiated at the all level of education
2.Develop a documentation and manual kit for Open Education Content.
3.Open toolkit should be localized.
4.Universal Design Pattern should be executed.
Give More Advertisement
Mr. L.P. Mali
1.Ms. Namita Agrawal
2.Mr. Akash deep Shakya
3.Ms. Onisha pradhan
4.Ms. Bimala adhikary
1.Awareness and interaction
2.Identify flow of information hierarchy.
1.Why are people unaware of these basic needs?
2.Media can be the handful weapon.
3.Advertisement is not enough we have to implement it.
4.Distance is more of issue than Advertisement.
5.Every things is free can attract people.
6.Our country is very centralized.
7.Infrastructure at university level.
1.Break free from Kathmandu.
2.Introduction of open content and open courseware at primary level.
3.Advertisement should be done through grass root level.
4.Advertisement should start from your Class.
Integrated action required
Ms. Bimala Adhikary
1.Mr. Hem Bahadur gurung
2.Mr. Hem raj Shrestha
3.Ms. Namita Agrawal
4.Mr. Akash Deep Shakya
1.Telecenter
2.Integrated action
3.Survey and planning
1.Rural- urban partnership
2.Content dissipation
3.Role identification
4.Un-notice development would create difficult circumstances under common goal.
5.Integration environment
1.Interaction and localization is must.
2.Youth should be alert.
3.Content Resource Generalization.
Unity, Sustainability & Cooperation
Mrs. Minarvha Rajbhandari
1.Mr. Prajowal Manandhar
2.Mr. Subir
3.Mr. Sishir
In search of unity and sustainable development, UNICEF has come up with Quality education. The concept can be brought through an example of library.
1.How do we find unity and sustainable development?
2.How to make people initiate for different activities?
3.How can isolation among people can be removed?
1.Identify the issue from all the areas regarding Coordination and Development.
2.Basic Level expertise for maximum utilization of the technology and knowledge.
3.Initiation to build up resources with sustainable support.
1.Coordination between locals and service providers.
2.Lead recognition and knowledge sharing.
3.Public Awareness campaign.
4.Active participation.
5.Dividing the peoples into subgroups for better coordination.
6.Monitor the development through correspondents from each groups.
Passion, Commitment and Dedication
Mr.Ramesh Adhikari
1.Mr.Hem Gurung
2.Mrs.Minarva Rajbhandari
3.Mr.Prajowal Manandhar
Passion is the thing desired by one people. Passion can be kept in the higher preference of interest. Its not necessary to copy the things done by others to do a certain thing. We should be clear about our Idea and commitment is required. If we know what is our responsibility and has desire to do the things by our own will then it would lead to a confidence to do a specific task in full effort. Hence, passion allows us to balance the different environment surrounding a person's activities.
1.How to revitalize our desire and passion?
2.What sort of effort should be there in our commitment?
3.How can we be practical?
1.Being born as a human being, its not possibles to look and get into each activities.
2.We need to be focused in our ideas and look ahead for the participation of peoples.
3.Bring out the desire and passion and inspire other for the commitment.
4.Our passion leads to development and finally destiny.
5.we need to have patience to succeed in our lives.
Public Awareness
Mr.Hem Gurung
1.Mr.Jeevan Lohani
2.Mr.Ramesh Adhikari
3.Mr.Prajowal Manandhar
The domination of the higher illiteracy rate has lead to the slow progress in the development of our country. Simplifying the resources could help to get the active participation from the local people.
1.How to make people aware about the different ongoing activities?
2.How to use the local resource in the development of the country and enhancing our knowledge?
3.How to come up with the better solution when we have too many ideas on board?
4.How to increase the literacy rate?
1.We need to put the theories into experiments & examples backed up by a real life practices.
2.Positive Awareness is the key.
3.Bringing the technology to communicate among people and bridge the gap.
4.Media factor is the key in making the people aware.
5.Seek the people and their development and arrange a grass root development.
Share, exchange and contribute
Magnus Consulting Group
1.Dr.David Wiley
2.Mr.Prajowal Manandhar
3.Mr.Sugam, Bhattarai
4.Mr.Ramesh Adhikari
5.Mrs.Minarva Raj Bhandari
6.Ms.Tiffany
7.Mr.Bimal
1.Sharing means caring hence, share the ideas and make sure you care for the people living around.
2.We need to be conclusive for the better use of our ideas.
3.We need to know about the different mechanism available.
4.We need to be creative through various search programs.
1.We are not using the proper technology for the local improvement.
2.Central Resource is the must for increasing the people's participation and then to share and exchange ideas.
1.Take the advantages of the internet available.
2.Be active and participate through forums.
3.Be Creative and initiate new ideas.
4.Involve people from the remote places which covers the maximum density of the country.
5.Make people literate.
6.Bring forward the ideas from the local people and guide them in proper direction.
7.Take the privileges from the source available like foreigners, INGO's and NGO's Members, visiting professionals.
Let's involve people from remote places
Mr. Ujjwal Shrestha
1.Mr. Ujjwal Shrestha
2.Mr. Rajiv Shrestha
3.Ms. Kebina Manandhar
4.Mr. Ayush Shrestha
5.Dr. David Wiley
6.Mr. Jiwan …
When it comes to technology only the people inside the valley are enjoying it. We should reach people outside valley too.
1.Technology related projects happen only in urban areas.
2.We have internet now but it’s only limited to the places that highway has touched.
1.Projects we are injecting should cope with rural people. Projects are either supply driven or demand driven. Usually the latter one are more likely to sustain.
2.Technical projects shouldn’t just be limited to computers. There can be so many other media through information can be disseminated.
Development of Telecenter
Mr. Sailesh Jha
1.Mr.Sailesh Jha
2.Mr.Ramesh Adhikari
3.Mr.Bimal Pratap Shah
4.Mr.Dayaram
5.Mr.L.P.Mali
6.Ms.Sunila Shrestha
7.Mr.Prabin Gautam
8.Ms.Sheba R.Tamrakar
9.Ms.Saroj Pandey
Most of the discussion were focused on telecenter It was shared that there was no support to them after one year. Though government knows about all the issues but due to there own problems they seem to be neglecting it.
1.Telecenters have inadequate fund to raise their company to a known state.
2.No phone and Internet facilities though amazingly it is called a Telecenter.No proper detail planning.
3.They have no support from the government parties thought they already have adequate manpower’s, because of that they are not being able to hire experienced manpower’s.
4.There’s a Wide gap between the INGO’s, NGO’s, government and also software developers, who are in no condition trying to or not being able to help the Telecenters.
5.They are not being able to give required training, due to lack of experienced manpower’s.
6.Lack of supply of required materials.
7.They seem to be having no plan to push the technology.
8.No strong lawyer to understand cyber issues.
9.No strong public, private partnership.
10.They are not able to convince rural people to take required courses.
11.Since the Telelcenter is situated in the rural place, the government too seems to be neglecting it.
1.Common platform of developers, development profession, government and universities into which everyone’s participation is necessary.
2.To provide ICT and education training and workshop everymonth in Telecenter.
3.Awaring the Community about the Technology development and encouraging them to take part.
4.Sustainable plan for ICT and education.
5.Integrating ICT for microinterprise and health.
6.Localization initiatives.
7.Prepare local content.
8.Lobby with government.
9.Setup models for telecenter.
10.Encourage FOSS to take part and volunteer for the rural areas.
11.Sensitization for open content.
Role of government and public in IT and ITC
Mr. Sailesh Jha
1.Mr.Sailesh Jha
2.Mr.Ramesh Adhikari
3.Mr.Bimal Pratap Shah
4.Mr.Dayaram
5.Mr.L.P.Mali
6.Ms.Sunila Shrestha
7.Mr.Prabin Gautam
8.Ms.Sheba R.Tamrakar
9.Ms.Saroj Pandey
1.Discroption about core technology.
2.There is brige gap between international development and ministery which lack awareness regarding IT abd ITC.
3.Less talks regarding legistic details.
4.Government should act as facilitaior
5.Nepal is losing their own developers due to lack of advanced studies.
6.Goverment should also be involved to encourage people in law fields as well.

Policy promogalation
1.Volunteer can indulge in voulnteering governmental IT sector
2.Believe in own governmental impowerment
3.Should beleive in importance and awareness
4.Must create a modular environment.
Community radio and telecenter
Ms. Tiffany Ivins
1.Mr.Sailesh Jha
2.Tiffany as the lead.
3.Shuba R. Tamrakar.
1.Government should develop the IT sectors more than industries
2.Creating forum,continuous dialouge through wikipedia
3.Lobby members are the keys
4.Lobbying required later
5.Collecting and dissiminating informations with all groups
6.Though all issues are already known by the government but still they are neglecting it due to their own difficulties.
7.No forward movement to solve any problem
8.There should be involvement of community in each and every programs.
9.Presence of manpower,volunteer but absence of backforce.
10.Struggle for finance/income for telecenter.
11.SCOJO-a management project described by tiffany.

Involving Young Technicians
Mr. Shishir Jha
1.Mr.Sailesh Jha
2.Mr.Ramesh Adhikari
3.Mr.Bimal Pratap Shah
4.Mr.Dayaram
5.Mr.L.P.Mali
6.Ms.Sunila Shrestha
7.Mr.Prabin Gautam
8.Ms.Sheba R.Tamrakar
9.Ms.Saroj Pandey
1.Development of help nepal thorugh our own countrymen,no help from any other sources.
2.Organization of health camp-mugu.
3.Organization of HIV/AIDS camp-sarlahi.
4.Moto from help nepal-"work for nepal because we are nepali".
5.Research projects for rural areas like dang and bhaktapur.
6.Mobilizing from volunteers.
7.No money but has manpower and skill.
8.Help nepal being solely based on LINUX.

Creating portal from varoius colleges/universtities to put course content as open content
Mr. Prabin Gautam
1.David Wiley
2.Subir Pradhananga
3.Daya Ram Budhathoki
4.Amit Aryal
5.Anjan Dhakal
1.Involve Government Universities
2.Create RSS feed for out portal and can be added to OCWfinder.com educommons for local portals
3.Look for good outcomes.
4.Collaborate with a professional to understand the issues.

Identification of Primary Stakeholders

Stakeholders:
1.Government
1.-HLCIT
2.-NICT etc
2.NGO
3.INGO
4.Private sector
1.-telecenters
5.Universities

OER Participant's List

1.Abhishek Singh: KUOSC
2.Amit Aryal: FOSS Nepal/MPP
3.Ankur Sharma: FOSS Nepal
4.Ashay Thakur: FOSS Nepal
5.Basanta Shrestha : FOSS Nepal
6.Bebev Mulmi: Tulasi Meher Unesco Club (TMUC)
7.Bhoj Raj Shrestha: Independent Living Center
8.Bibek Shrestha: FOSS Nepal
9.Bimal Shah: NITC
10.Bimala Adhikari: E-Network Research and Development (ENRD)
11.Bishnu Gautam: Magnus Consulting Group PVT
12.Brizika Bantawa Rai : FOSS Nepal
13.Chandra Kiran Shreatha: RECPHEC
14.Dayaram Budhathoki: FOSS Nepal
15.Dhrubahari Neupane: Independent Living Center
16.Dr. David Wiley: Center for Open and Sustainable Learning (COSL)
17.Dr. Subana Shakya: National Information Technology Center (NITC)
18.Ganesh Ghimire: MPP
19.Helen Sherpa: World Education Nepal (WEN)
20.Hem Bdr. Gurung: Independent Living Center
21.Hempal Shrestha: BellaSAP
22.Hemraj Dhakal: Tulasi Meher Unesco Club (TMUC)
23.Indira Rana Magar: Prisoner’s Assistance Network (PAN) – resource centers & libraries for prisons
24.Ishwor Thapa: MPP
25.Jeevan Raj Lohani: CPREC
26.Jwalanta Shrestha: FOSS Nepal
27.Khagendra Bhattarai: Tulasi Meher Unesco Club (TMUC)
28.Khusbo Shah: FOSS Nepal
29.Krishna Gautam: Independent Living Center
30.L P Mali: Sankhu Telecentre
31.Mahesh Sharma: Tulasi Meher Unesco Club (TMUC) - Youth-Managed Resource Centers (YMRC)
32.Manohar Kumar Bhattarai: High Level Commission for Information Technology (HLCIT)
33.Maria Newton: MPP
34.Minarvha Rajbhandari: Worl Education
35.Mitchell Spence: Center for Open and Sustainable Learning (COSL)
36.Mohita Joshi: FOSS Nepal
37.Namita Agrawal: FOSS Nepal
38.Onisha Pradhan: Tribhuvan Univ Research Center for Educational Innovation & Development (CERID)
39.Pankaj R. Joshi: Youth UNESCO Mobilization Association (YUMA)
40.Paras Pradhan: MPP
41.Prabin Gautam: KUOSC
42.Prajowal Manandhar: FOSS Nepal
43.Prasanna Gautam: FOSS Nepal
44.Raj Bahadur Giri: Kathmandu Training Center
45.Rakesh Hamal: National Rehabilitation Society for Disabled - integrated tech centers for disabled (NDRS)
46.Ram Prasad Bhatrai: Nepal Copyright Registrar, Govt. of Nepal.
47.Rama Nath Shrestha: Help Nepal Network (HeNN)
48.Ramesh Adhikari: Nepal Hope
49.Ramita Shrestha: Sankhu Rural Information Center (SRIC) – pilot site for youth leaders & appropriate tech
50.Rudra Lal Mahra: Tulasi Meher Unesco Club (TMUC)
51.Sagun Dhakhwa: MPP
52.Sailesh Jha: KCC
53.Sameer Honwad: Penn State DOLCE lab - software developers interested in participatory rural outreach
54.Sanat Kumar Bista: Kathmandu University (KU)
55.Santa Basnet: Radio Sagarmatha
56.Saroj Pandey: KCC
57.Shankar Pokharel: FOSS Nepal
58.Shanta Lall Mulmi: Resource Center for Primary Health Care (RECPHEC)
59.Shiba Tamrakar: KCC
60.Shishir Jha: Help Nepal
61.Shree Ram Poudel: Image FM/Image TV
62.Subir Pradhanang: FOSS Nepal
63.Sugam Bhattarai: National Rehabilitation Society for Disabled - integrated tech centers for disabled (NDRS)
64.Sunita Shrestha: Sankhu Telecentre
65.Sushil K Sharma: Magnus Consulting Group PVT
66.Sushmita Pote: Help Nepal /FOSS Nepal
67.Tiffany Ivins: Center for Open and Sustainable Learning (COSL)
68.Ujwal Shrestha: FOSS Nepal
69.Uttam Kumaracharya: E-Network Research and Development (ENRD)
70.Vijay Kumar Shrestha: MPP
71.Yogesh Agrawal: FOSS Nepal

OER Presenter's List

Contents

1 Facilitators
2 Presenters/Idea Initiators
3 Speed Geekers
4 Open Space Idea Initiator/Lead Discussions
Facilitators
1.Mr. Hempal Shrestha
2.Ms. Shikha Shrestha

Presenters/Idea Initiators
1.Ms. Tiffany Ivins
2.Mr. Subir Pradhanang
3.Ms. Ramita Shrestha
4.Dr. Subarna Shakya
5.Mr. Manohar Bhattarai
6.Dr. David Wiley
7.Ms. Shirstee Gurung

Speed Geekers
1.YMRC : Ms. Ramita Shrestha
2.SEEP : Ms. Helen Sherpa
3.C()SL: eduCommons: Ms. Tiffany Ivins
4.LTSP: Mr. Shishir Jha
5.FOSS Content Initiatives (Wikipedia, Sixyadaan, OLPC, Samvad): Mr. Sagun Dhakwa and Mr. Jwalanta Shrestha
6.FOSS Technical Initiatives: (Nepalilinux in communities: ENRD, MPP) : Mr. Paras Pradhan, Subir Pradhananga, Basanta Shrestha

Open Space Idea Initiator/Lead Discussions
Time/Space
A
B
C
D
E
First Session
Inclusiveness
Unity, Sustainability & Coperation
Role of government and public in IT and ITC
Development of Telecenter
Identification of Primary Stakeholders
Second Session
Open Education Toolkit
Passion, Commitment and Dedication
community radio and telecenter

Before starting any program we need to understand local content. If we forget local resources we never understand real education.
Third Session
Give More Advertisement
Public Awareness
Involving Young Technicians

Sustainable ICT access
Fourth Session
Integrated action
Share, exchange and contribute
creating portal from varoius colleges/universtities to put course content as open content

Lets involve people from remote places