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

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--- 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:







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