Focus Area of IT in Tele-Center

A Tele-center is a work location usually in a different area than the organization's main office that provides convenient access to work with equipments that people don't have at home. Tele-center are established with a view to provide easy access to work with equipment that people in rural areas do not have at home.
The approach to Tele-center was instigated in order to shrink the Digital Divide that evolved from the situation in which substantial number of citizen in the developing country lack to obtain the rights of developmental progress. In general, through the concept of Tele-center, it is aimed to provide the deficit community with the ease of modern Information technological services such as internet, email, fax, photocopy, scan etc in order to help them reach the realm of development.
Establishment of Tele-center helps to reduce the Information and knowledge poverty, consequent trivial boundary relation in developmental effort to showcase major changes in modern Information and Communication sector. At present, it is strongly felt that with the establishment of Tele-center, developmental methodology based on Information and Communication technology should also go hand in hand
Objective:
• To maximize the use of ICT to meet the goal of Development
• Providing internet access for rural community
• Develop a knowledge based society
• Provide information related to agriculture production, tele-medicine
• Trace the route for study and employment opportunity
Services provided by Tele-center:
• General telephone service for receiving incoming calls and transferring outgoing call.
• Internet and email service
• Formatting documents in word, spreadsheet, database and creating pamphlets
• Surfing the internet for study, business and entertainment
• Graphic designing and Desktop publishing
• Promote computer usage
• Conducting basic computer skill development training programs
• Video conferencing
Tele-centers established and managed by NITC :
KrishnaChowk, Chitwan
Madhesa, Sunsari
MilanChowk, Parbat
Sankhu, Kathmandu
Devighat, Nuwakot
Kowang, Mustang
Malangwa, Sarlahi