A- GEDAREF DIGITAL CITY ORGANIZATION (GDCO 1- Coordinator between all partners. 2- Providing the computers through its partners. 3- Developing software with cost prices. 4- Sharing experiences and best practices with the others to replicate it in Gedaref and then replicate it in Sudan. 5- Technical advice and support for free to implement the projects. 6- The decision maker for what kinds of project the community needed ,,the priority of implementation ,, the visibility study and who are the partners. 7- Training with a cost price (only teachers cost) B- Digital City of Eindhoven (DSE) 1- Computers and other IT equipment supply. 2- The founder of GDCO C-Gedaref mechanized schemes (GMS or GMC) (ministry of agriculture) 1- Preparing spaces for the computers lab,,, also tables and net work. 2- Paying the cost of training and software. 3- Implementing and determining the GPS for all farms. 4- agricultural researcher and Gedaref university help in agro-mobile online support. D- Information supporting fund (ISF) This ISF consist of NTC and NIC,,, NTC (national telecommunication corporation) is the implementing agent for the telecentres and other communication projects. NTC is responsible to collect money from service mobiles providers which deducted from every mobile subscriber in Sudan to support ICT project to bridge the digital gap. NIC (national information centre) is responsible of IT projects (e-government,, e-education….). ISF is providing GDCO with prefab unit (fully equipped with computers and network and medical equipment) for telecentres,, telemedicine and e-libraries in addition to financial support and helping in the replication of the project very soon. E- Farmers unions and the community These are our big and encouraging partners. They financial support GDCO and they encourage farmers to join GDCO training,,, they are the end users of our services and technology and they should be integrated in the projects or they will fail. Also they guide and provide us with what they need. F- Sudani 1- Financial support 2- It will pay GDCO 40% of SMS cost when the agro-mobile system started. G- Drishtee This is an Indian organization. It has more than 4000 telecentre and they had a good experience and best practices in community development. We are developing together an agro-mobile system. G- Other partners 1- Gedaref crops markets (providing the daily crops prices) 2- Mahgoub awald (sons) companies (financial support) 3- agriculture bank (financial support) 4- telecentre.org,,, ugabytes.org,,, CSDMS ,,, SSIT and other telecentre movement organization are partners sharing GDCO their experiences and best practices.
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