• SUMMARY
• OVERVIEW
  PRESENTATION
• CURRICULUM
• OVERVIEW
• EDUCATION
• TRAINING
• E-APPLICATIONS
• ICT LITERACY
• FACILITIES

It is now widely recognized that access to efficient telecommunications is a major developmental driving force. Decision makers and planners may wish to explore some of these E-applications with a view to implementing them in their own countries. This course work provides an overview as to how E-based applications can improve the way different market segments do business and the advantages of making them globally accessible.

1. e-Government: How ICT can be used to improve contact between the citizen and the government and how it provides free access for everyone to government information and services.
2. e-Commerce: How the internet can be used to purchase goods and services.
3. e-Learning: Radio and broadcast television have been used for years to extend the reach and delivery of education to many who wish to learn, particularly those in rural areas, while print has been the basis of distance education in correspondence courses. These one-way technologies can now be combined with two-way, interactive, multimedia systems that bring to learners, on demand, voice, video and data in text and graphics. These computer and network-based systems bring significant differences in both the application and the cost of technologies available for education.
4. Telemedicine: The use of telemedicine, after several years of being a rather exceptional, experimental practice, has increased in the last few years. This rapid growth has largely taken place in the industrialized world, while the developing world is at the stage of conducting field trials and pilot projects.
5. e-Environment: Telecom-Environment is an initiative of the International Telecommunication Union’s Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT) to demonstrate the importance of the role played by information and communication technologies in the protection of the environment.
6. e-Agriculture: The power of information and communication technologies can be harnessed for the tremendous task facing agricultural planners and workers worldwide, assisting planners to understand the whole picture and to work in new ways for sustainable ends, and educating and training the millions of agricultural workers, who are frequently remote from any educational (or other) infrastructure.