Section outline

  • Session 7 : Financial sustainability through community access

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    Summary

    Vanuatu's Universal Access Program (UAP) aims to increase demand for ICTs and ICT services with the understanding that schools, especially in rural areas, are hubs for their communities in many ways. The UAP provides connectivity, equipment and capacity building for school-based facilities that will be shared with communities in mutually beneficial ways. Such synergy has been observed in studies of similar community-access and telecentre programmes around the world. Furthermore, sustainability can be regarded from several perspectives including social and organisational as well as financial. It is the facilities that are most useful and utilised that will evolve supporting ecosystems and the financial flows to keep the facilities going over time. In this session, participants will gain insights into administrative techniques and strategies for sustainable school and community shared access arrangements.

    Outputs
    • Participants will be introduced to the basics of how they could self sustained themselves in their communities
    Resources

    Resources necessary for the instructor to more effectively offer training

    • A UAP Gateway and Server with Mikrotik running as router
    • Projector and other presentation equipment
    Collaboration

    Participants are encouraged to discuss, ask for help and offer help in the following forums. It is also a forum used to introduce participants and learn about forums and how they can be used in this and other courses.


  • Topic 1

    Subject

    Using your technology network as a Internet Service Provider

    Objectives

    • Learn about the Mikrotik User Manager
    • Learn how to create new profiles (Internet packages) in the Mikrotik User Manager
    • Learn how to create new users (i.e. clients)
    • Learn how to assign profiles (packages) to users and activate their profile

    Reference Material, Group Activities and Projects

    This topic consists of a series of practical activities for more advanced users

  • Self-Assessment

    The self assessment is a final activity for each training module. It is a simple survey helping you to track your learning progress. This will help us to understand the effectiveness of this training and plan how best to support you in our mutual long term goal of integrating ICTs into Vanuatu's education system.