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Introduction -- Key Presentations -- Overview of Nepal country strategy and program -- Harnessing ICTs for local development: case of RUPP in Nepal -- Technology leadership on the environmental changes with ICT -- How to draft project proposal -- Key concepts and approaches of participatory development -- Models of e-community centers for the poor -- Developing a business plan for e-community center: operations and management -- Status of e-governance in Nepal -- Economics of satellite-based e-community network -- Stakeholder participation in designing and implementing e-government programs -- Evaluation and monitoring e-community centers -- Conducive policy environment for e-government -- E-teaching and learning in the public information service systems -- Role of private sector and data networks for information access for the poor -- Participants' presentation -- Group discussion -- Project presentation -- Draft project proposals -- Formative test -- Concluding statements

The Workshop on Public Information services for the Poor, held in Kathmandu, Kingdom of Nepal from 17 to 23 November 2005, focused on establishing community information centers (CICs), which constitutes Nepal's e-government program to complement its policy on poverty reduction. Thirty-one (31) participants from various ministries, training institutes and other public and private sectors discussed issues in providing public information services in rural areas; developed business plans for and identified policies in promoting public information services; and drafted proposals for establishing community information centers. - From the Book