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                              Connecting cities and communities with the Sustainable Development Goals

                        -  system software
                        -  application software
                        -  networking
                        -  studio equipment

                        -  UPS
                ƒ   medical equipment at 53 patient-end hospitals
                        -  10 numbers each
                ƒ  tele-education and tele-medicine application software.


            2.2     Implementation
            The project was implemented by TCIL, a Government of India enterprise on a turn-key basis. The parameters
            of the programme were dynamically altered based on the inputs from the African nations.

            Policies/ strategies that made its implementation possible:
                ƒ  a master agreement between the African Union Commission and the Ministry of External Affairs,
                    India, to help in the process of implementing this programme;
                ƒ  country-level agreement between individual African nations and TCIL, enabling the implementation
                    of this project;

                ƒ  agreements between the 48 universities  of Africa with each of  the five universities of India,
                    recognising the Indian graduate and postgraduate degrees;
                ƒ  agreements between the 48 Super Specialty hospitals of Africa, with each of the 12 Super Specialty
                    hospitals of India.

            The various stakeholders involved in this project are:
                ƒ  African Union Commission
                ƒ  Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India
                ƒ  Doctors of Super Specialty hospitals of 48 countries in Africa
                ƒ  Doctors of five designated regional Super Specialty hospitals of Africa

                ƒ  Professors in state universities of 48 countries in Africa
                ƒ  Professors of five designated regional universities of Africa
                ƒ  Professors of five leading universities of India
                ƒ  Doctors of 12 leading Super Specialty hospitals of India
                ƒ  Digital content developers in India

                ƒ  Tele-education/Telemedicine software companies of India
                ƒ  ICT equipment manufactures
                ƒ  RASCOM satellite – Africa’s own satellite
                ƒ  MPLS/bandwidth connectivity provider
                ƒ  TCIL – implementing agency.














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