Sida Bilateral Project

The main goal of the project is to provide UNAH with a modern ICT infrastructure to strengthen its research capacity and support UNAH important role for the whole country development. The project is divided in two parts:
a) UNAH ICT Policy and Master Plan
b) ICT implementation

The initial phase of the project is dedicated to formulate a general and complete design of all ICT services that UNAH requires and a proper strategy for their implementation and support. The result of this extensive process that involved all UNAH internal stakeholders and external partners is the ICT policy and Master plan documents. These documents shall drive the ICT development at the University. The main goal for the ICT implementation phase is defined by the ICT policy and Master Plan. Priority is given to the implementation of the main network infrastructure that shall support UNAH point of presence around Honduras. A set of critical ICT services including e-mail and web-portal have been included into the most urgent requirements. Capacity building is a necessary background for the success of the whole project and its future sustainability.

The main goal of the project is to provide UMSA with a modern ICT infrastructure to strengthen its research capacity and support UMSA´s important role for the whole country development.

There are 4 main activities 

1. Network Infrastructure. The aim is to build the large and complex network infrastructure UMSA requires.
2. Information Systems. The aim is to build the main information system UMSA organization requires. This includes web-portal, UMSA Academic Information System and UMSA financial Information System.
3. Library System strengthening. The aim is to update UMSA's library-system procedure and service. The key activity is to move the whole manual library catalog to an electronic format.
4. Human Resource Training. The goal is to create the know-how necessary to implement, maintain and utilizethe new technical solution.