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QUESTIONNAIRE FOR THE FOCUS GROUP DISCUSSIONS Focus Group discussion with group of respondents will be conducted in the survey sites to highlight and disclose those information/views of the target group that are not addressed during the questionnaire survey. Following questions will be raised among different target groups. FOR STUDENTS 1. What type of skill will be developed after you learn using computer? 2. At what extent you feel the necessity of computer in your student life? 3. What sorts of future career options would be created by computer? 4. What types of interest and expectations could be fulfilled through computer education? 5. What are the problems faced by the rural students in using computer? 6. What types of computer based education materials should be provided for the students? 7. What other information and information technology are important for students? 8. What are the difference between using computer and radio? 9. If you found problem using the computer how will you solve it?. FOR TEACHERS 10. What types of benefits will you get after taking computer trainings? 11. Could compute become a tool to built your capacity/skills ? 12. What types of technology and technicians are needed to develop information and communication in the rural areas? 13. How computer can help rural teachers to get/develop teaching materials? 14. What types of teaching materials do you expect from computer? 15. In what extent and how your confidence will be developed after taking computer training? 16. What types of changes would you feel after learning computer and using it for teaching purposes? 17. After getting computer training could you develop digital content as per the necessity of your village/locality? 18. What other alternative options (livelihood) do you see after learning computer technology? 19. How we can solve the language problem in using computer? 20. Which social class in the community have greater access in the computer? 21. Whose and what would be the roles and responsibilities to increase wider number of community people in using computer services. 22. What types of computer based activities (of telecenter) will best address the problem of different people in the community. FOR FARMERS 23. How we can understand the relation between farmers and computer? 24. Computer is only for educated people? 25. What sorts of language should be used in the computer application to familiarize rural farmers with computer? 26. What types of knowledge the rural farmers can gain from the computer? 1

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27. How computer can be helpful to increase/improve the production level of the farmer? 28. What types of computer-based information are useful for farmers? 29. What type of skill will be developed after you learn using computer? 30. In which sector computer will be use useful for the farmers? 31. What types of changes can be expected from using computers by the farming communities? 32. How much computer is important for your daily activities? 33. What you find more important among Computer, Radio, Television and Mobile why and how? 34. How poor farmers can be benefited from computer ? 35. What types of agriculture related information are you getting from Radio and Television? 36. What is your interest and expectations on computer? FOR WOMEN (MOTHER GROUP) 37. How women are getting information? 38. What is the difference between radio, television and computer? 39. How women will utilize computer being trained on it? 40. How you understand computer? 41. How you communicate with your family members? Does computer help you to make you more updated? 42. If you find difficulties on using computer due to the language, what would be your interest/response if became available in Nepali language? 43. What types of words should be used to make Nepalese women more familiar and use to with computer and its applications? 44. Do you believe computer will be very helpful to manage saving-credit and problem gathering activities of mothers groups? 45. What type of skill will be developed after you learn using computer? 46. What types of computer based materials will be very useful to women especially related with the hygiene and reproductive health. 47. How computer can directly contribution in the livelihood of women? 48. After getting training can you train others including male? 49. What types of materials related with gender discrimination can be disseminated through computer? FOR UNEMPLOYED YOUTHS 50. Computer training can be a good solution for employment? 51. How you will utilize the knowledge after taking computer training? 52. What are the problems to increase the service/utility of computer in rural livelihood? 53. What types of changes in rural youth will be made after taking computer and its related services in the villages? 54. How you understand computer as technology? 55. Can we use computer as an important tool of information and communication? 2

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56. Do you think, after being trained in email, internet and computer maintenance youths would have good employment opportunities in and outside the country? 57. Communication, money earning capacity and technical skill/knowledge will be far more increased if the youths get computer training after going overseas for job, study so on. Do you agree with this version? 58. What types of Nepalese words should be incorporated to widen the use of computer in rural area? 59. What type of skill will be developed after you learn using computer? 60. What types of program should be developed to increase the use value of computer in rural area? 61. Increased use of computer in the community will increase the overall capacity of the society. In what extent you agree with it?

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