Itinerary for Baseline Survey

ENRD is conducting baseline survey in its project implementation areas, where PAN phase II project is going to be
implemented. Ms. Bidya Bhattarai and Ms. Bimala Adhikari, the social researchers and technical training experts, Mr.
Uttam K. Acharya and Basanta Biswokarma will be involved in a detailed survey of the areas. This survey is aimed to
collect socio-economic status of local people, existing ICT situation in the village, attitude of villagers and their
expectations on the services being providing by the telecenters. Further, this team will try to explore the actual use of
NepaLinux in the telecenters and its benefits as well as beneficiaries (students, teachers, women group, unemployed youths
and farmers).

Research team will head to the field on June 27 from Kathmandu and be in field until second week of July. This first phase
of field visit is targeted to the telecenters being run under Nepal Wireless Networking Project (more specifically Shikha,
Nagi and Lumle telecenters ). More than 50 respondents representing all the five targeted sectors from each telecenters will
be interviewed and requested to fill the structured questionnaire. In addition, the research team will also be engaged in the
focus group discussion with the concerned stakeholders to acquire data that are missing from questionnaire. Though, there
might be frequent changes in the scheduled itinerary due to monsoon and engagement of local people in agriculture
activities, the tentative schedule of the team would be as follows.

Activities Time/Duration Objectives Remarks

-KTM to Beni 1 day By bus/ Alternate route can
be followed
-Beni to Nagi 1 day On foot
-Coordinate with key persons 1 day -To introduce PANL10n Phase-II Can be done in the mornings
-Meeting with key persons Project to the key persons. and evenings
- Fill up the questionnaire 2 days - To collect quantitative data
- Focus group discussion 1 day - To collect qualitative data Sometimes done after filling
questionnaires
- Testing Nepalinux version 2. 1 day - To know hardware
compatibility
-Nagi to Beni 1 day On foot
-Beni to Shikha 1 day On foot
-Coordinate with key persons 1 day -To introduce PANL10n Phase-II Can be done in the mornings
-Meeting with key persons Project to the key persons. and evenings
- Fill up the questionnaire 2 days - To collect quantitative data
- Focus group discussion 1 day - To collect qualitative data Sometimes done after filling
questionnaires
- Testing Nepalinux 1 day - To test hardware compatibility
-Shikha to Tikot 1 day On foot
-Coordinate with key persons 1 day -To introduce PANL10n Phase-II Can be done in the mornings
-Meeting with key persons/line agencies Project to the key persons. and evenings
- Fill up the questionnaire 2 days - To collect quantitative data
- Focus group discussion 1 day - To collect qualitative data
- Testing Nepalinux version 2. 1 day - To test hardware compatibility
-Tikot to Beni 1 day On foot
-Beni to Lumle Half day By Bus
- Lumle to Ckandrakot , Tolka , Majhgau Half day On foot
-Coordinate with key persons 1 day -To introduce PANL10n Phase-II
-Meeting with key persons Project to the key persons.
- Fill up the questionnaire 3 day - To collect quantitative data This will incorporate villagers
from three telecenters of
Lumle.
- Focus group discussion 3 days - To collect qualitative data Sometimes done after filling
questionnaires
- Testing Nepalinux version 2. One day - To test hardware compatibility
-Tolka to Lumle 1 day On foot
-Lumle to Pokhara 1 day By bus
-Pokhara to KTM 1 day By bus