Infolady
The “Infolady” is an initiative, started by Activity for Reformation of Basic Needs – ARBAN, to connect rural people to the livelihood information and knowledge system at their door steps. The programme facilitates the creation of knowledge networks in Purobodhao Upazilla and offers new technology-based self-employment opportunity for the educated rural women. In the process empowerment takes place for both the Infolady and the women she attends. Under this initiative a lady is equipped with a netbook laptop loaded with offline Bangla livelihood content (Jeeon IKB) and audio-visual content, internet modem, headphone, webcam, digital camera, mobile phone and some other equipments, like weight measurement machine, blood pressure machine, pregnancy test kit, sugar test kit etc. A typical Infolady is a trained rural young woman, who cycles about five to ten kilometres a day and offers variety of ICT-based and other services at the door-step of rural community she lives in. Read more >>
The “Infolady” is an initiative, started by Activity for Reformation of Basic Needs – ARBAN, to connect rural people to the livelihood information and knowledge system at their door steps. The programme facilitates the creation of knowledge networks in Purobodhao Upazilla and offers new technology-based self-employment opportunity for the educated rural women. In the process empowerment takes place for both the Infolady and the women she attends. Under this initiative a lady is equipped with a netbook laptop loaded with offline Bangla livelihood content (Jeeon IKB) and audio-visual content, internet modem, headphone, webcam, digital camera, mobile phone and some other equipments, like weight measurement machine, blood pressure machine, pregnancy test kit, sugar test kit etc. A typical Infolady is a trained rural young woman, who cycles about five to ten kilometres a day and offers variety of ICT-based and other services at the door-step of rural community she lives in. Read more >>
Website : http://www.arbanbd.org
Agriculture Khasland Management Information System (AKMIS) BANGLADESH
The AKMIS project aims to empower the landless people by providing agricultural Khasland so that they can live smoothly and generate income by cultivating this land. The initiative’s mission is to provide effective and efficient service to the landless people of Naogaon district in Bangladesh, through proper distribution of agricultural Khasland by using improved customized database software. Read more >>
The AKMIS project aims to empower the landless people by providing agricultural Khasland so that they can live smoothly and generate income by cultivating this land. The initiative’s mission is to provide effective and efficient service to the landless people of Naogaon district in Bangladesh, through proper distribution of agricultural Khasland by using improved customized database software. Read more >>
Website : http://www.dcnaogaon.gov.bd
AMAR DESH AMAR GRAM (“MY COUNTRY MY VILLAGE”)
The project Amar Desh Amar Gram creates a virtual marketplace named as Amar Desh eSHOP for better economic opportunities for the farm producer rural communities of Bangladesh. Everyday villagers come with their products (anything they produce even if it is just a gourd) and catalogue it on the internet at the e-Centre. A city buyer, may be hundreds of miles away, glances through the catalogue and places an order with an electronic card. In less than two days the person receives the product which otherwise may be available at a higher price from the city markets. Read more >>
The project Amar Desh Amar Gram creates a virtual marketplace named as Amar Desh eSHOP for better economic opportunities for the farm producer rural communities of Bangladesh. Everyday villagers come with their products (anything they produce even if it is just a gourd) and catalogue it on the internet at the e-Centre. A city buyer, may be hundreds of miles away, glances through the catalogue and places an order with an electronic card. In less than two days the person receives the product which otherwise may be available at a higher price from the city markets. Read more >>
Website : www.amardesheshop.com
KUMARI BANK – MOBILE CASH
The project Kumari Bank has been launched in 2010 with a service called “Kumari Mobile Cash”, which uses mobile phones to provide access to financial services. This service epitomizes the “mobile wallet” concept, which allows users to store cash balances in their mobile phones. Users are able to deposit and withdraw cash from their mobile phones and use the stored cash value to remit to anyone anytime anywhere, with the push of a few buttons. Kumari Bank has also added various utility bill payment services through this service, enabling people to make payments from the comfort of their homes rather than stand in line for hours. Read more >>
The project Kumari Bank has been launched in 2010 with a service called “Kumari Mobile Cash”, which uses mobile phones to provide access to financial services. This service epitomizes the “mobile wallet” concept, which allows users to store cash balances in their mobile phones. Users are able to deposit and withdraw cash from their mobile phones and use the stored cash value to remit to anyone anytime anywhere, with the push of a few buttons. Kumari Bank has also added various utility bill payment services through this service, enabling people to make payments from the comfort of their homes rather than stand in line for hours. Read more >>
Website : www.kumaribank.com
COCUBES.COM
The web-based initiative CoCubes.com, developed by venture funded firm based in Gurgaon (India), connects colleges and companies online for campus recruitment. The word CoCubes derives its origin from the first two alphabets of the three words i.e. connecting, colleges & companies. With the help of CoCubes.com., companies can create a job post and make it available to all or select colleges, based on a region, or set eligibility criteria like marks, branch, certifications etc. The job post, when viewed by the Training and Placement Officer (TPO) of any particular college, can either be passed on to the students (by accepting it) or denied (by rejecting it). Read more >>
The web-based initiative CoCubes.com, developed by venture funded firm based in Gurgaon (India), connects colleges and companies online for campus recruitment. The word CoCubes derives its origin from the first two alphabets of the three words i.e. connecting, colleges & companies. With the help of CoCubes.com., companies can create a job post and make it available to all or select colleges, based on a region, or set eligibility criteria like marks, branch, certifications etc. The job post, when viewed by the Training and Placement Officer (TPO) of any particular college, can either be passed on to the students (by accepting it) or denied (by rejecting it). Read more >>
Website : www.CoCubes.com
HELA PIRULU
This initiative aim to give an opportunity to the present generation of children of Sri Lanka, to familiarize themselves with beautiful tales that are moving away from them. Main aim of this website is to educate the present and future generations who have lost the wonders of the old tales and to preserve them through the internet. Mr. Sri Nimal Padmakumara, producer of this website, recorded all the stories in his voice on his website for his listener/viewer via internet. The website is accessed by logging in to www.pirulu.com and one can directly listen to a story about birth of a Sinhala proverb by clicking onto one the banners. Every banner also has a You Tube link for a beautiful story. Read more >>
This initiative aim to give an opportunity to the present generation of children of Sri Lanka, to familiarize themselves with beautiful tales that are moving away from them. Main aim of this website is to educate the present and future generations who have lost the wonders of the old tales and to preserve them through the internet. Mr. Sri Nimal Padmakumara, producer of this website, recorded all the stories in his voice on his website for his listener/viewer via internet. The website is accessed by logging in to www.pirulu.com and one can directly listen to a story about birth of a Sinhala proverb by clicking onto one the banners. Every banner also has a You Tube link for a beautiful story. Read more >>
Website : http://www.pirulu.com
CLICK TO ROOT
This is a project of digitisation and computerization of burial records of different cemeteries in West Bengal, India, dating back to the 1700s and encompasses data of historical and genealogical importance. A very useful purpose of this exercise is to enable users around the globe to search and find access of graves of their ancestors at the click of the mouse and enable them to locate the graves and offer tributes to their ancestors. One can search for graves through different options like first / last name, plot no, grave locations etc and also through grave numbers. This project is probably the first of its kind not only in India but in the entire world. The project also serves as a very useful medium of preservation of data from physical records into electronic form. Read more >>
This is a project of digitisation and computerization of burial records of different cemeteries in West Bengal, India, dating back to the 1700s and encompasses data of historical and genealogical importance. A very useful purpose of this exercise is to enable users around the globe to search and find access of graves of their ancestors at the click of the mouse and enable them to locate the graves and offer tributes to their ancestors. One can search for graves through different options like first / last name, plot no, grave locations etc and also through grave numbers. This project is probably the first of its kind not only in India but in the entire world. The project also serves as a very useful medium of preservation of data from physical records into electronic form. Read more >>
Website : http://www.burialsinindia.net/
BBC JANALA
BBC Janala is part of English in Action, a major initiative launched to raise the language skills of 25 million people in Bangladesh by 2017. The major objective of this initiative is to overcome barriers to learning English by providing mobile phone users with a cheap and convenient way of expanding/practising their English in the privacy of their own homes or when they have spare time on the move. It’s been funded by the UK’s Department for International Development. Mobile phone users of Bangladesh can dial the short code 3000 to access the mobile IVR service. WAP users can access the service by visiting bbcjanala.com/mobile. Web users can access the service by visiting www.bbcjanala.com. Read more >>
BBC Janala is part of English in Action, a major initiative launched to raise the language skills of 25 million people in Bangladesh by 2017. The major objective of this initiative is to overcome barriers to learning English by providing mobile phone users with a cheap and convenient way of expanding/practising their English in the privacy of their own homes or when they have spare time on the move. It’s been funded by the UK’s Department for International Development. Mobile phone users of Bangladesh can dial the short code 3000 to access the mobile IVR service. WAP users can access the service by visiting bbcjanala.com/mobile. Web users can access the service by visiting www.bbcjanala.com. Read more >>
Website : http://www.bbcjanala.com/
LIWAL DISTANCE SCHOOL
Liwal Distance School (LDS) is an e-Learning Programme which is broadcast via Pashto TV for 6 hours daily, from Level 1 (Class 1) to 3, is based on Afghanistan curriculum. Special books and videos are prepared to enable students to learn from TV, Computers and other media players. On TV a single lesson is broadcasted 3 times daily at 09:10, 13:00 and 2300 hours (late for outside Afghanistan, via streaming online soon), with repeat of 3 days. LDS is also available in CDs/DVDs and it will be available online offering classes worldwide. The skills acquired with this initiative help children further to continue in other formal schools and they would be able to manage their daily lives in a better way being literate. Read more >>
Liwal Distance School (LDS) is an e-Learning Programme which is broadcast via Pashto TV for 6 hours daily, from Level 1 (Class 1) to 3, is based on Afghanistan curriculum. Special books and videos are prepared to enable students to learn from TV, Computers and other media players. On TV a single lesson is broadcasted 3 times daily at 09:10, 13:00 and 2300 hours (late for outside Afghanistan, via streaming online soon), with repeat of 3 days. LDS is also available in CDs/DVDs and it will be available online offering classes worldwide. The skills acquired with this initiative help children further to continue in other formal schools and they would be able to manage their daily lives in a better way being literate. Read more >>
Website : http://www.pashtotv.tv
ESTABLISHMENT OF COMPUTER LABS IN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
The Government of Bangladesh emphasized on the expansion of Information Technology in Bangladesh.To ensure the spread of ICT in the country Bangladesh Computer Council implemented projects and programs for establishing computer labs in the educational institutes up to Upazilla level educational institutes in the country. The project provided the schools with Computer, Content and the connectivity. The labs contained maximum of 8 desktop pcs, 1 laptop, 1 printer, 1 multimedia projector and mobile modem to provide connectivity. To support these computer labs, content repository has also been created under the site: www.bdpatshala.com. Intel dual core based computer, DLP multimedia projectors and GSM modem based labs are used as class room for the schools during school hours and as the Community Centres after school hours. Read more >>
The Government of Bangladesh emphasized on the expansion of Information Technology in Bangladesh.To ensure the spread of ICT in the country Bangladesh Computer Council implemented projects and programs for establishing computer labs in the educational institutes up to Upazilla level educational institutes in the country. The project provided the schools with Computer, Content and the connectivity. The labs contained maximum of 8 desktop pcs, 1 laptop, 1 printer, 1 multimedia projector and mobile modem to provide connectivity. To support these computer labs, content repository has also been created under the site: www.bdpatshala.com. Intel dual core based computer, DLP multimedia projectors and GSM modem based labs are used as class room for the schools during school hours and as the Community Centres after school hours. Read more >>
Website : www.bcc.net.bd
