Amader Gram Knowledge Center - ICT initiative
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Country:
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Bangladesh
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Detailed location:
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Bagerhat and Khulna
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Mission:
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Objective 1 : setting up a village communication, information and learning center and developing a comprehensive database to preserve, update and ensure long term use of village resources by the community people themselves.
Objective 2: developing guidelines and simple village level monitoring indicators by analyzing data and information to be used by the villagers so that those can really benefit the villagers in implementation of their development efforts and thus improve their socio-economic status.
Objective 3: create resource manpower through skill development training, particularly for the unemployed youth groups and adolescents girls, in ICT uses, data collection, compilation, analysis and information sharing among various stakeholders aiming towards sustainability of such effort.
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Geo-graphic location:
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semi-urban
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Contact:
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Reza Salim
Project Director
Amader Gram ICT4D Project
West SP Banglow Road
Doshani, Bagerhat 9300,
Bangladesh
Tel: +88 0468 62212
Fax: +88 0468 63592
E-Mail: info@amadergram.org
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Status:
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operation
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Existing telecentres:
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20
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Start of initiative:
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1996
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Scope of operation:
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local
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Self-sustainable:
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Yes
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Sustainability plan:
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Yes
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Pilot:
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No
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Business model:
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development agency/NGOs/foundation
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Other resources of revenue:
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Knowledge network:
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Yes
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Community participation:
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Yes
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Women participation:
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Yes
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Type:
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privately owned and non-profit oriented
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Gender sensitive:
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No
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People with disability:
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No
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Illiterated sensitive:
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No
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Stakeholder:
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AusAID (financing)
Bangladesh Friendship Education Society (BFES) (project implementation)
Global Knowlwdge Partnership (content development)
Ministry of Science and Technology - Bangladesh (financing)
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ICT Application:
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Connectivity:
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None
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Objectives of the initiative:
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create employment for youth
ensure universal access to ICT
train in ICT
provide access to online learning material
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Services provided:
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Computer Aided Learning Programmes
ICT training
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Physical location:
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community centre
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Sources:
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http://www.amadergram.org/projects.html ;
http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/wsis-themes/ict_stories/themes/e-
rural.html;
http://www.unescobkk.org/fileadmin/user_upload/ict/Metasurve
y/bangladesh.pdf;
http://community.telecentre.org/en-tc/node/21327
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