- In supporting of UNESCO, one Mobil training course was etablish to have conditions to bruing Nootbook to villages for training
- One web building to share informations and made forum
- one server set up as home business sub-pilot project develop
- 3 pc install to tree villagess in its temples
- We would like to have more more temples PCs installations

Please note that the relevant details of the grant call is available on the SIRCA website: http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/sci/sirc/sirca/home.html

Also, participants are required to indicate their interest or direct any enquires by sending an email to sirca@ntu.edu.sg.

Thank you!

SIRCA Secretariat

You would get few ongoing ICT4D projects in Bangladesh looking at your micro level issues.
http://digitaldiv.villbd.2agile.com/index.htm
If interested further about ICT4D grant and putting an application, please contact me.
Mahfuz

CCD is committed to utilize full power and potential of information and communication media for the betterment of the people and the societies as well as raise marginalize people’s voice for their empowerment.

CCD has been conducting several kinds of researches and studies since its inception. CCD has planed to conduct ICTs based action research in future. In this regard, We would like to take part the this Call for Proposal and submit a inovative ITCs based porject for Bangladesg. We hope that SIRCA will come forward to assist us.

Ministry of Local Government,Bangladesh with support from a donor consortium, is going to support fifty unions very soon . We are negotiating nine unions [union parishad is lowest tier of government administration in Bangladesh]where union parishad will remain responsible for the project captioned UIC [Union Information Center].We are curious to learn from the action process - what are the relative weightage of community empowerment and information [ICT] in bringing changes in various sectors including agriculture, health, education etc with active role of union parishad.

One hypotheis is - without community empowerment demand led ICT will not be achivable. ICT itself has in born tendency of being supply led,crippling sustained impact.Initial positive outcomes must be transformed into longterm sustained impact.Computer itself is not Aladin’s lamp.However, potentially it is Aladin’s lamp,if manouvered properly.Local governance so far worked as extension of central government. New opportunities have been created in Bangladesh for enhanced space for local governance. Such initial euphoria will not last long without investment in capacity building of union parishads through participatory research and participatory planning where community takes lead in identifying their own issues and make decisions to interact with officials of local govrnment. ICT brings here additional muscle of information- connecting villages with the global village in this flat world.

From GonoGobeshona [participatory research]a registered NGO in Bangladesh, working since 1988, is hereby registering interest to work on relative weightage of Participation [ experiential learning of the people], ICT [external Information]in bringing change and ending poverty.Role of union parishad as institution comes because some where these grassroots learning has to be stored and conituously refreshed from the field ideas to fix in the next round of planning and implementation. In our situation union parishad is best suited to institutionalize such new knowledge generated out of people’s own experintial learning and extrnal information viz ICT.

thanks