Bangladesh and ICTs for development
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Dhaka - Population:
156118464 - Size:
144000.0 Km2
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- In less than a generation, the majority of poor people will have access to mobile phones and services
- id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
- ‘Explosive’ is the only way to describe mobile phone growth. Half the world’s 6.5 billion people now use a mobile (up from two billion just two years ago). There are more than twice as many mobile owners in dev...
- Mobile phone based interventions to improve health care information services
- M. Shanmugavelan; M. Alam; A. Raihan; E. Schoemaker / Bangladesh Online Research Network, 2011
- This research paper shows new ways of using mobile phones for women to increase their access to information on maternal and child health related issues. D.Net (www.dnet.org.bd) and Panos London (www.panos.org.uk) developed...
- Improving access to information through rural ICT channels in Bangladesh
- Development Research Network, 2006
- These individual case studies illustrate the benefits that the Pallitathya Rural Information Centre has provided through various information and communication technologies channels in four districts in Bangladesh. These incl...
- ICT and gender in Bangladesh
- Development Research Network, 2009
- ‘Digital Bangladesh’ became a key issue in the last election as the benefits of ICT became more well known. At the same time as this growing interest, Bangladesh was and still is in a time of flux with gender assumptions c...
- Does regulation stifle or enable ICT connectivity?
- R. Samarajiva; A. Zainudeen / International Development Research Centre, 2008
- This book addresses an important question: can technology by itself improve access to ICTs or must the policy and regulatory pre-conditions be satisfied in order to realise the potential of technological and service innovations? ...
- Women’s literacy training using ICTs
- Anita Dighe; Usha V. Reddi / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
- About 18 percent of adults worldwide remain illiterate, the majority of them women and mostly from the poor sectors of society. How common is the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for women’s literacy train...
- The digital divide: a review of ICTs in Africa, Asia and Latin America
- R. Bissio; W. Curry; A. Esterhuysen / Global Information Society Watch, 2007
- The Global Information Society Watch 2007 report - the first in a series of annual reports- looks at state of the field of information and communication technology (ICT) policy at local and global levels and particularly how policy im...
- Will meeting the Bangladesh MDG targets on ICTs really benefit the poor?
- A. Raihan; M. Hasan / Development Research Network, 2005
- This paper provides a critique of the current agenda for achieving the MDG as regards ICT in Bangladesh. The MDG target, which focuses on connectivity (by measuring phones, computers and internet per 100 people) is completely on ...
- Do literacy programmes for indigenous people ignore gender?
- Nitya Rao; Anna R. Pant / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
- Adult education programmes developed for or by indigenous communities rarely address gender inequalities. Programmes often aim to promote indigenous people’s rights, including bringing together communities who are actually differ...
- Partnerships will improve girls’ education
- Nitya Rao; Ines Smyth; Patrick Watt / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
- The Millennium Development Goal to achieve gender equality in education can only be met by concerted action. Stronger partnerships are needed to increase opportunities for the millions of girls and women excluded from education, but w...
- Center for Participatory Research and Development (CPRD)
- Center for Participatory Research and Development is an independent, non-profit policy, research and implementation institute.
- Institute of Informatics and Development (IID)
- Bangladesh-based policy think tank
- Development Research Network (D.Net)
- Bangladeshi NGO working to promote ICT for economic development of Bangladesh.
