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 The Amader Gram awarded to Mr. Walter Fust as the Best Global Knowledge Worker. |
 The Amader Gram ICT4D Project, an initiative in rural Bangladesh awarded to Mr. Walter Fust, Director General of Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) as the Best Global Knowledge Worker . The credential was handed over in the inaugural ceremony of the Project's second annual event the Knowledge Fair in a remotest village of southwest Bangladesh on 20 January. Dr. Dora Rapold, Swiss Ambassador in Bangladesh was the Chief Guest in the opening of the Fair where she received the award on behalf of Mr. Walter Fust from a grassroots Knowledge Worker Ms. Lima Khatun. Detail report as pdf >>>
About Amader Gram ICT4D Project: In an experiment in knowledge transfer to the poor, Amader Gram is building knowledge society in twenty villages of Bagerhat and Khulna in southwest Bangladesh by providing appropriate knowledge and ICT intervention that facilitates both skill transfer and employment creation and has enabled the villagers to get information that they need and can use to improve their lives. The entire project draws its sustenance from the holistic philosophy of rural development, which emphasizes integrated pro-poor, pro-women, pro-nature orientation to development and community ownership of technological tools against personal or community ownership, and encourages collective action for spread of technology. The bottom up exercise involves local youths to gather information, and provide access through Gyan Kendra (Knowledge Centers) in different villages. To know more about Amader Gram please visit: www.amadergram.org |
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| Grameen Bank-Village Phone Project awarded by Petersberg Prize 2004 |
 Grameen Bank-Village Phone was chosen among the 200 nominees for the Development Gateway Foundation's first-ever Petersberg Prize. The 100,000 Euro Prize recognizes Grameen's outstanding achievement in the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to improve people's lives. Grameen Bank, which provides micro-credit to poor people, established a program called Village Phone, through which women entrepreneurs can start a business providing wireless payphone service in rural areas of Bangladesh. In doing so, Grameen has created a new class of women entrepreneurs who have raised themselves from poverty. Moreover, it has improved the livelihoods of farmers and others who are provided access to critical market information and provide lifeline communications previously unattainable in some 28,000 villages of Bangladesh.
The Prize was awarded on the eve of the Development Gateway Forum in July 2004. Prize sponsors are Deutsche Telekom AG and Microsoft. The Forum is sponsored by Deutsche Telekom and the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
More info : http://www.grameenphone.com/village.htm
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| Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha has received award from Bill & Millenda Gates Foundation |
 Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha, a Bangladesh organization, received the 2005 Access to Learning Award for its innovative use of boats to deliver education and technology to isolated communities in flood-prone regions.
Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha plans to use the Access to Learning Award funds to double the existing fleet of 12 boat libraries to address the rising demand in the project area and beyond. The emphasis will be on increasing the number of computers, ensuring a reliable power supply, and providing training for staff.
More info at http://www.sss.interconnection.org and http://www.gatesfoundation.org |
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