3. Serial Name of Members ID
1 Md Motiur Rahman EV 1406001
2 Md Saffat-E-Nayeem (Group Leader) EV 1406009
3 Md Mosharof Hossain EV 1406021
4 Monoarun Nesa EV 1406035
5 Md Mustafiz Zaman EV 1406073
5. Purpose
To understand the basic need of computer
education for rural people in-
1. Agriculture
2. Health
3. Communication
4. Empowering women
5. Child education
6. Introduction
Computer Education for Agriculture
Computer Education for Rural Healthcare
Connectivity Infrastructure
Empowering & Employing Rural Women
Boosting Up Rural Education for Children
Findings of The Study
Recommendations
7. Computer education will significantly benefit
students, farmers and civilians to gain computer
literacy and knowledge. Attempts to get round
this problem have been made by different third
world countries in their own ways. Almost all
solutions lie in the use of technology.
8. Computer Education for Rural Agriculture
Applications of computer technologies in agriculture:
1. Farmland assessment.
2. Autonomous Farm Equipment and Tractors.
3. Farm softwares.
4. Internet Forums, Social Networking and Online Knowledge
Bases.
5. E-agriculture.
9. E-krishok
for sustained demand creation:
1. Create a demand for the agricultural information
services.
2. Awareness-raising activities.
3. Organizing farmers through ‘courtyard meetings’,
collecting their assorted information needs.
4. Delivering personalized solutions with follow-up services
via the Community Information Centers.
10. Banglalink’s Jigyasha:
7676 helpline
Accurate information that would otherwise have been beyond
their grasp.
More knowledgeable source.
Opportunities to improve practices, production, and farm
investment decisions.
Ultimately realized by farmers avoiding a further loss in earnings.
Benefits ranging in size from BDT 1,000 to upwards of BDT
20,000.
11. Why do farmers fail
Lack of infrastructure and health service.
Lack of employment causing .
Illiteracy and lack of support from local government.
Corruption is one of the factors that hampers the
implementation of ICT projects in rural areas.
Many applications are not user friendly.
12. Computer Education For Rural Healthcare
Current initiatives:
1. Internet connectivity;
2. Doctors’ access through mobile phone at over 800 health
centers;
3. Video conferencing facility in community clinics;
4. Database for health policy planning;
5. OMR based patient-level data collection
6. Primary telemedicine piloted by NGOs
7. Mobile-based helpline with doctors.
13. Mobile Phone Health Service Delivery System
The core idea is to allow people access at least basic
healthcare services via cellular networks. This facility
saves time and money of the poor people living in distant
rural regions. This is for:
Making better treatment decisions
SMS Advices for Safe Pregnancy
Providing higher quality and safer care
Tele-medicine
14. Connectivity Infrastructure
1. To create accessibility for rural people,
government has started establishing shared access
points at Union Parishads, farmer’s clubs and
fisheries extension offices.
2. NGO and private sector set up more than 2,300
tele-centers around the country.
3. The government is very actively exploring the
option of licensing community radio for
information dissemination.
15. Domestic Backbone:
Almost 15,000 Km optical fibre backbone covering 59 districts.
297 Upazila’s have been covered by this fibre network.
More than 2300 telecentres and 500 Community Information Centre.
Bangladesh Computer Council is providing internet connectivity
(through EDGE Modem) to 1,200 schools.
Installations solar power in approximately 18,000 Community Health
Clinics all over Bangladesh.
16. Internet roll into
Bangladesh villages on a bike
Dozens of "Info Ladies" bike into remote Bangladeshi villages
with laptops and Internet connections, helping tens of thousands of
people -- especially women -- get everything from government
services to chats with distant loved ones. For that now 5 million of
152 million people have Internet access.
The Info Ladies project, created in 2008 by local development
group D.Net and other community organizations for economic
development of Bangladesh.
17. Empowering Rural Women
Support and encourage women’s self-employment :
1. Combine technical and entrepreneurship training.
2. Strengthen the capacity of entrepreneurship service providers.
3. Provide post-training services such as access to credit or savings
programmes.
4. Support rural women’s networks and groups, such as cooperatives.
5. training in product design and marketing, and linkages to new markets.
18. Educating Rural Children
Current Initiatives:
1. Establishment of computer labs in 128 secondary rural schools.
2. 568 secondary schools and 64 colleges supplied with laptops and
projectors for e-learning.
3. All primary and secondary textbooks available on the internet.
4. Digital content development on English, mathematics and science.
5. Training of primary and secondary school teachers using digital
content.
6. Computer training center for rural students
19. Development Research Network (D.net) Initiatives
Implementing English learning audio-visual content for the rural children.
Increasing interest and reducing anxiety among the rural children and
youths to learn English using instructional CDs.
Creating enabling environment for the rural children to learn English
language.
Improving the capacity and approach of mainstream English course
teachers
Understanding the impact of the intervention and sharing the lessons
with different stakeholders.
20. Floating School in Bangladesh
Using technology to bridge the access gap:
In 1998, Mohammed Rezwan, an architect who had grown up in rural
Bangladesh, decided that if the children couldn’t come to school, the
school would come to them. He designed a waterproof floating school,
and in 2002, the first such school was launched.
Students leave the floating boat school at the
end of classes for the day
Students use one of the school’s solar powered
computers which access the internet through
the cellular network.
21. Findings
1. The electricity is an absolute prerequisite.
2. Telecommunication infrastructure is one of the integral parts.
3. Local Language and Content.
4. Shortage of skilled and even semiskilled manpower.
5. Affordable connectivity.
6. Reliable and continuous power.
22. Recommendations
1. Provide Website, E-Mail and Phone based Government Services.
2. Must have strong road map for rural development.
3. Reduce internet and local bandwidth costs.
4. Provide information through Village Info Centers.
5. Establish online Mobile Phone based complaint center.
6. Internet which could decrease the Educational Expense.
7. Technical infrastructures should be flexible.
8. Make Disability-Friendly software with steps from the Government.
