 Amader
Gram (Our Villages) is an ICT4D initiative of
Bangladesh Friendship
Education Society (BFES). The project is mostly centered and based on the village
society and it is conceived/planned to build up as a demonstrative
social innovation. This is obviously an innovative project
and as a social innovation first of its kind in the country. Such a
project, implementing among the beneficiary groups of “Amader Gram”
(our village), has got immense potential in many ways- by
collecting, collating, analyzing and using many socio-economic data
those do not have only the preservative value. Our Village society
is not static one; changes take place here everyday, though subtle.
So, an established on-going process of data collection reflects the
changing trends of the village society: changes of social lives,
customs, technology, behavioral pattern, economic variations,
occupational dimensions etc. By depicting the social mobility
situation, the data collection process contributes to the social
documentation.
Through this project there is a formal way of collecting, preserving
and even re-sourcing data on so many things both in respect of
project’s own activities and beyond, instead of letting thousands of
everyday data get lost. On the contrary, the Statistical Department
of Government does not have any regular mechanism to
collect/preserve data on our villages. Of course, in some of the
upazila (sub-district), Government has branches of the Statistical
department with only one officer (remain absent most of the time)
and does not have any ICT facilities. More...
  
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 LATEST
FIELD NEWS
Freedom Fighter & Journalist Rukonuddowlah honored for Gyaan Mela 2008 Award.
Third Amader Gram Knowledge Fair (Gyaan Mela) held on 20-21 February 2008 at
Sreefaltola village.
Amader Gram Knowledge Portal launched at:
www.amadergramonline.net
New partnership agreement with Ohio State University, USA to establish Walk-in
Health Center (info-linkage) in rural Bangladesh. (more
info)
Ambassadors
from Canada and Japan jointly visited Amader Gram project site on 5th June 2007.
55
schools in Rampal were surveyed to identify constraints of mainstreaming IT
education at school level.
e-Village Rampal Project has initiated developing e-contents from village
database.
Amader
Gram studying impact from the pilot phase (2003-2006) with a
Partnership of SDC.
AG
started Breast Cancer screening for rural women in Bagerhat, Dhaka, Comilla &
Chittagong.
Second Knowledge
Fair held on 20-21 January 2006.
Knowledge
Fair 2004
From Vision to Reality : The Gyaan Mela (Knowledge Fair) was
already taken over by the villagers and their all-out participation... Read more
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