Comments on: ICT and Girls Empowerment http://voiceofsouth.org/2007/12/12/empowerment/ Online platform for South Asian rural community Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:53:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Jharna Roy http://voiceofsouth.org/2007/12/12/empowerment/#comment-1652 Jharna Roy Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:36:47 +0000 http://voiceofsouth.org/2007/12/12/empowerment/#comment-1652 Dear Shakib, Thank you for your kind comments. Jharna Roy Dear Shakib,

Thank you for your kind comments.

Jharna Roy

]]> By: shakib http://voiceofsouth.org/2007/12/12/empowerment/#comment-1539 shakib Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:21:25 +0000 http://voiceofsouth.org/2007/12/12/empowerment/#comment-1539 We should integrate ICT for a multifarious reasons in this information rich age. However the collaboration of ICT with US state department, an agency that is faced with a budget cut approved by congress in reducing its educational and cultural programs world wide while pushing for democracy through military means in other parts of the world is consequential in a second tier country like Bangladesh. ICT integration in the low end of the digital divide is not only cost intensive but is highly technology centred most of which is tied to state departments economic and political interest in the recipient country. I am particularly interested in the ramifications of the projects when the funds will dry up due to the failure of the 'NO child left behind policies' of the Bush administration which has been recently taunted at home as part of 'bush family businesses' which profits only the manufacturers of computers and certain privileged classes. I am not against ICT integration in our rural centers which needs to be jacked up with the information super highways. I am certainly in favour of promoting local entreprises that benefit the adaptation of global knowledge into local realities and vice versa as VAS based in NJ has demonstrated so far, collaborating with RIB, Dnet and Grameen phone. However when selecting partners in this global world we need to be careful as whose interests are we going to serve in the end. We should integrate ICT for a multifarious reasons in this information rich age. However the collaboration of ICT with US state department, an agency that is faced with a budget cut approved by congress in reducing its educational and cultural programs world wide while pushing for democracy through military means in other parts of the world is consequential in a second tier country like Bangladesh. ICT integration in the low end of the digital divide is not only cost intensive but is highly technology centred most of which is tied to state departments economic and political interest in the recipient country. I am particularly interested in the ramifications of the projects when the funds will dry up due to the failure of the ‘NO child left behind policies’ of the Bush administration which has been recently taunted at home as part of ‘bush family businesses’ which profits only the manufacturers of computers and certain privileged classes. I am not against ICT integration in our rural centers which needs to be jacked up with the information super highways. I am certainly in favour of promoting local entreprises that benefit the adaptation of global knowledge into local realities and vice versa as VAS based in NJ has demonstrated so far, collaborating with RIB, Dnet and Grameen phone. However when selecting partners in this global world we need to be careful as whose interests are we going to serve in the end.

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