Posted in ICT for Development on December 18, 2007 | No Comments »
Sri Lanka: At the Ceylon School for the Deaf and Blind (CSDB), visually handicapped children read online Sinhala newspapers in Braille. Hearing impaired children in grade 1 use computer-aided learning software to help them learn at the same speed that their non-hearing impaired counterparts do. At the University of Peradeniya, visually
Posted in ICT for Development, Rural Women, tagged Empowerment, Girl, ICT on December 12, 2007 | 2 Comments »
As in many developing nations, girls in Bangladesh are still not enjoying equal educational, economic, and social opportunities. ICT has opened up a new door of opportunities for girls in Bangladesh. Girls need to access to ICT for the same reasons as boys. They need to learn ICT skills for their educational achievements, personal development, [...]
Posted in ICT for Development, Knowledge for Development, tagged BTN, Mission 2011, telecentre on December 6, 2007 | No Comments »
Honorable Chief Advisor to the caretaker government of Bangladesh, Dr. Fakhruddin Ahmed formally launched the Mission 2011 of Bangladesh Telecentre Network (BTN) on December 06, 2007 at 10.00 hours at Bangladesh China Friendship Convention Centre (BCFCC), which targeted to set up 40000 telecentre by 2011, coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the glorious independence of [...]
Posted in Climate Change, ICT for Development, tagged School on Boat on September 28, 2007 | 8 Comments »
SINGRA, Bangladesh: With most of his school under floodwaters, 6-year-old Mohamed Achan pulled his oversize tomato-red shorts up around his tiny waist, placed a tarp over his head to guard against the rain, and sprinted barefoot to the edge of his muddy village. There, he waited for his classroom to arrive in a boat.
The boats [...]
Posted in ICT for Development, Press Release on September 21, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) and the Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Response Team (SLCERT) jointly hosted the 2nd Lanka Government Network Information Security Awareness Programme recently. Officials from District Secretariats, Divisional Secretariats and the Chief Secretariat of Western Province also attended the event.
Mr. Wasantha Deshapriya, Program Director, Re-engineering Government, ICTA, [...]
Posted in ICT for Development, Knowledge for Development on September 17, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Loona, Moona and Meghna, similar in age, are enrolled at the same grade level. Loona is among the top few students in her class at New York’s Stuyvesant High School. Moona alternates between second and third place in her class in Dhaka’s Green Herald School. Meghna is the top student in her class at Shimulpur [...]
Posted in ICT for Development on September 4, 2007 | 1 Comment »
DHAKA, Sept. 4, 2007: Marking his first visit to Bangladesh, Intel Corporation Chairman Craig Barrett announced one of the most comprehensive deployments to date of the Intel World Ahead Program, a global effort to provide people in developing countries with the benefits of better, faster access to information and communications technology (ICT).
The country-wide implementation of [...]
Posted in ICT for Development on September 3, 2007 | No Comments »
India, Sept. 3: Intel Corporation chairman Craig R Barrett today (September 03, 2007) said India continues to be “high on the list of sites” the world’s largest chipmaker could consider for setting up a manufacturing facility, if it requires additional capacity.
“We have no need for additional capacity as of now. When we need additional capacity, [...]
Posted in ICT for Development, Opinion on August 31, 2007 | 25 Comments »
Intel Corporation world’s largest semiconductor company and the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, processors found in many personal computers. Dr. Craig R. Barrett, the chairman of this giant chip maker company, will visit Bangladesh on September 04, 2007. The purpose of his visit is to introduce Intel World Ahead program in Bangladesh. Professor [...]
Posted in ICT for Development, Opinion on August 21, 2007 | 5 Comments »
As we all know, the information or knowledge-based society is no longer a matter of the future, but a very contemporary urge of the time. In almost all aspects of our life, we need information and knowledge to get our basic needs met, to make decision, to move around, to study, to work, to participate [...]
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