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May 11th, 2005 - 23:51:58 |
Arif Reza Anwary
i went to Pakistan for participating in the international software fair SOFTEC2005. and i achieved the second prize. this achievement (software competition) is the first time in Bangladesh. my project was a ROBOT and i named this robot BANGLA MANOB II. this is an intelligent robot which can identify individual person, it can follow the eye instruction, recognize the individual objects and voice instructions. For more further information: http://www.geocities.com/arifreza007/RESUME/resume.html
Nov 3rd, 2004 - 17:11:43 |
Muhammad Abdul Wahed Tomal
::Bangladeshi Youth Activities in WSIS Process:: I have taken an initiative with the help of PROSHIKA to promote our national youth group in WSIS youth activities. I have already organized a series of programs (seminar, workshop and arrange meetings with civil society, NGO, media and government officials) on WSIS in Bangladesh with the help of Bangladesh Youth Forum on ICT, the only volunteer youth group working on ICT4D form Bangladesh part . I am also maintaining a project page with YCDO (http://ycdo.takingitglobal.org/projects/wyb) on WSIS.
I have shared my experience with PROSHIKA, BTRC and BFES, GKP member organizations. They have shown their keen interest on WSIS National Information Society Youth Campaign and assured me to give every in kind support I needed.
Nov 3rd, 2004 - 16:23:03 |
Muhammad Abdul Wahed Tomal
::Youth Social Enterprise Initiative::
Vision
A global momentum of young leaders empowered to create and sustain effective social enterprises through the innovative use of ICT for development (ICT4D).
Strategic Intent
Empowering young social entrepreneurs with integrative support mechanisms, made up of resources, skills development and network to assist them in innovating sustainable ICT4D social enterprises.
Initial Beneficiaries
Young Social Entrepreneurs in Asia that can empower themselves through various activities of support in their ICT driven social enterprise initiatives.
Why support a momentum of young leaders in ICT-driven social entrepreneurship?
An emergence of individuals and their organizations that synthesize innovative business discipline with sustainable social development. Social entrepreneurs world-wide are evolving rapidly both in term of quality and number. They are transforming the landscape of development sector through their bottom-up and cost-effective social innovations that challenge traditional development players.
Social enterprises, therefore, can be viewed as evolving result from natural dialectic between traditional forces of business corporations and social services organizations.
Another revolutionary force is Information and Communication Technology (ICT); it has transformed our civilization towards the age of globalization. Thus, social entrepreneurship with innovative use of ICT will undoubtedly lift the development landscape to the new height in the very similar way Silicon Valley has transformed global business sector.
Youth is natural bearer of social changes, from political upheaval to ICT revolution. Thus, strategically involving youth in social entrepreneurship through empowerment would encourage them to take leadership in solving social problems in their own society. This would significantly inspire other youth groups to realize their own potentiality, responsibility and exercise their excessive creative energy towards social betterment. With a momentum of young social entrepreneurs, young members of global society will ultimately have a choice of inspiring, meaningful and financially sustainable livelihood.
Why is YSEI unique?
• We are the only support-level project focuses on Young Social Entrepreneurs using ICT4D that balance between sustainable returns for development (social, environment and income returns).
• We provide integrative support mechanisms that fit with the needs of social enterprising by youth (Knowledge, Community, Mentorship, Finance) with appropriate combination of both international and local support components.
• We focus on facilitating a momentum of ICT-driven young social entrepreneurs with critical mass of core group and networks of interested stakeholders. Thus, maximizing spill-over effects through building best cases to inspire other youth groups while providing open-access components such as online/offline knowledge and social enterprising tools with virtual community facilitation.
The YSEI Strategy
In realizing the vision of ICT-driven youth social enterprises as global momentum, the following steps must be followed.
Leverage YCDO taskforce’s experiences in developing the foundation of integrative support mechanism for young ICT social entrepreneurs consist of Knowledge, Community, Finance and Mentorship components.
This will provide necessary context for the momentum to evolve.
Market the concept of young social entrepreneurs using ICT4D through out Asia via various media and outreach activities. The marketing will be reinforced by spontaneously providing interested youth with access to youth-oriented knowledge on Social Entrepreneurship, ICT4D as well as its community.
This will create the evolving elements of the momentum.
Employ the foundation (1) to create and develop critical mass of best ICT-driven youth social enterprises. This will be done specially through financing and develop up to 10 ICT-driven youth social enterprise projects in the first year.
The YCDO taskforce and up to 10 projects will essentially become the core of the momentum.
Propagate the success of up to 10 projects and other activities on ICT-driven youth social entrepreneurship through out the world, support more projects and facilitate activities in Youth ICT4D cluster (Young social entrepreneurs, young volunteers, supporters, donors & investors and other related institutions and individuals).
This will increase the momentum power and transforming it into sustainable cluster.
The Four Strategic Components of YSEI
Knowledge Component
To create a set of knowledge, tools, information and data that are required by young social entrepreneurs that use ICT4D. This youth-tailored introduction to youth social entrepreneurship and ICT4D will take the form of online/offline tools. This insightful knowledge content will inspire, attract, inform and develop their capacity in order to create successful social enterprises.
Community Component
To build active online and physical communities of young social entrepreneurs who use ICT4D and other interested individuals. Through the web-platform, they can interact and mutually learn from each other as well as forming partnership. The online community platform will provide support for the virtual interaction of young social entrepreneurs using ICT4D.
Financing Component
To create a financing mechanism to support the ICT-driven youth social enterprises through setting up the Youth ICT Social Enterprise Fund and an appropriate funding process which would allow highly-engaged partnerships to be developed with youth that are being financed through a venture philanthropy method. The aim of the Youth ICT Social Enterprise Fund which is equipped with $300,000US in the first year is to finance up to 10 projects in the first year.
Mentorship & Support Component
To create a mentoring, training and other support programme for assisting selected youth ICT social enterprises (through finance component) in developing their organizational capability. The programme will analyze their needs and provide strategic supports accordingly to each project’s requirement. All content will be freely accessible online.
YSEI Momentum-building Stages
1st stage (one year)
Focus on creating successful core group with outreach channel to other youth groups.
2nd stage (second year)
Increase core group’s quality and participation while focusing on extending support toYoung social entrepreneurs interested in ICT4D, volunteers, active ICT4D partner organizations, highly active ICT4D virtual community youth members, online/offline communities interested in social entrepreneurship and ICT. Facilitate cluster-based relationship building between stakeholders.
3rd stage (third year)
Focus on
• Bringing momentum’s participants to support each other, especially the core group and inner groups for assisting middle and outer groups.
• Facilitate the formation of multi-stakeholder partnership (MSP) cluster on Youth ICT4D.
• Attracting stakeholders outside the momentum
Nov 3rd, 2004 - 16:20:36 |
Muhammad Abdul Wahed Tomal
::Report on Teacher's Tranning::
We have pointed out some problems (in the first month report) from the teachers’ conference held on 3 October 2004 at Rampal, Bagerhat. To overcome those problem BFES has requested me to design an advanced teacher training program. I have design a course outline by talking with the 9 computers’ teacher of different school of Rampal. BFES has also requested me to take this training in Amader Gram Learning Center, Rampal, Bagerhat. I have designed the training outline named as “Advance Computer Teachers’ training for self guideline”.
Now I am taking the training in Amader Gram Learning Center and also doing my other activities according to my action plan. It is very hard for me but very challenging. I have taken the challenge. My objective of that training is Be capable to know about any new technology by self study and transfer the new knowledge to the society for awareness of the people.
Total seven teachers have registration and participated in the training. They are very encouraging me to doing my job well. All of they are young and taken the new professions (teacher of computer studies). Actually they have no guideline in their school, like a new math teacher can get guide from the senior math teacher of the school. This is the most important fact. Bangladesh government has tried to give them training on computer, but they said that that training is not very helpful for the maintaining the computer and also in other side, which I have added in the course outline of the advance training. They are very happy to participate in this type of training. I will give to all of you the opinion of the teachers after the training.
I have already discussed with 50 senior students in one school named Sreefaltala High School, Rampal. I have also requested the seven computer teachers for help me to share our knowledge with their students. They were with me. The students are very interested to learn computer and information technology. All of them are want to know why we call this time as the age of computer technology. I have shared my knowledge with some example to understand them.
All of the students are thought that they need to learn computer but they are not clear that why they have need it to learn. I have given them a leaflet on ICT4D sponsored by the Amader Gram Learning Center (AGLC). And also request them if anyone want to know more about ICT4D please contact with me in AGLC or with their computer teacher in their school. The computer teachers have welcomed them all time. I have also encouraged them to participate in the math contest in the Knowledge Fair.
Nov 3rd, 2004 - 16:18:20 |
Muhammad Abdul Wahed Tomal
::FREE/OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE AND NGOs: PANAHON NA! AN ORIENTATION/TRAINING WORKSHOP FOR NGOs:: It is becoming increasingly clear that FREE/OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE (FOSS) is becoming a viable alternative for peoples of the world who seek to break free from the constrictive parameters of proprietary software. Aside from unquestioned technical advantages of FOSS, it is also fast becoming a political imperative for NGO workers, development activists, social movements, and even policymakers especially in countries of the so-called Global South. As a technical and political option, there is a need for more learning sessions to popularize the FOSS alternative more widely, particularly for users within the broad development community in the
Philippines.
The Foundation for Media Alternatives, together with FOSS advocates in the country, is organizing and sponsoring a pilot orientation and training workshop primarily targeted at nongovernment organizations: "FOSS and NGOs: PANAHON NA!".
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