Title: Digital Solidarity Welfare Association, Bangladesh. Location:
Global Categories: Technology HIV/AIDS Citizen Journalism Gender Equality Learning Education
Status:
In Planning
Timeline:
Ongoing
Description:
The main objective of this project is to technologically empower the poor people (Specially women, child and disabled) those who have not the access to the wonders of digital technologies and the interest. For achieving those objectives, the project is going to take a series of action is as follows:
01. Awareness buildup for the establishment of digital bridge instead of digital divide.
02. The project is trying to act as an organizational framework to provide media support to local/national global efforts for overcoming digital divide.
03. Presentation of successful stories on ICT for poverty alleviation on different news Medias which will be inspires different communities for taken action in this sector.
04. Campaigning for the establishment of ICT as a most powerful weapon for fighting against poverty and hunger.
05. Promoting universal and affordable access to ICT particularly bringing ICT to the poorest men and women for improved income, health, education etc.
06. Encourage and inspire manufactures/Companies for producing illiterate user friendly IT devices and software’s like touch screen, Voice command, Speech technology etc.
Objectives:
> Reducing digital divide
> Sharing experience on ICT for poverty alleviation.
> Raising awareness and understanding among civil societies on the potential of ICT for poverty alleviation.
> Workshop and seminar round the year.
> Ensure access of poor people.
> Presentation successful stories of ICT based poverty alleviation.
> Bring digital opportunities to the door step of poor people and their child.
> ICT training for making software’s user friendly for poor, illiterate people.