<incom> B4All Bangladesh launches 'ICT4D Status Report 1.0' : Seeks feedback to its Wiki

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Bytes for All Bangladesh launches 'ICT4D Status Report 1.0' : Seeks feedback to its Wiki document... 
http://bangladeshictpolicy.bytesforall.net/?q=national_report

Successful usage of ICT to the purposes of social development in Bangladesh is not that old. Past few years have been very eventful in the means and the context of using ICT for development (ICT4D) which has now turned into an independent domain of interest to different stakeholders. Therefore a study on the present status of different areas in ICT4D (in Bangladesh) was very important and Bytes for All Bangladesh teamed up with a number of local lead organizations/individuals in preparing a status report on these areas and uploading that document as a Wiki to seek feedback from our readers. Please read and edit the document with your views, correction and information at: http://bangladeshictpolicy.bytesforall.net/?q=national_report 

The areas that we tried to cover are: 

Access and infrastructure issues: context Bangladesh
( http://bangladeshictpolicy.bytesforall.net/?q=access_infrastructure) 
Community Access Points or Telecentre Movement in Bangladesh ( http://bangladeshictpolicy.bytesforall.net/?q=telecentre_movement) 
Community Radio: Ready to Launch in Bangladesh ( http://bangladeshictpolicy.bytesforall.net/?q=community_radio) 
E-Governance: Bangladesh Perspective ( http://bangladeshictpolicy.bytesforall.net/?q=node/262) 
Localization and Open Content Development i! n Bangladesh ( http://bangladeshictpolicy.bytesforall.net/?q=localization_opencontent ) 


We name the existing version as 1.0 which we will upgrade to higher version as we get more feedback from you. This is a collaborative and living document where different chapters are written by different lead organizations/individuals who are actively involved in those areas. Thanks to Ananya Raihan & Suporna Roy of D-net ( http://www.dnet-bangladesh.org/), Hakikur Rahman of SDNP Bangladesh (http://www.sdnbd.org), Munir Hasan & Ragib Hasan of Bangladesh Open Source Network- BDOSN (http://www.bdosn.org/) & Bangla WikiPedia ( http://bn.wikipedia.org), AHM Bazlur Rahman & Golam Nabi Jewel of BNNRC (http://www.bnnrc.net) and K.A.M Morshed of UNDP Bangladesh ( http://www.un-bd.org/undp/ictd/index.html) for writing different chapters of this report and initiating a collective discussion on the topics. 

Best wishes and please get back to us if you need further information on this.

Monjur Mahmud
Bytes for All Bangladesh
http://bangladeshictpolicy.bytesforall.net
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