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Rural Broadcasting and Good Governance Printable Version PRINTABLE VERSION
by AHM Bazlur Rahman, Bangladesh Mar 8, 2004
Citizen Journalism   Opinions

  

Rural Broadcasting and Good Governance
Good Governance indicates that the environment in which people have all the information continuously from the government or non-government sources. Good Governance and transparency is in the same way where no expenditure needs for per hour. The quick implementation of the two is possible only in the political well wishing. The village broadcasting system community radio and television will facilitate the flow of government of non-government support of information to the people regularly as well as the people may express their opinion and point of view through it.

Therefore, the village broadcasting may play the effective role to ensure this both way information flowing by which it will helpful to achieve the good governance, desired economic, social and political concerns.

AHM Bazlur Rahman-S21BR working with BNNRC as Chief Executive Officer (Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication), BNNRC would like to see the rural people have easy, quick and low cost access to global communication so that they can be enriched and updated by knowledge.

BNNRC is an executive member of Bangladesh Working Group on World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), a collaborative effort by Government of Bangladesh -NGOs and CSOs of Bangladesh.

BNNRC is affiliated with World Association of Community Radio Broadcaster (AMARC) Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) ONEWORLD .Net, ONEWORLD Radio, Inter World Radio and Developing Countries Farm Radio Network (DCFRN), World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) South Asian Community Media Association and UNESCO- Asia offices





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AHM Bazlur Rahman


AHM Bazlur Rahman-S21BR is Chief Executive Officer of Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC). BNNRC is in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations. BNNRC is a national networking body working for building a democratic society based on the principles of free flow of information, equitable & affordable access to Information, Communication Technology (ICT) for remote & marginalized population

He graduated from University of Dhaka and Post graduated from Asian University of Bangladesh in the field of Social Science (MSS) in Government & Politics.

He has worked extensively in Bangladesh and South Asia on variety of action research projects in Development Communication, mostly focused on ICT for Development(ICT4D), e-Parliament, Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR) Community Broadcasting, Good Governance, Micro-Macro Level advocacy, Institution Building, Social Mobilization, Democracy Education, Transformation Process of INGO to local NGO, Resource Mobilization, Communication for Development(C4D), Communicating in Public Sphere, Communicating Knowledge, Civil Rights in Communication, Cultural Rights in Communication Knowledge Management for Development (KM4D).

He has published several articles on Community Radio and co-author of Handbook on Community Radio for Good Governance and Development, Airwaves and Policy Advocacy plan for Community Radio in Bangladesh.

He currently member of Strategy Council of United Nations- Global Alliance for ICT and Development (UN-GAID) UN HQ, Bangladesh Working Group on UN World Summit on the Information Society (UN WSIS) headed by Bangladesh Government, also acts as an Examiner in Marine Radio and Amateur Radio National Examination Committee of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), Community Radio Monitoring Committee, Ministry of Information, People’s Republic of Bangladesh and
Research Fellow, Center for e-Parliament Research. Contact: ceo@bnnrc.net www.bnnrc.net

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Samira Chowdhury | Mar 19th, 2004
It is right that our villagers can't read newspaper so they can hear from you. Great work. Wish you best of luck.



Robert Devenyi | Apr 1st, 2004
What a great story and iamge

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