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E-health and e-learning initiatives also can be popular business. In Bangladesh, generally doctors live in city areas; they are not available for the villagers. If ‘Village Cyber Kiosk’ makes electronic link with doctors and send the detail of the patients including photographs – doctors easily can give suggestion within short time through e-mail. Moreover village students will be able to earn degree from the famous initiative through e-distance learning.
Bangladesh Government has declared education for all, good health for all. By using ICT tools the declaration can make realistic. E-health activities like electronic medical records, telemedicine and health education, etc. can make mass peoples’ awareness about child mortality, maternal health and HIV/AIDS pandemic. The Government (E- government) should use ICT system within the public administration to improve efficiency, reduce wastage of resources, enhance planning, and raise the quality of services.
However, to discriminate the information on environmental problems and their causes ICT can help to build the capabilities to fight against the environmental degradation. GIS and other ICT-based systems can estimate crops and play important role for conservation of nature.
The target
The ultimate goal is to establish the aspects of true glocalization ( global + local ) and culture of peace. Today’s world even our mind is divided based on religion and information. Muslim culture has obstacle and misunderstanding about the high tech culture. But ICT opens the gateway for Inter-religious dialogue, understanding, religious freedom. By using the ICT tool Bangladeshi especially Muslim community will be able to know other religions and culture, will be able to overcome the hostility. By overcoming the misunderstanding will may will be find the common vision and purpose centering on one God’s love
In Bangladesh, priests don’t touch the internet; avoid the cyber culture and expand propaganda in sermon also, “Internet is a satanic culture, and is a trap of Jews-Christian to destroy Muslim young generation and religion!...” Not only this but also there is hidden cultural conflict between parents and children about the using the internet. Middle class parents’ feelings, the internet is a pornographic media by which our children’s morality will fall down! But most of the parents and social leaders don’t have experience about the power of new media. They don’t know through the Internet any body can know anything, anytime from anywhere of the world!
To ensure the benefit of the ICT, Globalisation as well as the Global family for majority inhabitances, religious people can contribute more than politicians, educators and social leaders, as Bangladesh is Muslim religions based society. Here ICT can play a prophetic role to promote the Global family values and can unit the whole world into a community.
My eternal desire to see the priests as an internet users, and establishment of community cyber café in religious institutes. If those cyber cafés would open for all, priest arrange online peace dialogue positively with another religions’ people centering on one God, better understanding and consciousness will not be so far.
The intolerance and violence against women and minorities makes tension in Bangladesh. In the male dominant society, Bangladeshi women are two some extinct exploited and oppressed. By grasping the digital opportunity, they will be able to know MAN = WOMAN < HUMAN BEING = MAN + WOMAN
However ICT opens the gate to establish peace and harmony by better understating each other in the knowledge Society. Today through ICT human communication has been expanded which great chance to establish ‘Culture of Peace’. Nationwide internet connectivity, ICT entrepreneurship in rural Bangladesh can play important role for poverty alleviation, public access to information, people participation, youth employment, and reduction of migration from village to city and rise up awareness about social justice, human rights and good governance.
My vision, “one info centre for one village”:
My life desire to see at least one info cyber center in every village of Bangladesh. By accomplishing the national target, ICT can reach to the last mile solutions by giving the benefit to the majority peoples. Regarding this large number of NGOs network and local development organizations can play important role. The advantage things, most of NGO has computer, own office and micro-credit program which make favorable condition to gives the life to targets. Government can also take initiative as like as 80s’decades’ Radio and TV promotion through local government institutions. In order to harmonize the modern technology with indigenous culture, Bangladesh demands to establish ‘Info Cyber Centre’ in each village, which can be also rural computer training centre.
In closing I would like to say, in order to access of quality and relevance information to the people, in Bangladesh needs to launch nationwide internet connectivity and at least on public info cyber center in every village, and at the same time needs responsible websites on e-governance, e-learning e-commerce in which the target and subject can be the village people and life, covering agriculture products and market related information, flood and disaster management, HIV/AIDS and health consciousness, human rights and gender equalization, cultural heritage and social justice.
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Shahjahan Siraj
Shahjahan Siraj is a multiemdia designer, film maker and development practitioner (http://www.machizo.com/siraj) in Bangladesh. He is the founder of Machizo Multimedia Communication, however editor and publisher of 'Climate Radio', 'UnnayanTV' and 'UnnayanNews'. (http://www.machizo.com)
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