When I heard the name, I was not impressed. ‘Amader Gram’ (Our Village)-so simple a name. I guess that it could be an NGO. Then I was listening to an interview given by the Program Coordinator of Amader Gram to a TV Channel and I am impressed.
Amader Gram is working in the villages based on ICT. One of the main focus of their work is to bring ICT to the villages. They installed computers in simple village homes, trained the village children, collect different data from the villages, form an extensive database of the villages. This data base could be use for multiple purposes- from identifying the resources and problems of the village to registration of birth and death in the villages, extending micro credit facilities to selecting potential areas of investment.
One special project they are working on is the determination of the breast cancer patient in the villages. Women folks are coming to their lady doctors, they are examined and identified and recoded. They are given treatment, data is transferred through internet and the patients are consulted with the foreign experts. All this compilation is done by school educated village children and youths.
Amader Gram is working from 1996. They are working in 20 villages under Bangerhat and Khulna in Bangladesh.
Amader Gram showed us that ICT can be used in the remote villages, can be operated by village children, can connect the village with the distant developing world and can change the face of the village people in an unthinkable way.
This database concept can be taken up by the Government and can be implemented nationwide, if not at a time then phase by phase.
badrud doza
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