The Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) is a worldwide network committed to harnessing ICT for development. It was formed in 1997 as the first multistakeholder partnership for ICT4D and includes governments, organizations, and companies. The document describes Amader Gram, an ICT4D project in Bangladesh run by the Bangladesh Friendship Education Society. It provides computer training and a learning center to raise awareness of ICT among rural people. The presentation outlines the fellow's plans to share knowledge with beneficiaries, teachers, and students to help transfer skills and plan for their futures. It also discusses opportunities for ICT in Bangladesh like outsourcing and poverty reduction, and barriers like literacy and costs.

1. Information and Communication Technology for
Development (ICT4D)
Model Project:
Amader Gram, ICT4D Project
Location: Rampal, Bagerhat, Bangladesh
Bangladesh Friendship Education Society (BFES)
www.amadergram.org
Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP)
•Connecting people for a better world
•More than 80 members from 34 countries
www.globalknowledge.org
Presentation By:
A.K.M Ganiul Zadid
GKP-Youth Fellow, ICT4D Platform
Student of 1st Batch, CSE Dept.
BRAC University
www.bu.ac.bd
GKP-Global Fellowship on
ICT4D Workshop in Thailand
Presentation at:

2. ABOUT GKP
GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE PARTNERSHIP AND GENDER AND ICT AWARDS
GKP: WORLD'S FIRST MULTISTAKEHOLDER PARTNERSHIP IN ICT4D
Background to the GKP
In June 1997, development stakeholders from 144 countries
came together for the first Global Knowledge Conference
(GK97) in Canada. Hosted by the World Bank and the
Government of Canada, and supported by a large group of
public and private organisations, this was the first
conference of its kind in the world to address Information
Age challenges facing developed countries and the
international community.
In 2001, the GKP Secretariat moved from the World Bank
Institute to Kuala Lumpur under a new EXCOMM chaired by
the Government of Switzerland, represented by the Swiss
Agency for Development and Cooperation.
The Global Knowledge
Partnership (GKP) is a
worldwide network of
organizations committed
to harnessing the
potentials of information
and communication
technologies (ICT) for
sustainable development.
It is the world's first
multistakeholders ICT for
Development (ICT4D)
partnership at the global
level, with members
comprising governments,
donor agencies, private
sector companies, civil
society, networks and
international institutions.

3. Amader Gram
Wonder World.. ICT4DWonder World.. ICT4D
The base line survey in the ultra poor
Demand identify and demand analysis
Organize a meeting once a week
Knowledge Transfer for Development (KT4D)
Organize Training

4. Amader Gram
Wonder World.. ICT4D
Knowledge Management for Development (KM4D)
•Fund Support (RLF) for initiated projects
•Knowledge workers’ follow up report
•Workshop on Management skills development
•Possible technical supports

5. Amader Gram
Wonder World.. ICT4D
ICT4D
KT4D KM4D

6. The learning center for the
awareness of the rural people
about ICT4D
•Computer training for the young people.
•Advance computer teachers’ training
•Library (ICT related Books, Magazine etc)
•Computer Lab for training and practice
•Computer Club for the rural students
Amader Gram Learning Center (AGLC)

7. What do the people learn from
AGLC?
•The guardians groups are understood that
their sons/daughters are need to learn
computer for their bright future
•The teachers of the schools and college are
also share their knowledge with the AGLC and
hope to get help and training for improve their
knowledge
•The students group is known about the
applications of computer from AGLC and the
beneficiaries groups are also known about the
ICT for their development.
Amader Gram Learning Center (AGLC)

8. Fellowship action plan in
Amader Gram Project
Knowledge Share with the beneficiaries:
• Experience of the beneficiaries.
• Identify their common professional problem.
• Their own solve technique if they can solve.
• Their own future plan for their life.
• Their preparation for their future.
• What they are thinking about it.
Accomplished Benefits:
Transfer the success of men’s knowledge to the failure.
They can equally face to any problem in the same environment on their
life.
For example: Every farmer produces their crops and sells those to the
market.
But some can get profit more and some get less.
market demand analysis in and out of the boundary is important.
BFES is given Knowledge Management training to them.

9. My internee action plan in
the Amader Gram Project
Knowledge Share with the school teachers:
Invite the Head teachers and the computer teachers of the local schools
Identify their problem to teaching science to the student.
How they solve their problem, if they can.
Knowledge share on the teaching technique.
How they can teach ICT in an effective way.
Their feedback and open discussion on that.
Accomplished Benefits: To establish a process that online rural news journalism
will updated regularly by the rural young group with the guide of the teachers.
Knowledge share with the school students
Their own future plan for their life.
Their preparation for their future.
What they are thinking about it.
How they can improve their knowledge.
The importance of the knowledge society.
How they can be a member of knowledge Society.

10. My internee action plan in
the Amader Gram Project
‘Knowledge Fair” on the 15 December 2004
• Organize an attractive fair in the auditorium and in the school
campus
• The participant will be from the young people who has already
completed one or more computer courses
• The fair will just like the science fair, where the entire participant in
group or individually present their knowledge to the people.
(Suppose some participant are interested on hardware or some are
interested on MSWord, they present the benefits of that knowledge
to the visitors of the fair)
• The visitors of the fair will see all the existing information about
their local place as well as about the country and the world.

11. ICT4D
Opportunities in Bangladesh
Outsourcing:
 Testing phase of the Software Development Life Cycle
by the rural manpower. Cost effective
 Problem solving, Math Contest
ICT for Poverty Reduction:
 Every one in this world want to work for their development.
But for lack of information most of them are failed by cheating and all
other effects of corruption. When anyone cheated, His/Her life will start
from the next day from one or more step(s) behind. Therefore, It is
Important for a country to have the easy to access into the information
sources.

12. ICT4D
Opportunities in Bangladesh
Bangladesh is also suitable for the development issues as follows:
Bolivia:  Addressing Old Social Problems with New Technologies.
Finland:  Involving all sectors in an Inclusive Information Society.
Malaysia:  Moving beyond the multimedia super corridor.
Mali  Using ICT as a tool for development..
Reference: ICT4D – Connecting People for a batter world
Edited by – Gerolf Weigel and Daniele Waldburger

13. ICT4D
Barriers to entry into ICT world of Bangladesh
• Not sufficient literacy rate.
• Operating language of the technology tools are not in local
language.
• Not affordable (costs are high)
• Less awareness of the use of ICT for Development.
• Lack of facilities to use modern technologies.
• Peoples are sometime not interested to change their professions

14. Amader Gram
Wonder World.. ICT4D
Presentation By As the Academic Thesis:
A.K.M Ganiul Zadid
GKP-Youth Fellow, ICT4D Platform
Email: ganiul.zadid@g.bracu.ac.bd
Student of the 1st Batch, CSE Dept.
BRAC University
www.bu.ac.bd
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