Proshika to connect villages with internet

Proshika, a leading NGO, has taken extensive programmes to bring all villages under its Internet coverage.

"Besides, Proshika is also enunciating programmes to introduce ICT-based school-level education across the country," Proshika President Dr Qazi Faruqe Ahmed said this while he was chairing an exchange of opinion session at Proshika Bhaban here yesterday.

The session was organised to share experiences of the four-member Proshika delegation, which attended the recently concluded World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva.

Delegation leader Vice-President Mahbubul Karim and other members Qazi Rubaiat, Badruddoza Swapan and Sheikh Kamruzzaman Prince also spoke on the occasion.

Proshika had also set up a big and impressive stall at the summit venue with rich information materials on the country's ICT sector.

Stressing the need for decentralisation of management of information system (MIS), Qazi Faruque said, "Delivering ICT skills to the common people means delivering power to them to shape their destiny of their own choice."

Terming ICT as sharpest tools to face development challenges, he said computers must reach each and every house for people to survive the present day tough challenges facing mankind.

While highlighting the Geneva experiences, Mahbubul Karim said WSIS was in fact a tug-of-war between two forces. The World Bank and other developed nations with concept of making booming business through ICT was at one end, while the civil society and donors with an approach to utilise ICT for eradication of poverty and materialising development initiatives on the other.
- posted by sankarshan @ 1/17/2004 11:40:00 AM