Dear All, Infrastructure and access are particularly huge issues in a rural setting that is hard to examine other aspects. We should emphasize on women accessibility to ensure their participation and benefit from ICT4D initiatives. Considering illiteracy, low income, social bindings, lack of awareness and other issues, I want to emphasize on accessibility. When designing an ICT4D project we have to keep socio-economical-cultural perspective of our project implementation area in mind. Based on the context we have to design mechanism to ensure women's participation and access. If one project are implementing in 3/4 areas we may need different mechanism to link women with the project considering the context of an area. labony

Hello, I am Fatema Begum Labony working at D.Net (www.dnet.org.bd) as Senior Research Associate. It is an ICT4D based research institution at Bangladesh. One of our major activities is to provide assistance and technical support to grassroots organizations and individual entrepreneurs for establish telecentre in local level. We also established more then 150 school based telecentre (www.clp.net.bd) from where student can take computer training along with livelihood information service. I am very happy to be part of this group. Really look forward to share my experience and learn from you all. Best Regards Fatema