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Rural adolescent moving towards ICT
- Siddika Sultana
It was an awesome experience for the underprivileged adolescent girls after finishing their computer course. ESDO under its Ecovillage-2 (Rangpur) project introduced the Information & Communications Technology among the youth girls of that area.
This is the first time in Bangladesh that ESDO has taken this kind of initiative. Recently the computer learning has included at the national curriculum at the SSC level. But unfortunately more than 90% schools in the rural area do not have any computer. Even though there are some learners who have seen the computer for the first time of their lives at ESDO ICT & Knowledge Center when they were getting admitted for the training. The third batches of this three months course attended by twenty rural adolescent have been completed on 15th July '05. They got their training on basic computing and communication, MS Word, and MS Excel. It is quite surprising that some girls who haven't seen a computer before enrolling the course are now at hand with computer related works. This program will help them to find a job and a new source of income as well as gateway to information technology. ESDO's ICT & Indigenous Knowledge Center:
Environment and Social Development Organization-ESDO has initiated to establish a rural based ICT & Indigenous Knowledge Center with the view of crucial juncture in human history, ESDOs approach is to provide an opportunity to the marginalized communities within the unfolding of the knowledge age and have to opened up uncommon opportunities in rural areas for improving the quality of both the natural environment and human well-being. This program dynamic is show the rural woman and men can equally take to new technologies with ease and confidently provide the pedagogic methodology is learning by doing and bridging the digital divide not only helps to bridge the rich & poor divide in knowledge and skill empowerment, but also helps to bridge gender divide by enhancing the self-esteem and self-confidence of women.
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