It is with deep sadness that we let you know that the first female Mathematician and Academician Professor Rowshan Ara Rashid, mother of Mr Anir Choudhury, founder member and Governing Body member of D.Net is no longer with us (Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'oon). She passed away in the morning on July 30, 2010 at the Square Hospital. She was suffering from bronchitis.
She spent most of the time of her life for achieving knowledge and in teaching. She started her professional life as Lecturer at Eden Collage in 1967 after completing her education in 1966. Then she successfully fulfilled her duty as Vice Principal, Responsible Principal and Principal in this college. She retired in 2002 from her loyal duty. Her body had laid to rest at Mirpur Intellectuals Graveyard after Asar prayer at 30th July.
May her soul rest in eternal peace, and may the healing effect of time help her family bear this misfortune with the grace that she always embodied.
Recognition
Manthan Award 2009
D.Net's Computer Learning Programme (http://www.clp.net.bd) has received Manthan South Asia Award 2009 under the category of e-Education . Other three initiatives from Bangladesh also received award this time. This is an award fort he programme which is for empowering students and teachers in Bangladesh through ICT and Computer education. CLP coordinator Mr. Ajoy Kumar Bose was present in the Award giving ceremony of the Manthan Award South Asia 2009 and received the Award.
The goal of the Manthan Award South Asia is to showcase the content that already exists and thus demonstrate the richness and diversity of content creativity to those interested in understanding and planning the G
Gunijan has received special mention award in World Summit Award 2009
Gunijan, an initiative of D.Net, has received special mention award of World Summit Award (WSA) 2009. 34 leading e-content experts from all countries met for the WSA 2009 grand Jury in New Delhi, India to consider 545 finalists of 157 countries around the world. Grand Jury has decided that Gunijan is the best e-content in our world region and that is to be given a special mention of WSA.
The official announcement and showcase of the Winners’ will take place in Monterrey, Mexico from September 02 to 05 with the WSA Gala as the highlight of the four-day celebrations. This year the Winners’ event will beheld on generous invitation of the Government of Mexico, hosted by Indigo Brainmedia and
D.Net’s Jeeon-IKB ( Information and Knowledge Base) received Manthan South Asia Award 2008. It is to be mentioned that other five initiatives from Bangladesh also received award this time. This is an award for promoting digital content for development under the aegis of World Summit Award announced during World Summit on Information society during 2003 and 2005. D.Net’s content development team is happy that its knowledge management efforts received first recognition outside the geographical boundary. The Jeeon-IKB is being used now in more than 200 telecentres in the country.
Jeeon-IKB is the largest Bangla language digital content base on livelihood issues. The development of Jeeon-IKB started in 2003 with a need assessment research funded by Research Initiatives, Bangladesh. D.Net through its research endeavours found that I
Pallitathya Help-Line (a Call Center for the Poor and Under-privileged) project of D.Net won the first prize of the Gender and ICT Awards for 2005. The Award was announced during Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) Forum held on 27-30 October 2005 in Bangkok , Thailand . The sponsors of the Award are the Association for Progressive Communications Women's Networking Support Programme (APC WNSP) and Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP). The award was formally handed over during World Summit on the Information Society 2005 held in Tunisia. Dr. Ananya Raihan, Executive Director, D.Net received the ward on behalf of the organization.
The Help-Line deployed women in the community as "Mobile Operator Ladies" who move from door-to-door to ena
Ananya Raihan received Ashoka fellowship in 2004 for the idea of social entrepreneurship in accessing information and knowledge for the underservered community thourgh ICTs.
"Ananya Raihan is ushering in an era of information-on-demand in the rural areas of Bangladesh by building a network of locally-run kiosks that offer villagers access to everything from up-to-date market prices for their rice, to health information and legal forms, all through a centralized, Bengali-language informa
