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Promoting Infolady forBuilding Inclusive Information and Knowledge System (PILBIIKS)A Dnet project
ByNadia A. Shams
Dnet the organization
A social enterprise for working for creating access to information and knowledge
• Fusion of technology and social tools for innovation
• Replicable social models
• Education• Health• Livelihood• Social Accountability
PILBIIKS: General facts
•A 3 year pilot project started in 2010
• 2 location
• Fund size $582,161
•Manusher Jonne Foundation (MJF)
Problems Objective
Woman entrepreneurship
Access to information and knowledge
Empowering woman
Disempowerment of woman
Triple literacy barrier
Insufficient access to information
What do we address
Who is an Infolady
Equipments of an Infolady
Services category
SAMPLE TEXT
Basic health Services
ICT services
Infolady Model
HUB
•Local organization•Investment capacity
•Good reputation•Permanent establishment
Fair Price International Pvt. Ltd.
• A for profit social enterprise• Equipment supplier for Infolady and HUB at a price fair
• Supply chain management
-Top down/ bottom up
How the process works
1st step
•Selection of HUB
•Capacity building of HUB
2nd step
•Selection of Infolady
•Capacity building of Infolady
3rd step
•Mentoring and monitoring of Infolady
Number of beneficiaries Infolady served
•1,50500 direct beneficiaries (male+ female)
•64960 indirect beneficiaries (male + female)
•2560 children
Individual (infolady)
Improve capacity
Financial stability
Prestige
Self esteem
Individual(beneficiary)
Access to information
Increased awareness
Decrease livelihood
cost
Understand RTI
Community
More employment
More income
Understanding of RTI
More accountability
Improved capacity
Policy
Loan for woman
entrepreneurs
Government accountability
Implementation of RTI
Socio-economic impact
Replicability and scalability
• Launching nationwide• 12,000 Infolady by year 2017
Scalability
• Possibility of replication in Rwanda, Burundi and Congo
Replicability
Challenges
•Content
•Conservative society
•Electricity
•Lack of knowledge
•Low bandwidth
Use of Fund
•Develop content
•Capacity building
•Campaign
Thank you