KM4Dev is my Practice!
I’m a ‘knowledge management for development’ practitioner at information communication technology uses in changing society of Bangladesh. I observe shifting village society, patterns of changes and develop tools to measure changes.
I started my career (1986) in Social Research at the ground level to improve people and community’s health status by developing information, communication and education materials. Later I was responsible for NGO case study project (1989-95) which was a comprehensive research program (Anubhav Series) financed by the Ford Foundation.
I initiated rural Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) model project named “Amader Gram” (Our Villages) in the southwest part of Bangladesh (from 1996); this project is being implemented by BFES- an NGO serving for rural education, community development and civil society engagements in policy advocacy. This NGO is pioneer in eHealth program in Cancer Care in Bangladesh.
Through this project I am engaged in developing Knowledge Management tools appropriate for the project owners, the grassroots people of Bangladesh, that integrate ICTs as an important medium; I have developed new practiced concept- KT4D (Knowledge Transfer for Development) that includes empowerment issues of rural women in Cancer Health. The concept is widely recognized & used in academic world in communication science mostly at the University of Lugano (Switzerland), University of Sussex (UK) & Ohio State University (USA).
In recent years I have been developing cancer health communication ‘social device’ to improve quality health care services in rural society. To understand village society I have created village data depository by which I have outlined the new practice concept – ‘Knowledge Transfer for Development’, a communication for change strategy project to help rural youths.