John-Harmen Valk, Ahmed Tareq Rashid, Laurent Elder
Despite improvements in educational indicators, such as enrolment, significant challenges remain with regard to the delivery of quality education in developing countries, particularly in rural and remote regions. In the attempt to find viable solutions to these challenges, much hope has been placed ...
Sharifa Sultana, François Guimbretière, Phoebe Sengers, Nicola Dell
This paper examines the opportunities and issues that arise in designing technologies to support low-income rural women in Bangladesh. Through a qualitative, empirical study with 90 participants, we reveal systemic everyday challenges that women face that form the backdrop against which technology d...
Md. Jasim Uddin, Md Shamsuzzaman, Lily Horng, Alain Labrique et al.
In Bangladesh, full vaccination rates among children living in rural hard-to-reach areas and urban streets are low. We conducted a quasi-experimental pre-post study of a 12-month mobile phone intervention to improve vaccination among 0–11 months old children in rural hard-to-reach and urban street d...
Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Steven J. Jackson, Nova Ahmed, Hasan Shahid Ferdous et al.
Public sexual harassment has emerged as a large and growing concern in urban Bangladesh, with deep and damaging implications for gender security, justice, and rights of public participation. In this paper we describe an integrated program of ethnographic and design work meant to understand and addre...
Bikram Biswas, Sajib Kumar Roy, Falguni Roy
The aim of this study is to measures the student’s perception of using mobile for learning during COVID-19 in Bangladesh especially at the university student’s perspective. During the COVID-19 pandemic period, mobile learning may help the students to fulfill the study gap. Due to COVID-19 pandemic 2...
Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Md Romael Haque, Jay Chen, Nicola Dell
Prior research on technology use in the Global South suggests that people in marginalized communities frequently share a single device among multiple individuals. However, the data privacy challenges and tensions that arise when people share devices have not been studied in depth. This paper present...
Salahuddin M. Aminuzzaman, Harald Baldersheim, Ishtiaq Jamil
The study assesses the efficacy of the Village Phone (VP) scheme in ameliorating the 'information poverty' of the villages that have obtained access to mobile phones in Bangladesh. More specifically, the study has sought to describe the ways in which the VP is operated, how the service is utilised a...
Tanvir Ahmed, Henry C. Lucas, Azfar Sadun Khan, Rubana Islam et al.
BACKGROUND: The health system of Bangladesh is haunted by challenges of accessibility and affordability. Despite impressive gains in many health indicators, recent evidence has raised concerns regarding the utilization, quality and equity of healthcare. In the context of new and unfamiliar public he...
Fatema Khatun, Anita Heywood, Pradeep Ray, SMA Hanifi et al.
Introduction Evidence in favor of mHealth for healthcare delivery in settings where trained health workforce is limited or unavailable is accumulating. With rapid growth in access to mobile phones and an acute shortage of health workforce in Bangladesh, mHealth initiatives are increasing with more t...
Abdul Bayes, Joachim von Braun, Rasheda Akhter, Bayes, Abdul et al.
The intent of the present study is to evaluate the role of telecommunications within the contexts of rural development in general and of poverty reduction in particular. Bangladesh has been selected as a case study due to the uniqueness it displayed in an innovative program for expanded telecom infr...
M. Mahruf C. Shohel, Tom Power
This paper reviews the themes emerging from Bangladeshi teachers’ experiences of taking part in the initial research and the development stage of a professional development programme they were involved with. The Secondary Teaching and Learning Programme is an information and communications technolog...
Tahmina Begum, Shaan Muberra Khan, Bridgit Adamou, Jannatul Ferdous et al.
BACKGROUND: Accurate and high-quality data are important for improving program effectiveness and informing policy. In 2009 Bangladesh's health management information system (HMIS) adopted the District Health Information Software, Version 2 (DHIS2) to capture real-time health service utilization data...
Abdul Bayes
Abstract The intention of the present paper is to evaluate the role of telecommunications within the contexts of rural development in general and of poverty reduction in particular. Bangladesh has been selected as a case study due to the uniqueness it displayed in an innovative program for expanded ...
Andrew Reid Bell, Patrick S. Ward, Md. Ehsanul Haque Tamal, Mary Killilea
A major impediment to understanding human-environment interactions is that data on social systems are not collected in a way that is easily comparable to natural systems data. While many environmental variables are collected with high frequency, gridded in time and space, social data is typically co...
Sana Khan, Zahraa Shahid, Karin Hedström, Annika Andersson
Abstract Health is seen as a major key for development and many developing country governments invest in ICT‐based Health Information Systems (HIS). The purpose of this paper is to explore physicians’ hopes and fears for implementing Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems in Bangladeshi hospitals. D...