Services that are provided:
To provide totally free services in 6 subjects to targeted women. For example: health, education, agriculture, business, legal aid and gender.
i. Health Related: The following primary health services are provided online using digital devices free of charge from Information Centers:
Blood pressure test
Weight test
Diabetes test
Blood oxygen level test
Body temperature test
An account number is created for each service recipient, the information about the service provided to him is saved and a report regarding his service is provided to him in the form of mobile message and e-mail. In addition, this saved information is provided if a user wants to view it later or take a printout.
In addition, the InfoApa Health app conducts Covid 19 screening and provides an assessment of Covid risk. Besides, registration of covid vaccination is done.
. Educational: All educational services provided using the Internet
job news
Information regarding admission in various educational institutions
Fill the admission form
Apart from this, various services are provided including career counseling.
ii. Agricultural services that are provided:
The informants help rural women in getting necessary agricultural advice. Agriculture officers are invited as resource persons in yard meetings. There, agricultural counseling is provided to rural women and any woman who informs the agriculture officer about her agricultural problem is getting advice. Moreover, knowing the agricultural problems of rural women under the door to door servicesTake pictures/videos of their problem-affected agriculture and send it to the upazila level agriculture officers to receive advice and provide it to the women. In addition, in many cases, the informants go to the concerned agricultural land and connect the rural women online with the officials, enabling them to receive immediate advice.
iv. All business related services provided:
Out of the 05 specific objectives announced by the InformationApa project (Phase 2), the third is to provide e-commerce support through information centres. By achieving this goal, with the aim of creating entrepreneurs among rural underprivileged, underprivileged poor and helpless women and selling their products through e-commerce system.An e-commerce marketplace called laalsobuj.com (www.laalsobuj.com) has been launched under the project. Training on e-commerce has been imparted to the e-commerce operators working in established information centers across the country with the aim of bringing e-commerce to the doorsteps of grassroots women in remote areas by leveraging the nationwide e-commerce project network. These trained data are helping in the selection of entrepreneurs in upazilas, providing them with motivation, registering them in the marketplace and presenting their products on the e-commerce platform. InfoApara is providing all kinds of support to rural women in e-commerce. Apart from this, the informants also advise women who are trying to get a license for business.
v and vi) Legal and Gender related services provided:
In spite of various laws, policies and commitments at the international level including specific instructions in the constitution of Bangladesh to eliminate violence and discrimination against women, women are deprived of all these legal protections due to ignorance and lack of necessary support. Information providers provide assistance in establishing and empowering women's rights and ensuring women's access to judicial candidacy. Assist them in contacting the Prevention of Violence against Women Cell, contacting the local administration and police stations and contacting the local office of the National Legal Aid Organization as required. Information workers provide advice through yard meetings and door-to-door services to make them aware of women's rights, their role in the family, child marriage, dowry, fatwas and domestic violence. In addition to informing about the various initiatives of the government in this regard, he also provided them with emergency service numbers so that they can receive services from them at any time of emergency.
Other Services:
In addition to the above 06 services, other information technology-based services provided include free internet browsing, e-mail exchange, speaking with close relatives abroad on Scoopy, online filling of application forms for various government social security initiatives, etc. Do information people.
Above mentioned services are mainly provided in 03 ways. For example,
1) Provision of services to the aspirants from the information center established in the upazila:
In this case, when the service seekers come to the information center, they are provided with the services covered by the project. The women in the area near the general information center receive services from the information center. Besides, all the women who come to receive services at the government offices located in the upazila at various times also receive services from the information center.
2) Door-to-door door-to-door service delivery to women at grassroots level:
In this case, information service officers and information service assistants go to the houses of village women and provide information technology based services. They carry laptops and modems. They took the initiative to create interest in information technology among them by discussing information technology through the use of laptops in the village. Besides providing them with services under the scope of the project as required. In this process, rural women are getting an opportunity to learn about information technology at their homes and this service is helping to create a positive attitude towards the use of information technology in them
3) Conducting open discussion and awareness activities through yard meetings:
In addition to providing services in the above 02 methods, rural grassroots women are being made aware of modern technology by organizing yard meetings. Usually 50 village women participate in each yard meeting. 2 courtyard meetings are held in each information center in a month. In the courtyard meetings, rural women are informed about various issues related to life and livelihood such as: health problems, child marriage, fatwa, violence against women, employment information, legal issues and various aspects of digital services (e-mail, video conferencing).
The information service officers and information service assistants working in the information center demonstrated the method of receiving services through the practical use of the Internet to the rural women present in the courtyard meeting. The concerned upazila executive officer, agriculture officer, education officer, fisheries officer, health officer, government IT expert and various government officials were present as resource persons on information technology, education, medicine, agriculture etc. and discussed the related issues freely. Besides, local women entrepreneurs, women lawyers, philanthropists, leading women of the society also freely discussed various social issues such as prevention of child marriage, prohibition of dowry, domestic violence and feminism.
Planning and Implementation: Cabinet Division, A2I, BCC, DoICT and BASIS