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

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