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In the project of empowering women through information communication technology with the aim of building a digital Bangladesh, emphasis has been laid on information technology. Emphasis has been placed on empowering disadvantaged and underprivileged women to take advantage of information technology to make them self-reliant in various fields and help them solve their various problems easily.
The advantages of data centers are:

 
A. Providing information services through the Internet:
The data center will have round-the-clock internet connection. Beneficiaries of the project are being provided free internet browsing, e-mail, video conferencing services through Skype. Besides, job news, results of various examinations, information of various government services are being provided free of cost.

 
 B. Primary Healthcare:
The following primary health care services are being provided free of cost to women and children from the information centers:
1.Blood pressure test
2.Weight measurement
3.Diabetes test

 
C. Door to Door Information Service (Service at Door to Door Step):
The information service officers and information assistants employed in each information center are helping to solve various problems related to education, health, law, business, gender and agriculture through the use of laptops from house to house in the concerned upazila and through Skype. Collaborating to solve problems quickly and effectively.

 
D. Voice of women:
These information centers keep records of various issues related to women, grievances, local issues, etc. and send them to the concerned authorities. Record books on violence against women are kept in all these information centers

 
E. Training:
Under the project, 490 information service officers and 960 information service assistants have been appointed for 490 information centers. Only female candidates have been appointed to the post. They are working as information sisters. Appointed Information Service Officers and Information Service Assistants are considered as an important part of the project to develop them through proper training so that they can provide information services in the field with utmost efficiency. To this end, training has been provided on ICT, project management, government regulations, accounting, budget control, office management and gender issues. In addition, training has been imparted on various service activities of the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs and a clear understanding of the laws and policies related to women's rights.

 
F. Research Center:
The data collected by the data center is creating opportunities for any future research on women.

 
(2) Comprehensive Database (Knowledge Bank):
A rich database has been built This database contains various information about women. The main advantage of the database is that it has access to the necessary information about women in an accessible specific place (Data Base). Another advantage of this database is that no money is spent on the distribution and use of information. The flow of information includes topics such as health issues, maternity issues, first aid, the job market, providing employment information for women entrepreneurs and unemployed women, child marriage, fatwas, and guidelines on violence against women. All this information has been stored in both Raw Format and Digital Format. In the case of data collection, data has been collected from existing sources and through surveys.

 
Data base address: http://info.totthoapa.gov.bd

 
(3) Web Portal:
The main premise of the web portal is women 7 Various issues related to women, issues, women's policies and women-centric information flow are all the main topics of this web portal. Database and IP TV have been connected to this web portal made in Bengali and English. The web portal contains detailed information about various women's service organizations, their programs and scope of activities. There are also various types of communication including blogging and online application submission. The benefits that are available through the web portal are:
1. Connect with Digital Knowledge Bank (Women Knowledge Bank).
2. Ensuring access to information on women and children through the use of the Internet.
3. Facilitate the search for information as needed.
4. Opportunity to use the portal in both Bengali and English.
5. The latest update on women's news and women's policy.
6. Blog service.
7. Inclusion of necessary information for the creation of suitable skilled employment and entrepreneurship for women.

 
Web Portal Address: www.totthoapa.gov.bd

 
(4) IP TV:
An online TV  has been added to the web portal created under the project The name of this TV is IP TV 6 It is possible to watch this TV through web portal All the programs that are aired on this TV will focus on women's issues Moreover, there is a collection of videos and stills
IP TV address: http://womentv.totthoapa.gov.bd

 
(5) Recipients of the project:
It is clear from the title of the project that this project is for women only The project document also mentions the development of women and children in the field. The specific service recipients of the project are:

 
1 Disadvantaged women in suburban and rural areas, especially those with some skills and entrepreneurial spirit, are the main beneficiaries of the knowledge bank. However, in general, the information of the database is applicable to all women. The women's repository is open to all types of information such as health care information, cooking information or useful information to meet the needs of daily life, necessary legal aid, various information about children, job search, etc.
2. In the case of Information Centers, the service recipients are all the women who live in the vicinity of the Information Centers and are deprived of internet facilities. In case of getting any information about women and children through information service officers and information service assistants, disadvantaged women can avail the benefits of the information center.
3.One of the activities of the project is the distribution of information technology based services and raising awareness and motivation of rural women to avail those services. 01 (one) crore women of 490 upazilas of Bangladesh will be brought under this awareness raising program.
4. A vast repository of knowledge is open to all through the creation of the Knowledge Bank. Academics, researchers, policy makers and experts in various fields are all able to enrich themselves on the one hand by using this store of knowledge, At the same time, the Knowledge Bank is working as a rich source of information for conducting research on women's development in the country.

 
Headquarters activities and information center activities:
Headquarters activities: Project headquarters is the focal point of all project activities. The main activities of the headquarters are-
1. Administrative activities.
2. Performing purchases of goods, services and intellectual services.
3. Publicity activities.
4. Regarding participation in meetings and seminars and fairs.
5. Supervise, control and preserve software development work like database, web portal, IP TV etc.
6. Establishment of information center and monitoring of all activities of information center.
7. Conduct training related activities.
8. Reporting activities.
9. Maintain liaison with ministries, national women's organizations and other government offices.

 
Information center activities:
1.Yard meeting - open discussion and awareness activities: 
In addition to providing information services through information centers, rural grassroots women are being made aware of modern technology by organizing backyard meetings for service recipients. Two backyard meetings are held in each information center every month. The backyard meeting provided information on various issues related to the lives and livelihoods of rural women such as health issues, child marriage, fatwas, violence against women, employment information, legal issues and various aspects of digital services (e-mail, video conferencing).
 Each backyard meeting is attended by 50 rural women.

 
The Information Service Officers and Information Service Assistants working in the Information Center demonstrated the method of accessing the services of the rural women present in the yard meeting through practical use of the Internet. Concerned Upazila Nirbahi Officers, Agriculture Officers, Education Officers, Fisheries Officers, Health Officers, Government IT Specialists and other government officials are present as resource persons on information technology, education, medicine, agriculture etc. Besides, local women entrepreneurs, women lawyers, social workers, women leaders of the society also openly discussed various social issues such as: prevention of child marriage, dowry prohibition law, domestic violence and women's policy.

 
2. Information center information service :.
Customers who arrive are made aware of the various websites. Services are provided such as talking on Skype, viewing test results, knowing various information about the job, informing about government services, contacting the government service provider office etc. Awareness of rural women about primary health care, weight measurement, pressure measurement, diabetes measurement etc. are provided free of cost to the service recipients.

 
3. Door to door service:
In order to provide information technology services to rural women, information service officers and information service assistants provide door-to-door service to rural women. They have laptops and modems. In order to provide information services to women at the family level in the village, they took initiative to create interest in information technology among them by discussing information technology through the use of laptops. Rural women are getting the opportunity to learn about information technology from their homes and these services are helping to create a positive attitude towards the use of information technology among them.