Global Communication Center
Global Communication Center (GCC) was established in 2007 as a project of GC. It aims to produce and promote ICT technologies for the unreached people. The major target of research activity is to identify technical requirements and develop social services for rural community.
Since its inception, GCC is carrying out collaborative research with Kyushu University, Japan towards the goal of building a model for building a social information infrastructure for developing countries.
Please visit GCC's website for more information- gcc.gramweb.net
GCC's Major Programs are:
GramWeb is capable of supporting more than 85,000 village website (One website per village) in Bangladesh using villager-friendly portal template and Content Management System (CMS). Traditionally, information about villages (demographical, social development status etc), has been collected by non-villagers. The collected information never stays in the village, village, villagers do not own their own information. This project aims to create village information entrepreneur (VIE) in each village to produce, own and generate income from their information. For More Information -www.gramweb.net
GramHealth Portable Health Clinic system aims to produce technologies to provide healthcare service to the doors of the unreached. The portable clinic is a health checkup booth or a box with necessary diagnostic tools. A certified nurse will collect health record and current vitals in a village and upload to a centralized database. The call center doctor provides consultancy to the remote patients on the basis of their health health record. The archive can be an invaluable source of information for the patients and researchers to know the area based health situation and trends. For More Information -ghealth.gramweb.net
GramHealth Virtual Blood Bank (VBB) has been developed as a web-based platform to provide a point of information storage and sharing for the blood donors and blood receivers in Bangladesh. A digitized mapping of the prospective blood donors will be developed under this platform. On the other hand, the blood receivers will be able to access the blood donors’ information from here. Instant search and SMS based communication to the blood donors are integrated into this system through which the blood receivers can easily get connected to the blood donors at their nearest reach. -vbb.gramweb.net
GramCar: Social Services on Wheels (SSW) endeavors to create social entrepreneurs by introducing multi-service community car to sustainably serve the unreached people with basic social services. There are six different ICT based social services related to education, learning, basic healthcare, market access and basic transportation services in emergency and social issues. The car can bring mobility to the villagers’ life by taking the social services to their doorsteps leading them to increased productivity and thus accelerate social development. -ssw.gramweb.net
Income Generation Project for Farmers using ICT (IGPF) aims to produce technologies to provide advanced farming knowledge, crop maintenance and marketing information. Farmers will be able to communicate with the experts and market agents in remote areas. This project produces chemical free healthy vegetables. IGPF is funded by JICA jointly supported by GCC, BSMRAU and WIN Inc. For More Information - qvegie.com
International Research Opportunity Program (IROP) creates opportunities for the students, professionals, researchers, interested in developing social business. We arrange research tour programs to the fields to identify social problems and gather unique ideas to solve social issues. Currently, we are collaborating with many national and private universities of Japan and hosting 100 researchers per year. Grameen Yukiguni Maitake Ltd. (GYM), a joint venture social business between Yukiguni Maitake Co. Ltd., Japan and Grameen Krishi Foundation, Bangladesh was born through this program. For More Information - gramweb.net/gcc/research/