Grameen ICT Center - Nohata

With the financial support of SPIDER (The Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions), KTH, Sweden and Grameen Communications jointly established Grameen ICT Center, Nohata in 2006. The primary objectives of this project are to render e-Health facilities for empowering health care workers. The center has been using Information Communications Technology (ICT) tools to communicate & teach international quality health education.

Inadequate resources, insufficient and unqualified health workers etc. are the factors that contribute to the poor state of health care in the rural areas of Bangladesh. Moreover, qualified doctors and health workers tend not to stay rural areas permanently. As a result, rural people are deprived of the felicity of modern health care facilities. In such circumstances, best strategies are to provide required resources in rural areas and train & educate existing health workers to enhance their skills. Grameen ICT Center has been doing following activities in order to implement these strategies in addressing health problems of Nohata:

1. Creating basic communications platform using ICT for health workers
2. Providing ICT training to the Health workers
3. Making health workers skilled in using Telemedicine System

Since its inception, more than 2000 health workers & unemployed youths have got ICT training from the center who are contributing more in their respective workplaces. Moreover, the center is making effort to reach 3G internet facility to around 5000 people as well as 10 organizations.