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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.
Project activities:

(1) Information Center
One information center has been set up in each of the 490 upazilas of Bangladesh under the project. In each information center, 01 information service officer and 2 information service assistants are engaged in providing information technology services.
These are known as "information sisters" in the project area. Information Apara Information Center is conducting activities like communication through internet, taking opinions of various experts, primary health care, ensuring easy availability of government services in the upazila, video conferencing, e-learning, e-commerce etc. Apart from this, Apara is providing various information services related to education, health, law, business, gender and agriculture by visiting the homes of the villagers in the project area using laptops and internet.
The advantages of data centers are:

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 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 service 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. 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 to provide information services in the field with utmost efficiency so that they are properly trained is considered as an important part of the project.
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's Affairs with a clear idea about the law and policy 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 to get 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 main advantage of the database is to get 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 information flow includes topics related to health issues, maternity issues, first aid, job market, employment information for women entrepreneurs and unemployed women, child marriage, fatwas, instructions on violence against women, etc. All this information has been stored in both Raw Format and Digital Format. 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. The various issues related to women, issues, women's policy and women-centric information flow are all the main topics of this web portal. Database and IP TV are connected to this web portal made in Bengali and English. The web portal provides 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:
* Connect with Digital Knowledge Bank (Women Knowledge Bank).
* Ensuring access to information on women and children through the use of the Internet.
* Facilitate the search for information as needed.
* Opportunity to use the portal in both Bengali and English.
* The latest update on women's news and women's policy.
* Blog service.
* Incorporate the necessary information aimed at creating skilled employment and entrepreneurship suitable for women.
Web Portal Address: www.totthoapa.gov.bd
(4) IP T.V:
An online TV 8 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 In addition, there is a collection of videos and stills.
IPTV 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 the field especially women and children. The specific service recipients of the project are:
1. The disadvantaged groups 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 Center, the service recipients are all the women who live in the vicinity of the Information Center and are deprived of internet facilities. In case of access to any information on women and children through Information Services Officers and Information Services Assistants, disadvantaged women can avail the benefits of the Information Center. 
3. 6 One of the activities of the project is the distribution of information technology based information services and raising awareness and motivation of rural women to avail those services. 01 (one) crore women of 490 upazila of Bangladesh will be brought under this awareness raising program.
4. 6 A vast body 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 using this knowledge base, while 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 activities.
8. Reporting activities.
9. Maintain liaison with ministries, national women's organizations and other government offices.
Information center activities:
1. Backyard Meetings - Open Discussions 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. 
50 rural women participate in each yard meeting. Two backyard meetings are held in each information center every month. The backyard meeting provided information on various issues related to the life and livelihood 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).
Information service officers and information service assistants working in the information center demonstrated the method of accessing services through practical use of internet to the rural women present at the backyard meeting. Concerned Upazila Nirbahi Officers, Agriculture Officers, Education Officers, Fisheries Officers, Health Officers, Government IT Specialists and various government officials are present as resource persons on information technology, education, medicine, agriculture etc. 
In addition, local women entrepreneurs, women lawyers, social workers, community leaders also discuss various social issues such as: Prevention of Child Marriage, Dowry Prohibition Act, Domestic Violence and Women's Policy.
2. Information center information service:
Customers who arrive are made aware of the various websites. Services such as talking on Skype, viewing test results, finding out various information about the job, informing about government services, contacting government service providers etc. are provided. 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 carry laptops and modems. In order to provide information services to women at the family level in the village, they take 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 the comfort of their own homes and this service is helping them to develop a positive attitude towards the use of information technology.