[UgaBYTES] Relief International's Telecenter in Bangladeshi Village turns to a Digital Photo Studio

[Ahmed Ndaula]

A school based telecenter in a Bangladeshi village has recently turned to a
digital photo studio. Relief International -School Online set up an Internet
enabled telecenter in Chowra Girls High School in Chowra Village in Comilla
district in early 2005 under the Global Connections and Exchange
Project-Bangladesh. As per its sustainability plan, RI SOL helped the school
to plan for income generation through providing basic ICT services to its
comunity. Interestingly, the school has recently set up a digital photo
studio inside its telecenter at its own cost and now providing digital photo
service to its own and neighboring school students and the community who
previously used to go to Comilla city ( 15 km from the Chowara village) for
a good quality photo service. RI SOL has extended technical support to this
initiative but financial resources came from the income the telecenter has
generated through some other basic ICT services. The Chowara School
telecenter also got awarded as the best telecenter award 2007 at the ICT and
Education Conference in Dhaka in March 2007. The other ICT services this
telecenter provides to its community are paid ICT training for community and
students from neighbouring schools, madrasa and colleges, aceess to
government forms such as passport forms, internet

For more http://community.telecentre.org/en-tc/node/36705


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