Fatema Begum Labony's Page

I wrote my first ever blog at telecentre.org and won the blog contest. This achievement gave me confidence that we are doing tremendous job here. I always feel privileged to be a member of telecentre.org because I am getting opportunities to share and learn from others. I was thinking to invite my fellow colleagues who are working at grass root level to share their experience like me with this global community.

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I spent my first four days of this week at Jhenidaha region for a monitoring and evaluation visit at Usha telecentre, running with the technical support of D.Net. During my visit in community our mobile lady Nilu told me about a school which is providing education in natural environment. It was loving surprise to here that teachers of this remote area are aware about the importance of natural environment for better education. I was interested to visit the school and when reached there I found th… Continue

Infomediaries (Telecentre worker) should be a good communicator as they are the vital part of a telecentre. Their communication skill can make a telecentre initiatives successful. Infomediary should have clear idea about an issue before providing information to the community people. They… Continue

I am working at D.Net as an evaluator. According to my job nature I have to visit at least 2 rural telecentre in a month. Some times I have to stay 12 to 15 days in two or three remote location of Bangladesh. All time I have to visit with some of my male colleague as I am the only female member in M&E division of D.Net. Recently we have completed data collection of an evaluation research with APC WNSP. We had to visit 30 schools for data collection. Most of them were located in remote area s… Continue

Knowledge on computer application and excellent communication skills in English is essential for self development. In this backdrop, the children and youths in rural area of Bangladesh are in most disadvantaged stage rather than the urban one. Due to inadequate educational resources and opportunities in the rural area, they often migrate to the urban. Presence of native culture in the learning materials is also essential. Beside this education materials should be developed making sure that the m… Continue