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77.1% Students Acknowledges Existence of Corporal Punishment in the Educational Institutions

June 26, 2012

Prior to the development of a child protection policy, BLAST and Institute of Informatics and Development (IID) have jointly conducted this study in 2012 to explore the status of violence…

Online Survey Support to MAMA Bangladesh

May 31, 2012

Mobile Alliance for Maternal Health (MAMA), Bangladesh Provides a mobile based service called Aponjon to the pregnant women and mothers of new born baby. IID supported this initiative from June…

UN Body for ICT were Briefed about IID’s Initiatives on Participatory Policy Advocacy

May 25, 2012

The representatives of UN body for ICT were briefed about IID’s initiatives on participatory policy advocacy when they visited Dnet’s Infolady model at Savar on 25 May 2012. In the…

Real-time monitoring of pre-school demanded

May 14, 2012

The unavailability of real time data leads the national policy makers to take perception based policy decisions, speakers stated while emphasizing on the need for ‘real time monitoring’ at a…

Lack of Central Information Management of Cold Storages Leaves 40% of the Storage Facility Unused

April 10, 2012

Cold storage facilities remains unused at several places in spite of excessive demand in other areas calling for a central management of agro storage information- findings came out from discussion…

“Fear factor holding back people from practicing their right to information”

February 26, 2012

Fear factor among the providers and receivers of information is holding back people’s right to information. Loopholes in the Right to Information Act also obstructs people’s right to know, the…

ICT Statistics Should Include Percentage of Localities with Public Internet Access

January 28, 2012

In partnership with International Growth Center (IGC), IID sought to identify Bangladesh’s ICT data need in order to assess its position in relation to the digital divide between and with…

NGO’s Lagging Behind Government Organizations in Practicing RTI

December 28, 2011

Only 14% of the Information request applications are intended towards NGOs who itself are promoting RTI- this finding came out from a survey titled ‘Analyzing the progress of RTI act…

Bangladeshi Parenting Style Needs to be Changed: Speakers at a Workshop on Corporal Punishment

December 27, 2011

Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (Blast), Campaign for Popular Education, and Ain O Salish Kendra (ASK) in association with Save the Children organised the workshop titled “Ending corporal punishment…

Web Management Made Easier

October 30, 2011

IID conducted a workshop on web management, organized by Transparency International Bangladesh on October 30, 2011 at BRAC CDM, Gazipur facilitated by Mr. Syeed Ahamed, Chief Executive Officer of IID.…

Evaluation Meeting of MK4D

October 25, 2011

Mr. Alan Stanley, Senior Thematic Convenor has recently visited IID on 25th October 2011. He is from Institute of Development studies, University of Sussex, UK. Mr. Alan is the program…