www.alokitogram.com

Alokitogram (AG), which means "Enlightened Village", a private sector lead initiative has started its journey in 2006 to serve the rural communities through ICT based development endeavor. The key strategy of AG is 'serving local communities through profit and use ICT as the tool for development'. AG facilitate establishment of Rural ICT Centers (RIC) owned by local entrepreneur(s) as service delivery points in rural set up. RIC's offer diversified ICT based services including information and non-information based services. Main target customers of the RICs are farmers, youth, student and common people of locality. AG follows 'Franchisee Model' for expansion and encourages local entrepreneurs to invest in the centers, and centrally AG coordinate, support and monitor the services of RICs. With partnership of content development service provider, AG develops local contents to serve the communities efficiently. Services of AG offer wide range of ICT based service including business information service, education information, capacity building and ensure availability & accessibility to various social and citizen information.

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Head of the organization: Khan Md. Shariful Hayat

Contact persons: Khan Md. Shariful Hayat, Project Manager

Address: H-1/8, Block-B, Lalmatia, Dhaka-1207

Telephone: 01716518680, 01711150323

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Main area of focus: Development

Key activities:

• Offer the Business Model (Investment, return and technology)
• Maintain the website (www.alokitogram.com)
• Serve the centers with information and advisory on agriculture and business
• Arrange capacity building program for entrepreneurs and operators of the centers
• Awareness building of the centers at field level
• Develop need based local level agricultural information repository

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