GramWeb: A Village Information platform for BoP Business

99 GramWeb Village (Union) Websites have been Selected for Launching

This is our pleasure to announce that GramWeb has formally awarded 99 Village (Union) websites to 99 winning candidates of their respective areas. We congratulate all the successful candidates. A special e-mail with important instruction has been sent to all the winning candidates.

We believe a Village (Union) website will be a great treasure for the respective Village (Union) and it would be the window for the rest of the world to know the Village (Union) through it.

Please click here to see the names of these 99 Villages (Unions).

The waiting list of the Villages (Unions) to be announced in our next phase are here.

Application Statistics

Total No. of Applications Received

862

No. of Village (Union) Websites Applied for

737

Total No. of Selected Villages (Unions) for Launching

99	View Details

Total No. of Villages (Unions) in the Waiting List for Launching

441	View Details

Highest No. of Applications Submitted for

Paharpur Union (8 applications)

Total No. of Applications from Bangladesh

750

Total No. of Applications from Foreign Countries

112

No. of Foreign Countries Applied from

Highest No. of Applications from a single Foreign Country

Saudi Arabia (15 applications)

Information to be the villagers' source of income
GramWeb is a web-based platform developed by Global Communications Center (GCC) to provide a point of information storage and sharing for the 85000 villages of Bangladesh. This enables Villagers at the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) to move from information consumers to information producers. They collect their village data and share them worldwide via their own village site to be maintained by a villager called Village Information Entrepreneur (VIE) for promotion, communication and thereby make it a source of their income. For the first time villagers can know and share their village to the whole world resulting a virtual global village.

GramWeb assists villagers to become village information owners and invites the BoP villagers to use their village information as their sources of income. This system increases information transparency and accuracy, and improves villagers' opportunities.

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	Recent publication by Dr. Ashir Ahmed (Kyushu University, Japan) on ICT attempt for BoP in Bangladesh (Language: Japanese)

Our Problems, Our Solutions: ISRP students report their research findings
Aug 31, 2010

Knowledge exchange program of School between two different countries
Aug 24, 2010

ISRP summer 2010 Program: Attending 25 Japanese Students
GCC | Aug 22, 2010

IROP Summer' 2010 Program: 25 Japanese Students will be joining
http://www.grameen.com/gcc/gcc_fw/web/gcc/index.php?r=page/show&id=8 | Aug 19, 2010

Agreement signed with IIR, Hitotsubashi University, Japan to carry out research on GramWeb information generation
Aug 19, 2010

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Disclaimer: GramWeb is under study to improve the functionalities and to verify the business model. There may have some unverified data/information used on the site.