USING ICT BY THE RURAL COMMUNITY FOR KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT TO ACHIEVE SDG
Name Name, Priodarshine Auvi, Tapas Chakraborty, Mumtaz Akhter. · American Journal of Agricultural Science Engineering and Technology · 2017
The new Sustainable Development Goals call for several bold breakthroughs by the year 2030, including the end of extreme poverty (SDG 1) and hunger (SDG 2), universal health coverage (SDG3), universal access to modern energy services (SDG 7), sustainable cities (SDG 11), combating climate change (SDG 13), and protecting marine (SDG 14) and terrestrial (SDG 15) ecosystems. Achieving SDG globally the major concern is minimizing the knowledge gap and information and communication technology (ICT) can play the lead role in minimizing the knowledge gap. The broad application of (ICT) is a profound reason for optimism, since the rapid development of ICT-based services and systems offer the possibility for the needed deep transformation of the world economy and societies more broadly. Communication is difficult in many parts of Bangladesh. Among different communication technology mobile phone has proven to be effective. ICT has the potential to increase the rate of diffusion of a very wide range of technologies, applications, and platforms across the economy. Oxfam in Bangladesh has been implementing the project Participatory Research and Ownership with Technology, Information and Change (PROTIC) since November 2015. The community in Shyamnagar and Dimla sub-district has identified agriculture as the main concern where knowledge management requires as new crops and cropping technology has been introduced and adopted to cope with climate change. The community is following Participatory Action Research to identify the scope of using ICT. This paper aims to describe the community perception of using ICT towards achieving the SDG. The scope of government intervention with the Vision 2021 and7FYP will also analysed linking the community state of Capacity. The potential of ICT-related interventions is insufficiently explored. ICT can play its role in achieving SDGs, but technology can only deliver services and applications if that underlying infrastructure is available. It needs strengthening across the country in terms of infrastructure and capacity building.